"Day and night the agony of Antwerp is present with me," said the
Bishop of London, preaching at St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, "but if
there be a God in heaven the wrongs of Belgium--absolutely innocent
in this war--will one day be avenged.
"For myself, when I have boys whom I love as my own sons killed
every day, and my rooms filled daily with their sisters and their
young widows, I feel that I should go mad but for my religion.
"It is hardly to be expected that Great Britain can feel charitably
toward Germany, which has perpetrated diabolical acts of cruelty,
but, nevertheless, we must fight this war with Christian faith."