Show clergy as volunteers an army order has just been issued in england prohibiting clergymen from holding combatant commissions in the volunteers or from being enrolled in tho the ranks of the force this must be regarded as a reasonable regulation for though in certain country districts some of the clergy have proved themselves very good officers and as such have perhaps accomplished complis hed good work from the moral point of view it cannot be denied thit there Is a distinct incongruity in a minister of the episcopal Episco lat church being also bound by hia his oath of allegiance to bear arms and weapons which can by no means be classified as part of the equipment of the armor of light |