It was this: that God to them was like their fathers, their mothers, their brothers, their friends; only infinitely more loving, and without their faults.
With his head high and his feet light upon the earth, he returned to the R.A.M.

C.Hospital, where he found Harry Hobbs, with his handbag and a letter from his O.C.
"Take a few days off," said the O.C."We all sympathise with you.
We miss you and shall be glad to see you, but take a few days now for yourself." Barry was greatly touched, but he had only one desire now, and that was to return to his unit.

His batman brought him also an order from the Assistant Director of Chaplain Service bidding him report at the earliest moment.
At Headquarters he learned that the A.D.

C.S.had been in Boulogne, but had gone to Etaples, some thirty or forty miles distant, to visit the large hospitals there.

He determined that to-morrow he would go to Etaples and report, after which he would proceed to his battalion.
That evening, he visited the men in the hospital, coming upon many Canadians whose joy in seeing a chaplain from their own country touched Barry to the heart.