[Illustration: CHILDREN GO TO CHURCH] Readiness to teach is no longer a sufficient credential.

Five weeks before, bearing dangerously dubious credentials, we had trailed afoota suspicious squadat the tail of the German columns, liable to be halted and locked up any minute by any fingerling of a sublieutenant who might be so minded to so serve us.

Some of them bore the most extraordinary credentials ever carried by a correspondent; some of them had no credentials at all.

An easy and unembarrassed manner, and the self-possession requisite to open a conversation with those who happen to be near you, are the indispensable credentials of a well-bred man.

Unfortunately we had neglected to provide ourselves with proper official credentials and as a result we had some embarrassing experiences.

} ACRE } sacred } credentials } RELY on ACRE.

Even the hindrances which so long held him back can scarcely be said to have been indeed the logical force of the unanswerable credentials of the English Church.

The young man had come to him with unimpeachable credentials to that effect.

But miracles are the direct credentials of a revelation; the visible supernatural is the appropriate witness to the invisible supernaturalthat proof which goes straight to the point, and, a token being wanted of a Divine communication, is that token.

Some probably will say, "What argument can induce us to believe a man in a concern of this nature who gives no visible credentials to his authority?"