Of course God was on our side in the Great War and an early proof of this came in August 1914 at the Battle of Mons when, it was reliably reported, He sent His angels to repulse the Huns as they seemed about to overrun the British. One hundred years ago this week London's New Statesman reported that belief in the Mons miracle was growing.
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"The announcement by Dr Reverend Horton [a popular and influential Manchester preacher and occultist] of his belief in the story of the angels who appeared on the side of thc British at the battle of Mons and stuck terror into the Germans, and even into their horses, has created a great deal of interest.
"Whatever its origin, it is now going the rounds of the parish magazines, and is likely to take a permanent place among the legends, true and false, of the war.
"This belief in the active interference of divine and semi-divine beings in the conflicts of men is as old as the memory of the race. The most interesting vision of angels ever seen was that of a French girl-soldier. Poor Joan of Arc saved her country and lost her life owing to the vision of an angel.
"Her story is at least as incredible as the story of the angels at Mons, and yet how many of us in our hearts disbelieve it? Angels ... are too vital in the grave procession of history to be dismissed with a lofty omniscience of unbelief."
