expression of The Army's teachings and system,
that the most illiterate in every land could at once take in their
practical effect.

The Articles simply required every one to give up the use of
intoxicants; to keep from any resorts, habits, company, or language that
would be harmful; and to devote all the leisure time, spare energy and
money to the War.

As time went on The General published _Orders and Regulations for
Soldiers_, a booklet of 164 pages, and perhaps as complete a handbook
for the direction of every department of life, public and private, as
was ever written; _Orders and Regulations for Field Officers_,
containing 626 pages of the minutest directions for every branch of the
Work; and _Orders and Regulation's for Staff Officers, _ the most
extraordinary directory for the management of missionaries and
missionary affairs that could well be packed in 357 pages. At later
dates he issued _Orders and Regulations for Territorial Commissioners
and Chief Secretaries_, containing 176 pages, and _Orders and
Regulation's for Social Officers_, the latter a complete explanation of
his thoughts and wishes for the conduct of every form of effort for the
elevation of the homeless and workless and fallen; and _Orders and
Regulations for Local Officers_, containing precise details as to the
duties of all the various non-commissioned or lay Officers, whether
engaged in work for old or young. Smaller handbooks of _Orders and
Regulations for Bands and Songster Brigades_, and for almost every other
class of agents were also issued from time to time.

Thus, step by step, The General not merely led those who gave themselves
up to follow him in the ever-extending War; but furnished them with such
simple and clear directions in print as would enable them at any
distance from him to study his thoughts, principles, and practices, and
sock God's help to do for the people around them all that had been shown
to be possible elsewhere.

With such a complete code of instructions there naturally arose a system
of reporting and inspection which enabled The General to ascertain, with
remarkable accuracy, how far his wishes were being carried out, or
neglected, by any of his followers. He sometimes said, "I would like,
if I could, to get a return from every man and every woman in The Army
as to what they do for God and their fellow-men every day." It soon
became impossible, of course, for any one person to examine the returns
which were