e General took
steps to get its constitution and rights so legally established that it
should be impossible for any one, after his death, to wrest from it or
turn to other purposes any of the property which had been acquired for
its use by a Deed Poll enrolled in the High Court of Chancery of
England, August 7, 1878. The construction, aims and practices of The
Army are so defined that its identity can never be disputed. Another
Deed Poll, enrolled January 30, 1891, similarly safeguarded The Army's
Social Work, so that persons or corporations desiring to contribute only
to the Social funds could make sure that they were doing so. Similar
Deeds or other provisions are made in every other country where we are
at work, containing such references to the British Deeds, that the
absolute unity of The Army, and the entire subjection of every part of
it to its one General is, in conformity with the laws of each country,
secured for all time.

And again a deed dated July 26th, 1904, has provided for the case of a
General's death without having first named his successor, or for any
other circumstance which might arise rendering a special appointment
necessary.

Subsequent chapters will show how wondrously God helped The General to
carry on this work in other countries as well as in his own, and we
cannot believe that any one will read this book through without being
constrained to admit that there has not merely been the accomplishment,
under The General's own eye, of an enormous amount of good; but the
formation and maintenance of a force for the continual multiplication
of it all, in every clime, such as no other leader ever before
attempted, or even planned. And then most will be constrained surely to
say with us: "It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes."

Chapter X

Desperate Fighting

One might have supposed that a man who thus raised a force of working
people to do good to others, would in a Christian country have been
honoured and encouraged by all the better elements, and defended with
vigour by the press, the pulpit, and the police against any of the lower
sort who might oppose him or his followers.

To the shame of his fellow-countrymen, alas! it must be told that, so
far from this being the case, The General was generally treated for the
first few years of The Army's work as being unworthy to be received in
any decent society, and his followers, as "blasphemers of religion" and
"distu