position and education, and who are floating to Hell with it all.

"I shrink from suggesting further sacrifices to you. God give you
wisdom. We have much success and much trial, and much bitter
opposition. We must have more and more success and more trial, and
more bitter opposition. We must have more intelligent Officers, and
you must help us get them."

That West-End attempt, made later by Mrs. Booth, produced for us,
indeed, some Officers who have done much for The Army's advancement;
although, perhaps, not another Colonel Pepper. The very attacks made
upon us, however, helped to attract the attention of thoughtful people,
and to lead to our Meetings persons possessing all the gifts needed for
The Army's world-wide extension.

Amongst these were Colonel Mildred Duff, Editress of our papers for the
young, and authoress of a number of books; Commissioner W. Elwin
Oliphant, then an Anglican Clergyman; Miss Reid, daughter of a former
Governor of Madras and now the wife of Commissioner Booth-Tucker, of
India; Lieut.-Colonel Mary Bennett, as well as Mrs. de Noe Walker, Dr.
and Mrs. Heywood-Smith, and a number of other friends in England and
many other lands who, though never becoming Officers, have in various
ways been our steadfast and useful friends and supporters.

Surely it can only be a question of time! It is true what our great
Master said: "Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble are called."

But, if in the days of our weakness and contempt, it was given us to win
such a force of honourable women and a man now and then, are we to
despair, now that all the world is awakened to the value of our work, of
winning for it more of the excellent of the earth?

The prosecutions of our people by the police also helped us not only to
attain notoriety locally, but to gain a much higher standing generally.
As soon as The General could find legal ground for appealing against the
magistrates' decisions he did so, and this not only obtained for us
judgments that made our pathway clear in the future, but caused the then
Lord Chancellor, the late Earl Cairns, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn,
Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, Bishop Lightfoot of Durham, and other men
of wide influence to speak out in the House of Lords or elsewhere for
us.

And yet, throughout his entire career, right down to his last days, The
General was at times personally assailed with a malevolence and