gs of a
great city can really know. That we have now so many resolute comrades,
even amongst the young people, who meet with no encouragement, but
rather with every sort of contempt and rebuff in their homes, their
workshops, and the neighbourhoods in which they live, is alike a
remarkable demonstration of the extent to which this great victory has
been won, and, at the same time, of the far wider and grander conquests
that are yet to come.

The gigantic enterprises that lie before us, if Christ is really to
become the First and Last with the millions of Africa, India, Japan, and
China, as with those of America and Europe, would be hopeless were we
not prepared to raise up Soldiers to this great military height of
contempt for civilian opinion.

But it may be that our very attitude in this respect has whetted the
enemy's resolution to do all that could be done to prejudice public
opinion against us. The very large measure of popularity or, at any
rate, respect, so far as The Army generally is concerned, in which we
rejoice to-day, must be attributed to the impression created by the calm
persistence of The General, and those who have truly followed him, in
doing what they believed to be right, and turning from all they believed
to be doubtful and wrong, in spite of the general condemnation and
opposition of those around them.

The very people who to-day applaud our efforts to assist the poorest and
worst to a self-supporting and honourable career, are often blind to the
fact that we have only succeeded by doing the very things which they
once said we ought not to do, and by turning away from all the old
customs to which they would fain have chained us.

Chapter XI

Reproducing The Army in America

So far we have traced the beginnings of The Army in the United Kingdom.
But would The General desire or be able to extend it to other countries?
With regard to the need for it there is now, at any rate, no dispute in
any "Christian country," for almost all intelligent persons, whatever
may be their own creed, or want of creed, admit the presence in their
great cities, if not elsewhere, of only too many of the sort of persons
to whom The Army has proved useful.

But there has been no country in which the need for, or possible value
of, The Army has not been at first hotly disputed. We have seen how
desperately it was at first opposed in the country of its birth. And
that could not have been possible had not so