ampaign.

"I am doing the voyage fairly well. Of course, it is very
wearisome, this lying all the time. The ship is rolling and tossing
and pitching considerably, and it looks like doing so, until we get
under shelter of the land."

The probable after-effect of these distant Campaigns of The General
could not be better described than in the words of one of our American
Officers, himself known throughout The Army as one of our most
spiritually-minded and intelligent observers:--

"Seventeen years ago," he says, "the writer first heard The
General, and it has been his privilege to hear him many times
since. Each succeeding effort and series of Meetings seems to
eclipse all the rest. It was so in Pittsburg, which, being one of
the greatest business centres and home of some of the most virile
men of the world, deeply appreciates him.

"He was very weary from his heavy Campaign in Cleveland, but, in
spite of this, to me he seemed at his best. He spent no time in
angling to get into sympathetic touch with them, but with the
precision of a bullet he made direct for the conscience of every
man and woman there. Talk about 'naked truth,' 'judgment,'
'daylight,' 'straight preaching.' We had it that night, as I never
heard it before. There was no escape. Every honest person there had
to pass judgment on himself.

"It was difficult to close that Meeting. The truth was setting men
free. Many wept and prayed and submitted to God, and some fairly
howled at the revelation God gave them of their character and
conduct. It has been my privilege to hear such preachers as
Beecher, Matthew, Simpson, and Phillips Brooks, and such orators as
Wendell Phillips and Gough; but The General is the greatest master
of assemblies I ever met. He played on those vast audiences of
judges, lawyers, ministers, business and working men as Ole Bull
played on the violin. They laughed, they wept, they hung their
heads with conviction, their bosoms heaved with emotions, they were
convinced, convicted, and a multitude were converted. I think at
one time there could not have been less than 3,000 eyes brimming
with tears. He uncovered sin and made it appear as it is, utterly
without excuse, and utterly loathsome; and then he revealed the
love and sympathy and helpfulness of Christ, till many could n