twenty-six and
three-quarters hours.

"He spent less than six weeks in the Country, travelled about 3,700
miles by train, spoke about eighty-five hours to fifty audiences,
before conferring many hours with leading Officers, and talking to
the Newspaper Reporters in each town he visited."

An Officer describing his illness wrote:--

"I never shall forget his effort to ascend the staircase of the
Commissioner's house on Friday morning after his victory at
Milwaukee the night before. The veteran Warrior had to rest his
head and hands on the rail and pray 'My Lord.' It was clear to me
that the chill he had sustained days before, and which he fought in
vain against would make him a prisoner for days."

What that meant to him when he was already announced for a number of
other cities can be imagined.

His symptoms the following day were very serious, and one cannot but be
glad that he had at his side at the time his daughter--Commander Eva
Booth. Under her loving care, and with all the help of Doctors and
Masters that could be got in Chicago, The General recovered so as to be
able to go on after a few days with his interrupted tour, after which he
wrote in his farewell letter to his American Troops:--

"I have been impressed with the great improvement in the devotion,
spirituality and Blood and Fire character of the forces already in
existence. I have also most pleasantly gratified by a conviction of
the possibility of raising a force in the United States that shall
not only be equal to the demand made upon it by the conditions of
the country but of supplying me with powerful reinforcements of men
and money for the mighty task of bringing the whole world to the
feet of Jesus."

During this visit, The General and the Commander were received by
President Roosevelt at the White House. The General was presented with
the freedom of the City of Philadelphia, and after going through the
gigantic final week described alone in New York was able to sail direct
to Germany for his usual great Repentance Day in Berlin, and he was
already seventy-eight years old.

Need it be said that whilst in this book little mention is made of any
one but The General himself, it not having been his habit in his
journals to refer to those with whom he was for the time associating, we
are not to suppose that at any rate in recent years he was anywhere