fighting alone. In Heaven no doubt the victory won in many a crowded
building was put down to the credit of someone whom few if any of those
occupying the front of the platform would have mentioned; but as a
result of whose prayers, faith and effort the audience was gathered or
the results attained.

It would have been very unfair to the great majority of his Officers to
have called frequent or special attention to the small English Staff who
usually accompanied him, for not only the Commissioners and Chief
Secretaries but the Officers of every nationality laboured
systematically to make the most of his visits to any particular place
and to render to the largest possible extent the results of each visit
permanent.

This may possibly seem specially and curiously unfair in the United
States and Denmark, yet it will only make[1] the principle of this
omission from The General's own records and ours the more clear.

It will doubtless be expected that I make some comment upon the painful
separation from him of three of his own children which were amongst the
saddest events of The General's life, and, yet, I feel it best to say
nothing.

It is not within the scope of this book to tell "all about it," and
telling part could only cause misunderstanding. So I leave it, and hope
everyone else will do the same.

Chapter XII

In Australasia

The entire programme of every tour The General made emphasises so
strongly his advocacy of hard work that one really hesitates to pick out
any one Campaign as more remarkable than another. What is, however,
extraordinary in connexion with one of his far-away Australian journeys
is our having letters which so much more than any others give
particulars of his doings.

"I am resting to-night, and well I think my poor body has earned
some kind of respite. Such a ten days' work I never did before of
sheer hard work. How I have come through it, and come through so
well, I cannot understand, except that God has indeed been my
Helper."

Here is another side-light on The General's own inner life which we get
by the way. We conceal, of course, the identity of the lady in question,
except to say that it was a very distinguished hostess with whom he had
occasion to spend some hours when travelling.

"It was perhaps the loveliest journey I ever had. I talked nearly
all the time, and, in fact, had no alternative. But I think I ought
to have mad