e a more desperate and definite attack on her soul than
I did. She is a very intelligent and amiable lady, and I have no
doubt I made an impression.

"Good-bye. Go on praying and believing for me. I want to be a flame
of fire wherever I go. I thank God for the measure of love and
power I have. _But I must have more._ I am pushing everybody around
me up to this--the inward burning love and zeal and purity. I wish
our _best_ men were _more spiritual_. Give my tenderest love to
all."

In each of The General's visits to Australia there was much of the same
character; but from the letters to his children which he wrote on one of
them, we can extract enough to give some idea of what he saw and felt in
passing through those vast regions:--

"What the reception (at Melbourne) would have been had it not been
for the torrents of rain I cannot imagine. Although it was known
that I could not get in before six or seven o'clock, there was a
great mass of several thousand people waiting at three o'clock. As
it was we did not get into the Exhibition Building till ten, and a
vast crowd had been sitting inside from five, and stayed to hear me
talk till 10:45.

"I had an immense Meeting--they say 5,000 were present on the
Sunday morning, 7,000 in the afternoon, with as many more turned
away.

"The opportunity here is immense beyond conception. The people are
delightful, and the Officers also. If they were my own sons and
daughters, I don't see how either Officers or Soldiers could have
been much more affectionate."

How great was the strain of the Meetings may be guessed from the
following remarks as to the final one:--

"I trembled as I rose. You must understand that the Hall down which
I spoke is about 400 to 450 feet long, and that on this occasion a
partition about ten feet high was drawn across it, some 300 feet
from the spot on which I stood, so that my voice had to travel all
through the entire length of the building before it met with any
obstruction, whilst behind me there was at least another seventy
feet. The Press estimate the crowds at 10,000; but, that is an
exaggeration. There would be 7,000, at least. I had taken the
precaution to send an Officer to the far end to see how far he
could or could not hear me, and he brought back word 'excellently.'
So I d