m to my comrades, as neither the railway officials nor
the police had hitherto allowed a word to be spoken or a note of
music to be played outside our Halls.

"All that night and all the following day we travelled to
Stockholm, which we reached at 6 p.m. Crowds awaited our arrival.
The Soldiers had come down in force, wearing sashes on which the
words, 'God bless The General,' 'Welcome,' and other devices had
been worked. The police had come too. There were 200 of them--some
mounted and some on foot. Our people had been formed into an avenue
down which I passed to an open space. Every face wore a smile, but
there was comparative silence. The Police Master had insisted that
there should be no volley firing or shouting. But hands and
handkerchiefs were waved, and every one appeared delighted. We were
soon in a carriage, galloping off to the Headquarters where we were
to stay."

If all that The General has done for the attainment of a larger liberty
by the peoples of every land were recorded, one might easily make him
appear as a great political reformer. But whilst consistently aiming at
the one great purpose of all his journeys and Meetings, the Salvation of
souls, he has, incidentally, done more to stir the humblest and least
capable to great nation-rousing efforts than any mere political reformer
can hope to do.

During this first visit of twelve days to Sweden, he travelled by rail
over 3,000 kilometres (say 2,000 miles), held twenty-eight public
Meetings, besides a number of private ones with press interviews, and
wayside gatherings at railway stations. Five nights were spent in the
trains, mostly in crowded compartments, for the days of comfortable
"sleepers" on all lines had not yet come. He had, besides his
interpreter, a young English companion, who paid his own expenses, and
he could seldom be persuaded to take any refreshment whilst travelling
that could not be got in the carriage. It must not be forgotten that in
winning and retaining the enthusiastic affection of such multitudes of
persons, The General has had to face the difficulty of only being able
to speak through an interpreter, and that he has had to endure campaigns
of opposition and slander, of which we can say very little, but which,
founded so largely as they have been upon his being "a foreigner," have
had so good a chance to build up walls of difficulty before him.

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