ught her young son, who a short time previously had been
detected in an act of dishonesty. During the service God's Spirit
strove with both. The mother saw that she would have to give an
account of her doings, as well as the boy, and so, side by side,
they knelt, sought and professed to find pardon.

"A young lad who had been a source of great annoyance at our
Meetings, and a dreadful swearer, a short time ago died triumphant
in the faith. When lying in the London Hospital, evidently dying,
he sent a request that I would tell the children that he was
'going Home'; 'but tell them I'm not afraid; and, Oh, tell them not
to swear.'"

Many of our leading Officers of to-day were truly converted before they
were ten years old, so that, at thirty, they were already veterans in
the Fight. Two Colonels, who were later most frequently seen closely
associated with The General's Campaigns, like him were converted at
fifteen--one of them being at that time almost overlooked by the
Sergeant, who was counting the Penitents. "Captain," said he, "there are
seventy-one; or seventy-two, if you count this lad."

The General has not only counted his young lads and lasses whenever they
were true Penitents, but has dared to set them at once to work to bring
others to Christ and that with such effect that whole countries have
felt the result.

Our first Dutch Officer was a young teacher, dismissed from his
employment because he would persist in seeking the Salvation, as well as
the instruction, of his young pupils. After spending a few months in
England in order to be able to translate for us, he became the
Lieutenant and general helper of our pioneer Officer there. The way had
been prepared before us by a retired Major of the Dutch Army, who had
for some time been carrying on mission work in the city of Amsterdam,
and who, having seen something of The Army in England, turned over his
Mission Hall to us and gave us all possible help. He was rewarded by
seeing all his own children converted.

Holland has suffered, perhaps, more than any country in the world, from
the substitution of head knowledge for real heart acquaintance with God.
The refuge of true believers in days of terrible persecution, it has
seen its Churches either paralysed with the narrowest and coldest
orthodoxy, proclaiming the impossibility of Salvation for any but the
few elect, or the natural reaction, a wild "liberalism,"