e you have had time to get well started. We were
crowded, large numbers outside clamouring for admission, so much so
that the police called out their reserves, and fifty men guarded
the entrance. We had an excellent service inside, and forty at the
Mercy-Seat. It was a beautiful Meeting, and made a mark for ever on
my heart, and on the hearts of many more.

"Afternoon. The large Hall of the People's Palace had been arranged
for this as well as the Night Meeting. We were full, and many were
turned away. I lectured on 'The Duty of the Community.' Great
satisfaction among my own people, and a good impression made upon
the minds of a good many of the leading people of the city.

"Night, 7.30. Again full. It is a building erected for an
Exhibition, and made suitable for a Meeting only by putting up a
great screen across the centre. I suppose we could have filled the
entire space; but whether my interpreter could then have been
heard, I am not sure. I preached with point and power--more
breathless attention I never had in my life. I reckoned on an easy
conquest, but we had one of the hardest fights I ever remember
before we got a soul out. I left at 10.30, completely played out. A
wall of policemen on either side kept the people back while I got
into the carriage, the crowd having waited a long time to catch a
glimpse of me. Had long, restless, and sleepless spells during the
night; but still I have not done amiss on the whole. I must now
prepare myself for the coming Berlin Staff Congress."

So much for the general effect upon a largely unbelieving people of
simple, childlike faith!

But The General was, of course, always just as earnest about instructing
all who came to him, old or young, in the way of life, as about getting
them into it. In the midst of these tremendous Campaigns, he repeatedly
prepared Lesson-books for both children and adults. To a lady who had
tried to help him by sending him a number of catechisms for children, on
such an occasion, he wrote:--

"Thanks for your letter, and your catechisms sent here.

"The particular catechisms you send I already had--not that the
church affair could be of any advantage to me, and I should
imagine it would not be of much use to any one else, especially to
children.

"I am trying to produce something that will be a boon t