ns of prayer.
But those who believe that it is possible for the poorest to dwell on
earth with their Saviour, and to hold continual intercourse with Him,
will perfectly understand how enlightening, how elevating, how inspiring
such fellowship must ever be. Alas! how few there are yet in the world
who can truly say, "Our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son,
Jesus Christ".

Chapter XV

India and Devotees

Nowhere has The Army shown its marvellous power to unite men of all
races and classes so rapidly and completely as in India. With its
Headquarters in Simla, and its leader, formerly a magistrate under the
Indian Government, looked upon almost as a felon, and imprisoned when he
first began leading Open-Air Meetings in Bombay, but now honoured by the
highest both of British and Indian rulers and by the lowest of its
outcasts equally, The Army has become the fully-recognised friend of
Governors and governed alike.

When The General decided upon issuing a weekly paper called _The War
Cry_, it was to be as nearly as possible The Salvation Army in print,
and Mr. Booth-Tucker, then an Indian official, at once got the idea,
from the copy he read, that such a force as it described was exactly
what was wanted in that country--a set of Christians determined to fight
for the establishment of Christ's Kingdom by every method love could
devise; but loving especially the poorest and weakest, and proving their
love by working continually amongst them. After visiting England, to see
The Army and its leaders for himself, he had no hesitation in abandoning
his Government appointment, and giving himself up for life to this War.

Such was the devotion of our Officers, and especially of the first
Indians they won, that The General, far from having to urge them
forward, had rather to check the tendency needlessly to sacrifice health
and life. He gladly gave, at later dates, two of his own daughters to
the Work; and, perfectly informed by his own repeated visits to the
country, and by what he learnt from the actualities of the War, he was
the better able to correct mistakes, and so to utilise to the uttermost
the forces that were raised in various parts of the vast peninsula.
Nobody would hesitate to acknowledge how much his counsels helped to
prevent an excessive zeal from sacrificing precious lives.

He divided the country into six Territories, each under a separate
Commander, realising that India could not be tre