a.m. Interview with a solicitor.
8.30 a.m. Interview with a Parsee engineer.
9.30 a.m. Interview with Pressmen, who took him to see hospital for
animals.
2.0 p.m. Interview with gentleman, who took him to see the
Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute.
4.30 p.m. Reception at Mr. Jamsetjee Tatas.
5.30 p.m. Meeting in the pandal.
9.0 p.m. Lecture in the Framjee Cowasjee Institute to Indian
gentlemen.

"Thursday:--
8.30 a.m. Officers' Meeting.
3.45 p.m. Officers' Meeting.
4.30 p.m. Farewell procession.
5.30 p.m. Farewell Meeting in pandal.

"Friday:--
8.0 a.m. Staff Council.
5.0 p.m. Reception at Mr. Cowasjee Jehangiers. (This was, however,
abandoned on account of Prince Albert Victor's death.)

"Saturday: Sailed for Europe."

Remembering that The General was already nearly sixty-three years old,
such programmes in India might well, fatigue him. But these were easy
days, compared with many country ones of this journey, during which he
traversed Ceylon, visited South India, spoke to some 8,000 Syrian
Christians, and, calling at Madras and Calcutta, went on to the Punjab
and Guzerat. His final days in Bombay were, as we have seen, clouded by
a bereavement of the Royal House. But to his telegram to the Prince and
Princess of Wales (now King George and Queen Mary), he got the cabled
reply:--

"Their Royal Highnesses' thanks for your prayers and sympathy."

It had thus already been seen that The General's plans for India were
answering their purpose. It became possible first to march large parties
through various tracts of country, so impressing thousands in a few days
more than the isolated labours of the best individuals could have done
in the course of years, and then it came to learn later from Officers
placed amongst them. All this The General knew could not mean all that
it would have meant amongst peoples who understood more perfectly our
teachings; but he saw no reason for not making the most of such
incidents. Why not abandon, so far as such people were concerned, our
system elsewhere, and recognise them as "Adherents," leaving them to
learn after, from Officers placed amongst them, all that was necessary
for them to become Salvation Soldiers. By this plan we avoided any
watering-down of our teachings or requirements, and y