lects on these things will dispute that whatever The Army
has done for India has been due most of all to its first General. And so
surely as the knowledge of what is already done grows, shall we be
allowed to do more and more to show India what Christ really desires,
and so to capture it for Him.

In connexion with all our Indian work, one vastly important part of The
General's work comes ever before us, whether we think of Commissioner
Booth-Tucker or of one of his humblest native helpers.

Commonly enough in recent times The General was honoured because he had
won from the path of vice to that of virtue some notorious sinner. But
did he not even more remarkably earn the general gratitude by changing
the comparatively helpless and uninfluential, though well-meaning, into
enterprising and widely useful leaders in good work? How many millions
of people he has taught or urged to sing:--

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.

That grand verse was well known in this country, and widely sung, of
course, long before he was born. But alas! how many sing it even now
"with the understanding"?

How many thousands of choice spirits first learnt, under The General's
direction, to look fairly at the immensity of their responsibility to
God, as they sang that and similar verses? And how many only found out,
as ever-widening responsibilities were pressed upon them, how great
their "all" really could become. The humble labourer, without any great
speaking ability, and often involved in a struggle to earn the barest
livelihood for himself and family, was taught how to share in seeking
the Salvation of men. To-day he has become a well-known benefactor in
one way or another to thousands of his fellow-townsmen, and his
children, in the Far East or West, are helping to realise his grandest
thoughts of winning the whole world for God.

This result would never have come about simply by the reading and
singing of the most beautiful words. But the man who was first of all
made responsible, perhaps, only for the keeping of a Hall door, learnt
with astonishing rapidity how much our common life could accomplish for
God, and went on expanding in thought and purpose, as his
responsibilities were increased, until he became not merely a local
leader in every form of Salvationist effort, but a foreman or tradesman
exercising a wi