frica; they had been brought down for
immoral purposes, but the Army had got hold of them and rescued
them.

"Ere the General turned away he gave them still further advice as
follows:

"'My heart is drawn out to you. I am going a long way off, but I
want you to think of me, and when you think of me, I want you to
pray for me. Be decided to fight for Jesus. God will be on your
side. Go in and get all your people saved, and be the friends of
all. Before I go I should like to know who have made up their minds
to trust God,'--and up went a hundred hands. 'That's right. Now all
who have made up their minds to meet me in Heaven raise their hands
again'--and once more every hand went up, this time accompanied by
a tremendous shout."

These journeys to South Africa were, indeed, taken together, amongst the
most painful lessons of The General's life as to the smallness of hope
from the great ones of this world. The first visit, paid on the swell of
the first admiration for the "Darkest England" Scheme, filled him with
great expectations; and no wonder, for everywhere at that time
Governments, municipalities, and wealthy magnates talked as if they were
ready to assist him immediately to place the deserving, though poor,
crowds of the Old Country on the magnificent tracts of land he saw
everywhere unoccupied, or very slightly used.

But "Governments" of the elected type come and go, making the most
lavish promises and denouncing "the other party," who, on turning them
out, do ditto. And so it came to pass that The General made his third
journey to South Africa, in 1908, when seventy-nine years of age. His
life ran serious risk, because his going to Rhodesia himself was
considered indispensable in order so to impress some British or South
African "statesmen" that they might give him the needed help to
establish an Over-Sea Colony there. And, then, all the "statesmen"
denounced to Colonel Kitching by one of themselves as "a set of
----fools" say that "nothing can be done at present." And the old man
returns to die with his great dream unrealised.

[Illustration: MRS. BRAMWELL BOOTH]

The following account of one journey taken by Colonel Kitching alone,
who was not only his Secretary but his representative in many directions
throughout his latest years, shows the loving willingness of an Army
Secretary to do and bear anything for Christ's sake, and, what our Staf