versal interest of the people. In each city he found the
railway station decorated. A platform was erected, generally in some
public space, whence he could address the multitudes who came out to
hear him. The largest public buildings were crowded for his indoor
services, and hundreds came out publicly in reply to his appeals for
their surrender to Christ.

Not only was he received by the late Emperor in his palace, and welcomed
to every provincial centre by the Governors of the Provinces, and the
Mayors of the Cities, but again and again the most eminent men gave him
opportunities to plead with them for Christ. What a sight it was to see
the great platform crowded with all the chief men of a city, singing
like the rest of the audience "Stand up, stand up for Jesus." The
General was accepted by almost unanimous consent, as representing a life
of entire self-abandonment to the glory of God and the Salvation of the
lost, and far beyond anything even that at the moment appeared, was his
Campaign a general victory for the Saviour.

There could be no mistake as to the message he delivered, for, even to
the vast crowds of students gathered in the quadrangle of the
University, or in and around the Theatre of Kobe to hear him, he stood
and cried in no new terms, although with due adaptation to their ways of
thought, just as he might have cried to any English audience, that God
demanded and deserved a whole-hearted, life-long service from every one.

"What?" asked the Ambassador of a great power, "Do you really want me to
come out on to the stage and confess my sins before everybody?" when a
woman-Officer invited him to one of The General's last Meetings. Had His
Excellency done so, no Japanese would have thought it anything beneath
the highest human dignity, for they all recognised the value of that
courage for Christ and His War which The General personified to them.

We are still few in number and struggling hard for victory in Japan, for
the very appreciation of all that is excellent tends to create in the
people a self-satisfaction that fortifies them against all appeals for
repentance. But one of the leading officials of the Japanese Home Office
has recently paid a tribute to The General's helpfulness to every
people.

Mr. Tomioka says, in his _Society and Humanity_, after having studied
The Army in England and America, as well as in Japan, that he considers
it to be "the greatest and most successful Organisation in the