world for
dealing with and helping the poor and unfortunate classes of society."
He attributes our success to the following reasons:--

1. The great personality of The General, whose character greatly
resembled that of his Divine Master--the Founder of Christianity.

2. Our aggressive spirit--ever marching on, like the Japanese soldiers
in the last war with Russia.

3. Our adaptation to the circumstances of every country.

4. Our straightforward and practical way of preaching Salvation.

5. Our principle of self-support. Teaching men and women to help
themselves.

6. Our scientific and business-like methods, as distinct from mere
sentimentality.

Some day, surely, men equally eminent in other countries will begin to
speak as heartily and thoughtfully of The General's life work.

That the great Mikado, to whose wisdom and energy Japan owed so much of
its great renewal and entry amongst the "civilised" nations, should have
passed into eternity only a few months before the Founder of a wider and
grander, because spiritual, Empire, is an interesting fact. The Mikado
received our General, in spite of every court usage that might have
hindered, because he found that all the greatest leaders and heroes of
Japan, like their Press, saw in him the personification of the highest
and noblest purpose for every land and every people.

The Japanese Government gave our Officers, women as well as men, a
liberty of access to their prisoners greater than we as yet possess in
this and most other "Christian" countries, because they saw the value of
our love for the victims of sin, and our power, by God's grace, to
inspire them with hope for themselves. How many more years, I wonder,
will it take other nations to follow this common-sense example?

Chapter XVIII

Co-operating With Governments

The Government of the Dutch East Indies, which was in the hands, at the
time, of a military man, has won for ever the honour of appreciating and
utilising The Army of The General they had never seen, before any of
those who had seen him. Certainly, The General never ran after earthly
rulers, or showed any disposition to court their favour; but he said
constantly, "Here we are; if any Government, municipal or national,
likes to use us, we can save them more than half of what they now spend
upon their poor and criminal classes, and do for these far more than
Christian Government officials, however excellent, ever hope to do. They