are invariably so bound to avoid any meddling with religion that they
cannot bring to bear upon those most in need of it, the heavenly light
and love and power, in which we place all our confidence for dealing
with these classes."

"Gentlemen," said a Town Councillor, in a German city, when the question
of subsidising The Army was being discussed, "The Army can do for your
poor what you never can attempt. You can only deal with them from
without. The Army works upon them from within, and produces results that
will considerably lighten your burdens."

The General had arranged for the Dutch Indies to be missioned from
Australia, that country being our nearest Field and one accustomed to
deal with pioneer effort. But when he found that Dutch officialdom
dreaded contact with British agents, though ready to welcome Dutch ones,
he very quickly changed his plans, and as soon as the Colonial
Government found that The Army was as much Dutch as English, and could
send them a Dutch leader, they showed themselves ready to use us as
fully as possible.

Our Officers in every town and village are supplied with all the
medicines and bandages they can use, for the Government has found that
they live amongst the poorest all the time, and are always ready to
bathe and bandage their wounded limbs and feet, or to give them the few
medicines needed to combat the ordinary maladies. Moreover, from some
terrible losses by death of Officers, in our earliest years there, it
was made only too plain to every one that our Officers would not abandon
their people in times of cholera or other epidemics, but would rather
suffer and die with them.

More unsanitary surroundings than we have in lovely Java could scarcely
be imagined, and no government can hope to alter the habits of an entire
people very rapidly. The Chinese and others in the cities have never yet
begun to consider dirt in house or street as dangerous, and the entire
population has grown up with such a love for bathing in the very same
canals which serve largely for drainage and every other purpose, that
there cannot, for a long time to come, be great hopes of much sanitary
improvement.

But when it was seen that we had Officers not only willing and ready to
live and die with the people, but, also capable of lifting them into a
new life, and of carrying out any simple administrative duties that
might be laid upon them, we had first one and then another of the
Government's institutio