ded in leading to the
Saviour, who gave him a peace as complete as that which He gave to His
companion in crucifixion.

It is by this patience and efficiency that our Officers, wherever they
get opportunity, win the favour of authorities, prisoners, and sufferers
of every kind. Therefore, we reckon that it can only be a question of
time before our way is opened to do far more than ever for the
friendless of every land.

In times of special emergency, The General's Officers always find an
opportunity to distinguish themselves. Thus, in the last earthquake of
Jamaica our Officers in Kingston were said to have been the calmest and
readiest to undertake all that needed to be done. In those terrible
days, again, of earthquake and fire in San Francisco the Salvationists
provided food and shelter for the Chinese, and others of the most
despised; and in South Italy such was the impression produced by the way
in which our Officers laboured, when Calabria was desolated by
earthquake, that our Officer there, Commissioner Cosandey, had the
honour of a Knighthood conferred upon him in recognition of the manner
in which he had superintended the distribution of blankets and other
articles provided out of the Lord Mayor of London's fund, the skill he
manifested gaining the approval of both the Italian Government and the
British Ambassador there.

We seek neither honours nor rewards, however; but only the opportunity
to carry out our first General's plans for the good of all men
everywhere.

Chapter XIX

Conquering Death

Only those who have had some experience of a perfect
life-partnership--such as existed for thirty-five years between The
General and his wife--can form any conception of the sufferings he had
to pass through, in connexion with her prolonged illness and death.

She had always been more or less delicate in health, yet had, through
nearly all those years, triumphed so completely over weakness and
suffering as to be at once one of the happiest of wives and mothers, and
the most daring of comrades in the great War.

During much of 1887 she had suffered more than usually, and yet had
taken part with him in many great demonstrations; but in February, 1888,
new symptoms made their appearance, and she decided upon consulting one
of the ablest of London physicians, because she had always dreaded that
her end would come, like that of her mother, through cancer, and wished
to use every possible care to prolong