their benefit. In the case of one Salvationist, it will be the
dying; in another the daughters of sin and shame; in another the
homeless; in another the children, and in yet another the
drunkards.

With Colonel Barker, as with other comrades under our Flag to-day,
it was the criminals.

This spirit thrives and becomes more effective by what it feeds
upon. It must, therefore, be wise to favour its preferences, so far
as it is possible to do so without losing sight of the well-being
of the whole.

We did this with Colonel Barker, and we are acting on the same
principle with others to-day.

Then came our first Women's Rescue Home in Melbourne, to help us in
the establishment of which the Colonial Government gave L1,000.

It was upon foundations of this character that our Social
Operations in New Zealand, France, South Africa, and several other
countries were subsequently built up.

For years past our Officers, men and women, both in the United
Kingdom and elsewhere, had carried on what may be spoken of as an
unorganised form of Slum Work; but it fell to the hands of my
glorified daughter, the Consul, to institute, in London, what was
then and for some time afterwards known as "the Cellar, Gutter,
and Garret Brigade"--the forerunner of scores of Slum Posts, which
are now such a recognised feature of our operations all over the
world.

Our first Men's Shelter was opened in Limehouse, London, during the
winter of 1887-8, and was soon followed by the opening of similar
Institutions in other countries, far-off and near at hand.

From our earliest days drunkenness had been one of the many foes of
God and man against which we had specially taken our stand, and
thousands of its slaves had been rescued from its grip, and become
valiant Soldiers in our ranks. Our first Inebriates' Home,
conducted in the interest of women, was not, however, opened until
1887. This was in Toronto, Canada.

The Social Work in the United States had its birth in 1885, in an
effort made on behalf of prisoners at Hartford, Connecticut.
Similar efforts followed in other cities, and Rescue and Industrial
Homes, Shelters, and Farm Colonies followed on in due course.

All these enterprises and many others, to which I have not time now
to refer, were prior t