e poverty, vice, and
agony from which the sufferings sprang.

Consequently, the work, being superficial, has in some cases only
had superficial and temporary results.

You get out of a thing as much as you put in--and no more, and
that, not only in quantity, but in quality. If you go in for
root-and-branch efforts, you will get root-and-branch results.

ii. Another cause of our shortcomings has been the lamentable fact
that some of our Officers have been deficient in personal religion.

Our Social Work is essentially a religious business. It can neither
be contemplated, commenced, nor carried on, with any great success,
without a heart full of pity, and love, and endued with the power
of the Holy Ghost.

iii. Another of our difficulties has been the scarcity of suitable
people for carrying the work on. This was also to be expected.

If we had been content with hirelings, and had sought them out from
among the philanthropies and Churches, we should have found plenty
in number, but it is equally certain we should have had
considerably more doleful failures than those we have experienced.

We are not only making but are now training the Social Officers,
and we shall doubtless improve in this respect, whilst the work
they turn out will be bound to improve proportionately.

iv. Then again a further reason for our shortcomings has been our
shortness of money.

This need unfortunately is not passing away, as you will all well
know. But I suppose some of you have come from distant lands with
bags of francs and dollars to present The General with an ample
supply of this requirement. He thanks you beforehand.

(b) Nevertheless, and notwithstanding all our shortcomings, the
position now occupied by our Social Operations, and the influence
exercised by them on the great and small of the earth, is in
evidence in every Continent and on every hand.

There is no doubt that the world, as a whole, feels much of the
admiration and gratitude which the Press lavished upon me on my
recent Birthday--admiration which was assuredly intended not only
for myself, but for The Army as a whole, and not only for The Army
as a whole, but for its Social Workers in particular.

1. And now, in conclusion, let me summarise a few of the advantages
which hav