world in
favour of the betterment of the social condition of the masses of the
people has had time to accomplish definite results, our Institutions may
yet have a good work to do.

But the great work The General did in this connexion was the restoration
to men's minds of the Saviour's own view, that we owed to every man
every care that a truly brotherly heart must needs bestow. That
principle, as The General pointed out, had always been acted upon, as
best it could be, from the beginning, and is daily acted upon to-day,
wherever The Army exists.

Chapter XXI

Motoring Triumphs

During one of his Motor Tours The General remarked:--

"It was here (Banbury) that the idea of a Motor Campaign was
conceived. Seven or eight years ago (1900) I held an afternoon
Meeting in this place. On that occasion a crowd of my own people
and friends came to the station to give me a send-off. Such was the
affection shown, and so manifest was the pleasure derived from my
visit, that I said to myself:--

"'Why should I not impart this satisfaction to those comrades and
friends throughout the country who have never had the satisfaction
of seeing my face, or hearing my voice?'

"And then the idea occurred to my mind that the automobile would
not only be the readiest means of transit, but the only plan by
which I could reach the small towns and outlying hamlets. Moreover,
it would perhaps prove the only method by which we could get
through the crowds who would be likely to assemble on such a
Campaign."

By most men, in their prime, it would be thought an ample filling up of
any week to address three large Meetings on the Sunday, and one each
week night; but The General, at seventy-four, saw that, travelling by
motor, and visiting in the daytime such smaller towns and villages as
had never seen him before, or not for many years, he could not only
reckon upon three large indoor Meetings every day, but speak, perhaps,
to millions of people he had never before addressed. And so in six Motor
Tours he passed from end to end and from side to side of Great Britain,
gathering crowds from day to day for six weeks at a time.

We have met with people frivolous enough to write of all that as if The
General's Motor Tours were luxuries! In one glorious sense they were
really so, for, to him, there could never be a greater luxury than to
proclaim the Gospel to a cro