e does not hold fast with the reluctance of old age to old
things, except to the old faith.

"In the Meetings The General seemed to me rather severe; but that
disappears when you get at him personally, especially when you have
got used to his way of speaking. He almost flings each sentence
out. Every phrase, accompanied by some energetic gesture, is like a
war cry. 'I will, and I carry out what I will,' seems to breathe in
all about him; and who can complain of this will, this iron
resoluteness with which he works at the raising up of men. He is in
his kingdom an unlimited ruler, but one with a benevolent look who
sees for the benefit of the blind. He must be all that for his
extraordinary work.

"The General asks us to put questions. I could not manage it. It
seemed to me to be so useless in the presence of this important
man. So he said, 'We are never satisfied with the progress we make
in view of what still remains to be done.' He spoke of the progress
made by the Social Work of The Army in Germany, and of his plans.

"I never heard The General speak without his having plans, upon the
carrying out of which he was at work with all his might. He puts
his whole body and soul into whatever he is engaged in.

"'The Salvation Army is the most interesting thing under the sun,'
said The General at the close of this earnest talk, and then added,
jokingly, 'next to the Hamburg Press.'

"On the Sunday I saw him again as he spoke to a Meeting of
thousands, a curiously mixed public, where there were many of the
foremost gentlemen and ladies of society and many very common
people. All, however, were equally enthused. I will only mention a
couple of sentences out of the speech: 'The Army wants to come into
competition with nobody, only to be a friendly helper--nobody's
enemy, but the friend of everybody. It will gladly be an
inspiration and example. It has become the almsgiver for many
Governments. It is not British because it was born in Britain, just
as little as Christianity is Jewish because it came into the world
in Judea.'"--Else Meerstedt.

Now that we see it all but completed, we think this book singularly
wanting in reference to The General's frequent merriness of mood. We
have thought it needless to insert any of the amusing anecdotes that
could have bee