acts on
my nerves, and then perhaps try something more.

"However, I am going into action once more in the Salvation War,
and I believe, feeble as I am, God is going to give me another good
turn, and another blessed wave of success.

"You will pray for me. I would like before I die--it has been one
of the choicest wishes of my soul--to be able to make The Salvation
Army such a power for God and of such benefit to mankind that no
wicked people can spoil it.

"Salvation for ever! Salvation--Yellow, Red, and Blue! I am for it,
my darling, and so are you.

"I have heard about your Open-Air services with the greatest
satisfaction, and praise God with all my heart that in the midst of
the difficulties of climate and politics, etc., you have been able
to go forward.

"I have the daily papers read to me, and among other things that
are very mysterious and puzzling are the particulars that I gather
of the dreadful heat that you have had to suffer, both as a people
and as individuals.

"You seem to have, indeed, been having lively times with the
weather. It must have tried you very much.

"My telling you not to fret about me is the proper thing to do.
That is my business in this world very largely, and if I can only
comfort your dear heart--well, I shall do good work.

"Good-bye, my darling child. Write to me as often as you can, but
not when overburdened. I am with you, and for you, and in you for
ever and ever. Love to everybody.

"Your affectionate father and General,

"William Booth."

To an Officer whom he regarded almost as a daughter, and whose hearing
had been greatly affected, he wrote:--

My Dear C.,--

"Thanks for your sympathetic letter. It is good of you to think
about me now and then. Specially so as you must be much and often
exercised about your own affliction.

"Perhaps you will think that it is easier for me to accept mine
than it will be for you to accept yours. I have just been thinking
that to have any difficulty in the Hearing Organ is not so serious
as a difficulty with the Seeing. You can read and write, and with a
little contrivance and patience you can hear any communication that
may be specially interesting and important. It is true, you are
shut out from the pleasure and profit that comes fro