m the general
conversation of a company, and from listening to Public Speakers,
although a great deal that you miss is no serious loss at all!

"In my case, I can imagine I am worse off. With me, reading is
impossible, and writing is so difficult that, although I can
scratch a few lines, the work soon becomes so taxing and difficult
that I have to relinquish it. So we'll sympathise the one with the
other. We will trust in God, take courage, and look forward to
brighter days.

"Anyway, God lives, and there are a thousand things we can do for
Him, and what we can do we will do, and we will do it with our
might."

Every thoughtful reader of this volume will naturally have asked himself
many times over, how was it possible for the Leader of a great
world-wide Mission to leave his Headquarters, year after year, for weeks
and sometimes for months at a time, without involving great risk of
disaster to his Army?

The answer, familiar to every one at Headquarters, and, indeed, to many
others, lay in the existence, largely out of sight even to the vast
majority of the Soldiers of The Army, of a man who, since his very
youth, had been The General's unwearyable assistant. It was the present
General Bramwell Booth, content to toil mostly at executive or
administrative work, whether at Headquarters or elsewhere, unseen and
unapplauded, who was ceaselessly watching over every portion of the vast
whole, and as ceaselessly preparing for advances, noting defects,
stopping mistaken movements, and urging at every turn, upon every one,
the importance of prayer and faith, the danger of self-confidence,
and, the certainty of God's sufficiency for all who relied wholly upon
Him. It was this organiser of victory in the individual and on many
fields who made it possible for the Army to march forward whilst its
General was receiving from city to city, and from village to village, in
motor and other tours, the reward of faithful service to the poorest
everywhere, and was also ever advancing on the common foe.

Therefore this book could not be complete without some account of the
then Chief of the Staff to explain his construction.

Born in Halifax, in 1856, amidst one of those great Revival Tours in
which his parents shared in the tremendous toils that brought, in every
place they visited, hundreds of souls into deep conviction of sin and
hearty submission to God, the little one must ha