ve drunk in, from his
very childhood, some of that anxiety for the perishing, and joy in their
deliverance, which form the basis of a Salvationist career. Named after
one of the greatest Holiness preachers, who accompanied John Wesley in
his campaigning, in the express hope to both father and mother, that he
should become an apostle of that teaching, the faith of his parents
received abundant fulfilment in his after life.

As a boy he shared with them all the vicissitudes of their eight gipsy
years, during which they were practically without a home, and the one
settled year of (as they thought) half wasted time, amidst the usual
formalities, always galling to them both, or ordinary Church life; so
that, with his usual acuteness of observation, he must have noted all
their horror of routine, and learnt, more than anybody noticed, the
reasons why the Churches had become divorced from the crowds and the
crowds from the Churches.

In his tenth year, when they settled in London, and began their real
life work, he cannot but have partaken fully of the satisfaction this
gave to them, whilst they were, as yet, buried amidst the mass of
East-End misery. It was shortly before the foundation of the Work that
he was converted at one of his mother's own Meetings. The shrinking from
publicity, which seems an essential part of every conscientious person,
held him long back from resolving to become one of their Officers. But
during all the years between his being saved and that great decision,
he was constantly helping, first in Children's Meetings, and then in
office work, so that at twenty-one he was already a very experienced
man, both in the work of saving souls, and in much of the business
management for which a great Movement calls.

When I first saw him at seventeen, he was still studying; but he had
been, during the previous eighteen months of the General's illness and
absence, his mother's mainstay in the managing both the public and the
office work of "The Christian Mission," and the Secretary and, largely,
manager of a set of soup kitchens, the precursors, in some ways, of our
present Social Wing. For all this to be possible to a lad of seventeen,
of delicate health, may give some little indication of the faculties
with which God had endowed him.

It was not, however, till five years later, when he had fully conquered
his own taste for a medical career that he gave himself fully to the
War. Alone, or with one of his sist