ers, he visited the towns where many
of our largest Corps were being raised, holding Meetings in theatres and
other popular resorts, so that he gained first-hand all the experiences
of Officers, both in the pioneering days and in the after years of
struggle against all manner of difficulty, when every sort of problem as
to individuals, and Corps, had to be dealt with from hour to hour.

This much to explain how it was possible for a man so young to become at
twenty-five the worthy and capable Chief of the Staff of an Army already
at work in both hemispheres and on both sides of the world. The reader
will also be able to understand how the Chief, travelling by night as
often as by day, could visit the General in the midst of any of his
Campaigns, and in the course of a brief journey from city to city, or
between night and morning confer fully with him, and take decisions upon
matters that could not await even the delay of a mail.

The comfort to The General, as he often testified, of the continual
faithful service of this slave of a son was one of the most invaluable
forces of his life. Whilst, on the one side we may see in such
self-renouncing abandonment a certificate to and evidence of the nature
of The General's own life, we must read in it, at the same time, some
part of the explanation of his boundless activities and influence.

For the Chief of those days, The General of these, to have gone to and
come away from his father's daily scenes of triumph without getting the
slightest appetite himself for public displays, or yielding in the
slightest to the craving after human support or encouragement, to turn
him aside from the humdrum of duty, is one proof of those gracious
evidences of God's saving and keeping power with which the history of
The Salvation Army abounds.

Chapter XXV

Tributes

The great tribute The General received by the vast assemblies in every
country at his Funeral and Memorial services, said far more than any
words could have expressed of the extent to which he had become
recognised everywhere as a true friend of all who were in need, and of
the degree to which he had succeeded in prompting all his Officers and
people to act up to that ideal.

The following, a small selection of the most prominent testimonies borne
to his life by the Press of various countries, will give some idea of
what was thought and felt by his contemporaries about him and his
work:--

The Christian Wo