defamation, thousands
of women rescued from the sink of horrid vice, thousands of men new-born
from lives of unimaginable crime and iniquity, thousands of homes once
dreary with squalor and savagery now happy and full of purest joy; nay,
who could see, as I have seen in India, whole tribes of criminal races,
numbering millions, and once the despair of the Indian Government,
living happy, contented, and industrial lives under the Flag of The
Salvation Army--he who could see all this, and who could justly say,
'But for me these things had never been,' was not happy and was not
satisfied. He ached and groaned to save all such as are sorrowful.

"In the last letter he ever wrote to me, a letter that broke off
pitifully, because of his blindness, from the big, bold, challenging
handwriting, and became a dictated typewritten letter, occurred the
words, 'I am distressed.' He was chiefly distressed by the over-devotion
most of us pay to politics and philosophy, by the struggle for wages, by
the clash between master and man, by the frivolity of the rich, the
stupor of the poor, by the blindness of the whole world to the necessity
for the cleansed heart. He did not want to establish a Salvation Army,
but to save the whole world. He did not want to be acclaimed by many
nations, but to see suffering and poverty and squalor clean banished
from the earth. And he believed that with the power of the State at his
back, and with the wealth now squandered in a hundred abortive
directions in his hands, he could have given us a glad and unashamed
England even in a few years. He knew this and believed it with all his
heart. And he held that his dictatorship would have hurt no just man.
He suffered because poverty continues and thousands are still unhappy.
For such men this world can never suffice. They create eternity.

"Others may criticise him. And no man ever lived, I suppose, easier for
every little creature crawling about the earth in self-satisfied
futility to criticise and ridicule. For myself, I can do nothing but
admire, revere, honour, and love this extraordinary old realist, who
saved so many thousands of human beings from utmost misery; who aroused
all the Churches of the Christian religion throughout the world; who
communicated indirectly to politics a spirit of reality which every year
grows more potent for social good; who was so tender and affectionate
and cordial, and who felt for suffering and sorrow and unhappiness
where