ne of the day's strongest personages who is gone--a man with the
utmost wealth of energy and power. One could hardly believe he belonged
to our times, and yet he had all the qualities of our nervous and
restless epoch. There was much in him to remind of the old prophets--the
lonely man of God fighting with the mighty and the wrong. Nobody can
dispute that The Army did much good."

Stockholm Morning

"It lay in the Leader's extraordinary foresight that The Army had a
great and blessed work to fulfil to save the deepest sunken in the
community."

Chapter XXVI

Organisation

The high reputation which The General gained as an Organiser seems to
make it desirable to explain, as fully as we can, what he aimed at, and
by what means he made The Army the remarkable combination it has become.
We have, happily, in several of our books his own dissertations on the
subject, for he always sought to make clear to all who should follow
him, especially in this respect, the reasons for his plans. In his
introduction to _Orders and Regulations for Staff Officers_, he writes
as follows:--

"Some of the Converts resided in other parts of London, and they
soon commenced themselves to hold Meetings afterwards, and to win
souls in their localities. I was entreated to care for these also.
The Christian Churches, even when they were willing to receive
these Converts, were as a result generally so much occupied with
the maintenance of their own existence, or so lukewarm in coping
with the necessities of the poor people, as to be unequal to the
task of caring for them. I soon found that the majority of those
who joined the Churches either relapsed again into open
backsliding, or became half-hearted professors. I was, therefore,
driven to select men and women who I knew to be lovers of souls,
and to be living holy lives, for the purpose of caring for these
new Converts. These helpers I afterwards directed to hold Meetings
in the streets and in cottages, and then in Halls and other Meeting
Places. The Lord was with them in great power, and hundreds of
wicked and godless people were converted and united together in
separate societies.

"These operations were, in course of time, extended to the
Provinces, where my late beloved wife, who was my unfailing helper
and companion in this work until God took her from me, preached