It was my intention to make this book a complete Compendium of
Regulations for Staff Officers of all Departments in all parts of
the world; but it became evident that, owing to the multiplication
of the different branches of our operations, and the diversity of
the Regulations required by their varied character and conditions,
such a volume would have been swollen to most inconvenient
dimensions, and I therefore determined to omit everything not
applying to the Officers under the command of the British
Commissioner.

"It must not be inferred from this that the Staff Officers employed
at International Headquarters, or of those engaged in the Social
Work, do not rank equally with those whose duties are herein
described. Further _Orders and Regulations_ required by them, and
for Staff Officers in other Territories, will be issued from time
to time as needed. The Regulations contained in Part I of this
volume are to be carried out as far as possible in all Territories
and Departments.

"The Regulations herein contained must not be regarded as a final
authority on the duties and responsibilities to which they refer.
Development has been the order of The Army from the beginning, and
will, I hope, remain so to the end. Our methods must of necessity
be always changing with the ever varying character and
circumstances of the people whom we seek to benefit. But our
principles remain as unchangeable as the Throne of Jehovah. It is
probable that in succeeding years other _Orders and Regulations_
will be issued by the Central Authority to take the place of these
I am now publishing. It is right, and safe, and necessary that it
should be so. God will, I believe, continue to make known from time
to time, to those who follow His good pleasure, the way in which
the War should be carried on, and The Army will, I hope, continue
to receive and record in _Orders and Regulations_ that manifested
Will, and, by obedience, continue to go forward from victory unto
victory!

"I think I may truthfully say that in no words which it has been my
privilege to write in the past, and in no work that it has ever
been my lot to undertake, have I been more conscious of the
presence and guidance of another Spirit, than in the preparation of
these Regulations. That Spirit h