s _bank_, and his _postoffice_. We were in one
hut alone where more than fifteen thousand dollars were on deposit in
the savings bank. The sale of stamps in this hut amounts to fifteen
hundred dollars a month, and of postal orders for the remittance of
money home to more than four thousand dollars. Every week an average
of 28,000 letters are written and posted in this one room, while
thousands more are received and handed to the men.

8. The Association is the soldier's _friend_ and tourist guide, while
he is visiting London, Paris, or the other great cities. In some
places one table is set apart where a chaplain or secretary is always
on duty to help the soldiers make their wills, find out their trains to
London, answer their questions, or give them the friendly help they
need.

The Y M C A stands by the soldier to the last and even after he falls.
After the boy has fought his last fight and lies wounded or crippled or
dying in the hospital in France, it meets his parents and relatives and
provides for their entire stay in the country. Each relative of the
wounded proceeding to France receives printed instructions from the War
Office that the Y M C A will meet all the boats and provide
transportation and accommodations for all who need it while at the
front. Our friend, Mr. Geddes, broke down as he tried to tell us how
he and his wife had been met on the lonely shores of France by the Y M
C A secretary and motored quickly to the bedside of their dying son,
only to find that they were just too late. The funeral was arranged,
even to the providing of flowers. The last ministry was performed for
the young man away from home and for the loved ones left behind, under
the triangle that will forevermore be red.

Thus the Association is at once the soldier's club, his home, his
church, his school, his place of rest, his entertainment bureau, his
bank and postoffice, his tourist guide, and the friend that stands by
him and his bereaved parents at the last. Fifteen hundred just such
huts and centers stretch away from Scotland to East Africa, from France
to Mesopotamia, from Egypt to India. Could any other single
organization have met all these needs of the men under arms, mobilized
so quickly, united all denominations, entered all lands, and embraced
all forms of work secular and religious?

We conducted meetings for several months throughout the camps in the
British Isles. At our last parade service with the brig