d hardly a man of them fell out. They too were
part of the great movement--a movement that would continue until they
marched into Bloemfontein with Lord Roberts.

=The Chaplains on the March.=

The chaplains were not allowed to accompany them. They followed with the
doctors and the baggage. Whether they were considered impedimenta or not
they hardly knew. Certainly their work was over for a short time, to be
renewed all too soon when the first batch of wounded came down from the
ever-advancing front.

So the senior Church of England chaplain and the senior Wesleyan
chaplain trudged off side by side, and marched steadily through the
night until, about sunrise, they set foot for the first time since they
had landed in South Africa on hostile soil. A few miles further on they
passed a deserted Boer camp, and among the _debris_ strewing the floor
of a farm-house found two English Bibles.

About nine o'clock in the morning Jacobsdal was reached. In England it
would be called a village, for it had only seven hundred inhabitants;
but it was quite an important town in those parts.

Here a halt was called and a few hours' rest permitted. Mr. Lowry
climbed into a captured Boer ambulance, and found lying on the floor of
it a Dutch Reformed minister, the Rev. T.N. Fick, who had been General
Cronje's chaplain, and who only the night before had joined in the
general flight from Magersfontein. These two, both ministers of the
Gospel, had been for two months on different sides of the famous kopje.
One had been praying for the success of the Boer arms and the other for
the success of the English! And yet here they lay side by side in
amicable Christian converse. Strange are the ways of war!

But though the chaplains were denied the privilege of proceeding to the
front with the soldiers, two Christian workers at any rate--we have not
heard of more--managed to secure that privilege. By the kindness of Lord
Methuen, and as a token of his appreciation of their efforts for the
men, Mr. Percy Huskisson and Mr. Darroll, of the South African General
Mission, were attached to the Bearer Company of the Highland Brigade.
'On Monday, February 12th, they went out, not knowing whither they were
going. Their luggage was limited to changes of socks and shirts and
rugs, but at the last moment they managed to get permission to take a
little box of food also. At about five o'clock on Monday afternoon they
entrained in open trucks, which were share