our prisoners of war.--Yours faithfully,

(Sd.) H. V. CONAN,
The Rev. Goodwin. _Lt.-Col., Mil. Sec._

When Mr Goodwin accordingly called nothing could well exceed the
warmth of the welcome and of the thanks the field-marshal graciously
accorded him.

Among the prisoners at the Waterfall was a well-known Wesleyan
sergeant of the 18th Hussars, who rallied around him all such as were
of a devout spirit and became the recognised leader of the religious
life of the prison camp. I therefore requested him to supply me with a
brief statement of what in this respect had been done by the prisoners
for the prisoners. He accordingly sent me the following letter:--

PRETORIA, _7th July 1900_.

REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,--Long before you asked me to write an
account of the Christian work which was carried on from the 22nd
of October 1899 to the 6th of June 1900, among the British
prisoners of war at the Pretoria Racecourse, and afterwards at
Waterfall, it had occurred to me that for the encouragement of
other Christian workers particularly, and the members of the
Church of Christ generally, some record should be made of the
wonderful way in which God blessed us, and it is with the
greatest pleasure that I accede to your request.

I was one of the 160 who were taken prisoners after the battle of
Talana Hill (Dundee), and a few days after arriving at our
destination (Pretoria Racecourse) we heard some of our guard
singing psalms and we immediately decided to ask the commandant
for a tent for devotional purposes. It was given, and after the
first few nights, till we were released by our own forces seven
months afterwards, it was filled to overflowing nightly. On our
being removed to Waterfall, we enlarged our tent to three times
its original size, and later on we begged building material from
the commandant, and built a very nice hall with a platform and
seating accommodation for over 240. At last this became too small
and we went into the open air twice a week, when no less than 500
to 700 congregated to hear the old, old story of Jesus and His
love.

When we asked for the small tent we had no idea of the work
growing as it did. We used to meet together every night, a simple
gathering together of God's