bitterness that could hardly have been exceeded. It has constantly been
suggested, if not openly stated, that he was simply "making a pile" of
money for himself; and yet, as will be seen in our chapter on Finance he
made the most comprehensive arrangements to render suspicion on this
score inexcusable.

But try, if you can, at every turn throughout all this life, whenever
you hear of General Booth, to realise what it means for such a man,
struggling to carry on and extend such a work, to know every minute, day
and night, that he is being accused and suspected of seeking only his
own, all the time. Remember that his nature was perhaps abnormally
sensitive about any mistrust or suspicion, and about the confidence of
those nearest to him. And then you may have some conception of the cross
he had always to bear, and of the wounded heart that went about, for
years, inside that bold and smiling figure.

And yet there is, thank God! much of the humorous to relieve our
tensions in The Army. A brother Commissioner of mine remembers seeing
The General sail for the United States for the first time. As the
steamer swung off, a bystander remarked, "So he's off?" "Yes." "And when
do you go?" "Go? What do you mean?" "Well, you will never see him again
now, will you?" And then my comrade fairly took in that the man was
alluding to the continual prophecy of those days that The General, once
he had got enough, would disappear with all the money he had raised. So
that man went down to his house laughing, and has been laughing over it
now for twenty-six years!

Perhaps The General gained more than can ever be calculated from having
to begin and to carry on his warfare, for a long time, in the very teeth
of public opinion.

We're marching on to war, we are, we are, we are!
We care not what the people think, nor what they say we are,

was one of the favourite choruses which, in his greatest public
demonstrations in this country, as well as in his ordinary Meetings, he
taught us to sing.

Only in this spirit of utter disregard for public opinion have God's
prophets, in all ages, been able to do their work, and only whilst they
remain indifferent to men's scorn and opposition, can the Soldiers of
The Salvation Army properly discharge their task of "warning and
teaching every man," in all wisdom.

How indispensable this state of mind is to the individual Convert only
those who have lived for Christ amongst the hostile surroundin