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resist, but had to yield.

"A lawyer said to me the next day that the sermons and lecture were
the most wonderful he had ever heard. Another lawyer who had been
to each Meeting stayed in his place till the very close on Sunday
night, saying that he could not tear himself away.

"The common people heard him gladly, and the uncommon people were
overwhelmed with admiration, and conviction. A young lady,
belonging to one of the best families in the city, just home from
Paris, where she had been studying art, heard him and could not
refrain from leaving the box in which she sat and going to the
Penitent-Form. She went home truly converted.

"The wave of power and conviction did not cease when The General
left; and during the next four days we saw fifty-eight persons at
the Penitent-Form."

The special value of all these American testimonies to the effect of The
General's brief visits, lies in the fact that they show the triumph of
the War plan of God, just in the circumstances where weaklings are
tempted to yield to public opinion, substitute orations for real
righting for souls, and to press nobody to an immediate decision, or
change of heart and life.

There can be no doubt that The Army's invariable fight against the drink
has helped to make its General so highly honoured amongst American
statesmen. But in that, as in everything else, the important fact to
note is that it was by establishing an absolute authority that he
secured the faithful carrying on of the campaign against drink and every
other evil at every spot where our Flag flies.

The eyes of the whole world have, in our day, been more or less opened
to the ruinous character of the drink traffic, and The General and his
forces, whilst keeping out of the political arena, have mightily helped
the agitations that have ended in the exclusion of the drink traffic
altogether from many states and cities, and its limitation, in many
ways.

But much less notice has been taken of other evils, which have no less
absorbed the attention, and spoiled the means, the minds, and the souls
of the masses. The sight daily in every great English-reading city when
the sporting editions of the newspapers appear, ought indeed to arouse
every follower of Christ. But the habit of irresponsibility that has
grown up in most "Christian" circles has still to be fought against
everywhere, and The General's persis