rove ahead, speaking over an hour and a half, and not losing
the attention of my audience for a moment. Indeed, I felt I had the
whole house from the moment I opened my lips. Of course, it was the
greatest physical effort a long way that I ever made, and,
considering that it was my seventh address in that 'dreadful'
building, and that I commenced with a bad throat, exhausted with
the fatigues and miseries of the voyage, and that I had
ceaselessly worked at smaller Meetings, etc., all the four days, I
do think it very wonderful how I went through it, and I must
attribute it to the direct holding up and strengthening of the dear
Lord Himself.

"On all hands I think a deep impression was made. To God be the
glory, and to my poor constituents, for whom I live and plead, be
the benefit.

"I am tired this morning, but shall get a little rest to-day and a
little extra sleep in the train. We leave for Bendigo at twelve
o'clock, arriving at four for Meeting to-morrow. We go to Geelong
next day, coming back here on Friday morning, and leaving at five
for Sydney, travelling all night, and arriving there about noon on
Saturday.

"You will get tired of hearing of this round of Meetings, and of
the very echo of this enthusiasm; but you will, I am sure, rejoice,
not merely that the people of this new world have welcomed your
father and General with such heartiness, but that there is for The
Army such an open door in these parts."

That is indeed what lends such endless importance to the recital which
we cannot help reporting ever and anon of The General's Meetings in each
country to which he went. It was not the mere coming together of crowds
to listen to a speaker, but the enthusiastic acceptance and endorsement
of a system, and of demands made by a perfect stranger in which he so
delighted. The General never went anywhere merely to preach or lecture.
All that he did in that way was always so combined with Salvation
Campaigns that at every step he was really recruiting for The Army.
Hence his every movement, the reports of his journeys, the conversations
he held with all whom he met, everything told in the one great War and
helped to create, more and more all over the world, this force of men,
women, and children, pledged to devote themselves to the service of
Christ and of mankind.

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