eeting. Fine audience, very nearly filling the church.
Commenced with a new interpreter, a student--execrable! I soon had
to fall back on one of the others.

"7 p.m., as full as the police would allow. Continued till 10 p.m.
And then had a Soldiers' Meeting till 11.30 p.m.

"Left Copenhagen the next morning at 8.30 a.m."

We who have since seen some of The General's greatest triumphs in that
city, and have watched the steady growth of The Army in Denmark till it
has won the sympathy of the Royal Family and of every other decent
family in the country, must rejoice in this record of his first
desperate battles there, and can guess how much of all the subsequent
victory is due to what his people learned in those days.

But the record has a far wider interest, for it lets us see, as we have
little opportunity ordinarily, the inward conflicts through which The
General passed in so many places where, out of his weakness, or the
weakness of his forces, he, or they, were "made strong."

Few achievements of The General's lifetime will, I fancy, impress future
generations more than his establishment of The Army in Finland at the
very time when all the former liberties of that country were gradually
being taken away.

Formerly recognised by treaties as a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire,
with its own Parliament and laws, which were supposed to be permanently
guaranteed, Finland found itself looked upon with a growing jealousy
just when a new constitution was slowly changing the governmental
arrangements of Russia. It is, as yet, too early for outsiders to
understand how it came to pass that the country was regarded as a centre
of disaffection, or why, ever and anon some new step was taken to
nullify its Parliament, and to place it more and more under military
control. What we are concerned with is the simple fact that these things
interfered but little with the steady progress of The Army, and that
this proved at every step the soundness of The General's principles, the
completeness with which he succeeded in planting them in the hearts of
his most distant followers, and the marvellous way in which God guided,
protected, and blessed his work, just where he could do the least for
its development.

The very beginning of the Work was due entirely to one of his most
daring decisions, for it may well be doubted whether any attempt, under
the leadership of a foreigner, would have been tolerated at that t