respect to
The Army, but towards myself.

"I answered in a few words that I trust were useful and beneficial
to all present. The whole thing, from the moment of my being
received at the door of my railway carriage, until I left next
morning, had been prearranged through the instrumentality of one of
our Local Officers, to his great credit, to the credit of his town,
and to the satisfaction of his General.

"The mail brought me a request to take over a certain county
council's lodging-house for poor men, on which they are losing a
large sum, also another to take over an inebriates' home, which
cost L40,000 and is an utter failure. In such exploits people will
not have The Salvation Army at the onset, otherwise they might save
a good deal of expense, etc.

"Friday.--Arriving at Amsterdam, the mail brought confirmation of
my agreement of yesterday to postpone my South African visit to
September, and to begin my Motor Tour at Dundee, and finish at the
Crystal Palace. In all these things the maxim is ever present to my
mind, 'Man proposes, but God disposes.' Closed the night at the
desk, which is becoming more and more a difficult task from the
failure of my eyes.

"Saturday.--Good night's sleep. That is for me, anyway, a great
improvement on recent nights. So now for a good day's work, of
which there is plenty lying before me.

"7.30 p.m., Soldiers' Meeting. We have always been crowded out
before, so this time the Palace Theatre was taken, as an
experiment, and it justified my reckonings for several years gone
by, namely, that we could fill any reasonable place on Saturday
night here, and yet keep the Meeting select; that is, confine it to
Soldiers and ex-Soldiers, adherents, and those concerned about
religion. We were more than full, and the place holds 1,500. I had
much liberty in speaking, the After Meeting went with a swing
seldom known on the Continent or elsewhere, and we had eighty-four
at the Penitent-Form, some of them remarkable cases."

No wonder this octogenarian Leader finds his young Dutchmen wanting in
enterprise!

"Sunday.--The theatre again in the morning at ten. An excellent
plan. Oh, that it could be adopted the world over! The senseless
system of beginning at eleven makes you feel it is time to close
almost befor