we have been able
thus to help many. In India we have also commenced in three of our
Territories medical work, making it, after first cost of buildings,
equipment, and Staff, largely self-supporting, as we found that the
people really appreciated help more for which they were called upon to
make ever so small a return.

In the same way, respecting all our work, The General has always urged
the importance of applying, as far as possible, our general rule of
self-support; for though the people may have very little to give, the
very least they can do helps to protect us from the prejudice created by
the term "rice Christians," applied to those who are believed to have
made professions of Christianity for the sake of the food they hope to
receive.

And now the Government, having seen the practical effect of our work,
are beginning to give us opportunities such as we never had before. The
Doms, a tribe systematically trained to live by thieving, were placed
under our special care, and the result was such as to lead to our having
other unmanageables likewise given over to us. In fact, we are barely
now beginning to reap in India what in twenty-eight arduous years had
been sown.

Does some one ask, Where does The General's own hand appear in much of
this? Is it not all rather due to his having from the beginning, had so
able a helper, acquainted with the languages and mental habits of the
country, and other exceptionally able Officers both here and there?

Even if it were so, I should ask how all these people of ability placed
themselves so absolutely at The General's disposal as to wish to spend
all their lives under his direction in the greatest poverty in that
far-away land? And I should inquire, further, how it came to pass that
British, French, American, Swedish, Swiss, Dutch, and others could be
got to submit, not only to work in union under the same "iron"
regulations, but often under the leadership of women, and often under
that of Indian Staff Officers? Who else but General Booth has ever
attempted to place under command of a woman a missionary work, carried
on largely by men, over a territory larger and more populous than the
United Kingdom? Yet, undoubtedly, nothing has more contributed to the
success of our work in a country where women have been so largely
repressed, as the fact that The Army has thus demonstrated its
confidence in God's power to lift up the weakest to the uttermost
degree.

Nobody who ref