er career than that
of the cultivation of land, and that there must needs be some assurance
of their being held to their agreement in any such case. He goes on:--

"At night, Farewell Meeting in the amphitheatre. It was a
considerable strain on me, as I hadn't a minute to prepare. I had
promised myself a couple of hours in the afternoon, when some Dutch
ministers came down upon me to open a Y.W.C.A. building that they
had just converted from a low public-house at Beaconsfield a suburb
of Kimberley. If I would only go for half an hour they would be so
grateful. I couldn't refuse, so my bit of leisure was seized upon.

"However, we had a very good Meeting. We were nearly full. I made a
new speech which went, I thought, with considerable power, and then
commissioned separate detachments for operations amongst the Zulus
and Swazis--outriders for the Orange Free State, and Officers for
various branches of Social Work. The leaders of each detachment
spoke very well indeed. Promising fellows, all of them.

"At the close of the public Meeting I had to have another for
Soldiers, Officers, and Auxiliaries. This I was compelled to
conclude earlier than I should otherwise have done by the
announcement that the electric light would soon give out. However,
we had a very nice finish, and I got to bed about 11.30.

"Thursday.--Breakfast with the Staff Officers at 8. An hour and
three-quarters' good straight talk afterwards with beautiful
influence, everybody so tender. At the close I said, 'Now let us
kneel down,' and after a little prayer asked them to link hands
with me, and let us give ourselves up again to Jesus for the
service of God and The Army."

Such tender-hearted linkings together of those who have the leadership
of The Army's various departments have alone prevented the separations
of heart that must inevitably be threatened wherever a number of very
strong-willed men and women are engaged in labours into which they throw
their whole soul, and in which they cannot, perhaps should not, avoid
the feeling that their own department is, after all, the most important
in the world. But any one who thinks will understand how men and women
so blended together in fellowship with God and each other have been able
to override all contrary influences in every country.

"E. (the leader of our Work in South Afr