unceasing efforts to help those most in need of help and
encouragement. As the aged General put it on his arrival in
Johannesburg, the Organisation of which he is the mainspring has
set before itself the task of giving a helping hand to the very
poor, those who are without friends, and those who have fallen in
the battle of life."

The members of the Cape Town and district Evangelical Church Council in
their address to General William Booth, D.C.L., said:--

"We have been deeply touched by the energy, the wisdom, and the
consecration with which you carry on your work at a period of life
when most men have retired from active service.

"We would join with our brethren of the Christian Churches
throughout the world in assuring you of our admiration, mixed with
our wonder, at the success which has attended your labours for the
Salvation of the most helpless and degraded members of our race.

"Hand in hand with your efforts for the Salvation of the souls of
the fallen have gone a true Christlike care for the bodies of the
unfortunate, and an attempt to stem the current of social evil and
degeneracy.

"We are deeply interested in your experiments in colonising those
parts of our Empire which are at present sparsely populated, and
thus relieving the tension of social problems in the larger cities
of Great Britain, and that congestion of population which is a
fruitful source of individual and of social degradation.

"We trust your visit to South Africa may result in the settlement
in the rich lands now untilled of a population, which by its
industry, thrift, and character will compare with those of Canada,
New Zealand, and Australia.

"We rejoice that the great Captain of Salvation continues to lead
the Organisation, of which you are the head and heart in one, to
great victories over the forces of evil, and assure you that in
this land we recognise The Salvation Army as a powerful force for
the spiritual and social uplift of the people. It is always a
pleasure for the Churches we represent to render any aid in our
power to an Organisation for whose members and whose work we have
the deepest regard.

"It is the earnest prayer of the Council that your visit may be
full of blessing to your community, that it may result in a fresh
infusion