eetings. But any one can
understand how such privileges only increased his sense of coming loss.

Her last address was delivered in the City Temple, on June 21, 1888, and
she had to remain for nearly an hour after in the pulpit before she
could move. Nevertheless, she was able to continue her help by writing
for our publications, and to individuals, for a long time after this.
Before the Self-Denial Week of 1888 she wrote to our Soldiers:--

"Although not able to be at the front of the battle in person, my
heart is there, and the greatest pain I suffer arises from my
realisation of the vast opportunities of the hour, and of the
desperate pressure to which many of my comrades are subject, while
I am deprived of the ability to help them, as in days gone by."

In 1889 she wrote:--

"I am now realising, as never before, how much harder it is to
suffer than to serve. I can only assure you again, by letter, that
my heart is as much with you as ever. Regard no opposition,
persecution, or misrepresentation. Millions upon millions wait for
us to bring to them the light of life."

To the great Crystal Palace Demonstration of 1889 she sent a message
which was displayed in large letters:--

"My place is empty, but my heart is with you. Go forward. Live holy
lives. Be true to The Army. God is your strength. Love and seek the
lost. God is my salvation and refuge in the storm."

Hers was, indeed, a prolonged storm of suffering, the strain of which
upon The General cannot easily be realised. He would go out, time after
time, to his great journeys and Meetings with, necessarily, a gnawing
uncertainty as to what might occur in his absence, and would be called,
again and again, to what he thought might be her last agony, only to see
her, after hours of extraordinary pain and weakness, rally again, to
suffer more. To the very end her mind continued to be as clear and
powerful as of old, so that her intense interest in everything connected
with his work made it difficult for The General to realise that she
might at any moment be called away from him. Often through the long
hours of the night he would watch beside her.

To a party of Officers who visited her in 1889, she said:--

"I feel that at this moment I could put all my children into their
graves, and go to a workhouse bed to die, sooner than I could see
the principles of The Salvation Army, for wh