he screen of the public gaze. The writer also
desires to guard against any possible impression that the British army
is worse than our own or any other. It is too early to know what
record our men will make, but we find it difficult to believe that they
could have maintained a higher standard if placed in equal numbers in
the same circumstances.

But to return to our meeting. Every one of these eight hundred men in
this audience has a history. Tired or hardened or haggard faces are
relaxed as they join in singing the hymns on this Sunday evening,
"Nearer, My God, to Thee," "Lead, Kindly Light," "Tell Me the Old, Old
Story," and "Where is my Wandering Boy Tonight?" There is a tragedy in
every heart, and each man has experienced the bitterness of sin and
bears its scars branded in his body. Look into the faces of some of
these men. Here in front, this very first one, is an American cowboy
from Texas, Frank B----. As a "broncho-buster" he became the star
rider in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and was finally adopted as his
son. At the age of fifteen he started to go wrong in New Orleans. At
an early age he joined the American army, and later, at the outbreak of
the war, he served in the Flying Corps of the British army. Here he
broke a leg and was smashed up in action. After that he joined an
infantry division. In one of the meetings this week he accepted
Christ. He has since been standing firm and goes out tomorrow to begin
a new life. Near him is a young theological student with a sad look on
his face, who has learned here in bitterness the deepest lesson of his
life. Next to him is a heartbroken married man with a wife and
children at home.

After the crowd has assembled, we speak to them of Christ as the Maker
of Men. We tell them of the transformation of others like themselves,
of Augustine, Francis of Assisi, Loyola and the saints of old, of John
B. Gough, Jerry McAuley, Hadley, and the men of Water Street whom God
raised out of the depths, and of men right in their midst who have come
out for Christ in the meetings this week. After speaking for an hour,
we go into the Y M C A for an after-meeting.

We had a wonderful time with them here one Saturday night. Five
hundred of them crowded the hall and listened for an hour as we spoke
on the good news of the free offer of life. When the invitation was
given, over two hundred stayed to the after-meeting as desiring to
follow Christ. After we had sp