A DAY'S MARCH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 918, 10 September 1910, Page 9

A DAY'S MARCH.

HOW GENEIiAL BOOTH ADVANCES. ■ In a little' book entitled ''Day: by. Day in tlio"S>.'A.," Commissioner-Georgo fci. Itailtou gives' us a glimpse' or tno wnole balvuuon Army, tno wnole. woriu over, marching to wie:accbmpii'siiuicnx,or whas soldiers, call the. ••general luca.'.' Jiivery .buiiciay .morning tno'".'. ligiitmg force, meets,.in twos ana threes to pray for the.success or the week's campaign. What is.tue line.of advance r l -- Ueneiai Bootii's strategy;, is .i\apoleonic; it is surely one'of too'most brilliantly daring things in what/may lie. called'- leligious. ■military history; that the General',snould have decided, without waiting to st-iciig-then his position at home, to'adv;aricb simultaneously; in practically every coUn'try where a- small■ corps-cpii-ld;support", itself; The list pf.sucli countries given us by Coniniissibner liailton is most.impressive, almost': the only . important tracts yet untouched being Africa (north of Rhodesia.), Persia, Turkey, the Balkan Peninsula, Mexico, and Brazil. The .writer Only hints; at -the desperate nature of .these, frontier wars,..and incj-' dentally'at .the. 1 gravest'.problem, which will confront the-Army in the near future. '•..■■•.•. ■'' -vv' '-.■.•■ •-.-' '..■ '","

"W© havej never ypt in; any;country; been able; to. do all we yiould.wish.to make - the path of bur: most hardly-press-ed comrades, easier.';, Few, even of:.ourselves, have any-idea of. the. tears ":shed and;the sufferings.' borne .by .comrades toiling out'of sight in .the.very: wealthiest.as well'as. imthe poorest cities and countries' 'in the. world.": '■;.' ■'.'

. What is the hidden',.principle.which keeps 'alive the. Salvationist's .red-hot fervour.in: spite-of the iron'discipline-he has to undergo in order' to keep his corps above water, financially?,., ■■'.■;;■ '■■}:'. ".''From . ; the. very. ..beginning and hr every'department ..of -the.; work, .the General lias .always.• insisted 'upon the utmost; reasonable;pressure of the people tewards; self-support, not merely as a question'of.economy, but'as aii:-'essential, feature of all' genuine spiritual or ■ benevolent; enterprise.: '■. .->; .. ; Wo: .'coet .people, both'out'doors. arid in to. help us. in meeting- all

our:expenses.';, v.: yV.i-Soiho ? of.:, our larger .corps receive aiid spend hundreds of pounds annually: :-But every-penny is counted/in and out .by-a group of local' officials who know., too !,much'.or poverty to. sarwjtion any unjustifiable expendi-. ture."-;'. ; :.-'-.;; ,"■/: ■;;,.-:--:'-..; -.->..■.• --,-'.'■'.•''.;: