Where so wonderful a journey is so filled up with Meetings so described, and where, from the very highest to the lowest all speak so warmly of him, it is really difficult within the limited space at our disposal to give, without danger of monotony, or repetition, any adequate idea of what took place.  Americans are such habitual organisers of huge demonstrations, and are so generally accustomed to say, publicly, without reserve, what they think, that the expression of what to them may appear perfectly natural runs the risk of creating elsewhere an air of exaggeration and unreality.  But if we consider that great American States like Minnesota, Ohio, and Michigan contain more inhabitants than some of the kingdoms of Europe, and that their Governors are men likely to occupy the very highest positions in the government of America, we can realise how effective amongst the masses of the people The General’s work must have been before such Governors could be expected to preside at his Meetings, and to speak of him, as they did.

Said Governor Nash, of Ohio:—­

“I never had the privilege of meeting you in person, until I grasped your hand upon this platform.  You have not been unknown, however, to me or to the people of Ohio.  You recognise the fact that you could not perform this work well without the help of God.  That your work has been well performed is well known to us all from the fact that the Organisation you have made known as The Salvation Army has spread throughout the world, turning the feet of multitudes into the paths of righteousness and peace.  It has done good.  It has done a great work wherever it has gone.  It is for these reasons that the people of Ohio welcome you most cordially to-night, and they and I wish you an abundant harvest in your life’s work, and that at the end you may have the peace and rest and the joy that God gives to all His own good people.”

Similar specially religious references to those used by Governor Nash came constantly into the speeches of other leaders who expressed their people’s welcomes to The General, showing how faithfully every opportunity was being utilised to exalt Christ, amongst even the most unusual crowds assembled on these occasions.

Governor Cummins, of Iowa, said:—­

“I have long wanted an opportunity to express publicly my appreciation of the grand, noble, and untiring work that every day is being performed by those noble and unselfish men and women, who have gathered under the Flag of The Salvation Army, loved and esteemed throughout the whole world.

“In every army there is a leader.  The Salvation Army has a Leader whose commanding figure towers above the Salvationists of the world, and has drawn to himself more love, more respect, and more confidence than at this moment centres in any other human being.  Of him it will be said, after he has passed to the beautiful shores of the hereafter, the best that can be said of any