I count it the most important work I have had my hands on for years.
"I had a proper day at----.

I got at the peasantry for once, although I have often had that privilege before, and we had a mighty day.

Oh, the joy of leading those simple souls into the light and power and freedom of the Kingdom! I am keeping better.
Praise the Lord!" Whether The General's hopes for the use of his writings to the good of children will be fully realised, remains to be seen; but it is a great thing to have established even the purpose of making the way to Heaven plain enough for the youngest feet to find.
The other day I heard a Captain explaining how he was "conscripted" into The Army at ten years of age.

He was standing outside the door of one of our Halls on an evening when children were not admitted.

He had tried, in vain, boylike, to dodge through the doorkeeper's legs--but a drunken woman came up and not only insisted on getting in, but on dragging him in "to keep her company." Once inside, she went right up to the Penitent-Form with her prisoner, and made him kneel with her there.