Our troops naturally made the most of such days, and it became a common thing to see men and even women kneeling in an Open-Air Meeting to seek Salvation.
So when it was announced, in 1907, that The General was coming, Japan resolved to give him a welcome such as he had never had before.

That a man should undertake, at seventy-eight years of age, such a journey, was felt to be a tribute both to the country and to the man himself, and there was a desire, if anything more in non-Christian than in Christian circles to hear him, and do him honour.
"Tell him," said a Tokio editor, "that he is coming to a country such as he has never before visited--which can appreciate self-sacrifice, as we have shown in the late war." And from the moment when his steamer entered Yokohama Harbour to that of his departure, nothing was omitted that could open his way to the ears and hearts of the entire nation.

I had the pleasure myself to witness those unforgettable scenes, and to notice The General's own astonishment at the universal interest of the people.

In each city he found the railway station decorated.

A platform was erected, generally in some public space, whence he could address the multitudes who came out to hear him.