My work is plainly to fill up the weeks, the days, and the hours, and cheer my poor heart as I go along, with the thought that when I have served my Christ and my generation, according to the will of God, which I vow this afternoon I will, to the last drop of my blood, that then she will bid me welcome to the skies, as He bade her.

God bless you all! Amen." And then he knelt and kissed the coffin, and we lowered it into the grave.

The Chief of the Staff read a form of Covenant, which thousands repeated, and then we parted.
From that very day The General rose up and went forward, sorrowing, as every one could see, to his last days over his irreparable loss, but never allowing his grief to hinder his labours for those who, amidst their afflictions have no heavenly Comforter.
A still further blow was to fall upon him, only three years later.

Mrs.
Booth had delighted, especially during her years of suffering, in the fellowship of her second daughter, Emma, who had been married to Commissioner Tucker, in 1890, and who had always seemed to The General to be the nearest representative, in many respects, of her mother.

He had gladly given her up to go with her husband to India, and was equally willing for her, later, to go to the United States.