God will not fail you.

Give the children my dear love, and tell them that, if there had been a Salvation Army when I was ten years old, I should have been as good a Soldier then as I am to-day." To the last she maintained her interest in comrades who were furthest off, as well as in those who were near.

To Australians she sent the message:-- "Tell them I look on them and care for them, as for my English children, and that I expect them to gather in many a sorrowing mother's prodigal, who has wandered far from his Father's house." Of one of those terrible occasions when it seemed as if the end had come, The General writes, in December, 1889:-- "To stand by the side of those you love, and watch the ebbing tide of life, unable to stem it, or to ease the anguish, is an experience of sorrow which words can but poorly describe.

There was a strange choking sensation in the throat which threatened suffocation.

After several painful struggles there was a great calm, and we felt the end had come." What a mercy that nobody knew how many months of agony were yet to follow! It was not till October, 1890, that the end really came.