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CHAPTER VIII
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I do not wish, God forbid, to make the Army respectable; I wish it to remain exactly where it is--but with a greater quietness and a deeper, more personal sympathy in its appeal to the sad and the sorrowful.
General Booth is not the man to make these changes, but his wife is a woman who might.

In any case they will be made.

Time will bring them about.

Then it will be seen, I think, that the Salvation Army is one of the most powerful agencies in the world for spreading the good news of personal religion among the depressed millions of the human race.

For even at this present time the lasting work of the Salvationist, the work which makes him so noble and so useful a figure in the modern world, is not accomplished by pageantry and tub-thumping, but by the intimate, often most beautiful, and very little known work of its slum officers, particularly the women.
Finally, concerning the General, he is in himself a telling witness to one of the mysterious powers of the Christian religion.


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