The Angel Adjutant of Twice Born Men""

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t for such a position few qualities other than enthusiasm and some ability fo

worship, and by every lawful means to compel them to his hall for help at closer range. He is there to visit the sick, to seek out the drunkard, to visit the police court, to encourage, and lift, and lift again the weak and stumbling. He is there to answer letters from anxious parents, to hunt up straying sons and daughters, to rebuke sin; in outbreaks of infectious

young people's work, and various other departments. The business man finds that the hustle, the high rent, floating population and the keen c

s settled residential population. There are corps in industrial centres with features peculiar to them; and the village corps, where long distances are covered

g twelve shillings per week and her furnished quarters, and when an adjutant at the height of her success, not only as a soul-winner, but as an organizer and manager of unusual ability, who in commercial or civil life cou

st the villages, with tiny hall and a handful of people to care for, by sheer

ix hundred pages packed from cover to cover with matter as interesting as it is logical and practical. Every phase of the officer's life and service is therein dealt with. An officer might be located

wn daughter. She lived the 'F.O.' in relation to her own soul, her lieutenant, her soldiers, every section of her corps; to the backsliders, to

rder to ascertain the size and condition of her charge as a fighting force; next she examined the cashbooks in order to find out he

surer of one

n she was able to estimate the grip of evil on the town, and the efforts made by the people of God to combat it. She reckoned all the godless people of the town were her concern, and laid her plans accordingly. She called upon the police, the civic a

been so conscious of the presence of The Salvation Army

ization pulsated with life. Every evening of the week the citadel was ablaze with light and humm

ength in the battles for souls which developed. At some of her corps a few of these comrades remained in a room praying during the whole of the service on Sunday night; and when the prayer meeting began, they quietly made their way to either side of the penitent-form; their earnest pleading for the unsaved having much

d. To this end she visited, and 'nursed' and trained and commanded–and with good results. But while she had a keen eye for the new recr

no longer remain to the prayer meetings; when they come only now and then to the week-night services; and when they cease to testify as frequently, heartily, a

abits of drunkenness or uncleanness, fighting or thieving, or any other vulgar form of sin. The F.O. should consider the shame of the man himself, if he i

ght back to loyal service. One tells that he had been away from the fight for six years. She heard of

. Sometimes she might not even sit down; just kneel a moment and pray with us. At other times she merely put her head round the do

ashed spiritually that he seemed past mending. But not to Kate Lee's faith. She prayed over him, believed for him, refused to give up

id an old man with broken voice, 'she held an open-air service in our street, came into my house, wept over me and

my music is the same as when it was first admitted as an auxiliary in our efforts to attract the unsaved, it has passed from the crudeness of its beginnings to a high standard of excellence. The bands of The Salvation Army now rank amongst the best in the world, and are an appreciated institution in most towns and villages. The bands

once Kate Lee 'scented' trouble in her bands and resorted to a night of prayer, as a preparation for dealing with the problem. She would come from her little sanct

world in relation to God, the spiritual danger of mixing with the ungodly in their amusement. Quietly, the men viewed the matter in the light of eternity and made their choice. It was according to the Adjutant's standards. Not, as she was careful to explain, because they were hers as the commanding officer, but because they were standards o

and the meals and send their husbands to their God-given labours. They were not forgotten by the Adjutant. She took a delight in preparing a pretty tea for them at her quarters, and inviting them to a little party all of the

eir ability towards the upkeep of their respective corps; but when the best that may be is done in this dir

ers out of the fire.' But there was the rent; the upkeep of a great hall and her quarters, fire and lighting, printing, advertising, in addition to the modest allowance for herself and her two lieutenants. To cope with such problems, Kate Lee brought the qu

iritual campaign, and enlisted the soldiers' interest. The following morning she received a letter of welcome from her Divisional Commander, who incidentally informed her that the Division was financially in rather difficult circumstances, and that he was looking to her to assist him

ard with her plans for soul-winning her liabilities increased. 'The theatre will be a fizzle, and you will have a big deficit there,' discouraged the Tempter. But Kate would not be moved from her purpose. The

heatre last night, and he was so impressed with what he saw and heard that he intends to give you two hundred and fifty dollars!' 'Oh, praise the Lord!' responded the Adjutant. When she met her soldiers with the news, and

of her methods and enthusiasm in conductin

r be disturbed for anything.' Dinner time came, and I wondered what to do, and thought I had better take her dinner to her. When I appeared at her door with the tray, she laughed heartily with and at me, carrie

ek, a friend, thinking that the officers might be depriving themselves of nourishing food, left a basket packed wi

ry. Volumes of tributes to their love and appreciation

she was when she left.' A testimony from a village com

all-keepers. 'What did they want? Spiritual help, guidance, advice, about all manner of things; they knew her heart

he Colours, and her loyalty to

ted we should go to the open-air meeting without the Flag. "Oh, no! The General w

I had never caught much more than glimpses of her. My husband was one of her local officers and she frequently came to our home, but she did her business and went, never remaining even for a cup

all your own.' This characteristic is laid away in scores of hearts like a sweet perfume which gives out fragrance every time it is stirred. "She took time, she always took time to listen," whispered one of her co

ed themselves to attention and things began to move faster whenever she came on the scene. "This is quite a feminine li

teous." The graciousness of her spirit always reminded me of

ting bronchitis, but she never spoke of herself. Never even said she

"you're ill. You should go home to bed." When she knew I had seen her, she steadied herself to take breath, smiled sternly, then waved me off, and presently walked briskly into her converts' meeting.' A lieutenant tells, 'Sometimes in the morning she looked so ill

red in 'The Officer' under the title of 'My Ideal Field Officer.' It indica

is still in the field, has been the livi

is instrument. I prepared to accompany him to the open-air meeting and casually remarked that the

uing h

t about it. She can 'sit on' a fellow without crushing the life out of him. The whole band is changed. She's just got our chaps, the thirty of them; and she's as true and straight as a die. The beauty of her life and example beats all we have ever had. Makes you fee

ications which are within the reach of all. Three words sum them up, consecration, concentration, conservation. Every power of her being, every treasure of her heart,

y power of mind, body, and soul on the object of the moment, whether it is s

serves her energies in fitness, her soul in tenderness, her people in love,

idst of darkness, tireless, persistent, fruitful, wondrous in its effect upon others. She literally accepts no defeat. Her convictio

eriness of her manner, and her loving compassionate heart, ensure a welcome everywhere; and whilst she weeps over the wanderer, and spares no pains t

thing is ever winked at, be it in the wealthiest or the poorest; in the heart, the habit, or the home. The fierce light of th

ect and affection. She is as accessible to the youngest chi

en she has sent her lieutenants to rest. She is not what is termed a

anion, a wise leader. In her home she is

capacity for business and relish for it, to which, as a lieutenant, she was a stranger. She shoulders financial burdens with a loya

early expenditure is calculated, the ordinary resources discovered, special efforts estimated, the deficit boldly faced; then pray

converts, backsliders, seniors, juniors, young people, home league, boys' band, swimming club, corps cadet, company guards, 'War Crys,' songsters. In fact

ts without the co-operation of her locals, where it is at all possible t

est soldier and convert, and an en

mprove her corps, amenable to reason, correct in he

held dearer than any badge, that once when chosen to represent the Field Officers to The Fo

eral Bramw

d won her great victories. She showed us afresh, if we

in His Spirit with her strong, loving, dutiful soul. The meekness of

more actual work than is sometimes done by half a dozen of her sister-officers put together. The lost and the ruined and the broken-hearted, the vicious and desperate, and those who are ready to go down to the pit were

ee. In one place she is spoken of as the great befriender of the broken and outcast. In another as 'the one who helped us when we were starving.' In another as one of the few decent people who were ever seen dur

lp it. She was one of those who could say with Paul, 'I laboured more abu