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The Angel Adjutant of Twice Born Men""

Chapter 8 No.8

Word Count: 1479    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

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ght conduct a party of emigrants to Canada, she hailed the opportunity with the joy of a child. To cross the ocean; to see something of the great Dominion; passing over thousands of mile

party which was committed to Adjutant Lee's charge, furnishes some reminiscences of the impression whic

ughout the Dominion, at which individual settlers were to arrive for distribution in outlying districts. Thus, no responsibility with regard to placing the newcomers upon arrival rested with the conductor, whose work it was to be spiritual adviser and friend to each member and unifier of the party as a whole, during

domestic service; parents whose married children in the Dominion offered them a home with them; and not the least interesting, a party of Scotch boys, aged from fourteen to seven

an enterprise so new as this, and she asked if I could not accompany the sailing from Glasgow to Liverpool. A period of about twenty-four hours, as near as I can remember, was involved in

bles having been allocated to the hundred or more members of the party under Salvation Army guidance. Adjutant Lee, who was standi

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sts, but the singing was hearty, stewards

settled into a singsong. Before long this drifted most naturally–or rather, was ably piloted–into a pulsing meeting with the accompaniment of testimony, a solo from a young man, and an earnest, direct appea

e show who and what she was. I replied that if she so chose, she could have breakfast, lunch, and tea, in her bonnet, but that it would be much better to appear at dinner inconspicuously bareheaded. My argument prevailed, though she declared she would be much more comfortable in the beloved bonnet. At the close of dinner t

d re-crossed in that vessel since the journey of Adjutant Lee, but from the ship's officials, chief stewards and stewardess

. I was not privileged to see anything further of that. But amongst those who dwelt in the dee

A private tourist car was provided, and the train journey occupied f

my Lodge for young women immigrants in Winnipeg, and from this base, visited all The Army institutions in the city. She was specially inte

elighted the English visitor. Over the border into the United States went Kat

to speak to the prisoners who awaited trial next day. Some of the listeners were white, others coloured. Several of them in the private conversations which f

f men she had known to be delivered from desperate sin, when in penitence they cried to God; and at the conclusion twenty men raised their hands as an evidence of their desire, then and there to seek Salvation. The Governor of the short-sentence prisoners sent the Adjutant an invitation, and she held two meetings at the prison with the w

natural force with its limitless possibilities in the service of man, when captured and controlled, impressed her deeply, for in her jottings boo

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