all our energies in trying to persuade men to receive and practise it.'

How wonderfully she carried this intention into practice, and, together
with The General, lived every moment 'publishing the Sinner's Friend,'
you shall read later on.




IV

A LIFE OF SACRIFICE



'Since I came to the crucifixion of myself, I have not cared much what
men might say of me.'--MRS. BOOTH.

At the time when our Army Mother married The General's work was, as we
have seen, that of an 'Evangelist' or 'Travelling Minister.' He would
stay in a town for some weeks or months, as the case might be, preaching
and holding Meetings, and getting people saved, both in the town itself
and the places round.

It was a blessed and useful life, but very wearying; and we can fancy how
trying it must have been for Mrs. Booth after her marriage not to have
any home of her own, but to billet first in one stranger's house, and
then in another's.

But she did not complain, though we see what it cost her by a letter she