'Personally considered,' she writes to her mother, 'I care nothing about
it. I feel that a good rest in one place will be a boon to us. Anyhow, if
God wills him to be an Evangelist, He will open the way. I find that I
love the work itself far more than I thought I did, and I am willing to
risk something for it.'

After this came several years of great conflict and struggle. The
Conference (or, as we would say, Headquarters) under whom The General
worked did not wish him to continue the great Salvation Campaigns for
which God had so marvellously fitted him. They wanted him to 'settle
down,' and spend perhaps several years in one place like ordinary
ministers.

To please those who were over him he did this, and spent four years in
one town. But though God blessed his efforts, The General was convinced
that he was called to greater things. He loved the sinners; wherever he
went crowds flocked to hear him, and the vilest were converted. Was it
God's will, therefore, that he should sacrifice the work his soul loved,
and 'settle down' into an ordinary life, helping and reaching only the
people of one small city?

This question our Army Mother helped him to decide. Try to picture her
position. She had by this time a family of little children, and her
health was very delicate. By counselling The General to 'settle down,' as
his friends wished him to do, she would have a nice home, a comfortable
income, and, above all, the constant presence of her husband, who would
no longer need to leave her on his long soul-saving tours.

By refusing the position offered, and choosing instead to take up the
'evangelistic life' again, The General turned his back on salary, home,