by side, in the battle's front, who had been a comrade to you, ever
willing to interpose herself between you and the enemy, and ever the
strongest when the battle was fiercest, and your beloved one had fallen
before your eyes, I am sure there would be some excuse for your sorrow.

'Well, my comrades, you can roll all these qualities into one
personality, and what would be lost in all I have lost in one. There has
been taken away from me the light of my eyes, the inspiration of my soul,
and we are about to lay all that remains of her in the grave. I have been
looking right at the bottom of it here, and calculating how soon they may
bring and lay me alongside of her, and my cry to God has been that every
remaining hour of my life may make me readier to come and join her in
death, to go and embrace her in life in the Eternal City.'




V

THE SPEAKER



'I will never speak to sinners so that one man or woman in my audience
can stand up and say, "You might have warned me more faithfully, spoken
more plainly than you did." I would rather die than that should be the
case.'--MRS. BOOTH.

No one must think that Mrs. Booth became a great speaker all in a moment,
or by any 'royal road.' She started when about eighteen, as many a Corps