This is how it is the Salvation Army has no "closing hours." "Taps" sound
for us _when the need is relieved_.

Three of our women officers in the Toul Sector had slept for three weeks
in a hay-stack, in an open field, to be near the men of an ammunition
train taking supplies to the front under cover of darkness. The boys had
watched their continued, devoted service for them--the many nights without
sleep--and noticing the shabby uniform of the little officer in charge,
collected among themselves 1600 francs, and offered it to her for a new
one, and some other comforts, the spokesman saying: "This is just to show
you how grateful we are to you." The officer was deeply touched, but told
them she could not think of accepting it for herself. "I am quite
accustomed to hard toils," she said. "I have only done what all my
comrades are doing--my duty," and offered to compromise by putting the
money into a general fund for the benefit of all--to buy more doughnuts
and more coffee for the boys.

Salvation Army teaching and practice is: Choose your purpose, then set
your face as flint toward that purpose, permitting no enemy that can
oppose, and no sacrifice that can be asked, to turn you from it.

Again, a reason for our success in the war is, _our practical
religion_.

That is, our religion is _practicable_. Or, I would rather say, our
Christianity is practicable. Few realize this as the secret of our
success, and some who do realize it will not admit it, but this is what it
really is.

We _do_ worship; both in spirit and form, in public and in private.