It is this Christ who has given to our humblest service a sheen-something
of a glory-which the troops have caught, and which will make these simple
deeds to hold tenaciously to history, and to outlive the effacing fingers
of time-even to defy the very dissolution of death.

As Premier Clemenceau said: "We must love. We must believe. This is the
secret of life. If we fail to learn this lesson, we exist without living:
we die in ignorance of the reality of life."

A senator, after several months spent in France, stated: "It is my opinion
that the secret of the success of this organization is their complete
abandonment to their cause, _the service of the man_."

Of the many beautiful tributes paid to us by a most gracious public, and
by the noblest-hearted and most kindly and gallant army that ever stood up
in uniform, perhaps the most correct is this: _Complete abandonment to
the service of the man_.

This, in large measure, is the cause of our success all over the world.

When you come to think of it, the Salvation Army is a remarkable
arrangement. It is remarkable in its construction. It is a great empire.
An empire geographically unlike any other. It is an empire without a
frontier. It is an empire made up of geographical fragments, parted from
each other by vast stretches of railroad and immense sweeps of sea. It is
an empire composed of a tangle of races, tongues, and colors, of types of
civilization and enlightened barbarism such as never before in all human
history gathered together under one flag.