Wherein is price? What constitutes cost, when the question is _THE
MAN_?




Preface by the Writer



I wish I could give you a picture of Commander Evangeline Booth as I saw
her first, who has been the Source, the Inspiration, the Guide of this
story.

I went to the first conference about this book in curiosity and some
doubt, not knowing whether it was my work; not altogether sure whether I
cared to attempt it. She took my hand and spoke to me. I looked in her
face and saw the shining glory of her great spirit through those
wonderful, beautiful, wise, keen eyes, and all doubts vanished. I studied
the sincerity and beauty of her vivid face as we talked together, and
heard the thrilling tale she was giving me to tell because she could not
take the time from living it to write it, and I trembled lest she would
not find me worthy for so great a task. I knew that I was being honored
beyond women to have been selected as an instrument through whom the great
story of the Salvation Army in the War might go forth to the world. That I
wanted to do it more than any work that had ever come to my hand, I was
certain at once; and that my whole soul was enmeshed in the wonder of it.
It gripped me from the start. I was over-joyed to find that we were in
absolute sympathy from the first.