culture and refinement, their amazing organization, their rare business
ability, are just so many tools that they use for the uplift of others. In
fact, the word "OTHERS" appears here and there, printed on small white
cards and tacked up over a desk, or in a hallway near the elevator,
anywhere, everywhere all over the great building of the New York
Headquarters, a quiet, unobtrusive, yet startling reminder of a world of
real things in the midst of the busy rush of life.

Yet they do not obtrude their religion. Rather it is a secret joy that
shines unaware through their eyes, and seems to flood their whole being
with happiness so that others can but see. It is there, ready, when the
time comes to give comfort, or advice, or to tell the message of the
gospel in clear ringing sentences in one of their meetings; but it speaks
as well through a smile, or a ripple of song, or a bright funny story, or
something good to eat when one is hungry, as it does through actual
preaching. It is the living Christ, as if He were on earth again living in
them. And when one comes to know them well one knows that He is!

"Go straight for the salvation of souls: never rest satisfied unless this
end is achieved!" is part of the commission that the Commander gives to
her envoys. It is worth while stopping to think what would be the effect
on the world if every one who has named the name of Christ should accept
that commission and go forth to fulfill it.

And you who have been accustomed to drop your pennies in the tambourine of
the Salvation Army lassies at the street corners, and look upon her as a
representative of a lower class who are doing good "in their way," prepare
to realize that you have made a mistake. The Salvation Army is not an
organization composed of a lot of ignorant, illiterate, reformed criminals
picked out of the slums. There may be among them many of that class who by