the army's efforts have been saved from a life of sin and shame, and
lifted up to be useful citizens; but great numbers of them, the leaders
and officers, are refined, educated men and women who have put Christ and
His Kingdom first in their hearts and lives. Their young people will
compare in every way with the best of the young people of any of our
religious denominations.

After the privilege of close association with them for some time I have
come to feel that the most noticeable and lovely thing about the girls is
the way they wear their womanhood, as if it were a flower, or a rare
jewel. One of these girls, who, by the way, had been nine months in
France, all of it under shell fire, said to me:

"I used to wish I had been born a boy, they are not hampered so much as
women are; but after I went to France and saw what a good woman meant to
those boys in the trenches I changed my mind, and I'm glad I was born a
woman. It means a great deal to be a woman."

And so there is no coquetry about these girls, no little personal vanity
such as girls who are thinking of themselves often have. They take great
care to be neat and sweet and serviceable, but as they are not thinking of
themselves, but only how they may serve, they are blest with that
loveliest of all adorning, a meek and quiet spirit and a joy of living and
content that only forgetfulness of self and communion with Jesus Christ
can bring.

I feel as if I would like to thank every one of them, men and women and
young girls, who have so kindly and generously and wholeheartedly given me
of their time and experiences and put at my disposal their correspondence
to enrich this story, and have helped me to go over the ground of the