advantage of the military training provided by the organization, that give
to its officers a potency and adaptability that have for the greater
period of our brief lifetime made us an influential factor in seasons of
civic and national disaster.

When that beautiful city of the Golden Gate, San Francisco, was laid low
by earthquake and fire, the Salvationists were the first upon the ground
with blankets, and clothes, and food, gathering frightened little
children, looking after old age, and rescuing many from the burning and
falling buildings.

At the time of the wild rush to the Klondike, the Salvation Army was, with
its sweet, pure women--the only women amidst tens of thousands of men--
upon the mountain-side of the Chilcoot Pass saving the lives of the gold-
seekers, and telling those shattered by disappointment of treasure that
"doth not perish."

At the time of the Jamestown, the Galveston, and the Dayton floods the
Salvation Army officer, with his boat laden with sandwiches and warm
wraps, was the first upon the rising waters, ministering to marooned and
starving families gathered upon the housetops.

In the direful disaster that swept over the beautiful city of Halifax, the
Mayor of that city stated: "I do not know what I should have done the
first two or three days following the explosion, when everyone was panic-
stricken without the ready, intelligent, and unbroken day-and-night
efforts of the Salvation Army."

On numerous other similar occasions we have relieved distress and sorrow
by our almost instantaneous service. Hence when our honored President