decided that our National Emblem, heralder of the inalienable rights of
man, should cross the seas and wave for the freedom of the peoples of the
earth, automatically the Salvation Army moved with it, and our officers
passed to the varying posts of helpfulness which the emergency demanded.

Now on all sides I am confronted with the question: _What is the secret
of the Salvation Army's success in the war?_

Permit me to suggests three reasons which, in my judgment, account for it:

First, when the war-bolt fell, when the clarion call sounded, it found
_the Salvation Army ready!_

Ready not only with our material machinery, but with that precious piece
of human mechanism which is indispensable to all great and high
achievement--the right calibre of man, and the right calibre of woman. Men
and women equipped by a careful training for the work they would have to
do.

We were not many in number, I admit. In France our numbers have been
regrettably few. But this is because I have felt it was better to fall
short in quantity than to run the risk in falling short in quality.
Quality is its own multiplication table. Quality without quantity will
spread, whereas quantity without quality will shrink. Therefore, I would
not send any officers to France except such as had been fully equipped in
our training schools.

Few have even a remote idea of the extensive training given to all
Salvation Army officers by our military system of education, covering all
the tactics of that particular warfare to which they have consecrated