The Hall is one of the finest and most imposing I ever spoke in.

Three tiers of boxes all round full with the swell class of people in whom you are so much interested, with two galleries beyond.
"It called for some little courage to rise up with my walking-stick to steady me; but God helped me through.

I hung my stick on the rail, and balanced myself on my feet, and talked the straightest truth I could command for an hour and twenty minutes.
"A little spectacular function followed in the shape of trooping the Colours of the different nationalities amongst whom we are at work in the States, and a midnight torchlight procession, with a massed farewell from the balcony of the Headquarters, closed the Campaign.
"I am doing the voyage fairly well.

Of course, it is very wearisome, this lying all the time.

The ship is rolling and tossing and pitching considerably, and it looks like doing so, until we get under shelter of the land." The probable after-effect of these distant Campaigns of The General could not be better described than in the words of one of our American Officers, himself known throughout The Army as one of our most spiritually-minded and intelligent observers:-- "Seventeen years ago," he says, "the writer first heard The General, and it has been his privilege to hear him many times since.