We leave for Bendigo at twelve o'clock, arriving at four for Meeting to-morrow.

We go to Geelong next day, coming back here on Friday morning, and leaving at five for Sydney, travelling all night, and arriving there about noon on Saturday.
"You will get tired of hearing of this round of Meetings, and of the very echo of this enthusiasm; but you will, I am sure, rejoice, not merely that the people of this new world have welcomed your father and General with such heartiness, but that there is for The Army such an open door in these parts." That is indeed what lends such endless importance to the recital which we cannot help reporting ever and anon of The General's Meetings in each country to which he went.

It was not the mere coming together of crowds to listen to a speaker, but the enthusiastic acceptance and endorsement of a system, and of demands made by a perfect stranger in which he so delighted.

The General never went anywhere merely to preach or lecture.
All that he did in that way was always so combined with Salvation Campaigns that at every step he was really recruiting for The Army.
Hence his every movement, the reports of his journeys, the conversations he held with all whom he met, everything told in the one great War and helped to create, more and more all over the world, this force of men, women, and children, pledged to devote themselves to the service of Christ and of mankind.
There is a very interesting account of a visit to a State School, especially as it shows The General's keenness to learn, for The Army, anything possible:-- "At ten o'clock I went by the request of Mrs.McLean, the lady with whom I am staying, to visit one of her State Schools.

I was met at the door by the managers and members of the board, who conducted me through the building.
"There were over 1,000 children in ten different classrooms.