But how the picture was altered a few years later! Quietly and patiently the Soldiers let scorn and even assaults pass, until the very rowdiest of the Berliners were sick of it.

And on the other hand every one soon said that these people, after all, were doing nothing but to go right at the deepest miseries of the great cities--that they fed the hungry, visited the sick, and generally carried out practical Christianity." "True," writes another, "it is naturally not every one whose taste is pleased with the ceremonies of The Army; but before the world-wide, unending, unselfish work of the Salvationist every one feels like saying, 'Hats off!' "It was not mere love of sensation that led such a stream of men to the Princes Hall on Tuesday evening.

They wished for once to come face to face with the old General whose work they had learnt in the course of time to value.

Men of science, clergymen and officials and educated people generally, for once made The Army their rendezvous." And those who had heard the General before immediately recognised that they had not only to do with the very same resolute Leader, following the one aim with undiminished ardour, but relying upon the same old Gospel to win the world for Christ.
"He speaks," says a Hamburg paper, "mostly with his hands behind his back, swaying gently to and fro.

The short, sharp English sentences are translated one by one.