Mr.
Lloyd George told me that he never looks back, never allows himself to dream of his romantic life.

'I haven't time,' he said; 'the present is too obsessing, the fight is too hard and insistent.' Mr.Chamberlain in the early days of Tariff Reform, told me much the same thing.

Perhaps we may say that men of action never look back.

And so it was with General Booth.

He might well have rested during these last few years in a large and grateful peace, counting his victories, measuring his achievement, and comparing the pulpit in Nottingham or the first wind-battered tent in East London with this innumerable Army of Salvation which all over the world has saved thousands of human beings from destruction.
Sometimes smaller men are able to save a family from disgrace, or to rescue a friend from some hideous calamity, or to make a crippled child happy for a week or two, and the feelings created by these actions are full of happiness and delight.