tribute to offer. And with them all came Christian workers--chaplains
from Australia and Canada; missionaries by the score in South Africa,
ready to do everything in their power for the soldiers of the Queen.

And so it came to pass that the whole British Empire was represented on
the South African veldt. And the prayers, not only of Christian Britain,
but of the whole Empire, ascended to Heaven as the prayer of one man for
our soldier lads across the sea. Never has the sentiment of Tennyson's
beautiful poem been so translated into fact before, for in very deed
the whole round world was every way

'Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.'

The months that witnessed the welding of the British Empire into one
great family witnessed also one great effort for her soldiers, and one
glorious chain of prayer for their conversion. What wonder that
hundreds, if not thousands, turned to God!

[Illustration: PARADE SERVICE ON THE TUGELA.]




Chapter IV

TO THE FRONT


The two most important ports of disembarkation A were Capetown and
Durban. East London and Port Elizabeth necessarily came in for their