promising young people. The expenses were met, and the soldiers enthused.

The following morning, as the Adjutant was seeing a visitor off at the
railway station, a gentleman accosted her cheerfully, 'Adjutant, I have
some encouraging news for you,' he said. 'A friend of mine was present at
the theatre last night, and he was so impressed with what he saw and
heard that he intends to give you two hundred and fifty dollars!' 'Oh,
praise the Lord!' responded the Adjutant. When she met her soldiers with
the news, and showed them how God was honouring faith and obedience, they
united forthwith to wipe out the debt. In came promises of different
amounts. Ten days later the debt had vanished and a glorious work of
soul-saving went forward.

Kate Lee's lieutenants have lively memories of her methods and enthusiasm
in conducting the annual Self-Denial Appeals. Says one:--

The first "S.-D." I was with her, she said to me one morning, 'Now,
dear, I must get this all planned out and see my target on paper
before I meet the corps. I'm going upstairs, and I don't want to see
anyone or be disturbed for anything.' Dinner time came, and I
wondered what to do, and thought I had better take her dinner to
her. When I appeared at her door with the tray, she laughed heartily
with and at me, carried the tray down and we had dinner together.
After the scheme was launched she kept in touch with the whole corps,
encouraging and holding each up to his or her share in the effort,
until it finished successfully.

She had settled ideas about personal self-denial. Another of her
lieutenants tells that, during one Self-Denial week, a friend, thinking
that the officers might be depriving themselves of nourishing food, left