,,the ,,angel ,,adjutant  ,,of  ,twice  
,born ,men  by  ,,minnie ,l4 ,,carpenter
   ,,introduction ,,by ,,general        
,,bramwell ,,booth   ,,foreword ,,by    
,,commander ,,evangeline ,,booth        
,introductory ,note    ,there is surely 
little need for me to commend this so   
intimate and living picture of          
,staff-,captain ,kate ,lee4 ,it speaks  
for itself in speaking of one whose fine
 character and ceaseless labour were of 
singular charm and amazing fruitfulness4
  ,the ,salvation ,army has been happy  
in its ,women ,officers4 ,the lessons of
 experience undoubtedly teach us that   
they are fully qualified for all the    
work of the ministry of ,christ4  ,long 
denied the right of public testimony as 
well as the opportunity to proclaim the 
truth of the ,saviour's mission1 women  
have in the history of our ,movement    
fully proved that they may be as        
effective1 as acceptable1 and as        
successful as their brethren1 both as   
teachers and rulers in the ,kingdom of  

,christ on earth4 ,the extraordinary    
theory that the gifts of the ,holy      
,spirit are confined to those who have  
taken part in a certain ecclesiastical  
ceremonial1 narrow and mistaken as it   
may be1 is surely a mild and simple form
 of error1 compared with the appalling  
notion that those gifts are confined to 
men1 and are to be for ever withheld    
from the other half of the human family4
 ,the ,churches of the world seem at    
length prepared to debate within        
themselves whether they should venture  
to follow our example1 and give to woman
 a place worthy of her gifts in their   
various plans of campaign4 ,perhaps the 
brief story of this life may help some  
of them a step forward4  ,kate ,lee was 
an unfaltering believer in the power of 
,god to save from the power of sin4     
,this was really her secret4 ,that faith
 dominated her own frail and often sick 
body with its nights of                 
sleeplessness--its days of pain4 ,it    
conquered the worst in the worst of men 

whom she encountered in her work of     
mercy4 ,it won a multitude of souls to  
believe in her and in her message1 and  
then to believe in her ,saviour4 ,it was
 ever greater than her circumstances4   
,it was greater than herself4 ,it makes 
her life1 and this story of it1         
wonderful for us who remain4  ,and ,kate
 ,lee was a ,salvationist2 that is1 she 
was seized with what we sometimes call  
the spirit of ,the ,army--that union of 
holy love and fiery zeal and practical  
common sense which1 by the power of     
,christ1 produces wherever it is found  
the fruits of ,salvation in the bodies  
and souls of those who are without4 ,and
 ,i feel no sort of doubt that to any   
woman1 having the opportunity to do so1 
and to whom she could speak to-day1 she 
would say--',do as ,i have done4' ,i do 
not mean by that that every sincere     
woman is bound to become a ,salvation   
,army ,officer1 or is called forthwith  
to go to the ends of the earth as a     
member of our ,missionary ,forces4 ,but 

,i do mean that ,christian women        
everywhere have a part to play in the   
great ,ministry of ,conversion--in the  
glorious ,mission of the ,apostles of   
every age1 for the evangelization of the
 world4  ,it behooves them to see that  
they play their part4  ,bramwell ,booth1
 ,general4     ,foreword    ,the story  
of ,the ,angel ,adjutant is sure to     
continue its very exceptional and       
wonderfully inspirational work wherever 
and by whomsoever read1 and consequently
 ,i am specially glad to know that an   
,american edition is about to be        
published4  ,seldom has a living spirit 
pulsated through biographical pages as  
it does throughout the simple account   
here given4 ,yet it is not merely the   
spirit of ,kate ,lee1 who surely lives  
again in these folios--the simple1      
unsophisticated1 devoted daughter of the
 ,salvation ,army1 but this book throbs 
with that life which is begotten and    
sustained and empowered by the ,holy    
,spirit4 ,he was graciously and solely  

responsible for the constant stream of  
helpfulness that all who knew her       
witness as having resulted from a       
consecration made by a girl in her      
teens4  ,and how beautifully enshrined  
in this life was the soul of the        
,movement of which she was such a worthy
 unit4 ,the description1 while being a  
faithful portrayal of a very real       
person1 can still be regarded as typical
 of a great host of blessed women whose 
supreme joy in life is found in having  
associated themselves in holy bonds of  
service such as their loved1 and now    
glorified comrade1 the subject of these 
memoirs1 rendered mankind4 ,while such  
as ,kate ,lee lives1 the ,salvation     
,army's position as a saving force is   
secure4  ,evangeline ,booth1 ,commander 
,u4,s4  ,new ,york1 #aibb4              
,,contents       ,i4 ,,the ,,value ,,of 
,,the ,,one   ,,ii4 ,,choosing ,,her    
,,course  ,,iii4 ,,woman',s ,,position  
,,in ,,the ,,army   ,,iv4 ,,early       
,,battles    ,v4 ,a ,,corps ,,commander 

,,vi4 ,,special ,,efforts  ,,vii4 ,,the 
,,mothering ,,heart ,,viii4 ,a ,,break  
,,to ,,canada   ,,ix4 ,,in ,,the ,,homes
 ,,of ,,the ,,people    ,x4 ',,the      
,,angel ,,adjutant'   ,,xi4 ,,comrades  
,,and ,,friends  ,,xii4 ,,trophies ,,of 
,,grace ,,xiii4 ,,kate ,,lee',s ,,secret
  ,,xiv4 ,,off ,,duty   ,,xv4 ,,at ,,her
 ,,desk  ,,xvi4 ,,unexpected ,,orders   
,i  ,,the ,,value ,,of ,,the ,,one      
,lucy ,lee laid her head on her pillow  
and1 looking through the silence and    
darkness1 smiled up to ,god4 ,she had   
won her first soul for ,him1 and now    
made her offering4 ,the capture was not 
a drunkard1 nor an outcast--many of     
whom1 in years to come1 she was to      
wrestle over and deliver--but her own   
sister1 whose golden hair lay over the  
pillow beside her1 and whose regular    
breathing told that she was fast asleep4
 ,nothing did ,lucy imagine of the      
blessing to thousands of souls that was 
to flow from that night's work4 ,she was
 happy in the consciousness that she had

 been faithful to the heavenly vision1  
and that now she and her sister were one
 in the experience of ,salvation4  ,how 
,lucy loved her6 ,her mind ran back over
 the thirteen years since a baby sister 
came into her life4 ,she remembered the 
rapture she felt1 when sitting upon her 
mother's bed1 the nurse placed the baby 
in her arms4 ,she was five years old    
then1 and soon her small arms ached and 
her legs were cramped1 but again and    
again she pleaded to hold her treasure  
just a little longer4 ,she had been     
allowed to name the baby1 and had called
 her ,kate4 ,what a frail1 sweet little 
child she had grown6  ,when ,kate was   
six years old their father died4 ,lucy  
recalled moving from their nice house in
 ,hornsey ,rise--a suburb of nearer     
,london--to a smaller home2 her start at
 business2 and then1 the great event    
that changed the course of life for both
 the girls4  ,one ,sunday evening1 after
 her mother and ,kate had gone to       
chapel1 ,lucy had been keeping her      

brother company in the front room1 when 
a burst of song in the street drew her  
to the window1 and she saw a small      
procession of about twenty people go    
singing down the road1 the leader waving
 an umbrella4 ,not staying to consider1 
she put on her hat and followed the     
march4 ,it turned into a hall1 which was
 already full of people1 but ,lucy      
slipped in at the back and stood4 ,the  
meeting began with ',there is a         
,fountain filled with ,blood4' ,the girl
 was fascinated with the message given  
in song and testimony1 until1 suddenly  
remembering that her mother would have  
returned home and be anxious at her     
absence1 she hurried away4  ,during the 
following week her mind was full of the 
strange street-singers4 ,she made       
inquiries about them1 and heard that    
they were ,salvationists2 'good people1 
but very queer4' ,in her heart1 the     
words--    ,i do believe1 ,i will       
believe     ,that ,jesus died for me2   
,that on the cross ,he shed ,his ,blood1

     ,from sin to set me free6  sang    
themselves over and over and over again4
  ,the following ,sunday evening she    
heard the singing in another street1 and
 straightway started for the            
,salvationists' hall1 arriving in time  
to get a front seat4 ,the message       
proclaimed the ,sunday before rang out  
again3 ',all have sinned2 for all ,jesus
 died1 and through ,him there is        
salvation for every one who repents of  
sin and believes on ,him4' ,to ,lucy    
,lee it seemed that she was the only one
 to whom the message was directed2 and1 
hearing the invitation for any who      
wished to find salvation to come forward
 and kneel at the penitent-form1 she at 
once responded4 ,very soon her eager1   
seeking heart found the ,saviour1 and   
she hastened home to tell her mother the
 good news4 ,mrs4 ,lee had suffered many
 sorrows1 and ,lucy1 although only in   
her teens1 was a comfort who had never  
failed her4 ,she was not pleased that   
her daughter was inclined to follow such

 extremists as the ,salvationists       
evidently were2 but when the girl said1 
',mother1 they are thoroughly good1     
sincere people1 you need have no fear of
 my going amongst them1' ,mrs4 ,lee     
became reassured that all was well1 and 
unwilling to raise needless contentions1
 held her peace4  ,after a while ,lucy  
begged permission of her mother that    
,kate might accompany her to a ,sunday  
night meeting4 ,gaining her wish1 the   
occasion proved to be something of an   
undertaking4 ,the work was prospering1  
converts were increasing in numbers at  
the corps1 and the roughs were moved to 
boisterous opposition4 ,kate was        
bewildered by the enthusiasm of the     
,salvationists1 and the wild ways of the
 roughs1 whilst ,lucy was terrified for 
the white ribbon on her sister's hat4   
,this must be screened at all costs1 for
 if the little mother had received any  
hint of mud-throwing and pushing1 ,kate 
would have paid her last visit to ,the  
,army1 and ,lucy was praying for her    

salvation4 ,so1 like a mother hen with  
wings outstretched1 ,lucy screened      
,kate's hat with her arms and took her  
home in good order1 though a little     
frightened and not over anxious to go to
 ,the ,salvation ,army again4  ,lucy    
soon became a valiant soldier4 ,her     
religion was real4 ,she not only        
believed2 she felt deeply1 and longed to
 witness for ,god4 ,when called to the  
front to sing1 she generally chose the  
song1      ,i have given up all for     
,jesus1       ,this vain world is naught
 to me1     ,all its pleasures are      
forgotten       ,in remembering         
,calvary4     ,though my friends        
despise1 forsake me1       ,and on me   
the world looks cold1     ,i've a       
,friend who will stand by me       ,when
 the ,pearly ,gates unfold4     ,life's 
morn will soon be waning1       ,and the
 evening bells will toll2     ,but my   
heart will know no sadness       ,when  
the ,pearly ,gates unfold4  ,over and   
over again she sang this song1 with the 

tears running down her face4 ,it always 
carried a message to souls4 ,as she     
became braver she spoke to the girls who
 came forward to the penitent-form4     
,lucy longed to know that her own little
 sister was saved2 but somehow1 when she
 left the hall1 courage to speak of     
spiritual matters forsook her4 ,six     
months passed away1 and she had not     
spoken to ,kate about her soul4 ,at     
home1 she endeavoured to live for       
,jesus2 she sang ,army songs whenever   
she was in the house2 but to speak to   
her dear ones about their souls seemed  
impossible4 ,she had 'lock-jaw' at the  
very thought4 ,the ,saviour's face had  
seemed every day to shine upon ,lucy2   
but now a cloud was coming between1 and 
she knew the reason4  ,one evening1     
,mrs4 ,lee having some business which   
took her from home1 the sisters were    
left alone4 ',lord1 this is my chance2  
help me to make the most of it1' ,lucy  
prayed4 ,the gas was lit1 the fire cosy1
 and ,lucy went to the piano and began  

to play and sing4 ,she chose all the    
solemn1 convicting songs she could think
 of1 such as--      ,you'll see the     
,great ,white ,throne1       ,and stand 
before it all alone4  ,kate had betaken 
herself to her favourite place1 the     
hearthrug4 ,she was silent until ,lucy  
had reached the middle verse of ',almost
 persuaded1' which she sang with due    
impressiveness4 ,then a sorrowful little
 voice quavered3--  ',i'm so lonely4 ,i 
thought we were going to have such a    
nice time4'  ,lucy at once got up4 ',are
 you1 dearie8 ,would you like some      
supper8'  ',no1 ,i don't want anything2 
,i'm lonely and miserable1' quavered    
,kate4  ',well1 then1 we'll go up to    
bed4'  ,once in their room ,lucy        
continued3 ',i don't think we want a    
light1 do we8' ,and sitting on the bed1 
her heart beating until her voice was   
uncertain1 she put her arm round ,kate's
 waist1 and began1 ',katie1 dear1 ,i've 
been wanting to have a special talk with
 you for a long time4 ,you know ,i was  

saved six months ago1 and ,i have been  
praying for you to be saved1 too1 but   
,i've found it hard to talk to you about
 it4 ,i'm so glad we're alone to-night4'
  ',didn't you know ,i wanted you to    
talk to me8 ,haven't you heard me crying
 every night in bed8 ,i do want to be   
saved1' and ,kate burst into tears4     
',darling1 ,i didn't know4 ,i've been   
stupid and shy2 but ,i'm sorry4 ,you can
 be saved just now4 ,we'll kneel down   
right here1' said ,lucy4 ,the sisters   
knelt beside their bed1 and ,lucy led   
,kate step by step into the ,kingdom of 
,god4 ,she knew she was a sinner8 ',oh1 
yes1' sobbed ,kate4 ,she was sorry for  
her sins8 ',yes4' ,she would give them  
up8 every one8 and would live henceforth
 only for ,god8 ',yes6' ,then ,jesus was
 saying1 ',come unto ,me1 and ,i will   
give you rest4' ,did ,kate believe it8  
',yes6' ,then we'll sing together the   
words ,i sang the night ,i was saved1   
',i do believe1 ,i will believe that    
,jesus died for me4' ,together the      

sisters sang the chorus1 just as if they
 were in a meeting2 then they both      
prayed1 and kissed one another1 and got 
into bed4  ,lucy went over it all1 and  
praised the ,lord for giving her the    
joys of salvation1 first to herself1 and
 now to the one she loved best in all   
the world1 and so fell asleep4  ,surely 
the angels looked down that night and   
smiled upon the sisters1 the elder      
destined to be a patient1 plodding1     
burden-bearer in the heavenly warfare1  
and the younger a great warrior in the  
,kingdom of ,heaven1 one of the saints  
and most successful field officers of   
the great ,salvation ,army4     ,,ii    
,,choosing ,,her ,,course    ,from      
babyhood ,kate ,lee had been a delicate 
little mortal2 she was so timid that    
even the visits of relatives to her home
 were a kind of torture to her1 and she 
would hide in any corner rather than    
come forward and entertain or be        
entertained4  ,her delicacy inclined her
 to selfishness1 and her timidity to    

reserve and aloofness4 ,she bid fair to 
grow up an insular1 somewhat unlovable  
woman2 but child though she was1        
conversion meant a radical change in    
character and purpose4 ,she realized at 
once that as a follower of ,jesus she   
might not live to please herself4 ,she  
became interested in other people1 their
 well-being and sorrows and needs4 ,then
 the joy of the ,lord became her        
strength4 ,it was so glorious to know   
that her soul was saved from sin2 that  
she was at peace with ,god2 that ,he had
 promised to be with her1 and guide her1
 and help her through life1 and give her
 ,heaven at last4 ,and this promise was 
for all the world2 but people were still
 sinful and sad4 ,surely they did not   
know about ,salvation4 ,she must tell   
them6  ,straightway she wanted to wear  
an ,army bonnet1 so as to silently      
witness for ,jesus as she walked the    
streets4 ,but opposition against        
,salvationists was strong in those days1
 and ,mrs4 ,lee was fearful lest ,kate  

should be roughly handled going to and  
from the meetings4 ,in the matter of    
uniform1 she had to content herself with
 a badge of ,army ribbon4 ,this she wore
 on her dress to school1 and drew upon  
herself the ire of uncouth lads who     
noticed it2 some even pelted her with   
mud4 ,she used to remain behind after   
school hours to talk to her schoolmates 
about ,salvation2 some she won1 but     
others resented her message4 ,invited to
 the birthday party of a school friend1 
she went1 wearing as usual her ,army    
badge4 ,during the evening this was torn
 from her breast4  ,kate's eyes began to
 be opened concerning the attitude of   
the world towards ,christ4 ,she found   
that most people did not want to know of
 ,his will1 much less do it1 and that if
 she intended to devote her life to seek
 and to save souls she must be prepared 
to suffer with her ,lord4 ,far from     
repelling her1 the challenge called up  
the reserves of love and courage that   
until now had lain dormant in her       

spirit1 and once and for all she took   
sides with ,christ4  ,the shy little    
recruit1 with eyes as blue as the sky1  
golden curls reaching to her waist1 and 
a complexion like pink rose petals1 sang
 her testimony in the meetings until she
 gained courage to speak4 ,she was ever 
planning ways by which she could direct 
people's thoughts toward ,god1 and to   
arouse them to a sense of their         
spiritual state4 ,an ingenious method   
she hit upon was to write               
carefully-worded little letters to the  
postmen and drop them into various      
pillar-boxes4  ,the family removed to   
,hornsey1 and soon afterwards ,lucy     
heard the 'call' to officership in ,the 
,salvation ,army4 ,this was the first   
real trial ,mrs4 ,lee had felt in       
connexion with her daughters'           
association with ,the ,army4 ,though    
herself anything but a woman of war1 she
 had not interfered with their choice of
 religion1 for they were 'such good     
girls4' ,but to break her home circle   

was not in her reckoning4 ,it was a pain
 that went deeper than the parting which
 caused tears to sting ,lucy's face as1 
on a snowy ,new ,year's day1 she said   
good-bye to mother and sister and left  
home for the ,training ,garrison2 but in
 her heart rang the words1 ',if any man 
love father or mother more than ,me1 he 
is not worthy of ,me4' ,she must put    
,god's call first1 and trust ,him to    
bring all right4  ,kate's health        
remained frail1 but her spirit grew     
stronger and stronger4 ,whenever able1  
she hied off to ,the ,army hall1        
carrying her tambourine in a little     
green baize bag1 and1 as often as not1 a
 bundle of ',war ,crys' under her arm4  
,in the ,army papers she saw a powerful 
means of spreading ,salvation1 and she  
became a fearless ,herald4 ,footnote3   
,one of a voluntary brigade of regular  
sellers4  ,there are comrades at ,wood  
,green who recall how on ,wednesday     
nights ,kate would go to the hall1 fold 
a large bundle of ',war ,crys1' and     

sally forth to the streets to sell them4
 ,the first time she ventured out on    
this service she saw a great1 drunken   
navvy lounging against the door of a    
public-house4 ,mustering all her        
courage1 the girl advanced and offered  
the paper to the drunkard4 ,she felt she
 had scored quite a victory when the    
navvy bought a copy4 ,by degrees she    
became braver1 and would even go into   
the saloons to sell the periodicals4    
,then1 noticing how the newsboys boarded
 buses with their papers1 she thought   
that in the ,lord's service she should  
be as eager and enterprising as they1   
and she became quite agile1 running up  
and down the iron steps as she joined   
the buses and offered her papers for    
sale to the passengers4  ,veteran       
soldiers also recall ,kate's spiritual1 
earnest face1 as she sat in side        
seats--known as 'the boxes'--at the     
,wood ,green hall1 whence she could     
study the congregation4 ,as she         
recognized how people fell under        

conviction of sin during the progress of
 the meetings1 she felt that she might  
help girls of her own age1 who 'didn't  
look saved1' if she sat beside them in  
the hall1 and spoke to them when the    
prayer meeting was begun4  ,she was     
still shy1 still nervous1 but she       
suffered no excuse for herself when the 
heavenly vision made clear a path of    
duty4 ,in later years1 a corps cadet    
asked her if1 in those days1 she never  
said ',i can't4' ',yes1' she replied1   
',i often said ,i can't1 but ,i ,,must1'
 and so she conquered4  ,to wear full   
,army uniform was still the desire of   
,kate's heart4 ,when she needed a new   
dress1 she prevailed upon her mother to 
let it be a blue one1 and by dint of    
great perseverance she made a uniform   
herself4 ,now1 if she might but have the
 bonnet6  ,lucy had passed through the  
,training ,garrison1 and was now an     
officer in the ,field4 ,a great         
,salvation demonstration was held at    
that time at the ,alexandra ,palace1 and

 ,lucy1 with her captain1 came to       
,london for the important event4 ,the   
mother and sisters met in the ground of 
the ,palace4 ,lucy's eyes were sparkling
 with quite extraordinary delight1 and1 
needing a wash and brush up1 she asked  
her mother to excuse ,kate1 and the     
girls slipped away4  ',guess what ,i've 
got for you1 little dear1' ,lucy        
exclaimed when they were alone4 ,kate   
laughed1 but shook her head4 ,then1 from
 a box1 the elder sister drew a small   
,army bonnet4 ',oh6' gasped ,kate1      
'where did you get it8'  ',i've been    
saving and saving for it1 and at last   
here it is2 and you're going to wear it 
right off4' ,kate's hat was transferred 
to the box and the bonnet tried on4     
',darling1 you look lovely2 now come to 
mother1' cried ,lucy4 ,kate's face was  
pink with pleasure1 and her eyes shining
 with anticipation when the girls       
returned to ,mrs4 ,lee4 ,she looked a   
moment in surprise1 then her eyes filled
 with tears4 ,there was a beauty not of 

this earth about the child4 ,she would  
not mar it4 ,kate might wear the bonnet4
 ,and thus it was that the mother1      
herself unreached with revelation1 and  
untouched by inspiration1 followed      
slowly but surely in her daughters'     
steps4  ,whilst ,lucy was stationed at  
,folkestone it was a great joy to the   
sisters when it was arranged for ,kate  
to visit her4 ,to work amongst the      
people all day long1 get them to the    
meetings at night1 and 'land' them at   
the mercy-seat1 seemed to ,kate service 
that the angels might envy4 ,one day she
 begged to be allowed to 'visit'        
,footnote3 ,visiting the people in their
 homes--usually from house to house4 as 
her sister and the captain did4 ,the    
captain consented somewhat reluctantly1 
but afterwards doubted the wisdom of    
allowing this child of fifteen to go    
alone into all manner of houses4 ,seeing
 ,kate enter the home of a drunken      
sweep1 she stepped along to the door and
 listened4 ,kate was dealing with the   

man as earnestly and directly1 if not as
 skilfully1 as she herself could have   
done4 ,she smiled and turned away4 ,when
 ,kate had visited her street of houses1
 she returned to the quarters radiant4  
,the sweep had promised to come to the  
meetings1 and1 ',just look what he gave 
me for tea1' she announced triumphantly1
 and produced a currant loaf1 a luxury  
in those days4  ,a kind-hearted woman   
soldier1 touched by ,kate's delicate    
appearance1 felt that the child needed  
the air of the hills1 and abundant      
nourishment1 and begged ,lucy to allow  
her to take ,kate to her home4 ,lucy1   
ever alive to ,kate's welfare1 joyfully 
sent her off1 and the child spent       
several health-giving months in the     
country4 ,to help her happily to occupy 
her time1 the good friend bought ,kate a
 cheap concertina4 ,by the hour she     
would sit in the sunshine1 mastering the
 keyboard1 and soon she could play      
simple ,army tunes4 ,how richly our     
,heavenly ,father blesses the gifts of  

love6 ,all unconsciously1 the good      
soldier was preparing the ,angel        
,adjutant of the future to win the      
hopeless and despairing of many great   
cities for ,god4  ,kate had an          
extraordinary love for music4 ,her      
ambition had once been to make music her
 profession2 but after her conversion   
she realized that there were higher     
things to live for than a successful    
career1 and lest music should be a snare
 to her1 she gave it up4 ,this          
determination to allow nothing to       
interfere with her entire devotion to   
the will and service of ,god was a sure 
foundation for her spiritual life1 but  
as she grew in the knowledge of ,god she
 realized that every gift may be        
consecrated to ,god's service4 ,she     
worked at the piano again2 now she      
wrestled with the concertina1 then      
tackled the banjo4 ,later they all      
became useful aids to her in her work   
amongst the people4  ,soon after ,kate's
 return home from the country she wrote 

to ,lucy telling her privately that for 
the upkeep of the home it was necessary 
that she should seek employment4 ,this  
prospect caused ,lucy much anxiety4 ,her
 own experience of earning her living in
 so seemingly irreproachable a business 
as photography returned to her with     
horror4 ,the manager of the firm for    
which she had worked had been a         
dissolute man4 ,much of his conversation
 in the presence of the girl employees  
was incomprehensible to ,lucy1 who did  
her work faithfully1 was pleasant and   
obliging1 but lived her life largely    
apart from the others4 ,her later       
experience in moving amongst the people 
had enlarged her knowledge of life1 and 
now she realized that1 as a certain     
white flower with smooth petals remains 
unspotted at the mouth of coal pits1 so 
by the innocency of her mind and the    
purity of her spirit1 she had been      
preserved from dangers worse than death4
 ,the thought of ,kate in such company  
was intolerable4 ,with her usual        

motherliness towards her sister1 she    
replied1 ',on no account must you take a
 situation without my approval4 ,surely1
 there must be some godly place in      
,london for you4 ,i am going to pray    
hard that the ,lord1 will direct you to 
it1 and you must wait till the right    
thing turns up4'  ,while ,lucy was      
praying 'hard1' a representative of ,the
 ,army ,outfit ,department visited her  
corps4 ,he carried uniforms and books1  
set up a stall1 and sold his goods      
before and after the meetings4 ,lucy    
knew little about the ,outfit           
,department1 but she was inspired with  
an idea4 ,people must be needed to make 
the uniforms1 she mused1 and to sell the
 books1 keep the accounts1 and write    
letters4 ,why should not ,kate be       
employed by ,the ,army8 ,she made       
inquiries of the salesman and was       
encouraged to write to ,headquarters4   
,god had heard ,lucy's prayer1 and in a 
little while her sister found herself   
installed as a clerk at the ,outfit     

,department at ,clerkenwell4  ,kate     
realized that a knowledge of shorthand  
would be to her advantage1 and1         
obtaining the necessary books1 she began
 to study1 rising in the bright summer  
mornings at four o'clock and plodding   
her way along in spare minutes until she
 attained a speed of the coveted        
'hundred4'  ,so reliable was she found  
to be1 that before long she received the
 title of lieutenant4 ,she was very     
happy4 ,all her time was now occupied in
 work for the ,kingdom of ,heaven2      
indirectly by day on correspondence and 
accounts1 at night at the corps1 she    
sought for souls1 and she was ever a    
comfort to her mother4  ,so matters     
might have continued until to-day2      
indeed1 one comrade of those years1 a   
godly woman1 'content to fill a little  
space if ,god be glorified1' still      
continues in the hidden but important   
duty of getting out uniform for the     
,salvationists4 ,but deep in the silence
 of her soul ,kate heard the call of    

,god to leave this quiet post and seek  
the lost4 ,humanly speaking1 there      
seemed to be every reason why she should
 not embark upon the life of a field    
officer4  ,when ,kate mentioned her call
 to her mother1 the little woman was    
overcome with sorrow and apprehension4  
,she had become reconciled to ,lucy's   
absence1 and even took pleasure in her  
work1 but to part with her 'ewe lamb1'  
to allow her to leave the shelter of her
 love and care and pour out her life in 
,army field service1 was more than her  
faith could accept4 ,she consulted the  
family doctor2 he shook his head and    
declared that six months of such a life 
would kill her daughter4  ,not one      
single voice was raised to encourage    
,kate ,lee in obeying the ,divine call4 
,even ,lucy thought she was going       
'before the time4' ,the soldiers of the 
corps expected her health would fail4   
,colonel ,laurie1 under whom she worked 
in the ,outfit ,department1 says1 ',she 
was a thoroughly good girl1             

conscientious and faithful in her work1 
but quiet and very frail4 ,when she told
 me of her call1 ,i would not discourage
 her faith1 but ,i hoped she was not    
mistaken4 ,the thought that she would   
ever become a spiritual leader in ,the  
,army never once occurred to me4' ,mrs4 
,lieut4-,colonel ,moore1 then ,sister   
,stitt1 ,kate's friend in the home      
corps1 with many misgivings watched her 
go away4 ',the home arrangements seemed 
so sensible2 this fresh undertaking and 
her breaking away1 so foolish6 ,she was 
so good1 always loving holiness1 always 
sweet and unselfish1 but terribly shy2  
and the idea of her roughing it1 or     
becoming anything more than a           
behind-the-scenes officer1 seemed       
impossible1' said ,mrs4 ,moore in       
passing on some reminiscences of her    
friend4  ,the day of farewell arrived1  
and with aching heart1 conscious only of
 obeying the heavenly vision1 ,kate     
exchanged her title of lieutenant for   
that of cadet1 took leave of her mother1

 and crossed ,london to the ,training   
,garrison at ,clapton4  ,general        
,bramwell ,booth writes of this step1   
',her beginning was a great act of      
faith4 ,she put her hand in her         
,master's hand1 and went out on the     
great adventure of ,salvation ,army     
life--stepping on to the waters with    
much tremulousness and many             
questions--but her faith carried her    
through4'  ,in those days the cadets    
were trained in small groups placed at  
certain corps1 and to the ,chalk ,farm  
,garrison1 under ,ensign1 now           
,brigadier1 ,elizabeth ,thomas1 ,kate   
was appointed4  ,the brigadier1 who has 
now retired from active service1        
delights to look back upon those days of
 rough fighting which tested the mettle 
of cadets1 some thirty years ago4 ,she  
says3--      ,when ,kate came to me she 
was a sweet1 fragile girl of about      
twenty4     ,there was a look of        
indescribable tenderness about her1 and 
a faraway     look in her eyes4 ,she    

might have been a sentimentalist1 but   
there was     no room for dreaming in   
that fight4 ,from the first ,kate showed
 an     appreciation of her calling and 
a spirit that was determined to go      
through to the end4 ,i have seen her    
lips quiver before we set out     upon  
some bombardment1 but her eyes were     
steadfast4 ,she never refused     a     
duty1 nor failed in a charge4 ,every    
ounce of her was devoted to the     work
 of the moment and to her own           
improvement for the future4 ,she        
gave herself to every duty as it        
arose--boot-blacking1 scrubbing1 or     
scullery work--as readily as to her     
field training4      ,at one and the    
same time ,i had two cadets of          
exceptional     promise--,kathleen      
,harrington and ,kate ,lee4 ,kathleen   
,barrington was a     beautiful ,irish  
girl1 well educated1 and from a home of 
wealth4 ,she     was full of enthusiasm1
 dash1 and courage1 and possessed a deep
     spiritual experience4 ,kate was not

 brilliant1 and had merely an           
elementary education1 but she was gentle
 and calm and refined by the     grace  
of ,god1 which seemed to permeate her   
whole nature4 ,these two     girls were 
kindred spirits4 ,they were one in      
purpose1 in outlook1 and                
consecration4 ,they delighted in each   
other's company2 and yet1 so     that   
there should be nothing that savoured of
 a clique in the     ,garrison1 they    
devoted themselves to the other cadets1 
particularly     linking up with those  
who were dull or timid and indulging    
their     friendship only on occasions  
when the sign of preference for each    
other's company would excite no         
jealousy4      ,kathleen ,harrington1   
after a brief service as a single       
officer and     then as an officer's    
wife1 her life beginning to fulfil its  
brimming     promise1 radiant with      
happiness and victory1 was promoted to  
,higher     ,service1 while ,kate ,lee  
was left to wage warfare on earth4      

,brigadier ,thomas continues3--         
,there were about twenty-four girls at  
the ,garrison4 ,by #i3cj1 the work      
of the house was finished4 ,from then   
till dinner hour1 we had school1        
studying the ,bible1 the ,f4,o41        
,footnote3 ,orders and ,regulations for 
,field ,officers4 ,d4,d41 ,footnote3    
,doctrine of ,the ,army4 and ',why and  
,wherefore'4 ,footnote3 ,a book         
explanatory of ,salvation ,army terms   
and     works4 ,after dinner the cadets 
set out for field training4 ,these      
exercises included house-to-house       
visitation1 open-air meetings1 and      
',war ,cry' selling in the streets and  
the saloons4 ,in our open-air           
meetings we were continually moved on by
 the police1 but we aimed to     deliver
 some definite message at each stand1   
and so to make our     moving-on an     
occasion to reach more listeners4       
,those were rough days4 ,we had all our 
band instruments smashed and the        
windows of our ,garrison as well1 and   

one man1 madly infuriated against       
us1 heated a poker red hot and threw it 
into the hall amongst the               
congregation4 ,we lived in danger to    
limb and life1 but had the              
overshadowing presence of ,god with us4 
,not every cadet who entered training   
had the grit to go through with     it4 
,once1 during her afternoon home1 ,kate 
sprained her ankle1 but     persuaded   
her mother to get a cab for her so that 
she might return to     the ,garrison   
the same night4 ',why did you not remain
 at home to-night8'     an officer asked
 her1 as ,kate hopped into the          
,garrison4 ',i was afraid     you would 
think ,i had run away1' she laughed1    
'and ,i did not wish you     to have    
that worry4'  ,brigadier ,thomas tells  
us3--      ,in house-to-house visitation
 ,i would take the cadets in turn1 speak
     with the people on their           
door-steps1 and1 if possible1 get into  
their     houses and point them to ,god4
 ,kate gloried in this4 ,she was a most 

successful visitor4      ,saloon        
'raiding' was1 perhaps1 our most        
difficult work4 ,we used ',the     ,war 
,cry' as a means of entrance and        
introduction4 ,going into the bar     we
 offered the paper for sale and         
suggested singing one of the songs      
it contained4 ,conversation with the men
 and women followed1 and before         
leaving we would pray4 ,often we were   
thrown out of the bars1 and     often1  
as we prayed1 beer was dashed into our  
faces or over us1 and on     reaching   
the ,garrison we would need to wash our 
clothes to remove the     bar-room      
filth4 ',trench mud' we might have      
called it1 had the war been     on in   
those days4 ,but the trial hardest of   
all to endure was the     horrible talk 
of those dens of sin4 ,before leaving   
the ,garrison we     used to kneel and  
ask the ,lord to sanctify our ears1 and 
surely that     was not the least of the
 prayers that ,he answered for us4 ,our 
souls     were entirely delivered from  

that paralysing horror that the hearing 
of such profanity at first produced upon
 our minds1 and we were kept     in     
purity and simplicity as though such    
vileness had never been heard4      ,the
 only duty which ,kate ,lee really      
shrank from was to take up a            
collection for the maintenance of the   
,garrison4 ,this was called the         
',bread and ,butter ,box'2 and the      
,cadets took turns to stand at the hall 
door after each meeting1 hold the box   
and shake it4 ,kate heartily            
disliked this1 but it was part of her   
duty1 and she did it with a     smile   
that brought success4 ,in after years   
she became a wonderful     woman1 but in
 those early days she held the secret   
that made her     wonderful4 ,she walked
 with ,god4 ,when the cadets had leisure
 time1     the majority would engage in 
innocent chat of one kind and another2  
but you would find ,kate a little       
withdrawn from the others1 with her     
,bible4 ,yet there was nothing          

censorious about her4 ,she was quick    
with a smile and an answer to any remark
 from the other cadets2 but     there   
she was1 already her life was hid with  
',christ in ,god4'  ,captain ,lucy      
rejoiced over her sister with trembling4
 ,she understood ,kate's willing1 eager 
spirit1 and the more she thought about  
her1 the less did she believe her to be 
strong enough to take the position of an
 officer on field duty4 ,so ,lucy began 
to pray1 and soon she felt inspired to  
act4 ,writing to ,miss ,evangeline      
,booth1 then the ,field ,commissioner in
 ,london1 she explained her fears for   
,kate1 and asked if1 for a year or two1 
her sister might be stationed with her4 
,the ,commander was quick to see the    
wisdom of the suggestion1 and after a   
few weeks ,captain ,lucy received orders
 for ,penarth1 in ,wales1 with ,kate as 
her lieutenant4 ,her way lay through    
,london1 and she knocked at the home    
door one night4 ,a quick1 light step    
flew to answer it4 ',my captain6' cried 

,kate4 ',my lieutenant6' cried ,lucy1 as
 they clasped one another4 ,happy tears 
glistened in their eyes as they held    
each other at arms' length to get a good
 view of each other in the full glory of
 their respective uniforms1 and in the  
eyes of the little mother1 who1 learning
 to walk by faith1 was finding the joy  
as well as the pain of sacrificing her  
treasures upon the altar of ,christ4    
,,iii  ,,woman',s ,,position ,,in ,,the 
,,army    ,we write in a matter-of-fact 
way that ,captain ,lucy and ,lieutenant 
,kate ,lee received an appointment to   
this or that corps1 and the statement is
 received as it was written--without    
surprise or reflection4 ,but1 in truth1 
behind such a sentence lies one of the  
most notable achievements of ,the       
,salvation ,army as a world force--the  
right to public service for women4      
,looking over the fifty-five years of   
the life of ,the ,army1 and further back
 still1 we can trace clearly the guiding
 hand of ,god in the formation and      

direction of this instrument of ,his    
choosing4  ,when1 in the order of       
,divine providence1 ,william ,booth was 
chosen to be ,founder of the ,salvation 
,army1 by strange1 devious1 suffering   
ways1 ,god led him1 chastened him1      
disciplined him in preparation for his  
great work4 ,at the same time1          
,catherine ,mumford1 by the hand of     
,god1 was being fitted to be the ,mother
 of ,the ,salvation ,army4  ,she was a  
delicate1 retiring1 but highly          
intelligent young woman of twenty-four  
years of age1 when she heard her        
minister1 in the course of a sermon1    
give expression to the view that women  
were mentally and morally inferior to   
men4 ,at this suggestion ,catherine     
,mumford felt a strong native resentment
 rise within her4 ,until that hour she  
had held the view that ,god had made men
 and women equal in gifts of mind and   
heart2 now she made a thorough study of 
the subject in the light of the ,word of
 ,god and of history1 and as a result   

she formed a reasoned opinion from which
 she never swerved4 ,in a letter1       
remarkable for its logic and its command
 of vigorous ,english1 she set forth her
 views to her pastor4 ,she admitted that
 prejudice and custom had relegated     
woman to positions inferior to those    
occupied by men2 but argued that1 given 
similar advantages of education and     
opportunity1 woman is man's equal1      
fitted to be his partner1 and able1 with
 great advantage to enter with him into 
all serious and practical counsels for  
the benefit of the race4  ,in           
championing the cause of her sex1       
,catherine ,mumford found she had to    
take the field almost alone4 ,even      
,william ,booth1 to whom she was then   
engaged1 did not share her views4 ,mr4  
,booth believed that while woman carried
 the palm in point of affection1 man was
 her superior in regard to intellect4   
,miss ,mumford would not admit this for 
a moment2 and by degrees1 chiefly by the
 charming power of her own personality  

and also by argument1 she wholly carried
 her beloved to her view-point4  ,in the
 ',life of ,catherine ,booth1' by       
,commissioner ,booth-,tucker1 we find   
records of the young husband1 soon after
 their marriage1 urging his wife to     
lecture on various subjects4  ,the next 
move along the track which all          
unconsciously ,mrs4 ,booth was blazing  
for a host of women to tread1 publishing
 the ,salvation of ,god1 was in defence 
of ,mrs4 ,phoebe ,palmer1 a consecrated 
,american evangelist who1 in company    
with her husband1 was conducting        
powerful mission services in ,england4  
,mrs4 ,palmer's ministry1               
notwithstanding the fact that it was    
more honoured of ,god in the conversion 
of souls than that of her husband1      
excited a vigorous attack from a        
clergyman of a large church in          
,sunderland4 ,in ,catherine ,booth's    
breast again flamed that powerful       
resentment she had felt on the occasion 
previously mentioned4 ,she wrote her    

mother saying that for the first time in
 her life she felt like taking the      
platform in order to answer the false   
views propounded concerning female      
ministry4 ,instead1 she wrote a         
well-reasoned and convincing paper on   
woman's right to preach--a pamphlet of  
some thirty-two pages4 ,by this time her
 husband was so entirely with her in    
this matter that he encouraged her to   
make her defence4 ,and we find ,mr4     
,booth copying the pamphlet from his    
wife's manuscript and preparing it for  
the press4  ,but while ,mrs4 ,booth was 
the most powerful advocate in ,england  
of woman's right to preach1 she herself 
had never attempted to speak in public4 
,at last there came a day when she      
realized that her silence was not       
consistent with her profession and at   
great personal sacrifice she broke the  
bonds of timidity and publicly witnessed
 for her ,lord4 ,the following is an    
account from ,mrs4 ,booth's own lips of 
her experience given in a public meeting

 twenty years after she began to speak3 
,perhaps some of you would hardly credit
 that ,i was one of the most timid and  
bashful disciples the ,lord ,jesus ever 
saved4 ,but for four or five months     
before ,i commenced speaking the        
controversy had been signally roused in 
my soul1 and ,i passed through some     
severe heart-searchings4 ,during a      
season of sickness1 it seemed one day as
 if the ,lord revealed it all to me by  
,his ,spirit4 ,i had no vision1 but a   
revelation to my mind4 ,he seemed to    
take me back to the time when ,i was    
fifteen or sixteen1 when ,i first fully 
gave my heart to ,him4 ,he showed me    
that all the bitter way this one thing  
had been the fly in the pot of ointment1
 preventing me from realizing what ,i   
otherwise should have done4 ,and then ,i
 remember prostrating myself upon my    
face before the ,lord1 and promising    
,him there in the sick room1 ',lord1 if 
,thou wilt return unto me as in the days
 of old1 and revisit me with those      

urgings of the ,spirit1 which ,i used to
 have1 ,i will obey1 if ,i die in the   
attempt4' ,however1 the ,lord did not   
revisit me immediately4 ,but ,he        
permitted me to recover1 and to resume  
my usual duties4  ,about three months   
afterward ,i went to the chapel of which
 my husband was a minister1 and he had  
an extraordinary service there4 ,even   
then he was always trying something new 
to get at the outside people4 ,for this 
,sunday he had arranged with the leaders
 that the chapel should be closed1 and a
 great out-door ,service held at a place
 called ,windmill ,hills4 ,it so        
happened1 however1 that the weather was 
too tempestous for carrying out this    
design1 and hence the doors were thrown 
open and the meeting was held in the    
chapel4 ,in spite of the stormy weather 
about #a1jjj persons were present1      
including a number of preachers and     
outside friends4  ,i was1 as usual1 in  
the minister's pew with my eldest boy1  
then four years old4 ,i felt much       

depressed in mind1 and was not expecting
 anything particular2 but as the        
testimonies proceeded ,i felt the ,holy 
,spirit come upon me4 ,you alone who    
have experienced it can tell what it    
means4 ,it cannot be described4 ,i felt 
it to the extremity of my hands and     
feet4 ,it seemed as if a ,voice said to 
me1 ',now if you were to go and testify1
 you know ,i would bless it to your own 
soul1 as well as to the people6' ,i     
gasped again1 and said in my heart1     
',yes1 ,lord1 ,i believe ,thou wouldst1 
but ,i cannot do it6' ,i had forgotten  
my vow4 ,it did not occur to me at all4 
,a moment afterward there flashed across
 my mind the memory of the bedroom      
visitation1 when ,i had promised the    
,lord that ,i would obey ,him at all    
costs4 ,and then the ,voice seemed to   
ask me if this was consistent with that 
promise4 ,i almost jumped up1 and said1 
',no1 ,lord1 it is the old thing over   
again4 ,but ,i cannot do it6' ,i felt as
 though ,i would sooner die than speak4 

,and then the devil said1 ',besides1 you
 are not prepared4 ,you will look like a
 fool1 and will have nothing to say4'   
,he made a mistake4 ,he over-reached    
himself for once4 ,it was this word that
 settled it4 ',ah6' ,i said1 'this is   
just the point4 ,i have never yet been  
willing to be a fool for ,christ4 ,now  
,i will be one4'  ,without stopping     
another moment ,i rose up from my seat  
and walked down the aisle4 ,my dear     
husband was just going to conclude4 ,he 
thought something had happened to me1   
and so did the people4 ,we had been     
there two years1 and they knew my timid1
 bashful nature4 ,he stepped down and   
asked me1 ',what is the matter1 my      
dear8' ,i replied1 ',i want to say a    
word4' ,he was so taken by surprise that
 he could only say1 ',my dear wife      
wishes to speak1' and sat down4 ,for    
years he had been trying to persuade me 
to do it4 ,only that very week he had   
wanted me to go and address a little    
,cottage ,meeting of some twenty working

 people1 but ,i had refused4  ,i        
stood--,god only knows how--and if any  
mortal did ever hang on the arm of      
,omnipotence1 ,i did4 ,i felt as if ,i  
were clinging to some human arm2 but it 
was a ,divine one which held me up4 ,i  
just stood1 and told the people how it  
had come about4 ,i confessed1 as ,i     
think everybody should who has been in  
the wrong1 and has misrepresented the   
religion of ,jesus ,christ4 ,i said1 ',i
 dare say many of you have been looking 
upon me as a very devoted woman1 and one
 who has been living faithfully to ,god4
 ,but ,i have come to realize that ,i   
have been disobeying ,him1 and thus have
 brought darkness and leanness into my  
soul4 ,i have promised the ,lord to do  
so no longer1 and have come to tell you 
that henceforth ,i will be obedient to  
the holy vision4'  ,there was more      
weeping1 they said1 in the chapel that  
day than on any previous occasion4 ,many
 dated a renewal in righteousness from  
that very moment1 and began a life of   

devotion and consecration to ,god4  ,now
 ,i might have 'talked good' to them    
till now4 ,that honest confession did   
what twenty years of preaching could not
 have accomplished4  ,but1 oh1 how      
little did ,i realize how much was then 
involved6 ,i never imagined the life of 
publicity and trial that it would lead  
me to1 for ,i was never allowed to have 
another quiet ,sabbath when ,i was well 
enough to stand and speak4 ,all ,i did  
was to take the first step4 ,i could not
 see in advance4 ,but the ,lord1 as ,he 
always does when ,his people are honest 
with ,him and obedient1 opened the      
windows of ,heaven1 and poured out such 
a blessing that there was not room to   
receive it4   ,from that morning ,mrs4  
,booth continued to respond to the call 
to proclaim ,salvation1 until she came  
to be regarded as one of the most       
powerful preachers of her day4 ,her     
service was not unattended with sorrow4 
,for many years this shrinking woman had
 to face fires of criticism and         

blizzards of scorn2 but she persevered4 
,not only within the ranks of ,the      
,salvation ,army has ,mrs4 ,booth's     
brave example borne a harvest of        
blessing1 but in all walks of public    
life women now stand in the gates as    
co-workers with men in every righteous  
cause2 sometimes they raise their voice 
for truth and equity where no other     
voice is heard4  ,when the ,christian   
,mission began to take form1 ,william   
,booth had no particular intentions as  
to the kind of helpers he was to        
have--either male or female4 ,female    
ministry evolved as a part of its       
service1 as indeed the whole ,salvation 
,army evolved1 without premeditation or 
plan1 indeed1 as it is said of the      
,kingdom of ,god1 'without observation4'
 ,to ,mr4 ,booth's early meetings in the
 ,east ,end of ,london came a godly man 
and his wife to assist him with their   
sympathy4 ,the woman was so shy as to be
 unable to pray aloud4 ,she was in deep 
sorrow over the death of her two        

children4 ,later1 when attending a      
holiness meeting1 conducted in an old   
wood shed in ,bethnal ,green1 this      
woman1 ,mrs4 ,collingridge1 yielded     
herself entirely to ,god for ,his       
service4 ,she knelt1 a timid1 broken    
woman1 making the sincere offering of   
herself to ,god1 and rose from her knees
 delivered from all fear and inspired   
with a message to the people4 ,from that
 day1 with the arresting power of a     
prophetess1 she proclaimed the          
,saviour's love and power4 ,she could   
command a crowd of the wildest roughs in
 the open-air1 or hold breathless a     
great theatre audience4 ,she specially  
excelled in visiting the converts and   
others2 so blessed was she in this work 
that ,mr4 ,booth asked her to become the
 first paid woman member of the         
,mission4  ,commissioner ,railton tells 
of ,mrs4 ,collingridge in his           
',twenty-one ,years ,salvation ,army4'  
,he writes1 ',it was no longing for     
publicity or notoriety that attracted   

her1 for one hears not so much of her   
public work1 blessed and glorious as    
that was1 as the victories she won from 
garret to garret1 from door to door1 as 
she pressed on1 resolved never1 to the  
last hour1 to give up a victim of sin4' 
,worn out with loving and seeking souls1
 this--after ,the ,army ,mother--the    
first woman officer of ,the ,salvation  
,army was promoted to glory1 triumphing 
in ,god to her last breath4 ,mrs4       
,collingridge was the forerunner of such
 spirits as ,kate ,lee4 ,she raised up  
and trained a band of brave women       
fighters2 these women were used with    
remarkable success in the growing       
,mission4 ,william ,booth was hard put  
to find sufficient evangelists for the  
rapidly increasing stations about       
,london and in the ,provinces4 ,god had 
signally blessed the ,women's ,band as  
visitors and exhorters1 and ,william    
,booth saw in them qualities that caused
 him to believe that1 given opportuity1 
woman would excel as a leader--a        

commander4  ,necessity urged the        
experiment4 ,the first woman chosen for 
this purpose was ,annie ,davis1 who     
later1 as ,mrs4 ,commissioner ,ridsdel1 
after most distinguished service as a   
soul-winner1 was promoted to glory4 ,a  
quiet girl from a village1 she had been 
converted in the old hall used by the   
,mission under the ,railway ,arch at    
,bethnal ,green4 ,from the first it was 
evident that the power of ,god rested   
upon her4  ,annie ,davis was placed in  
charge of the small ,christian ,mission 
,society in ,barking4 ,at the end of her
 term of office she left a flourishing  
work4 ,she had managed her committee1   
successfully led her people1 paid her   
way1 and left a balance in hand4  ,the  
fact had been demonstrated that a woman 
was as capable of filling the position  
of an evangelist as a man4 ,kate ,watts 
7now ,mrs4 ,colonel ,josiah ,taylor7 was
 then sent in charge of the ,mission    
,work at ,merthyr1 in ,wales1 where she 
was used by ,god in the salvation of    

hundreds of souls--and ,mrs4 ,reynolds  
'opened fire' at ,coventry4 ,to ,captain
 ,reynolds was presented1 on behalf of  
the ,coventry ,corps1 the first ,flag of
 ,the ,salvation ,army4  ,the           
,hallelujah ,lass became an             
indispensable part of ,the ,salvation   
,army4 ,no effort was made to set these 
women in one common mould and turn them 
out replicas of the first4 ,indeed their
 naturalness1 the very differences in   
disposition and method added to their   
usefulness4  ,in great contrast to the  
women already mentioned1 was the type of
 whom ',happy ,eliza' was a specimen4   
,rough and ready and entirely fearless1 
she knew how to capture the most        
indifferent crowds4 ,at one corps where 
ordinary methods had failed to secure   
the people1 she marched through the     
streets with streamers floating from her
 hair1 and on her back a placard bearing
 the words ',i'm ,happy ,eliza4' ,the   
denizens of public-houses and the slums 
flocked to the hall to hear a preacher  

who evidently understood them4 ,at      
another place where a theatre was to be 
opened as a ,salvation ,army hall1 she  
advertised the meetings by hiring a cab4
 ,on the box a man beat a drum1 inside  
two or three others played brass        
instruments1 while ,happy ,eliza took up
 her position on the luggage on the top1
 and drove through the streets          
alternately playing a fiddle and        
distributing handbills announcing the   
coming meetings4  ,another indomitable  
was ,chinee ,smith4 ,trampled on by a   
,lancashire mob1 her bonnet torn from   
her head1 her shoes from her feet1 she  
marched in her stockings through the    
streets to the hall1 her hair streaming 
down her back4 ,taking her place on the 
platform she led the meeting as though  
nothing out of the ordinary had         
happened4 ,the hall was packed and souls
 sought salvation4  ,the ,army's        
,founder began to recognize that almost 
limitless possibilities lay in these    
women4 ,since they could attract and win

 sinners to ,christ1 could command the  
people of their corps with acceptance1  
why should they not be placed in charge 
of ,divisions8 ,he saw no reason4       
,captain ,reynolds was promoted to the  
rank of major1 and placed in charge of  
,the ,salvation ,army work in ,ireland1 
and the decision was fully justified by 
the blessed results which followed4     
,thus1 in a perfectly natural way1      
without design1 woman's position in ,the
 ,salvation ,army was established4      
,to-day1 there is no rank or position in
 its ranks which a woman may not occupy1
 including even that of ,general4  ,as  
may be supposed1 the greater number of  
women officers marry officers1 and      
therefore1 as a rule1 merge their       
activities into their husband's work4   
,this being the case1 not so many women 
occupy leading positions as men4        
,nevertheless1 women are to be found    
holding the highest rank and occupying  
leading positions in every phase of     
,army warfare4 ,as ,territorial         

,commander1 ,mrs4 ,general ,booth was   
for several years responsible for ,the  
,army's work in ,great ,britain and     
,ireland2 ,commander ,evangeline ,booth 
for that of the ,united ,states2        
,commissioner ,lucy ,booth-,hellberg for
 ,norway2 ,commissioner ,adelaide ,cox  
has direction of the ,women's ,social   
,work in ,great ,britain4 ,commissioner 
,mildred ,duff is editor of ,the        
,salvation ,army literature for ,young  
,people4 ,commissioner ,hannah          
,ouchterlony pioneered our work in her  
native land1 ,sweden1 and now in a      
cloudless eventide looks with joy upon a
 glorious work1 the foundations of which
 she laid in the face of fierce         
opposition4 ,lieut4-,commissioner ,clara
 ,case represents ,the ,salvation ,army 
woman missionary1 having just retired   
from active service after twenty-seven  
years in ,india1 during the greater part
 of which time she commanded the work in
 ,southern ,india4 ,lieut-,colonel      
,catherine ,booth1 as ,international    

,secretary at ,headquarters1 is the     
,general's representative for ,salvation
 ,army work in ,european countries4     
,there are women ,divisional            
,commanders1 financiers1 training       
officers1 editors1 teachers1 and social1
 medical and nursing officers2 and1 by  
no means least1 a host of efficient and 
devoted ,corps ,commanders of which     
,kate ,lee was so worthy a              
representative4  ,upon the woman officer
 of ,the ,army rests no less            
responsibility than that carried by a   
man occupying a similar position1 and   
she is expected to 'deliver the goods'  
as her male comrade in like             
circumstances would be required to do4  
,and she does it4  ,the ,salvation ,army
 affords an unrivalled field of         
usefulness to young women who wish to   
devote their lives to the service of    
,god4 ,no organization offers a wider1  
if so wide a door4 ,as one of its songs 
has it1 ',there's a place in ,the ,army 
for all'3 for the educated and cultured1

 whose hearts are free from selfishness 
and fired with holy passion to seek and 
save the lost1 and equally for the young
 woman of moderate gifts and elementary 
education1 whose heart is also pure and 
whose soul is illuminated by ,divine    
love4  ,the ,army is by no means 'a     
happy hunting ground' for faddists or   
sentimentalists who think religious     
service consists in 'sailing round'     
singing songs1 and whispering sweet     
nothings or shouting declarations4 ,it  
is an ,army out to fight another army2  
to wrestle2 to conquer2 to take         
prisoners1 and to establish and govern  
territories4 ,the ,salvation fight      
demands the best a man and woman can    
give of heart and mind1 of sacrifice and
 service4 ,but1 as one exuberant        
,salvationist has expressed1 ',there's  
stacks of fun in ,the ,army6' ,there are
 excitement1 adventure1 tragedy1 and    
comedy1 joy and sorrow1 the like of     
which is found in few1 if any other     
callings4 ,men and women who have gone  

out of its ranks or its commands1 weary 
of the endless sacrifice and strain its 
service entails1 and who are to-day well
 placed and full of the good things of  
this life1 still sigh at the remembrance
 of the days of their warfare1 and      
declare that the joy of a ,salvation    
,army officer's life is without compare 
in spiritual work4  ,the spirit of      
comradeship which exists between        
superior and junior officers is a real  
and beautiful thing4 ,while ,kate ,lee  
as a girl captain was wrestling with the
 problems of her first corps in the     
villages of ,england1 the writer of her 
memoir1 then also a girl captain1 was   
leading a village corps in her native   
,australian mountains4 ,since ,kate     
cannot tell of the kindness of her      
,divisional ,commanders1 ,i may1 for the
 sake of illustration1 be permitted to  
mention my own experience in this       
relation1 incidentally also showing ,the
 ,army spirit in operation at the other 
end of the world from ,the ,army hub4   

,at that time ,i was stationed at a     
mining township eighty miles from a     
railway4 ,the distances between towns in
 that part of ,australia being so great1
 my ,divisional ,commander1 ,major      
,jonah ,evans1 now retired1 was able to 
visit my corps only once during my term 
of nine months there1 but he kept in    
constant touch with his young officers  
by correspondence4 ,next to my mother's 
weekly letter1 ,i looked forward to one 
from my ,divisional ,commander4 ,in my  
weekly dispatch ,i gave him a full      
account of everything that concerned my 
corps1 which he was patient enough to   
read and to reply to carefully1 giving  
such advice as he thought would help me 
in my work4 ,also1 occasionally1 a      
letter would arrive from his late sweet 
wife1 who1 as ,captain ,helen ,morrell1 
had seen remarkable revivals amongst the
 ,welsh miners4 ,passing on to city     
corps1 where conditions were entirely   
different and responsibilities pressed  
heavily1 ,major ,william ,hunter1 now in

 ,heaven1 was my true friend as well as 
an able leader4 ,the help and direction 
which such experienced officers are able
 to give to young men and women who are 
full of earnestness and desire to reach 
and bless the souls of the people1      
minimize the weight of responsibility   
sometimes thrown upon young shoulders4  
,thirty years ago1 when ,kate ,lee began
 her career as a field officer1 ,the    
,army had not reached that place in     
public esteem which it enjoys to-day4   
,the worst days of rioting and          
persecution had passed1 and right of    
public speech in the streets had been   
gained in many countries after a long   
struggle4 ,but ,the ,army was still     
regarded as something of a nuisance by  
the majority of educated people1 a good 
thing for the very worst by a few1 with 
indifference or hostility by the mass4  
,to wear the uniform was to bring upon  
one contumely1 often persecution4       
,salvation ,army officers were sometimes
 perhaps ill fed and poorly clad2       

nevertheless1 because of the opportunity
 their position afforded to seek and    
find the lost1 ,kate ,lee counted       
herself blessed above millions when she 
sewed the insignia of a lieutenant upon 
her collar4     ,,iv  ,,early ,,battles 
,six months of joyous service amongst   
the ,welsh miners was cut short by a    
telegram announcing to the sisters the  
serious illness of ,mrs4 ,lee4 ,taking  
the news to their ,divisional           
,commander1 they were instructed to     
,headquarters4 ,it was found that the   
illness was due to shock4 ,the income   
from investments of the little estate   
left by ,mr4 ,lee had dwindled2 it now  
had disappeared altogether4  ,captain   
,lucy faced the matter with her usual   
practical decision4 ',mother1 darling1  
there are two ways out4 ,either ,i must 
come home and work and care for you1 or 
you must come with us4 ,if ,headquarters
 would agree to you accompanying us from
 corps to corps1 would you be willing to
 break up the home and come8' ,by this  

time ,mrs4 ,lee had become possessed by 
what is known amongst ,salvationists as 
',the ,army ,spirit4' ,she loved this   
wonderful ,army which cared for1 and    
sought and found the lost4 ,she would   
not have her girls come out of the      
fight4 ',i cannot preach1 ,lucy1 but    
maybe there is some niche ,i could fill4
 ,i would like to come1' she said4  ,so 
it was arranged1 and shortly the little 
household1 was transferred to ,norwich4 
,how happy they were6 ,captain and      
,lieutenant ,lee1 busy from morn till   
night1 week in and week out1 seeking the
 souls of the people4 ,the mother in the
 little quarters1 sitting with her      
work-basket beside the window1 giving a 
smile to passers-by1 and welcoming her  
daughters as they came to meals1 always 
bringing with them some new tale of joy1
 of sorrow1 of fighting1 of victory or  
defeat4 ,the little mother truly found  
her niche4 ,soldiers and adherents came 
to reckon upon her gentle patient       
influence1 and her never-mind-me spirit 

was a constant sermon4 ,she could       
sympathize and she could pray1 and she  
sewed unceasingly for the annual sales  
of work1 making useful articles out of  
the smallest and oddest remnants4 ,she  
found supreme happiness in her ,army    
warfare4  ,while ,captain ,lucy shielded
 ,lieutenant ,kate1 she also gave her a 
practical training4  ,at ,norwich they  
saw a great work amongst the worst      
characters of the city2 many drunkards  
were transformed by the grace of ,god4  
,one of the number1 a soldier of the    
corps to-day1 sends his grateful tribute
 to ,lieutenant ,kate's persistence in  
holding up his tottering steps until    
they grew steady upon the heavenly way4 
,the sisters had the joy of erecting a  
citadel in the ,bull's ,close4  ,at     
,king's ,lynn1 visitation of the homes  
of the people was a specialty of their  
work4  ,it is to be regretted that      
neither ,lucy nor ,kate ,lee kept a     
journal4 ,they were too busy seeking the
 lost1 and after finding them and       

rejoicing over them were too weary to   
record their experiences1 interesting   
and profitable as they would have been  
for us to read about4 ,their official   
diaries furnish little more than entries
 of meetings conducted and other duties 
performed4 ,the only preserved          
reminiscence of their work is found in  
an ',all the ,world' of #ahie4          
,commissioner ,duff1 then editor of that
 journal1 beguiled ,captain ,lucy into  
chatting about her work at ,king's ,lynn
 covering three days1 and used the      
conversation as an unconscious answer to
 the oft-repeated taunt thrown at our   
officers in those days ',go and work4'  
,the following are extracts3--          
,friday4 ,back from ,london at five4 ,so
 pleased to find lieutenant     waiting 
for me on the platform1 with a smile4   
,tea ready at home4     ,while telling  
her about my ,london trip1 the man      
brought my box4     ,paying him1 he     
said1 ',i always listen to your         
,open-,air on a     ,sunday2 but ,i have

 one thing against you1 you are so down 
on the     drink4' ,my chance6 ,so ,i   
let him have it straight for ten        
minutes1     when he gave me a penny for
 the collection1 shook hands1 and went  
off4      ,on the way to #g o'clock     
converts' meeting1 took ,mrs4 ---- to   
see     doctor4 ,she was nervous at     
going alone4 ,new converts turned up    
well4 ,brother ---- very bright4 ,soon  
after he got saved he painted     his   
door to help to make his home nice1 and 
the old women of the     street came and
 smeared their dirty hands over it1 to  
hear him     swear4 ,but the ,lord kept 
him1 and all the street believes in him 
to-day4 ,and old ,dad who cries when he 
talks1 he feels so grateful     to ,god 
for saving him4      ,when on our knees 
with our eyes shut1 singing1 ,brother   
----1 two     months saved1 came over to
 me and said softly ',i'm afraid ,i'm   
slipping back1 ,captain4' ,poor lad1 his
 home is nearly unendurable4     ,his   
mother said she would sooner see him    

dead than a ,salvationist4     ,we all  
prayed1 sang1 and ,i believed for him1  
and he got beautifully     right4 ,read 
and explained ,isaiah liv41 ',no weapon 
that is formed     against thee shall   
prosper6' ,we all marched into the      
holiness     meeting at #h o'clock4     
,some glorious testimonies4 ,closed with
     united consecration at #i3ae1 and  
met bandsmen to appoint new             
bandmaster4 ,i was not quite sure as to 
how they would take the     appointment2
 but went in and got them all on their  
knees1 took up     the holiness meeting 
chorus1 ',i'll be1 ,lord1 ,i'll be what 
,you want     me to be1' and prayed4    
,when on our feet again1 ,i started off 
at     once and got through without any 
hitch or word of dissent1     finishing 
up most successfully4 ,praise ,god for  
this6 ,ran home to     join the         
lieutenant and the treasurer and the    
secretary who were     finishing the    
cartridges1 ,footnote3 ,small envelopes 
in which     ,salvationists make their  

weekly gift for the maintenance of the  
work4  and we started on the books4     
,money well up this week2 over          
thirty shillings to meet the gas bill4  
,hallelujah6      ,saturday4 ,breakfast 
as usual1 at eight1 and prayers4 ,then  
we     started our weekly clean-up4 ,i  
take upstairs2 lieutenant down4         
,people have got to know that ,saturday 
is our day home1 and come     to see us4
 ,had good spell of work4 ,then a poor  
woman and her     daughter in great     
distress called2 advised that they      
should go to     law1 and make the      
child's father support it4 ,they are    
doing this4     ,when ,i went with them 
to see the solicitor1 he seemed to think
     they would succeed4 ,talked matter 
over with them1 then had to     leave   
lieutenant to finish with them1 as      
,bandsman ---- came4                    
,misunderstanding with comrade4         
,hot-tempered2 feels he has             
disgraced himself2 better give in       
instrument4 ,long talk with him4        

,showed him his duty was to admit his   
wrong1 and ask forgiveness4     ,at last
 willing to do so2 prayed the ,lord's   
help and grace2 took     back instrument
 and went off happy4 ,dinner ready1 then
 off to     funeral1 fixed for #b3cj4   
,dear little ,nellie6 ,glad ,i was able 
to     be with her the last night4 ,had 
run in for a minute from open-air4      
,stayed till #e3cj in the morning4 ,she 
was all night dying4 ,mother     too    
overcome to be able to be with her4 ,it 
was ,nellie's wish ,i     should bury   
her4 ,band turned up2 nice meeting at   
house1 then     marched to the cemetery2
 hundreds there4 ,all assembled in      
chapel2     ,i in pulpit4 ,a child's    
funeral seems a marvellous opportunity4 
,many in tears4 ,lord1 make the         
impression lasting6 ,thankful ,i got    
quiet time in the train yesterday to    
prepare for ,sunday4 ,i've     had no   
time since4      ,before open-air went  
to see ,mrs4 ----4 ,saturday is a       
specially     trying day4 ,husband      

drinks heavily4 ,so cruel to her4 ,found
 her     very depressed4 ,tries to keep 
her home nice1 but he makes it very     
hard4 ',been wondering to-day if ,god   
does hear my prayer4 ,my     husband    
only seems to get worse2 the devil has  
been tempting me     all day to give    
up4' ,read to her promise in ,isaiah    
li41 ',i am ,he     that comforteth     
you4' ,seemed too depressed to grasp it4
 ',it is     for you' ,i said1 and took 
her hand4 ,got down on my knees and     
prayed4 ,she began to cry4 ',i've been  
doubting and despairing all     day1'   
she said2 'but if ,he'll forgive me1 ,i 
will trust my     ,saviour4' ,bless her4
 ,hurried on2 just in time for open-air4
 ,very     good meeting inside4 ,all    
going on well1 except ----4 ,what can   
we do for him8 ,cost us more tears1 and 
time1 and prayers than all     the rest 
put together4 ,he seemed so             
satisfactory1 then he backslid     and  
came into the meeting drunk4 ,lieutenant
 could not let him go     back4 ,brought

 him from the saloon1 and now there he  
is in the back     seat1 all rags and   
misery4 ,too drunk to do anything but   
cry4 ,he     has lost the place we got  
him4 ,pawned his things4 ,people laugh  
at     us for our attempts2 but we can't
 give him up4 ,that lost sheep1         
'until ,he findeth it1' is my watchword 
for him4      ,sunday4 ,nice number at  
knee-drill4 ,on march from open-air1    
great excitement4 ,the cry was raised in
 one of the narrow streets1             
',runaway horse6' ,i was terrified for  
the children1 but the lads     made a   
line across the street1 and the         
color-sergeant put the     pole of the  
flag crosswise1 barring the way2 so we  
stopped the     horse1 and no one was   
hurt4 ,a helpful time1 ,i think1 in the 
holiness meeting4 ,read from ,exodus    
xxxv41 showing how the people           
listened and obeyed ,god's word4 ,after 
the meeting1 saw the     soldiers1 who  
were on outpost duty1 going off in the  
best of     spirits4 ,stopped to speak  

to ,sister ---- who is anxious about her
     son4 ,got home at one o'clock4     
,before dinner was finished some one    
came to fetch us1 from the next street1 
to see a man who was     dying1 and who1
 in his delirium1 was screaming for the 
captain4     ,found him in a dreadful   
state4 ,at first ,i tried to soothe him4
     ,soon ,i saw that he must speak4   
,he had sat for years in the            
meetings1 knowing what he ought to do1  
and never doing it4 ',you've     pleaded
 with me so often1 and others have too1'
 he began1 'and     ,i've always put off
 deciding4 ,i have asked ,god to forgive
 me4     ,will you forgive me1 too8'    
,prayed with him1 and left him quieter4 
,went on to the hall in time for the    
,junior meeting4 ,most touching         
time4 ,the children knew and loved      
little ,nellie4 ,when after the         
,company ,lesson1 ,footnote3 ,sunday    
,school ,bible ,lesson4 ,i spoke     to 
them of her beautiful life1 they all    
cried1 and we had a little              

dedication meeting1 giving ourselves to 
,god to live like ,nellie1     and      
claiming ,his power for help4 ,afternoon
 free-and-easy4 ,hall     just on full1 
but could not keep the meeting on as we 
had the     memorial service4      ,a   
funeral march is a sermon in itself4    
,the indoor meeting was     very solemn4
 ,lieutenant read4 ,she is coming on    
well4 ,what a     comfort she is to me4 
,i don't know how ,i should have got on 
here if we had not been so united4 ,she 
is devotion itself4      ,the ,lord gave
 us four souls4 ,two of them1 unsaved   
relations of     ,nellie's4 ,it seemed  
the seal of ,heaven upon her beautiful  
life4     ,oh6 there is nothing like    
seeing souls saved6 ,said to lieutenant1
     as we crept home--and we feel we   
may have the luxury of being     tired  
out on a ,sunday night--that next to    
being an angel1 there     is no position
 in the world like being a field        
captain4  ,after ,king's ,lynn1 ,captain
 and ,lieutenant ,lee were appointed to 

,great ,yarmouth4 ,here1 an illness     
broke up the little household4 ,during  
an epidemic of influenza1 ,kate was laid
 low1 and before she had recovered1     
,lucy became ill4 ,but the ,chief of the
 ,staff ,footnote3 ,now ,general        
,bramwell ,booth4 was coming to         
,yarmouth2 that was to be a great event4
 ,lucy had taken the ,drill ,hall for   
the occasion1 and would not rest until  
she had completed the arrangements for  
the campaign4 ,the ,chief had stirring  
meetings1 with great crowds and many    
converts1 but the captain lay at the    
quarters struggling with pneumonia4 ,to 
this day ,lucy cherishes the memory of  
,the ,general's visit to her bedside1   
where he commended her valiant service  
and prayed that she would be spared to  
the ,war4 ,after her mother had nursed  
her through the illness she remained    
delicate1 and in order to relieve her   
from open-air duties and assist in      
re-establishing her health1             
,headquarters appointed the captain to  

office work4 ,the small family did not  
reunite1 ,mrs4 ,lee remaining with      
,lucy1 until years later she was        
promoted to glory4  ,this break was the 
,lord's way of thrusting ,kate forth to 
take responsibilities of her own4 ,her  
health was now fairly robust1 and her   
experience of life much broader4        
,promoted to the rank of captain1 she   
went to take charge of her first corps1 
and we have fortunately her own account 
of her reception4 ,some years before her
 promotion to glory1 during a rather    
long period of sick furlough1 the       
,general wished ,kate to prepare        
reminiscences of her field experience4  
,to speak of herself or her work1 was   
ever the most difficult of orders for   
,kate to obey1 but she meant to try4    
,amongst her papers was found a single  
sheet on which she had written headings 
for a series of reminiscences4 ,a       
further hunt discovered two sketches    
which she had intended for publication  
anonymously4 ,one of these is here given

 in full3      ,,the ,,wrong ,,clothes4 
,the captain was going to take charge of
 her first corps1 and as the     train  
sped along her heart beat faster as each
 stop brought her     nearer her        
destination4 ,would anyone be there to  
meet her8 ,what was     the town like8  
,and the people8 ,above everything else1
 what about     the lieutenant8 ,these  
were the thoughts that came racing      
through her     brain as the train      
dashed along4      ,the train slowed    
down4 ,a porter's voice announced the   
station1 and     she looked but of the  
window for a ,salvation welcome1 but no 
friendly face was there4 ,leaving her   
baggage1 except for her     handbag1 at 
the station1 she trudged off to find the
 quarters4 ,there     was no welcome    
there4 ,after securing the key from a   
neighbour she     entered the dwelling4 
,fortunately1 there was sufficient tea  
in the     caddy to make the longed-for 
cup1 and with the lunch that had been   
forgotten on the exciting journey1 she  

refreshed herself4 ,there was     no    
letter2 no news of the lieutenant1 and  
the indifferent neighbour     could only
 say that she had been asked to hold the
 key until the     new captain arrived4 
,the time for the meeting drew near1 but
 no ,salvationist called1 and     a     
feeling of strangeness and loneliness   
came upon the captain4     ,falling on  
her knees1 she called upon ,god to help 
her4 ,the     realization of ,his       
,presence1 the prospect of having a     
little corps     of her very own1       
enabled her to smile at her fears1 and  
to sally     forth to seek ,the ,army   
hall4 ,at last it was discovered4 ,such 
a tiny     place6 ,a small burying      
ground surrounded it1 giving it a dismal
     appearance4 ,the door was closed1  
so the captain went and inquired     for
 the key1 and was informed that the hall
 would be opened in time     for the    
meeting4 ,after waiting for some time1 a
 girl appeared1 and1     in a sullen    
way1 opened the door4 ',if only the     

lieutenant were     here1' the captain  
thought4 ,by #h3cj two lads and a few   
children had     mustered4 ,her first   
meeting in her own corps was one of the 
most     difficult she had conducted4   
,there was a strange something1 a       
mysterious atmosphere which she could   
not understand4      ,the last train did
 not bring the lieutenant1 and the      
captain1     committing herself to ,god1
 decided she must make the best of the  
circumstances4 ,she had no desire for   
supper and went to bed4     ,awakened   
next morning by a stream of beautiful   
sunshine1 she     realized where she    
was1 and the dreariness and coldness of 
the     past night's experiences        
returned4 ',if only the lieutenant were 
here1' again she sighed4 ',if--but this 
will not do1' she cried     aloud1 ',i  
must not let the first little struggle  
discourage me4     ,perhaps ,i was cold 
and tired last night1 and perhaps the   
people     did not really expect me--or 
perhaps--6 ,anyway1 ,i am going to do   

my very best for ,god and souls here4'  
,looking up to her ,heavenly            
,father1 she sought strength for the    
day4 ,she made a scanty     breakfast1  
then set about1 righting the quarters4  
,her box had     arrived1 and from it   
she took her knick-knacks2 a few cheery 
texts for the wall1 and her beloved     
books1 helped to make the     place look
 homelike4 ,then she scanned the        
visitation book1 making     a plan for  
the afternoon4      ,that first         
visitation was a trying experience4     
',how strange and     cold these people 
seem to be6' ,there was no answer to her
 knock     from two or three houses4    
,everybody appeared to be out4 ,at the  
next house she was sure she heard a     
sound that indicated that     some one  
was at home1 so she knocked with a      
determination that     secured an       
answer4 ,an upstairs window was thrown  
open4 ',what do     you want8' snarled  
an angry voice4 ',does ,mrs4 ,s---- live
 here8'     ',yes1 what do you want with

 her8' ',i'm the new captain1 and ,i've 
come to see her1 is she at home8' ',i'm 
,mrs4 ,s----1 but ,i'm too     busy to  
come down4 ,good-day6' ,the captain     
turned away1 sick at     heart1 but     
determined to have another fry4 ,still1 
that afternoon     was a very           
disappointing one1 and she brought it to
 a finish with     another visit to the 
station to inquire if there was a likely
     train that might bring the         
lieutenant4 ,at night she went alone    
again to the hall1 opened the door1 but 
waited in vain for even     the sullen  
girl and the little children4      ,on  
returning to the quarters1 she found a  
letter awaiting her from     the        
,divisional ,commander regretting that  
the lieutenant was ill1     and could   
not join her for at least a month4 ',a  
month alone in     this cold            
atmosphere6' ,it seemed an endless age  
to anticipate1 but     now she faced the
 worst1 and was determined to fight     
through to     victory4      ,saturday  

night found her at the open-air stand1  
waiting and hoping     that some one    
would turn up1 when to her relief1 she  
espied a     brass instrument glistening
 in the distance1 and she rejoiced to   
greet her first bandsman4 ,he approached
 in an indifferent way1 but     she was 
becoming more used to the 'cold         
climate4' ,when other     bandsmen      
appeared she felt that1 in spite of the 
stiffness1 she     loved her corps      
already4 ,she would have been quite     
happy had the     lieutenant been there1
 but to walk in front of that band      
without     the satisfaction of knowing 
there was one sister in the rear1       
was a trial4      ,she put her best into
 the meetings2 gave the address that had
 been     prepared with tears and care1 
but her words seemed to fall flat4      
,the prayer-meeting was hard and no     
souls came to the mercy-seat4 ,at       
the end of that first week-end1 she     
exclaimed to a local officer     her    
surprise that no sisters attended the   

open-air meetings1 and     that         
everybody seemed strange4 ',oh1 so you  
don't understand8' he     said4 ',you   
have got on the wrong clothes6' ',what  
do you mean8' the     captain inquired4 
',well1 we are all disappointed4 ,we    
wanted men     officers4 ,you have got  
on the wrong clothes4' ,the captain did 
not     reply1 but determined that she  
would make those soldiers want her      
before she concluded her stay amongst   
them4 ,she had a difficult     task1 the
 people were clannish1 and their        
prejudice was not easily     overcome4  
,her first move was to arrange a social 
cup of tea4 ,she prepared a     dainty  
little spread1 although the funds were  
low1 for she did     the baking herself4
 ,every soldier was invited personally1 
and she     felt rewarded when          
twenty-five out of her fifty soldiers   
responded4     ,the little venture      
seemed to break the ice1 and this first 
sign of     success was followed by a   
tea for sisters only1 and the           

disappointed sisters became quite       
reconciled to their girl captain4       
,the long month at last came to an end4 
,with great happiness the     captain   
welcomed her lieutenant4 ,a bright fire 
was in the grate1     the kettle singing
 on the hob1 as over their first cup of 
tea they     rejoiced that love had     
conquered4 ,in the lieutenant's welcome 
meeting1 the break came1 when a number  
of soldiers reconsecrated     themselves
 to ,god4 ,on the following ,sunday     
night1 the address was     cut short by 
a woman rushing to the penitent-form1   
followed by     several others4 ,the    
soldiers were stirred1 and the fires of 
love     and enthusiasm burnt up the    
smallness and prejudice4 ,their cup ran 
over when they saw a poor drunkard of   
their town changed by the     power of  
,god4      ,prejudice is a difficult    
thing to overcome4 ,it starves the soul 
and withholds the blessing of ,god2 but 
the fire of love can     overcome it and
 enable one to triumph even over the ban

 of 'wrong     clothes4'  ,after        
commanding three corps1 giving to the   
people of each town her best service1 a 
sharp attack of pneumonia carried       
,captain ,lee away from corps work1 and 
for a time it seemed that a             
constitutional bronchial weakness1 now  
aggravated1 would bring her regular     
public work to an early termination4  ,a
 term in the ,naval and ,military       
,department at ,headquarters in ,london 
introduced ,kate to a new sphere of     
,army service4 ,hitherto1 her vision of 
the ,salvation battlefield had been     
limited to the particular corps at which
 she soldiered or commanded1 but contact
 with men who went to the ends of the   
earth and found ,the ,army at almost    
every port1 blessing them in soul and   
body1 lifted her horizon until it became
 world-wide4 ,kate ,lee began to realize
 the greatness of the organization to   
which she belonged4  ,a breakdown in the
 ,naval and ,military ,home at ,chatham 
placed ,captain ,kate in charge of that 

institution1 with full responsibility   
for the catering1 house-keeping1 and    
meetings1 and the visitation of ships in
 the harbour4 ,a sister ,salvationist   
writes3--      ,when first ,i saw her at
 the ,naval and ,military ,home1 ,i was 
impressed     by her innocence1 youth1  
and fragile appearance4 ,for such a girl
 to     bear the responsibility of so   
large an institution1 was a marvel in   
my eyes4 ,with one or two other comrades
 ,i used to accompany her to     the    
ships in the ,medway1 to sing to the    
men4 ,when a good crowd had     gathered
 on the deck1 ,captain ,kate would speak
 to them and invite     them to come to 
,the ,army ,home when they were ashore4 
,the ,home was     packed out4 ,she     
conducted bright meetings1 and many     
soldiers and     sailors were converted4
 ,despite her youth1 the men looked to  
her as     an elder sister2 gave into   
her keeping their bank-books and money1 
and sought her advice in their          
difficulties4 ,so greatly did the ,home 

succeed during the captain's stay1 that 
she had the pleasure of     seeking for 
a site on which now stands the ,home    
which does such     excellent service in
 ,chatham to-day4  ,with health fully   
restored1 the call of the field was     
insistent1 and ,captain ,lee begged to  
be allowed to take a corps again4 ,she  
was appointed to ,whitstable1 ,kent1 and
 for the next fourteen years she poured 
out her life as a ceaseless offering for
 the souls of the people in town and    
city1 in various parts of the ,united   
,kingdom4     ,v  ,a ,,corps ,,commander
    ,a casual view of the work of a     
,salvation ,army field officer might    
suggest that for such a position few    
qualities other than enthusiasm and some
 ability for public speaking are        
necessary4 ,such an idea is as wide of  
the mark as may be4  ,a field officer of
 ,the ,army has the honour to be chosen 
for service similar to that ,william    
,booth undertook when he first turned to
 the unchurched masses of the ,east ,end

 of ,london4 ,to him is committed the   
spiritual responsibility for the town or
 part of the town in which he is        
stationed4 ,he is there to preach in the
 streets to the people who will not go  
to places of worship1 and by every      
lawful means to compel them to his hall 
for help at closer range4 ,he is there  
to visit the sick1 to seek out the      
drunkard1 to visit the police court1 to 
encourage1 and lift1 and lift again the 
weak and stumbling4 ,he is there to     
answer letters from anxious parents1 to 
hunt up straying sons and daughters1 to 
rebuke sin2 in outbreaks of infectious  
disease and catastrophies to administer 
comfort and help to the sorrowing and   
bereaved2 to instruct the children2 to  
shepherd and inspire the band of        
,salvationists already attached to his  
corps2 to raise money for the           
furtherance of ,the ,army work4 ,indeed1
 nothing which affects the well-being of
 the populace lies outside the sphere of
 the officer of ,the ,salvation ,army4  

,all corps are not the same4 ,there is  
the city corps1 with its hundreds of    
soldiers2 an efficient brass band and   
songster brigade1 home league1 young    
people's work1 and various other        
departments4 ,the business man finds    
that the hustle1 the high rent1 floating
 population and the keen competition of 
the city necessitates extraordinary care
 and daring to ensure success4 ,the same
 applies to our officers in charge of   
city corps4  ,there is the sea-side     
corps1 with its thousands of visitors   
and 'trippers' whom ,the ,army officer  
seeks to reach and bless4 ,there is the 
suburban corps1 with its settled        
residential population4 ,there are corps
 in industrial centres with features    
peculiar to them2 and the village corps1
 where long distances are covered by the
 officers in their efforts to reach the 
scattered population4 ,each corps       
presents to the field officer special   
problems as well as special             
opportunities4  ,to be a field officer  

as near perfection as possible1 was the 
ambition of ,kate ,lee's life4 ,in this 
calling she believed she could best     
serve ,god and win souls from sin to    
righteousness4 ,she began as a          
lieutenant1 receiving twelve shillings  
per week and her furnished quarters1 and
 when an adjutant at the height of her  
success1 not only as a soul-winner1 but 
as an organizer and manager of unusual  
ability1 who in commercial or civil life
 could have commanded a large salary1   
she received a guinea 7about #e4jj at   
normal exchange7 a week and her         
quarters4 ,footnote3 ,these figures     
relate to the pre-war scale of          
allowances4 ,kate ,lee laid up her      
treasure in heaven4  ,as a              
,corps-,commander1 she saw service in   
every kind of corps4 ,beginning amongst 
the villages1 with tiny hall and a      
handful of people to care for1 by sheer 
merit1 she rose to command the most     
important corps in the ,british         
,territory4  ,she laid good foundation  

for a successful career4 ,for the       
direction of field officers1 ,the ,army 
,founder wrote a book of ,orders and    
,regulations known in ,the ,army as ,the
 ,f4,o4 ,it is a volume of some six     
hundred pages packed from cover to cover
 with matter as interesting as it is    
logical and practical4 ,every phase of  
the officer's life and service is       
therein dealt with4 ,an officer might be
 located on ,easter ,island1 separated  
from all oversight1 and if he consulted 
his ',f4,o41' and commanded his corps   
according to its advice and directions1 
he would surely build ,the ,salvation   
,army in miniature4  ,so entirely had   
,kate ,lee assimilated ,william ,booth's
 spirit and adopted his methods in      
relation to her work1 that she might    
well have been his own daughter4 ,she   
lived the ',f4,o4' in relation to her   
own soul1 her lieutenant1 her soldiers1 
every section of her corps2 to the      
backsliders1 to the great masses of the 
ungodly1 to the civic authorities1 to   

the churches1 to her comrades and       
superior officers4 ,and she succeeded   
wonderfully4  ,adjutant ,lee set to work
 in a methodical1 practical way4 ,on    
taking charge of a corps1 she first     
consulted ,the ,soldiers' ,roll in order
 to ascertain the size and condition of 
her charge as a fighting force2 next she
 examined the cashbooks in order to find
 out her financial responsibilities4    
,lastly she took steps to gain an       
accurate idea of the condition of the   
town1 morally and spiritually4  ,says   
the treasurer of one of her corps3--    
,soon after she arrived here she gave me
 a list of questions1     including1    
',how many saloons in the town8 ,how    
many houses of     ill fame8 ,how many  
places of worship8 ,what proportion of  
people     go to church8 ,when she      
compared these figures with the         
population     she was able to estimate 
the grip of evil on the town1 and the   
efforts made by the people of ,god to   
combat it4 ,she reckoned all     the    

godless people of the town were her     
concern1 and laid her plans             
accordingly4 ,she called upon the       
police1 the civic authorities1 and      
the ministers1 intimating that she was  
there for the good of the city1     and 
asked to be allowed to co-operate with  
them4 ,it was not long     before the   
governing people realized that an       
uncommon force for     righteousness had
 come among them4  ,says another of her 
local officers1 ',our city had never    
been so conscious of the presence of    
,the ,salvation ,army as a regenerating 
force in its midst1 as during her stay4'
  ,her ministering spirit played like a 
flame upon every section of the corps   
until the whole organization pulsated   
with life4 ,every evening of the week   
the citadel was ablaze with light and   
humming with activity1 the soldiers     
unwilling to stay away one night for    
fear of missing a good thing4  ,in order
 to promote a spirit of prayer in a     
corps1 the ,adjutant's plan was to form 

a prayer league4 ,she chose the most    
spiritual amongst her soldiers and      
adherents1 and pledged them to spend a  
portion of each day in prayer for an    
outpouring of the ,spirit of ,god upon  
the corps and town4 ,these comrades     
became a great strength in the battles  
for souls which developed4 ,at some of  
her corps a few of these comrades       
remained in a room praying during the   
whole of the service on ,sunday night2  
and when the prayer meeting began1 they 
quietly made their way to either side of
 the penitent-form2 their earnest       
pleading for the unsaved having much to 
do with the victories gained4 ,others   
were formed into a ,fishing ,brigade4   
,footnote3 ,salvationists selected to   
speak personally with those likely to be
 brought to decision for ,christ4 ,these
 were posted about the hall1 and1 at a  
given signal in the prayer meeting1     
moved amongst the unsaved and urged them
 to decision4  ,soldier-making was      
,adjutant ,lee's object4 ,a full        

penitent-form meant little to her unless
 the kneeling penitents became fighters 
for ,god4 ,to this end she visited1 and 
'nursed' and trained and commanded--and 
with good results4 ,but while she had a 
keen eye for the new recruit1 she       
mourned and battled for the deserters4  
,she had taken to her heart the ,old    
,general's counsel on this score1 part  
of which reads3--      ,the ,field      
,officer must watch against heart       
backsliding4 ,when soldiers     drop off
 from knee-drill2 when they are not     
found in the ranks in bad     weather2  
when they no longer remain to the prayer
 meetings2 when they     come only now  
and then to the week-night services2 and
 when they     cease to testify as      
frequently1 heartily1 and definitely as 
in former     days1 the ,f4,o4 should   
conclude there is something wrong2 decay
 has     commenced4 ,he should deal with
 such at once1 and give them no rest4   
,no officer should refuse to seek the   
restoration of a backslider     because 

of the disgrace he has brought upon the 
corps by his falling     into old ways2 
old habits of drunkenness or            
uncleanness1 fighting or     thieving1  
or any other vulgar form of sin4 ,the   
,f4,o4 should consider     the shame of 
the man himself1 if he is permanently   
left to rot in     the ditch of         
corruption1 and the sorrows that burden 
the heart of     ,his ,master1 for one  
for whom ,he has given ,his precious    
,blood4  ,heart backsliders or open     
backsliders were all the same to        
her--deserters to be followed down and  
brought back to loyal service4 ,one     
tells that he had been away from the    
fight for six years4 ,she heard of him  
by a casual remark one comrade made to  
another1 got his address and surprised  
his home by a visit4  ',after that1'    
says this comrade1 'she slipped into our
 house for a few minutes every day until
 she won us back to ,god and ,the ,army4
 ,sometimes she might not even sit down2
 just kneel a moment and pray with us4  

,at other times she merely put her head 
round the door and smiled2 said1 ,god   
bless you1 and was gone4 ,her loving    
interest broke us down1 and we hungered 
to get back into the fight4'  ,another  
comrade had fought so successful a fight
 that the devil thought it worth while  
to centre his heavy guns upon him2 he   
was so smashed spiritually that he      
seemed past mending4 ,but not to ,kate  
,lee's faith4 ,she prayed over him1     
believed for him1 refused to give up his
 soul as lost until at length he again  
began to hope in ,god for deliverance4  
,he was fully restored and became a     
devoted bandmaster4  ,some backsliders  
who withstood her pleadings in life were
 brought home by her death4 ',the last  
time ,i saw her1' said an old man with  
broken voice1 'she held an open-air     
service in our street1 came into my     
house1 wept over me and prayed for me4  
,i used to serve under her4 ,when she   
died----4' ,he is fighting the good     
fight now as in his best days4  ,the    

bandsmen of ,the ,army are a remarkable 
body of men4 ,they are all converted1   
many from lives of desperate sin4       
,others have grown up in ,the ,army2    
almost all have learned what they know  
of music in the ranks4 ,twenty years    
ago1 the latter remark might have been  
received with a smile4 ,not so to-day1  
for while the object of ,salvation ,army
 music is the same as when it was first 
admitted as an auxiliary in our efforts 
to attract the unsaved1 it has passed   
from the crudeness of its beginnings to 
a high standard of excellence4 ,the     
bands of ,the ,salvation ,army now rank 
amongst the best in the world1 and are  
an appreciated institution in most towns
 and villages4 ,the bandsmen1 who find  
their own uniforms and receive neither  
fee nor reward for their services1      
devote much of their leisure to         
,salvation ,army service4 ,they carry   
the message of salvation by music and   
song into city streets and slums1 into  
the lanes of the country2 to hospitals  

and asylums1 and1 besides1 lead the     
singing in ,the ,army citadels4  ,as    
might be expected amongst a body of     
clean-living1 energetic men1 there are  
occasions when matters of contention    
arise which require careful handling4   
,more than once ,kate ,lee 'scented'    
trouble in her bands and resorted to a  
night of prayer1 as a preparation for   
dealing with the problem4 ,she would    
come from her little sanctuary1 clothed 
with such meekness1 tact1 and strength  
that never once did she fail to stem the
 difficulty and to hold the men to the  
highest ideals of ,salvationism4  ,if a 
whole band were affected1 she saw the   
men one by one before she met them      
together4 ,at one corps where the       
inclination to worldly amusement        
threatened serious loss1 the ,adjutant  
held a meeting which lasted until       
midnight4 ,lovingly1 faithfully1 firmly1
 she reminded the men of the high       
purposes of ,the ,salvation ,army1 the  
condition of the world in relation to   

,god1 the spiritual danger of mixing    
with the ungodly in their amusement4    
,quietly1 the men viewed the matter in  
the light of eternity and made their    
choice4 ,it was according to the        
,adjutant's standards4 ,not1 as she was 
careful to explain1 because they were   
hers as the commanding officer1 but     
because they were standards of ,the     
,army1 based upon the changeless        
principles of the ,kingdom that is not  
of this world4 ,she found1 as many      
another servant of ,god has found1 that1
 ',strongly-formed purposes can be      
changed and men's hearts influenced by  
prayer alone1 and that surrenders made  
and principles accepted at such a time  
make for the permanent change of        
character4'  ,the wives of ,salvation   
,army bandsmen make their sacrifices4   
,sunday is seldom a rest-day for        
,salvationists4 ,bandsmen are required  
to be present at six engagements1 three 
out-door and three in4 ,their wives see 
to the children and the meals and send  

their husbands to their ,god-given      
labours4 ,they were not forgotten by the
 ,adjutant4 ,she took a delight in      
preparing a pretty tea for them at her  
quarters1 and inviting them to a little 
party all of their own4 ,serving them   
herself1 she spent an evening of music  
and song amongst them1 speaking words in
 appreciation and gratitude of their    
unselfish service1 and making them feel 
that their part in the ,war was well    
worth while4  ,there are few rich people
 in ,the ,salvation ,army4 ,soldiers and
 adherents are trained to give according
 to their ability towards the upkeep of 
their respective corps2 but when the    
best that may be is done in this        
direction1 there is1 in most cases1 a   
considerable deficit remaining which    
must be met by public contribution4  ,as
 an example of the financial            
responsibilities which ,kate ,lee       
successfully discharged1 the ,brighton  
,congress ,hall might be taken4 ,here   
the expenses for the year ran into some 

four thousand dollars4 ,the ,adjutant   
desired to give all her time to 'pulling
 sinners out of the fire4' ,but there   
was the rent2 the upkeep of a great hall
 and her quarters1 fire and lighting1   
printing1 advertising1 in addition to   
the modest allowance for herself and her
 two lieutenants4 ,to cope with such    
problems1 ,kate ,lee brought the        
qualities of prayer and plan4 ',a model 
of method1' is how her treasurer here   
describes her4 ',she ascertained the    
full extent of her liabilities1 and     
probable income1 and laid plans to meet 
the obligations with the least possible 
hindrance to spiritual effort4'  ,she   
never allowed lack of money to hinder   
her in a forward movement4 ,going to the
 charge of another large corps1 she had 
decided upon an immediate campaign for  
souls4 ,but awaiting her was a debt of  
five hundred dollars6 ,however1 in her  
,welcome meeting1 she committed herself 
to the spiritual campaign1 and enlisted 
the soldiers' interest4 ,the following  

morning she received a letter of welcome
 from her ,divisional ,commander1 who   
incidentally informed her that the      
,division was financially in rather     
difficult circumstances1 and that he was
 looking to her to assist him by        
reducing the debt on the corps as soon  
as possible4 ,she was seized with the   
temptation1 for a moment1 to attack and 
dispose of the debt at once1 but        
convinced that her first decision to be 
of ,god1 she committed the money matter 
to ,him1 and began to organize the corps
 for a revival4  ,the month's effort was
 to include house-to-house visitation1  
the 'bombardment' of saloons1 and a     
,sunday ,salvation campaign in a        
theatre4 ,her faith was tried2 money was
 difficult to raise1 and as she went    
forward with her plans for soul-winning 
her liabilities increased4 ',the theatre
 will be a fizzle1 and you will have a  
big deficit there1' discouraged the     
,tempter4 ,but ,kate would not be moved 
from her purpose4 ,the special ,sunday  

proved to be a day of victory4 ,at      
night1 two notorious characters knelt at
 the penitent-form in addition to a     
number of promising young people4 ,the  
expenses were met1 and the soldiers     
enthused4  ,the following morning1 as   
the ,adjutant was seeing a visitor off  
at the railway station1 a gentleman     
accosted her cheerfully1 ',adjutant1 ,i 
have some encouraging news for you1' he 
said4 ',a friend of mine was present at 
the theatre last night1 and he was so   
impressed with what he saw and heard    
that he intends to give you two hundred 
and fifty dollars6' ',oh1 praise the    
,lord6' responded the ,adjutant4 ,when  
she met her soldiers with the news1 and 
showed them how ,god was honouring faith
 and obedience1 they united forthwith to
 wipe out the debt4 ,in came promises of
 different amounts4 ,ten days later the 
debt had vanished and a glorious work of
 soul-saving went forward4  ,kate ,lee's
 lieutenants have lively memories of her
 methods and enthusiasm in conducting   

the annual ,self-,denial ,appeals4 ,says
 one3--      ,the first ,s4-,d4 ,i was  
with her1 she said to me one morning1   
',now1     dear1 ,i must get this all   
planned out and see my target on paper  
before ,i meet the corps4 ,i'm going    
upstairs1 and ,i don't want to see      
anyone or be disturbed for anything4'   
,dinner time came1 and ,i     wondered  
what to do1 and thought ,i had better   
take her dinner to     her4 ,when ,i    
appeared at her door with the tray1 she 
laughed heartily     with and at me1    
carried the tray down and we had dinner 
together4     ,after the scheme was     
launched she kept in touch with the     
whole corps1     encouraging and holding
 each up to his or her share in the     
effort1     until it finished           
successfully4  ,she had settled ideas   
about personal self-denial4 ,another of 
her lieutenants tells that1 during one  
,self-,denial week1 a friend1 thinking  
that the officers might be depriving    
themselves of nourishing food1 left a   

basket packed with fresh goodies on the 
doorstep4 ,the ,adjutant smiled1 sold   
the goods and the basket1 and put the   
money to the fund4  ,the soldiers who   
fought under ,kate ,lee revere her      
memory4 ,volumes of tributes to their   
love and appreciation of her spirit1 her
 ability and service1 could be given4   
',what ,i thought she was when she came 
to us1 ,i was sure she was when she     
left4' ,a testimony from a village      
comrade all unconscious probably of its 
full significance6  ',like a specialist 
she was2 always a queue of people       
waiting to see her after the meetings1' 
says one of her city hall-keepers4      
',what did they want8 ,spiritual help1  
guidance1 advice1 about all manner of   
things2 they knew her heart was big     
enough to take in all the troubles they 
could bring1 and they never thought that
 her body might crack up4'  ,another    
recalls her love for the ,colours1 and  
her loyalty to the standards of her     
,general4  ',my1 but she loved the      

,flag6 ,once the colour-sergeant was    
away1 and it was suggested we should go 
to the open-air meeting without the     
,flag4 ,oh1 no6 ,the ,general wouldn't  
like to see the march without the ,flag1
 she said2 so a sister carried it4'     
,the following sidelights are           
contributed by a sister soldier of keen 
observation and sweet spirit4 ',when the
 ,adjutant died1 ,i felt ,i had lost a  
dear and close relative1 though as a    
matter of fact ,i had never caught much 
more than glimpses of her4 ,my husband  
was one of her local officers and she   
frequently came to our home1 but she did
 her business and went1 never remaining 
even for a cup of tea unless it were    
poured out and she could take it without
 waiting4 ,the most time ,i spent with  
her was once when she returned to       
conduct some special services here1 and 
was billetted with us4  ',she was too   
full of her mission to make friends for 
herself1 but although so busy she did   
not rush4 ,she never had too many irons 

in the fire to listen to a sorrow2 and  
the few moments she could spare you knew
 were all your own4' ,this              
characteristic is laid away in scores of
 hearts like a sweet perfume which gives
 out fragrance every time it is stirred4
 ,she took time1 she always took time to
 listen1 whispered one of her converts  
looking into my face with an adoring    
love in her eyes that was almost        
anguish4 ,the story of her wonderful    
deliverance1 more full of romance and   
tragedy than any novel1 may not appear  
here for obvious reasons4  ,continuing  
this soldier says1 ',she seemed to put  
the work of two lives into one4 ,such a 
brisk walk she had6 ,people pulled      
themselves to attention and things began
 to move faster whenever she came on the
 scene4 ,this is quite a feminine little
 bit--,i never saw her look into a shop 
window6 ,she had not time for even the  
innocent interests of most good women4  
',she lived in the spirit of the        
command1 ,be pitiful1 be courteous4 ,the

 graciousness of her spirit always      
reminded me of ,christ4 ,she did not    
seem to understand the meaning of       
sarcasm4  ',her health was very frail4  
,whilst stationed here1 she was often   
fighting bronchitis1 but she never spoke
 of herself4 ,never even said she was   
tired4 ,there was not a trace of        
self-pity or self-love about her4'      
,from many sources one hears of this    
continual fight with and triumph over   
physical weakness4 ,a woman hall-keeper 
tells1 ',one evening ,i caught her      
creeping like an old woman1 through the 
dimly lighted hall1 bent almost double  
with bronchitis4 ,oh1 ,adjutant1 ,i     
cried1 you're ill4 ,you should go home  
to bed4 ,when she knew ,i had seen her1 
she steadied herself to take breath1    
smiled sternly1 then waved me off1 and  
presently walked briskly into her       
converts' meeting4' ,a lieutenant tells1
 ',sometimes in the morning she looked  
so ill and old1 and ,i would beg of her 
to let me take her breakfast to bed4    

,but she would laugh and say1 ,what's   
the good of giving way to feelings8     
,i'll be all right when ,i warm up to   
work4 ,though ever a spartan to herself 
she was always tender in her treatment  
of others4'  ,the following extracts    
from an article by the late ,mrs4       
,colonel ,ewens appeared in ',the       
,officer' under the title of ',my ,ideal
 ,field ,officer4' ,it indicates the    
high esteem in which ,adjutant ,lee's   
,divisional ,commanders held her3--     
,for some years now1 a woman ,officer   
who is still in the field1 has     been 
the living embodiment of my ',ideal     
,field ,officer4'      ,i was conducting
 a ,junior meeting at her corps when the
 bandmaster     stepped into a side room
 for his instrument4 ,i prepared to     
accompany     him to the open-air       
meeting and casually remarked that the  
officers     had gone on4 ',you may     
trust our captain2 ,i have never known  
her     late1' was the rejoinder4       
,continuing he said3--      ,i have been

 in ,the ,army for twenty years1 but    
have never had such     an eye-opener in
 all my experience4 ,i tell you if ever 
,i have felt     ashamed of myself and  
my performances1 it has been since this 
officer came4 ,she's the right woman in 
the right place1 there's no     doubt   
about it4 ,she can 'sit on' a fellow    
without crushing the life     out of    
him4 ,the whole band is changed4 ,she's 
just got our chaps1     the thirty of   
them2 and she's as true and straight as 
a die4 ,the     beauty of her life and  
example beats all we have ever had4     
,makes you     feel you must be good    
whether you will or not4' ,this was     
intensely     interesting to me1 coming 
as it did so spontaneously from a man   
not     at all in the habit of praising 
his ,officers4 ,after our conversation1 
,i began to study the character and work
 of that unobtrusive woman4      ,i     
consider her success mainly attributable
 to her strict adherence     to the     
godly principles which rule her life1   

and to the careful     cultivation of   
certain useful qualifications which are 
within the     reach of all4 ,three     
words sum them up1 consecration1        
concentration1     conservation4 ,every 
power of her being1 every treasure of   
her heart1     every hour of her time is
 at the service of ,god and humanity4   
,my     ',ideal ,f4,o4' is a            
,god-possessed woman absorbed with a    
passion for     soul-saving which       
nothing can quench4      ,she has so    
schooled herself that she now possesses 
the ability to     focus every power of 
mind1 body1 and soul on the object of   
the     moment1 whether it is saving a  
drunkard1 clearing a debt1 settling     
a dispute1 or leading a meeting4        
,there is complete abandonment but very 
little wreckage in her work4     ,she   
conserves her energies in fitness1 her  
soul in tenderness1 her     people in   
love1 and the interests of ,the ,army in
 loyalty4     ,consequently1 her work   
wears well4      ,the feature which     

impressed me most in my ,f4,o4 was her  
faith1 her     indomitable faith in     
,god1 faith for the very worst1 faith in
 the     midst of darkness1 tireless1   
persistent1 fruitful1 wondrous in its   
effect upon others4 ,she literally      
accepts no defeat4 ,her convictions     
are strong1 her brain fertile1 and when 
failure appears imminent1     her       
tactics are changed and seeming defeat  
turned into victory4      ,the shepherd 
spirit is characteristic of her4        
,watching and caring     for souls seems
 part of her being4 ,hence visitation is
 a joy to her4     ,the bright          
cheeriness of her manner1 and her loving
 compassionate     heart1 ensure a      
welcome everywhere2 and whilst she weeps
 over the     wanderer1 and spares no   
pains to win him back1 she is inexorable
     where wrong is concerned4 ,sin must
 be confessed and forsaken4             
,wrong-doing must be righted1 reparation
 must be made4      ,more time and      
prayer are spent by this particular     

officer on     personal dealing than on 
any other aspect of her work4 ,no wrong 
thing is ever winked at1 be it in the   
wealthiest or the poorest2     in the   
heart1 the habit1 or the home4 ,the     
fierce light of the     ,judgment is    
brought to bear so powerfully upon evil 
that the     wrongdoer must either give 
in to ,god or give up his profession4   
,her soldiers and people regard their   
,officer with deep respect and          
affection4 ,she is as accessible to the 
youngest child as to the     eldest     
soldier1 yet is over familiar with none4
      ,for her platform she studies     
much1 often alas6 far into the night1   
when she has sent her lieutenants to    
rest4 ,she is not what is     termed a  
brilliant speaker1 but her matter is    
arresting1     convincing1 converting4  
,to her lieutenants she is a charming   
companion1 a wise leader4 ,in     her   
home she is a model of cleanliness and  
good management4      ,the business side
 of a woman's work is often1 ,i have    

heard1 the     weak point2 but as a     
,commanding ,officer my ,ideal possesses
 a large     capacity for business and  
relish for it1 to which1 as a           
lieutenant1     she was a stranger4 ,she
 shoulders financial burdens with a     
loyal     courage1 and carries them     
through successfully4 ,her writing table
     is the index to her brain1 and     
bears the stamp of order upon it4       
,you cannot surprise her with an        
outstanding liability4 ,she has her     
hand on everything in a corps in a      
remarkably short time4 ,the     yearly  
expenditure is calculated1 the ordinary 
resources     discovered1 special       
efforts estimated1 the deficit boldly   
faced2     then prayer1 faith1 and      
extraordinary effort are brought to bear
     upon meeting it4 ,she runs all her 
financial efforts on the budget         
principle4      ,on corps organization  
and oversight1 she is equally systematic
 and     comprehensive4 ,you will find  
the individuality of my ,ideal          

wherever you touch the corps2 converts1 
backsliders1 seniors1     juniors1 young
 people1 home league1 boys' band1       
swimming club1     corps cadet1 company 
guards1 ',war ,crys1' songsters4 ,in    
fact1 there     is no activity in the   
corps over which she does not exert a   
personal influence and directorship1    
though far from desiring to     do      
everything herself4      ,her           
lieutenants share her confidence1 and   
work to the full4 ,she     never acts   
without the co-operation of her locals1 
where it is at     all possible to      
secure it4 ,she values their judgment1  
and fully     appreciates their toil4   
,she has a duty ready for the youngest  
soldier and convert1 and an             
encouraging word of approval for all4   
,alert to avail herself of every        
possible means to improve her corps1    
amenable to reason1 correct in her      
judgment1 strong in discipline1         
humble as a child4  ,in the estimation  
of her two ,generals1 ,kate ,lee won a  

chief place4 ,it was an honour that she 
held dearer than any badge1 that once   
when chosen to represent the ,field     
,officers to ,the ,founder1 the aged    
white-haired ,leader stooped and kissed 
her as a daughter before her comrades4  
,writes ,general ,bramwell ,booth3--    
,it was as a ,corps ,officer that she   
shone1 excelled1 and won her great      
victories4 ,she showed us afresh1 if we 
only have eyes to see1 how     great    
that position may be4      ,christ took 
hold of her whole being and transformed 
her4 ,he was     united in ,his ,spirit 
with her strong1 loving1 dutiful soul4  
,the     meekness of ,jesus was found in
 her1 side by side with a ,divine       
passion for the lost4      ,she was at  
first one of the most unlikely people to
 take the place     she ultimately took4
 ,timid1 retiring1 having little        
confidence in     herself1 and quite    
unconscious of possessing any special   
gifts1 she     rose up1 and did more    
actual work than is sometimes done by   

half a     dozen of her sister-officers 
put together4 ,the lost and the ruined  
and the broken-hearted1 the vicious and 
desperate1 and those who are     ready  
to go down to the pit were her special  
delight4 ,from town to     town she     
went1 consorting with them1 hunting them
 up1 weeping over     them1 praying for 
them1 stretching out her hands to them2 
yes1 and     sometimes literally pulling
 them out of the fire4      ,it is      
extraordinary how officers of this type 
are remembered in     different towns by
 different aspects of their work and    
character4     ,in one town it is one   
thing1 in another town it is another4   
,it was     so with ,kate ,lee4 ,in one 
place she is spoken of as the great     
befriender of the broken and outcast4   
,in another as 'the one who     helped  
us when we were starving4' ,in another  
as one of the few     decent people who 
were ever seen during the midnight hours
 in the     dark places4 ,in another as 
making the open-air marches radiate     

light and music and ,salvation4 ,in     
another as being like a spiritual       
dredger1 dragging the very gutters for  
lost souls4      ,and yet in all she    
would never speak of what she had done  
if she     could help it4 ,she was one  
of those who could say with ,paul1 ',i  
laboured more abundantly than they all2 
yet not ,i1 but the grace of     ,god   
which was with me4'     ,,vi  ,,special 
,,efforts    ,certain enterprising      
business firms find it worth while to   
pay large salaries to servants whose    
sole duty it is to think out fresh      
ideas1 the working of which will bring  
success to their house4 ,kate ,lee's    
mind was consecrated to get out of it   
every idea possible for the success of  
her campaigns4 ,she had no leisure to   
devote exclusively to planning1 but     
morn1 noon1 and night1 while about her  
other work1 walking here1 pedalling her 
bicycle there1 her eyes were wide open  
and her mind alert as she devised       
methods by which she might attract the  

ungodly to listen to her message1 which1
 if obeyed by all1 would turn this earth
 into a ,paradise4  ,nothing vexed her  
more than for the ,lord's people to be  
content to make shift with poor tools   
and conditions in ,his service1 while   
the devil's agents aim at getting the   
best to be had4 ,her patience was sorely
 tried when ,salvationists thought their
 well-equipped hall too good for        
drunkards' raids1 and none the less when
 soldiers considered any poor shop good 
enough for the ,army hall4  ,when she   
took charge of ,hythe1 the corps fought 
its battles in a miserable little barn  
known as ',the ,tar-,tub1' located in a 
back lane4 ,how could she hope to get   
crowds of people into that place8 ,she  
simply would not suffer the indignity4  
,there was land to be had1 money in the 
place1 and sympathy4 ,a proper hall     
there must be6 ,she secured the ground1 
and the season being summer1 she hired a
 large tent and erected it on the vacant
 spot4 ,then she organized a campaign   

with features to attract not only the   
townspeople but summer visitors4 ,night 
after night the tent was crowded4       
,meanwhile1 she stirred the town in     
raising funds for the erection of the   
hall1 and before long the necessary     
proportion of money was in hand4 ,the   
tent was replaced by building materials 
and ,hythe turned out for the           
block-laying1 an event which by this    
time had become of public interest4     
,farewell orders came before the citadel
 was opened1 but ,kate ,lee was always  
ready to cheerfully drop a work she had 
set going and take up the next thing4   
,at ,ashford she was ashamed of the     
miscellaneous collection of band        
instruments4 ,a special effort enabled  
her to leave there a band with a set of 
plated instruments4 ,at ,sunderland1    
hard by the hall1 a tavern boasted a    
brilliant front light4 ,the devil should
 not lure men to destruction with a     
brighter light than that by which she   
showed the way to ,heaven6 ,soon1       

therefore1 a competing light blazed     
before the citadel4 ,the entrance to    
',norland ,castle1 ,the ,army's hall at 
,shepherd's ,bush1 ,london1 was a       
miserable affair4 ,two sets of narrow   
steps led to two doors4 ,it was a       
considerable scheme to clear the whole  
front1 erect a flight of solid concrete 
steps and replace the brick wall by an  
iron railing1 but she saw it through4   
,at this corps she installed a new      
lighting apparatus1 at that laid        
linoleum in the aisles1 at another      
curtains to reduce the size of the hall 
for week-night meetings4 ,always some   
improvement4 ,she loved to build a new  
penitent-form1 which ran the whole width
 of the platform--with suitable carpet  
in front of it from end to end--and     
above it1 in gold letters1 some such    
message as1 ',at the ,cross there's     
room4' ,she greatly rejoiced on the     
night that one such mercy-seat was      
thrown open1 for a great sinner bedewed 
it with tears as he confessed his sins  

to ,god1 and rose up1 a new creature1 to
 fight a good fight in that corps4 ,but 
what was the good of a decent hall1     
clean1 well lighted and warm1 if the    
people remained outside8 ,get the people
 she must1 and having got them once1 she
 would make them want to come again4 ,go
 where you will1 at the mention of her  
'special efforts' there is a visible    
stirring amongst her erstwhile soldiers4
 ,it is amusing to watch different types
 of people as they prepare to describe  
her demonstrations4 ,a villager shakes  
his head1 looks solemn1 clears his      
throat1 and begins1 ',never seed the    
like of her and her ways6' ,the eyes of 
keen business men contract and smile2   
then they remark1 half apologetically   
for their enthusiasm1 ',really1 they    
were wonderful affairs4 ,the ,adjutant  
was quite a marvel in the conception of 
a big thing and the ability to carry it 
out4' ,as for the general rank and file1
 they bubble and burst with joyful      
acclamation at the recollection of red  

letter days in ,salvation festivity4    
,the ,adjutant turned to account every  
holy day and holiday4 ,she laid herself 
out to make ,christmas a joy-day for the
 lonely and poor4 ,at ,norland ,castle1 
for instance1 she provided dinner for   
some two hundred old people of the      
district4 ,the afternoon was devoted to 
a children's party1 the old people being
 allowed to remain as delighted         
spectators of the children's games and  
fun4 ,for the night meeting the platform
 was decorated1 the lights lowered1 and 
a living representation showed the      
shepherds feeding their flocks at       
,bethlehem1 and the angel choir         
proclaiming ',peace on earth and        
goodwill to men4' ,by song1 music1      
recitation1 and appeal1 the ,adjutant   
made the ,christmas message ring clear1 
and she closed the day pointing souls   
made tender by human loving-kindness1 to
 the ,prince of ,peace4  ,harvest       
,festival was1 perhaps1 her chief       
demonstration of the year4 ,she used    

this occasion to impress ,the ,army upon
 the whole town4 ,the largest hall      
available was taken--such as at         
,coventry1 the ,drill ,hall holding five
 thousand people4 ,a long report from   
the local paper describes the appearance
 of this building converted into a rural
 scene4 ,there was a farmhouse large    
enough for habitation1 a windmill in    
motion1 and a realistic farmyard        
containing sheep1 pigs1 rabbits1 ducks1 
and fowls4 ,a sower sowed the seed2     
there was standing corn4 ,this was      
reaped1 and the grain thrashed1 ground1 
and baked on the spot4 ,all manner of   
farm implements were on view1 and great 
collections of fruit1 vegetables1 and   
flowers4  ,spectacular processions      
considerably helped these               
demonstrations4 ,one night1 the corps   
turned out representing a great harvest 
home with a wagon of hay1 and the       
soldiers attired as farm labourers1     
carrying forks1 rakes1 and sickles1     
,chinese lanterns on sticks1 and        

transparent signs4 ,another night the   
,adjutant had as many as seven lorries  
carrying representations of different   
phases of ,army work4  ,wherever these  
harvest festivals were held1 the town   
was stirred2 and thousands of people    
attended the meetings4 ,they were       
convinced of the possibility of joy in  
religion1 and also1 they were brought   
face to face with eternal truths4 ,they 
saw the way of ,salvation in object     
lesson2 the ,bread of ,life contrasted  
with the husks of the world2 listened to
 an interpretation of the ,parable of   
the ,sower2 were reminded that          
',whatsoever a man soweth1 that shall he
 also reap'2 in the story of ,ruth      
recognized the wisdom of choosing       
,christ rather than the world1 and also 
the beauty of unselfish service4 ,many  
were brought to consider the work of the
 reaper1 ,death1 and to seek ,salvation4
  ,such a demonstration entailed1 as    
might be expected1 an enormous amount of
 work1 but the ,adjutant's skill in     

enlisting co-workers and enthusing them 
with her own desire1 succeeded in making
 them toil till midnight with delight4  
,a master carpenter recalls1 ',before   
the festival she had me there1 working  
every night for a week'2 a master baker1
 that he carted flour and utensils to   
the hall1 where his staff1 in full      
bake-house regalia1 made bread and baked
 it on the spot4  ,the ,adjutant        
delighted to bring ,the ,army's         
missionary work before the people4 ,at  
several corps she converted her hall    
into an ,indian village1 the soldiers   
into ,oriental villagers and invited    
missionary officers to explain our work 
amongst the peoples of the ,east4 ,one  
of her city treasurers recalls the      
cleverness by which she engineered her  
plans1 and got all that was needed for  
such a demonstration4  ',passing the    
shop of a taxidermist1 the ,adjutant    
noticed a fine stuffed tiger in the     
window4 ,turning into the shop1 she     
asked to see the owner1 and told him    

what was in her mind4 ,could he advise  
her8 ,he was interested1 very4 ,he had  
several ,indian jungle animals1 which he
 would gladly lend4 ,and he knew people 
who had fine ,indian sceneries2 he would
 speak to them and to others who had    
,indian costumes4  ',the plan           
materialized surprisingly4 ,she had the 
village1 with the inevitable well2 the  
women1 with their water-pots1 and the   
children playing about4 ,the jungle     
adjoining was eerie with wild animals4  
,there were tea-gardens with palms1 an  
exhibition of ,indian wares1 and the    
soldiers of the corps moved about as    
,indian villagers4  ',it was a most     
extraordinary affair4 ,the campaign was 
well announced1 and for three days the  
hall was packed4 ,the missionary        
officers spoke1 and our work in the     
,east became a wonderful thing not only 
in the eyes of our own people1 young and
 old1 but of the outsiders as well4     
,fresh people heard the message of      
,salvation1 and the heavy corps debt was

 cleared4'  ,for ,bank ,holidays the    
,adjutant provided counter attractions  
for her lively young people and         
converts1 that they might feel no       
temptation towards the pleasures of the 
world1 arranging a pleasant corps       
gathering in the afternoon and a tea at 
night4  ,sharing the old ,general's     
belief that it is right to consecrate   
the gifts of sinners to the service of  
,christ's ,kingdom1 she roped in strange
 helpers4 ,perhaps the most             
extraordinary thing she did in this way 
was connected with the erection of a    
band rotunda for a ,bank ,holiday 'go4' 
,inspired with the idea that barrels    
would serve the purpose1 she hied her to
 the brewery and interviewed the        
manager4 ,a few days later1 there was   
the unusual sight of a brewer's dray    
drawing into the yard of the ,salvation 
,army citadel and discharging a load of 
hogsheads4 ,these were rolled into      
position1 covered with red cloth1 and on
 them1 the bandsmen--many of them       

delivered from the curse of the         
beer--mounted and played music for the  
deliverance of others4 ,but ,kate ,lee  
never bowed to the world in order to    
receive its favours4 ,the brewer knew   
full well that this gentle woman was an 
avowed enemy of his trade2 but she was  
not his enemy1 for she cared for his    
soul as for those of all sinners4       
,adjutant ,lee never allowed efforts    
that might be called secular to         
interfere with the spiritual work of her
 corps4 ,to her they were as spiritual  
as any other effort4 ,we are told of her
 calling her chief local officers       
together on one occasion to discuss some
 special corps liability4 ',she told us 
of her intention to run an ,indian      
,exhibition1 laid the plans before us1  
and then prayed4 ,that census meeting   
was turned into one of the most powerful
 prayer meetings ,i can remember4 ,the  
lieutenant told me afterwards that the  
,adjutant had spent the previous night  
in prayer about this effort4'  ,at      

another corps she borrowed several      
firemen's helmets to be used in the     
,sunday's meetings1 presumably to draw  
attention to sin as a fire1 a destroyer4
 ,she impressed upon the brothers who   
were to wear the helmets1 that unless   
the effort were made earnestly1 it would
 be a farce4 ,the men so entered into   
her spirit that they remained at the    
hall after the afternoon meeting in     
fasting and prayer1 so that the message 
might go forth at night with power4  ,at
 ,coventry she was faced with an unusual
 difficulty4 ,the hall was altogether   
too small to receive the crowds that    
swept down with the band from the       
,sunday night open-air service4 ,for    
people to wish to attend an ,army       
meeting and to be turned away was       
unthinkable to ,kate ,lee4 ,she must    
secure a larger hall4 ,but how8 ,in     
,coventry every theatre and             
picture-palace was in full swing        
,sundays as well as week-days4 ,the only
 hall available for the winter months   

was the ,public ,baths1 and this was    
required for many purposes4  ',the      
committee can't let you have it1' she   
was told4 ',well1 ,god can1 and ,i will 
pray1' she replied4 ,the treasurer      
remembers how she spent the time in     
prayer while the committee met to       
discuss ,the ,army's request4 ,to the   
surprise of many1 the ,baths were leased
 to ,the ,army for ,sunday evenings     
during the winter4 ,the experiment      
proved a success as far as reaching the 
people went1 but the expenses were      
heavy4 ,all but two days of the last    
three months had expired1 and the       
,adjutant had not got the money in hand 
to meet the rent bill4 ,she had often   
lifted her heart to ,god about the      
matter1 but as the days for settling the
 account drew near1 she gave herself up 
to definite prayer4 ,the lieutenant     
tells us that while actually on her     
knees1 praying1 a letter containing a   
note for ten pounds 7fifty dollars7 was 
pushed through the letter-box4  ,at many

 a corps the ,adjutant conducted        
midnight raids for drunkards with great 
success4 ,amongst her papers was found  
the description1 which she had prepared 
at ,the ,general's request1 of one of   
these raids1 but wished it to be        
published anonymously4   ',i am afraid  
it is a mistake to have a midnight raid 
here1' nervously suggested a soldier of 
a popular corps of ----1 a sunny seaside
 resort1 that was patronized by a good  
class of visitor1 and a 'better class'  
congregation attended ,the ,army hall4  
,the ,adjutant believed in the doctrine 
of her beloved ,founder1 and had said to
 her soldiers1 ',we must go for souls1  
and go for the worst2' but the idea of  
filling the beautiful hall with drunken 
scallywags horrified not a few of the   
respectable ,salvationists4             
,nevertheless1 the need was pleaded1 the
 interest of the band enlisted2 a       
notorious character1 saved from a life  
of sin1 was coming from another corps to
 give his story2 a startling bill       

inviting all to come1 drunk or sober2 a 
livener provided free1 was well         
distributed by a band of scouts who had 
caught the spirit of the effort4        
,drunkards were visited and invited to  
the meeting4 ,the band was ready to     
start1 and the ,captain prayed ,god's   
help as they went out to seek the lost4 
,even in that fashionable resort were to
 be found haunts of sin and misery4     
,slumdom was stirred that midnight as   
the cheery music peeled forth2 the      
boozer laid down his glass and rushed to
 the door of the saloon to see what     
could be happening at such an hour4 ,as 
he rolled out on to the sidewalk1 he    
found his arms entwined in that of one  
of the scouts who followed the march and
 mingled with the crowd4 ,the soldiers  
forgot their fear1 their souls stirred  
in the glory of a desperate attack upon 
sin1 and even the bandsmen as they      
played their instruments1 were observed 
arming sundry drunks along to the hall4 
,what a motley crew was gathered in6    

,one to thrill the heart of every true  
,salvationist2 just the people that ,the
 ,army exists to save4 ,five or six     
hundred men and women drawn from the    
saloon1 brought under the influence of  
the ,gospel1 even for one hour1 is an   
achievement not to be despised4  ,what  
could one do with such a crowd in all   
stages of intoxication8 some might      
query4 ,picture the scene4 ,a livener1 a
 cup of coffee and cake1 is supplied4   
,music and song peal forth to drown     
drunken brawls4 ,presently there is a   
lull1 the men are becoming sobered and  
are called to attention4 ,a sister sings
 sweetly of mother and ,god4 ,the name  
of an ex-drunkard is mentioned1 and the 
crowd cheers as he stands forth to      
testify4 ,he tells how drink cursed his 
life1 and how ,god has changed him4 ,a  
hush steals over the meeting as the     
,adjutant rises with ,god's ,word in    
hand1 and calls for reverence if only   
for seven minutes6 ,a great giant of a  
man1 standing up1 waves his heavy first 

and declares1 ',i'll fling out the first
 man that speaks2 listen to the         
,captain6' ,how they listened6 ,now     
there is a move1 a man is pushing his   
way through his mates2 he throws himself
 at the penitent-form and crys1 ',o     
,god1 make me like ,bill6' ,he had      
looked upon his old mate2 listened to   
his testimony1 and realized the         
wonderful change1 a living miracle6 ,he 
did not understand2 the meaning of      
conversion was as foreign to him as to a
 heathen1 but he wanted that something  
to happen to him that had happened to   
his mate ,bill4  ,not all of those      
twelve or fifteen drunkards who knelt at
 the penitent-form were really          
converted4 ,some found ,christ4 ,they   
were changed on the spot2 they knelt    
down dazed with drink1 and got up sober1
 praising ,god4 ,the others merely took 
a step in the right direction4 ,some one
 has said that we are born with our     
backs to ,god1 and our faces towards    
sin4 ,coming to the penitent-form1 to   

some of those men1 meant a turning of   
the back on the old life of sin and     
drink4 ,they were too dazed with drink  
to understand more than1 a longing after
 something better2 but that longing was 
cherished2 the man was followed to his  
home1 watched over when the old craving 
came upon him1 and taught how to seek   
and find ,god4  ,in a little room at the
 hall1 a crowd of converts met week by  
week4 ,the ,a ,b ,c of ,salvation was   
explained to them2 again and again the  
weak and ignorant were taught to pray   
and seek until the light of ,god dawned 
upon the darkened mind4  ',how we loved 
our ,muvver's meetings1' exclaimed an   
ex-criminal to a listener1 who smiled at
 the new kind of ,mother's meetings4 ,he
 valued the words of his spiritual      
mother1 and this converts' meeting was  
to him the meeting of the week4         
,eagerly the soldiers looked forward to 
the next midnight raid4 ,how rewarded   
they felt as they looked upon some of   
the converts won during the first raid1 

donned in cap or bonnet1 leading their  
mates to ,god4   ',adjutant ,lee must   
have worked you very hard1' ,i remarked 
to the old keeper of the ,congress      
,hall1 ,brighton4 ',the hall must have  
been very dirty after a drunkards' raid1
 and when it did not finish till one    
o'clock1 how did you get ready for      
,sunday's meetings8' ,the sweet spirited
 old man smiled and replied1 ',the hall 
did get dirty1 and it did take some time
 to sweep up the sawdust and make things
 fresh for knee-drill1 but ,i just went 
on till it was finished4 ,yes1 ,i got   
tired4 ,but no1 ,i never grudged the    
work1 thank ,god4 ,i was glad to help   
the ,adjutant1 bless her6 in my little  
way4 ,to keep the hall in order1 and to 
go on the door humouring the rowdy ones1
 not keeping anyone out1 that was my    
work for the ,adjutant1 and ,i rejoiced 
to do it4 ,and she was very thoughtful4 
,when1 after big demonstrations1 the    
hall wanted extra cleaning1 she would   
organize a scrubbing brigade of about   

twenty brothers and sisters1 who would  
bring their own buckets and brushes1 and
 she led them herself4'  ,not content   
with directing extraordinary campaigns1 
there were special personal efforts     
which ,kate ,lee made to get in touch   
with the people4 ,one of these was      
,saturday night visitation of the       
saloons4 ,after the meeting--with her   
lieutenant or1 at corps where there were
 suitable helpers1 having sent the      
lieutenant home to get to bed early in  
preparation for the heavy strain of     
,sunday--until closing hours1 she sought
 the souls of the drunkards4  ,a        
white-haired veteran soldier1 himself a 
liberated drink-slave1 tells of the     
,adjutant's saloon visitation3--      ,i
 knew the run of these places from sad  
experience1 and asked her1     the first
 time we set out1 ',where shall we go1  
,adjutant3 to the     respectable1 or   
the rough8' ',the rough1' she replied4  
,she would sing     to the men1 then    
kneel on those dirty floors and pray for

 the poor     drunkards1 and she would  
put in a word too1 for the owner and his
     wife1 asking the ,lord to help them
 to find a better job4 ,she could       
get in almost anywhere the first time   
round2 after that she generally     had 
to keep to the bar4 ,the owners         
recognized in her a power against       
the trade4 ,sometimes men would be rude 
to her1 but she smiled on as     though 
she had not heard a rough remark4       
,we would go from place to place till   
half-past twelve4 ,when the     houses  
were emptying the men were quarrelsome1 
and we encountered     many a fight4    
,she had no fear at all2 would go right 
into a fight     and stop it4 ,after    
that midnight work1 she would be at     
knee-drill     next morning and often   
passed me a little note giving the name 
and     address of some drunkard she had
 got in conversation with and wanted    
me to follow up4  ,the old man's eyes   
smiled1 and he looked far away with an  
expression of wonder and reverence which

 ,i have noticed in many a faithful     
armour-bearer of ,kate ,lee1 as they    
recalled her fight4  ,colonel ,stanley  
,ewens1 at one time ,kate ,lee's        
,divisional ,commander1 felt that this  
,saturday night work was too taxing for 
her frail body1 and suggested that she  
entrust it to others4 ,the ,colonel     
says3--      ,i found that ,i had       
touched a vital spot4 ,the ,adjutant    
replied1 ',you     must please allow me 
to continue this work2 some of my best  
trophies     have been won for ,god as a
 result of my ,saturday night           
visitations4     ,it gives me an        
opportunity of getting to know the very 
worst sinners     and following them up 
in their homes4' ,this was better       
understood     when the following       
incident was told me concerning a       
convert in this     very town4 ,a       
desperate character was met by the      
,adjutant every     ,saturday night in  
the same bar4 ,she offered ',the ,war   
,cry' as a means     to get into        

conversation with him1 and finding out  
where he lived1     asked permission to 
visit him4 ,one morning at #e3cj1 whilst
 washing     himself in preparation for 
his work1 he heard some one knocking at 
the door4 ,it was the ,adjutant and her 
lieutenant who had called to     see him
 and his wife4 ',come in1 sisters1' the 
man said as he opened     the door4 ,it 
was a wretched home4 ,the officers sat  
on boxes4 ,the     drunkard's wife asked
 in a friendly way if they would have a 
cup of     tea1 and replying in the     
affirmative1 were served with strong    
tea1     in galley-pots4 ,it was only a 
short visit1 but it left its mark for   
eternity4 ,this man and his wife were   
induced to attend the meetings     and  
led to the ,saviour4  ,one means to     
attract crowds to her halls1 which she  
had used with success at many corps1 was
 to dress in rags1 and march at the head
 of the band4 ,amongst her people this  
recollection is spoken of with a kind of
 awe4      ',to think that that lovely1 

pure woman should soil her face1 pull   
her hair about1 put on dirty torn       
clothes1 broken boots1 and make         
herself appear a sister of shame6       
,she asked me to keep her company2 and1 
really1 ,i did not like to     walk down
 the street with her1' says a sister    
local officer of one     corps4         
,arriving at the hall the ,adjutant     
would lead the meeting1 still in     her
 ignominious garb1 and preach about sin2
 how it blighted and     defiled the    
lives of millions of men and women2 how 
it made life     here wretched1 and     
would land the soul in hell hereafter2  
then she     would tell of the remedy1  
the glorious ,salvation of ,jesus4  ,an 
officer writes that she was a little    
girl of eleven when the ,adjutant       
dressed in rags at her corps4 ,the      
effect upon her mind was to make her    
hate sin with such a horror1 that right 
then and there she determined to give   
her life to seek sinners4  ,but some of 
the ,adjutant's soldiers could not see  

past the shame of their beautiful       
officer1 thus making a spectacle of     
herself4 ',it made me cry to look at    
her1' said one sergeant-major4  ',it    
fair upset me2 ,i told her never to do  
that again2 ,i could not abear to see   
it1' confessed another4  ,the ,adjutant 
carried out her part with apparently    
unconscious calm1 and it never occurred 
to these worthies that their officer    
thus made herself of 'no reputation' at 
great personal cost4  ,the ,brighton    
,congress ,hall holds three thousand    
people4 ,how to break in upon that city1
 catch the eye of the crowds1 and fill  
her great building1 caused the ,adjutant
 much concern4 ,she tried many means    
with only partial success4  ',i feel ,i 
should dress in rags again1 and ,i      
simply cannot do it1' she confided to   
her lieutenant4 ,for several days she   
seemed absorbed and oppressed2 then she 
betook herself to the little attic and  
shut herself away with ,god4 ,on the    
evening of the second day she came down 

calm and triumphant1 and the            
announcement was made that on the       
following ,sunday she would dress in    
rags4  ,sunday evening arrived and as   
she passed down the street to the       
open-air stand1 people stared and gave  
her a wide berth4 ,but the crowds were  
captured1 and a full penitent-form was  
the result2 no one but her lieutenant   
had any idea of the abnegation her      
service had cost4  ,did ,kate ,lee never
 wish to escape from this endless strain
 upon body and soul8 ,this constant     
spinning from out of her own heart and  
mind a web of love in which to capture  
wandering souls8 ,i cannot find one     
person to whom she ever gave such an    
indication4 ,she cast her burden upon   
the ,lord2 she drew her strength from   
hidden streams2 she gloried in having a 
life to offer to the ,holy ,war4 ,we are
 indebted to ,ensign ,cutts1 her last   
lieutenant1 for a glimpse of ,kate when 
the doctor ordered her off the          
battlefield to an operating theatre3--  

,a telegram announced her immediate     
return to her corps to say     farewell4
 ,i met her at the station2 such a      
pained1 disappointed face     greeted   
me1 ,o ,leff1 ,i feel this is the end of
 my ,field days1 she     exclaimed4     
',but she threw off her sorrow1 took    
farewell of her people1 like the        
leader she was1 and together we went to 
,london4 ,that night she spent     in   
prayer1 and in the morning she was calm 
and her face bright4 ,i     have really 
got the victory1 she told me4 ,his will 
be done4 ,if ,he     allows me to return
 to the fight1 that will be glorious4   
,if not1 ,his     will is best4         
,,vii  ,,the ,,mothering ,,heart    ,one
 of the joys of ,kate ,lee's later years
 was to have with her1 from time to     
time1 her little namesake niece4        
,sometimes in the midst of a great      
campaign the hunger of heart to have a  
child in the house overcame her1 and she
 would prevail upon her brother and his 
wife to allow ,katie to come to her4    

,the fair1 timid child had much of her  
own appearance and disposition1 and the 
,adjutant yearned to train her to take  
her place in the ,war4 ,here and there  
we get glimpses of her mothering love   
for the little one4 ,a comrade officer  
tells that once boarding a boat         
travelling north1 she found ,adjutant   
,lee and her little niece were          
passengers by the same boat2 but ,kate1 
having arrived late1 had no berth4 ,all 
berths had been taken but one1 which    
meant that the child had a bed1 but her 
aunt had not4 ,immediately the officer  
placed her berth at the ,adjutant's     
disposal1 saying she preferred to sleep 
on deck4 ,kate was distressed1 she would
 not accept favours for herself1 but for
 the sake of the timid little one to    
whom a sea journey was a new experience1
 she was grateful for her comrade's     
thoughtfulness4      ',i am sure1' says 
her comrade1' that ,i slept better than 
she did4     ,she came up at midnight to
 see if ,i were comfortable1 and at dawn

 ,i     was awakened by a gentle face   
bending over me and the words1 ,have    
you taken no hurt by sleeping here8 ,i  
am so distressed to have     taken your 
bed4 ,the ,adjutant's appreciation of   
any service rendered     her was so     
sincere that it more than compensated   
for any     inconvenience incurred in   
serving her4 ,we were only a few hours  
on     the boat1 but the ,adjutant's    
gracious spirit and pure1 refined face  
made many of the passengers inquire1    
,who is that beautiful woman8'  ,a      
little maid1 whom the ,adjutant engaged 
to help her in the house at one corps1  
tells how she trained her to care for   
little ,katie4 ,she was intensely       
anxious concerning the little one's     
health1 and careful that the maid should
 speak gently and correctly1 that she   
might be safely imitated4   ,for the    
sake of the lost1 ,kate ,lee voluntarily
 laid aside her own hopes of marriage   
and motherhood4 ,detached and in a sense
 lofty in her walk amongst her comrades1

 still there were those who had coveted 
her as a continual comrade in the war1  
and had made their plea4 ,once she      
almost yielded1 but pity for the unsaved
 prevailed over the most human          
inclinations of a woman's heart4 ,she   
was not sure that she would be as free  
to seek and win souls if she married4   
,her lover waited in hope for years1 but
 ,kate ,lee became increasingly certain 
that it was ,god's will for her to      
remain as she was4 ,this matter once    
settled1 she felt in a very sacred way1 
,chosen for ,his holy pleasure1         
,sealed to be ,his special treasure4    
,it was indeed a rash individual who    
trespassed upon the privacy of that     
consecration1 and dared to rally the    
,adjutant on the subject of marriage4   
,upon such a one she turned eyes in     
which there was neither anger nor       
amusement1 but which regarded the       
trespasser in silence until he felt like
 a clumsy boy1 who1 unaware1 had        
stumbled into the presence of a queen4  

,then1 to relieve his embarrassment1 in 
perfect sweetness the ,adjutant changed 
the subject4  ,the fountain of love and 
tenderness that might have blessed      
husband and children1 was not sealed1   
else it had turned bitter4 ,it flowed   
without restraint and increased as it   
flowed1 until it became a river1        
carrying life and refreshment to        
thousands4  ',aye1 she was more to me   
than my own mother4' said a             
,north-,country woman1 who1 in the rush 
of industrial life1 had missed a certain
 tender touch until she met ,adjutant   
,lee4  ',never nobody mothered me like  
her1' declared a grey-headed man saved  
from great depths1 whose tottering steps
 she taught to walk the way to ,heaven  
steadily4  ,it is the lower type of     
mother-love that limits itself in       
affection and care for her own offspring
 alone2 true mother-love takes to its   
heart all young and weak and wayward    
creatures4 ,in this ,kate ,lee showed   
the true spirit of motherhood4 ,her own 

converts she nursed tenderly and guarded
 with unremitting care2 but none the    
less the converts1 the weak souls1 and  
the young people she found at any corps 
upon taking charge4  ,a prominent local 
officer tells with gratitude how she    
helped him in the days of his spiritual 
infancy4 ,his conversation illustrates1 
incidentally1 the wonderful influence of
 the ,holy ,spirit upon the human heart1
 independent of any human agency except 
prayer4  ,william ,bailey1 unutterably  
wretched in mind1 dark and sinful in    
soul1 stood on the curb of a ,london    
street1 and longed for some power that  
would change him and make him decent and
 happy4 ,at the same moment ,the ,army  
march swept past and the thought stole  
into his mind1 ',if a man joins ,the    
,salvation ,army1 he becomes clean in   
mind1 and talk1 and action4' ,he went to
 his bachelor rooms1 knelt down1 and    
prayed to be made like a ,salvationist4 
,he felt changed on the spot4 ,the      
craving for strong drink and desire to  

gamble or swear was clean swept out of  
him4  ,the following night he went to   
,the ,army ,hall4 ,adjutant ,lee was    
being welcomed as commanding officer4   
,during the prayer meeting she went down
 amongst the congregation and spoke to  
this man4 ',are you saved1 my friend8'  
she asked4 ',i believe ,i am1 but ,i    
want to join ,the ,army1' he replied4   
,he was totally ignorant regarding      
religion1 and this gentle woman adopted 
this newborn soul1 and from that night  
nursed him to spiritual manhood4        
,bailey was a reservist--and a few weeks
 after his conversion his pay was due4  
,pay-day had always meant a spree1 and  
,bailey was afraid4 ',what shall ,i do1 
,adjutant8' he asked4 ',go to the office
 in an ,army cap and jersey1' she       
replied4 ,obediently he went to         
headquarters on ,saturday and brought   
home these articles of uniform4 ,he put 
them on1 and many a strong man will     
understand the cold shivers that ,bailey
 felt when he got into the street4 ,he  

wanted to go to the open-air by back    
ways1 but that would not please the     
,adjutant4 ,manfully he started down the
 main street1 and presently came face to
 face with an old service comrade1      
hilariously the worse for drink4 ,the   
sight of ,bill ,bailey in the uniform of
 another ,army was too much for the     
merry 'drunk4' ,he made straight for his
 old mate1 embraced him1 exchanged hats1
 and arm in arm they marched to the     
open-air meeting4 ,taking in the        
situation at a glance1 the ,adjutant    
beamingly greeted the queer couple4     
',here's my friend1 ,bill ,bailey4 ,he  
will give his testimony in his new      
jersey1' she announced2 and ,bailey was 
committed to his first open-air witness 
for ,christ4 ,on ,monday1 with his      
uniform as his safeguard1 he drew his   
pay1 and not one of his mates suggested 
a drink4  ,the ,adjutant next suggested 
that ,bailey did not wear proper        
uniform4 ,tan boots and light trousers  
didn't really go with the red shirt4 ,of

 course not4 ,bailey would be a real    
soldier2 he ordered a regulation ,army  
suit4 ,the convert went steadily        
forward4 ,he married an ,army sister1   
and has a happy home4 ,he has filled the
 position of young people's worker1     
bandsman1 assistant sergeant-major1 and 
is now assistant treasurer4  ',it's     
through her ,i am what ,i am4 ,ignorant1
 rough man ,i was1 with the merest      
flicker of spiritual life2 but she cared
 for my soul1 and was so patiently      
loving that she led me to know ,god4'   
,bailey was afflicted with a stammer    
when he was converted4 ,of this1 he     
says1 ',she talked to me so calm and    
quiet4 ,go slow1 now1 she'd say1 ,count4
 ,she would insist upon my giving my    
testimony1 and if she saw ,i was going  
to be fairly stuck1 she'd shout4 ,glory6
 ,hallelujah6 and beam on me with that  
lovely smile of hers2 and by that time  
,i'd got my next word4'  ,the first baby
 words were not sweeter to mother ears  
than the first testimony of ,adjutant   

,lee's converts to her4 ,one drunkard1  
so great a terror to his town that even 
the magistrate confessed that he used to
 cross the street rather than meet him1 
had been wonderfully delivered from sin4
 ,when called upon to give his first    
testimony1 he said1 ',i fank ,god ,he's 
kept me this day wifout drink4 ,i fank  
,god ,he's kept me this day wifout      
smoking4 ,i fank ,god ,he's kept me this
 day wifout swearing overmuch4'         
,marvellous change6 ,the ,adjutant      
beamed upon him1 rejoiced over him1 and 
the following night had further cause   
for gladness1 when he declared1 ',i fank
 ,god ,he's kept me from swearing       
altogever4'  ,a woman soldier's face    
quivers with emotion yet smiles as she  
tells3--      ,i was rather a problem   
when ,adjutant ,lee came to our corps4  
,mother     died when ,i was fourteen1  
and ,i was left to bring up four        
brothers4     ,you may be sure ,i had to
 hold my own with them1 and ,i became   
obstinate and had a flippant manner     

which covered many a better     feeling4
 ,i was a great trial to the lieutenant1
 who had no patience     with my        
nonsense1 but the ,adjutant was never   
cross with me4 ,one     night1 after a  
meeting1 she took my arm and led me off 
for a walk4     ,we walked miles4 ,she  
talked to me about my flippant ways and 
sharp     tongue4 ,said ,i did things   
that were not worthy of me2 told me that
     ,i should be my real self1 and not 
put on foolish airs4 ,i stood that1     
though feeling bad2 but then she cried1 
and said ,i would break her     heart if
 ,i did not change4  ,here was the      
mother-touch the starved1 warped spirit 
was needing4 ,after that1 the graces of 
gentleness and sweetness began to       
appear4  ,there was nothing that        
concerned her people's well-being that  
,kate ,lee regarded as outside of her   
province4 ,a certain sergeant-major1 who
 had reached middle life and was still  
single1 was reported to have become     
engaged to be married1 and not to a     

,salvationist4 ,this man was a wonderful
 trophy of grace4 ,one of a family of   
fourteen1 all drinking people1 after he 
was converted it was six years before he
 was able to go to his home in his      
uniform4 ,often to escape the godless   
ways and contentions indoors1 he had    
gone into the stable where he could pray
 in peace1 and slept with his horses4   
,but things were not so difficult now1  
and all the town respected the ,army    
sergeant-major4 ,the ,adjutant knew that
 many a soul who has climbed with safety
 a rough up-hill path has slipped on a  
smooth dead level1 and that many a man  
has fallen from grace through choosing a
 wrong wife4 ,somewhat anxiously she    
interviewed her local officer4 ',you    
needn't be afeared for me1 ,adjutant4 ,i
 prayed and waited until the right      
person came my way1' declared the       
sergeant-major4  ,then the ,adjutant    
sought the bride-elect4 ,gentle probing 
discovered a true ,christian1 and after 
a heart-to-heart talk1 the ,adjutant    

left her with an enlarged vision of her 
responsibility regarding the soul of the
 husband-to-be4 ,mrs4 ,sergeant-,major  
of to-day1 a wise little woman1 with a  
heart of gold1 tells how she summed     
everything up and felt it to be her     
duty1 as now it is her joy1 to share to 
the fullest extent her husband's work4  
,over young people of strong impulses   
and unformed judgments ,kate ,lee       
exerted a remarkable influence4 ,a      
bandmaster tells of her patience and    
tact with his obstinate ways in days    
long gone by4 ,she felt there was good  
under the headstrong nature1 and never  
met his 'pig-headedness' with harsh     
dealing1 but taxed herself to make a    
reasoned appeal to the best that was in 
him4 ,it was the mother hand upon the   
lad1 and its influence is with the man  
to-day4  ,at one corps a gang of factory
 lads endeavoured to annoy the officers 
by hammering at the quarters' door and  
running away4 ,the ,adjutant sought them
 out1 and one by one they were          

converted4 ,they became energetic       
soldiers4 ,at ,brighton corps there were
 at that time about fifty young women in
 the ,young ,people's ,legion4 ,they    
were an undisciplined1 rather unlovely  
lot4 ,in her work for them1 the         
,adjutant had the co-operation of a     
godly comrade who was entirely of her   
leader's spirit4 ,her home became an    
unofficial receiving and training home  
for these girls when they fell on       
difficult ways4 ',could you possibly    
manage to do with her1 poor child8 ,no  
mother1 no encouragement nor help6 ,how 
can we expect her to do well till we get
 her fairly on her feet8' the ,adjutant 
would plead4 ,and the good woman would  
open her home again and again4  ,many a 
girl1 having received such help is saved
 to-day1 doing well in a situation1 or  
happily married4 ,should one be having  
an unhappy time at home1 the ,adjutant  
visited her people4 ,sometimes she      
discovered hardness of heart and cruelty
 wrecking the young life2 sometimes     

fault on both sides4 ,then she acted as 
mediator and healer of the breach4 ,she 
taught the girls to make and mend their 
clothes2 when ill1 she got them to a    
hospital4 ,always she made them feel she
 loved them and believed for them to be 
good4 ,her work amongst these girls     
would not have been unworthy of a sole  
responsibility1 but it was one of her   
least noticed efforts at that corps4    
,says a soldier saved from terrible     
sin3--      ,she was just like a mother4
 ,i would go and ask her advice when ,i 
had     done anything wrong4 ,she never 
scolded me1 but would look serious      
and say1 ',well1 you know you ought not 
to have done that4' ,and     somehow1 in
 a minute1 ,i could see what ,i ought to
 have done1 and     would promise to try
 to do better4 ,how could you help      
getting on     when all the while she   
was smiling on you1 giving you some work
 to     do1 and believing you to be     
good4  ,her mothering love for souls    
sharpened her really wonderful faculty  

for remembering faces4 ,years after she 
had left a corps1 if she met a comrade  
or friend1 her face would light with    
recognition1 and she would greet the    
person by name4 ,the pleasure this      
afforded is mentioned all over the      
country4  ,motherlike1 she could not    
bear to feel that at night the door was 
shut upon any wandering child1 and her  
sergeant-majors tell1 ',no poor fellow  
who came to the penitent-form went      
without a bed4 ,she kept bed tickets for
 emergencies4 ,she might give away a    
good number to people who did not       
deserve help1 but she would rather do   
that than fail one who did4'  ',it's    
because of all she taught me1 and the   
nice way she taught me1 that ,i have    
been able to take such good places1'    
says a little maid1 with quivering lips 
and shining eyes4  ,one motherless girl 
followed her from corps to corps for    
years1 taking a situation in the town   
where she was stationed so that she     
might catch her smile now and again1 and

 hear a few words of mother love4       
,married women's eyes fill with tears as
 they recall her tenderness in sorrow   
and her wisdom in difficulties4 ,how she
 took a poor little widow1 distracted by
 sudden bereavement1 and nursed and     
soothed her4 ,how 'she stayed up all    
night with me when my sister died4' ,how
 'she buried my mother and was so kind  
,i can never forget her4' ,how 'she     
helped me to nurse sonny1 when no one   
else dared come near4'  ,women old      
enough to be her mother felt the        
pleasure of childhood when the          
,adjutant1 revisiting an old corps and  
finding them doing the same faithful    
work as during her term1 would beam upon
 them and remark1' ,still at it1 you    
dears6'  ',she got me the job ,i've been
 in this fourteen years1' says an       
ex-drunkard4 ',i had worked my way along
 after ,i was saved2 then ,i heard of a 
good job becoming vacant1 and ,i asked  
her if she would mind saying a word for 
me4 ,she was up and away before         

breakfast next morning1 interviewed the 
manager1 and got me the job4 ,like a    
mother she said1 with her nice smile1   
,now1 don't you let me down6 ,and ,i    
haven't4'  ,kate ,lee oozed             
motherliness-that love that is capable1 
wise1 patient1 tender-the love that     
never fails6  ,one of the sweetest      
fruits in her spiritual children is that
 after she had left them they continued 
to perform the services she loved4 ,one 
man1 saved from nameless sins1 slow to  
speech1 and clouded in intellect1 would 
spend his money on ,testaments1 and     
',war ,crys1' and walk miles to visit   
gipsy camps to read and pray with these 
wanderers1 and other isolated people4   
,he knew that 'mother1' as this         
middle-aged man always called the       
,adjutant1 would be pleased4  ,when     
,kate ,lee received farewell orders from
 a corps1 she suffered as a mother does 
in leaving her family4 ,her eyes        
hungered as they rested upon the men and
 women whom1 with great travail of      

spirit1 she had brought into the        
,kingdom of ,grace4 ,she had striven to 
teach them the ways of life1 but they   
were not strong1 and temptations were   
many4 ,laying hold of godly comrades of 
the corps1 she would plead with them to 
continue to care for these children in  
the ,lord1 after she had left them4     
,and her heart often wandered back4 ,she
 knew that no voice sounded to them just
 as hers did4 ,there were1 perhaps1     
thirty or forty trophies of grace1 who  
now and again received a letter of      
encouragement in her swift1 legible     
handwriting4 ,just a few words fresh as 
the dew1 bright as the sunshine1 with   
her voice ringing in them1 pointing     
these souls1 uplifted from the depths1  
to ,god1 and holding them up to the     
standards she had raised4   ,when1      
during the war1 the men of ,england were
 scattered over the world's             
battlefields1 no mother suffered more   
anxiety for her sons than did ,kate ,lee
 for her sons in the ,gospel4           

,separated1 as many of them were1 from  
,army meetings and helpful influences1  
and surrounded by sin and temptation1   
her letters came like angel messages4   
,no one knows how many she kept in touch
 with1 but from unlikely sources up and 
down the country1 one hears1 'she was   
the only one who wrote to me4'  ,for the
 ',twice ,born ,men' she felt a special 
solicitude4 ,to the ',criminal' at the  
front in ,france1 she wrote every week1 
sending him ',the ,war ,cry1' and       
occasionally a parcel4 ,an early one    
contained an ,army jersey4 ',wear it1   
,joe1 and always live up to it1' she had
 written4 ,he wore it till it dropped to
 pieces1 and then cut out the crest and 
brought it home4 ,one can understand how
 her thoughtful love helped that trophy 
of grace1 when1 coming half-frozen out  
of the trenches1 he refused the hot tea 
he craved for1 because it contained rum4
  ,for the ',copper ,basher1' away at   
the ,dardanelles1 separated from every  
,salvation ,army comrade1 she prayed    

especially4 ,she wrote him regularly4   
,once1 motherlike1 she inquired if there
 were anything he would like her to send
 him4 ,tommy is a contented soul2 the   
only thing he could think of was a      
luminous watch4 ,kate ,lee managed to   
send him one1 and as in the darkness of 
night the shining figures spoke to      
,tommy1 so ,kate ,lee's faith and love  
made the ,saviour's face to shine for   
him in the darkest hour4 ,she rejoiced  
exceedingly that not only did ,tommy    
refuse to sin1 but that he let his light
 shine before his buddies4 ,in the      
evenings when they would be drinking1   
swearing1 and singing wild songs1 ,tommy
 would bring out his ,bible to read his 
portion before 'turning in4' ,sometimes1
 small men jeered at the man1 who1      
before conversion1 they might well have 
feared2 another time they would say1    
',old ,tommy'll read to us to-night4'   
,he would read aloud and pray1 then     
'turning in' would say1 ',good-night1   
chaps4 ,now ,tommy'll go to sleep4' ,and

 he was left in peace4   ,the ,memorial 
,service of ,kate ,lee was being        
conducted at one of the great corps the 
,adjutant had commanded1 and one of her 
trophies was called upon to give his    
testimony4 ,the man stood upon the      
platform1 from whence he had heard his  
spiritual mother invite him to ,jesus4  
,it all came back1 his sinfulness and   
misery2 her winsomeness2 her wonderful  
faith2 her patience2 her rejoicing      
through all the years since his         
conversion4 ,he could not speak4 ,the   
man stood and wept2 his tears the       
greatest tribute he could pay to the    
woman who had mothered his soul to ,god4
  ,when days are no more1 and the things
 of this life are judged1 one thinks to 
see a radiant spirit before the ,throne 
of ,god1 surrounded by a band of        
,blood-washed ones1 and to hear ,kate   
,lee say1 with joy1 to her ,lord1 ',the 
children whom ,thou gavest me4'   ,in   
nothing did her motherliness show itself
 more beautifully than in the patient   

love that refused to abandon the most   
hopeless objects of her efforts1 even   
though they shamed her and caused her   
sore distress4 ,the love of many a      
parent for a prodigal child is quenched 
when son or daughter brings shame upon  
the family4 ,but ,kate ,lee's love was  
deeper and stronger than shame4 ,one    
comrade tells of her1 that finding one  
of her converts backslidden1 and        
drinking in a public-house1 she sat     
beside him while he drank of the cup of 
his destruction1 then took him home4  ,a
 lieutenant speaks of a criminal whose  
soul ,kate ,lee wrestled for2 after     
giving good promise1 he broke into sin  
again and got into jail4 ,she went to   
meet him at the gates upon his          
discharge1 and brought him home to      
breakfast4 ,he gave her his prison loaf2
 and she kept that loaf of bread--that  
slight evidence of gratitude--for quite 
a long time4  ,but--for our             
encouragement be it recorded--she did   
not always succeed in delivering the    

prey from the terrible4 ,one notorious  
sinner1 the terror of a certain city1   
she tried hard to win1 but without      
success4 ,meeting him one day in the    
principal street1 she took him into a   
restaurant and ordered dinner for two4  
,the landlord called her aside1 and     
inquired anxiously if she knew the      
character of her companion4 ',oh1 yes1' 
she replied2 'one of my friends whom ,i 
am hoping to help4' ,another time she   
met this man in the street1 mad drunk4  
,a sister-soldier was with her2 ,kate   
took the man's arms1 piloted him to the 
sister's home2 had a great pot of tea   
prepared1 and made him drink cup after  
cup in quick succession4 ,he wanted to  
fight1 to smash the furniture2 but she  
soothed him1 and saved him from the     
lock-up4 ,this man steadied             
considerably1 but would not entirely    
renounce his sin4 ,he still drinks2 but 
when he meets ,kate ,lee's old friends1 
he speaks about that 'heavenly woman1'  
and declares he'll meet her in ,heaven4 

,only one instance can ,i discover when 
the ,adjutant gave expression to the    
least discouragement concerning weak1   
wobbling converts4 ,this was when she   
remarked to a beloved comrade who helped
 her to wrestle for the most hopeless1  
',shall we ever get to an end of it8    
,oh1 that the ,lord would take them     
,home6'     ,,viii  ,a ,,break ,,to     
,,canada    ,army ,officers verily      
believe in the aphorism that change of  
work is as good as a rest4 ,when heavy  
campaigning at one corps had            
over-wearied ,adjutant ,lee1 and it was 
suggested that she might conduct a party
 of emigrants to ,canada1 she hailed the
 opportunity with the joy of a child4   
,to cross the ocean2 to see something of
 the great ,dominion2 passing over      
thousands of miles of prairie1 mountain1
 and river1 and coming in touch with the
 throbbing cities of that great country1
 and all the while to be about her      
,master's business1 was pure delight in 
prospect4  ,captain ,winifred ,leal1 who

 was at that time engaged in the        
,emigration ,department1 and had to do  
with the party which was committed to   
,adjutant ,lee's charge1 furnishes some 
reminiscences of the impression which   
she made upon herself1 and also upon the
 officers of the boat upon which the    
party sailed4 ,she writes3--   ,at that 
time these parties were crossing the    
,atlantic weekly1 and sometimes three   
times a week4 ,in advance of each       
sailing1 full particulars were mailed to
 ,the ,salvation ,army officers who were
 responsible for meeting the boat at the
 port of landing1 and also to ,the      
,salvation ,army officers at the various
 centres throughout the ,dominion1 at   
which individual settlers were to arrive
 for distribution in outlying districts4
 ,thus1 no responsibility with regard to
 placing the newcomers upon arrival     
rested with the conductor1 whose work it
 was to be spiritual adviser and friend 
to each member and unifier of the party 
as a whole1 during the voyage4 ,whilst  

crossing the bridge that spans the      
distance between the known and unknown1 
hearts are tender4 ,the mind1 too1 takes
 stock of the failures1 mistakes1 and   
successes of the past2 fresh resolutions
 are made4 ,it is a time propitious for 
the re-birth of souls4 ,the ,angel      
,adjutant said she felt it to be so4    
,her party was an interesting one3 wives
 and children joining husbands and      
fathers1 who had set sail1 with ,the    
,army's help1 some months previously2   
single women and widows going to        
domestic service2 parents whose married 
children in the ,dominion offered them a
 home with them2 and not the least      
interesting1 a party of ,scotch boys1   
aged from fourteen to seventeen4 7,these
 boys were orphans4 ,in ,edinburgh and  
,glasgow they had started to earn their 
living in the streets4 ,under ,the      
,army's wing they were now to be placed 
on ,canadian farms47  ,it fell to me to 
introduce ,adjutant ,lee to the members 
of her party1 and her sympathy went out 

to each one of them4 ,the ,adjutant was 
undoubtedly nervous of her powers1 when 
embarking upon an enterprise so new as  
this1 and she asked if ,i could not     
accompany the sailing from ,glasgow to  
,liverpool4 ,a period of about          
twenty-four hours1 as near as ,i can    
remember1 was involved in the interval  
of embarking at ,glasgow and setting    
sail from ,liverpool4 ,this was         
arranged1 and three vivid impressions of
 this remarkable woman1 whom ,i had not 
met previously1 remain with me4  ,the   
first sitting of third-class passengers 
were seated around the table in the     
dining-room for their substantial meal1 
special tables having been allocated to 
the hundred or more members of the party
 under ,salvation ,army guidance4       
,adjutant ,lee1 who was standing by the 
tables1 managed in a natural manner1 and
 without any preliminary fuss to get the
 entire party on to their feet1 singing1
    ,we thank ,thee1 ,lord1 for this our
 food1   ,but more because of ,jesus'   

blood2   ,let manna to our souls be     
given1   ,the ,bread of ,life sent down 
from ,heaven4  ,few1 if any1 of the     
party were ,salvationists1 but the      
singing was hearty1 stewards and        
stewardesses looking on approvingly4    
,during the evening the ,adjutant       
appeared in her bonnet1 with her        
concertina1 on the third-class upper    
deck4 ,she began to play an appealing   
,salvation ,army song4 ,several hundred 
passengers gathered round and settled   
into a singsong4 ,before long this      
drifted most naturally--or rather1 was  
ably piloted--into a pulsing meeting    
with the accompaniment of testimony1 a  
solo from a young man1 and an earnest1  
direct appeal to seek ,salvation from   
the leader of ceremonies1 who now seemed
 not so much completely at home as      
entirely oblivious of herself4 ,her eyes
 travelled searchingly from face to     
face1 and all listened eagerly4  ,third 
and second-class accommodation being    
fully booked up1 the steamship company  

found it most convenient to give the    
,adjutant a berth in the first class4   
,when the bugle sounded at seven o'clock
 for dinner1 we were in the midst of an 
argument4 ,the ,adjutant declared that  
she must go to dinner in her bonnet2 she
 must at once show who and what she was4
 ,i replied that if she so chose1 she   
could have breakfast1 lunch1 and tea1 in
 her bonnet1 but that it would be much  
better to appear at dinner              
inconspicuously bareheaded4 ,my argument
 prevailed1 though she declared she     
would be much more comfortable in the   
beloved bonnet4 ,at the close of dinner 
the passengers at our table presented   
the ,adjutant with their choice         
buttonholes1 so that she was able at    
once to take a bouquet of roses and     
carnations to her third-class           
passengers4 ,i left the ship next       
morning at ,liverpool1 feeling that it  
would have been interesting to have     
accompanied the ,adjutant throughout the
 journey4  ,about a year later ,i       

happened to cross on the ,hesperian in  
charge of a party4 ,many ,salvation     
,army conductors had crossed and        
re-crossed in that vessel since the     
journey of ,adjutant ,lee1 but from the 
ship's officials1 chief stewards and    
stewardesses1 one name was mentioned    
persistently to me4 ,there were many    
inquiries as to when ,adjutant ,lee was 
likely to cross again4  ,the effect of  
her influence upon the party actually   
under her care must have been very      
blessed4 ,i was not privileged to see   
anything further of that4 ,but amongst  
those who dwelt in the deep on that     
ship1 it was apparent that her coming   
had left a streak of ,salvation love and
 light4  ,landing at ,quebec1 the       
,adjutant proceeded to ,winnipeg with   
her party4 ,a private tourist car was   
provided1 and the train journey occupied
 four days and nights1 and carried the  
party through wonderful scenery4        
,delivering her charges1 her work       
completed1 the ,adjutant gave herself up

 to a week or two of pure enjoyment4    
,she was entertained at ,the ,army      
,lodge for young women immigrants in    
,winnipeg1 and from this base1 visited  
all ,the ,army institutions in the city4
 ,she was specially interested in the   
juvenile court attached to the detention
 home for young offenders1 a government 
institution officered by ,the ,salvation
 ,army4  ,the splendid ,grace ,maternity
 ,hospital was another centre of ,army  
work which delighted the ,english       
visitor4 ,over the border into the      
,united ,states went ,kate ,lee1 and in 
,chicago saw ,the ,army at work in the  
self-same way as elsewhere4  ,a ,sunday 
evening visit to the prison court cells 
was a memorable experience4 ,standing   
where she and her companions could      
command several cells1 they were able to
 speak to the prisoners who awaited     
trial next day4 ,some of the listeners  
were white1 others coloured4 ,several of
 them in the private conversations which
 followed1 expressed a desire for       

,salvation4 ,one woman1 whose curse had 
been drink1 knelt with tears1 and sought
 deliverance1 as the ,adjutant pointed  
her to ,god4  ,back in ,canada1 the     
,adjutant plunged into a programme of   
meetings and the visitation of ,army    
institutions and the prisons4 ,her fame 
as a specialist in dealing with         
criminals gave her an entrance and a    
welcome to ,canadian jails4 ,she visited
 the ,dovercourt ,prison1 and conducted 
a meeting with two hundred long-sentence
 prisoners4 ,she told of men she had    
known to be delivered from desperate    
sin1 when in penitence they cried to    
,god2 and at the conclusion twenty men  
raised their hands as an evidence of    
their desire1 then and there to seek    
,salvation4 ,the ,governor of the       
short-sentence prisoners sent the       
,adjutant an invitation1 and she held   
two meetings at the prison with the     
women and with the men the day she was  
leaving the city4 ,kate ,lee was struck 
with the ,canadian prison system1 and   

the evident aim of the whole treatment  
to uplift those under detention1 and    
give them a chance of better things4    
,she longed that the free opportunity   
for ,army officers to help the prisoners
 might be extended to her own country4  
,a visit to ,niagara was included in    
'the time of her life1' as she described
 her overseas trip to her sister4       
,niagara1 that mighty manifestation of  
natural force with its limitless        
possibilities in the service of man1    
when captured and controlled1 impressed 
her deeply1 for in her jottings book are
 found some vigorous notes on the       
harnessing of ,niagara4 ,still1 it was  
on the souls saved in the prisons that  
she dwelt as her special delight4       
,,ix  ,,in ,,the ,,homes ,,of ,,the     
,,people    ,kate ,lee's local officers 
speak of her in relation to that        
particular section of the corps to which
 they were attached during her stay     
amongst them1 and laugh as they recall  
how hard she worked them4 ,the          

treasurers and secretaries tell of her  
cleverness in financial affairs4 ,the   
sergeant-majors chuckle and still marvel
 over her capacity for work and getting 
others to work2 the bandsmen are        
enthusiastic over her ability to manage 
them2 the ward sergeants of her working 
of the ward system2 the recruiting      
sergeants over her care for the         
converts2 the publication sergeants over
 her interest in the papers and         
magazines2 the young people's workers   
remember with gratitude her love for the
 coming ,army4  ,but there is one work  
which all local officers and also the   
soldiers unite in recalling with wonder 
and warm appreciation--her visitation4  
,to get amongst the people in their     
homes1 to share in their joys and       
sorrows1 to understand something of     
their sins6 ,this1 ,kate ,lee believed  
was the key to their souls4 ,like the   
,apostles she visited 'from house to    
house4'  ,to make this possible1 with   
the many other claims of her commands1  

her life was subjected to stern         
discipline and governed by method4 ,she 
rose at seven1 breakfasted at eight2 an 
hour was devoted to prayer and study1 an
 hour to business1 and by ten o'clock1  
she and her lieutenant left the house to
 visit4 ,it would have been a mutual    
pleasure for the officers to have gone  
together1 but as one lieutenant tells   
us1 ',the ,adjutant said1 ,we must      
sacrifice our feelings1 dear1 in order  
to cover more ground4' ,so both went    
separate ways1 the lieutenant returning 
to the quarters at twelve o'clock to    
have dinner ready by one4 ,after dinner1
 they set out again1 visiting until six 
o'clock1 and even then1 visiting was not
 entirely ruled out4 ,whenever a call   
came or a need arose1 ,kate ,lee        
responded and when wrestling for a soul 
she took no account of time4            
,lieut4-,colonel ,thomas says3--        
,some years ago ,i visited ,adjutant    
,lee's corps to conduct a campaign4     
,we had just finished the ,saturday     

night's meeting when a little     woman 
pushing a perambulator with two children
 in it1 ran into the     hall1 asking   
for the ,adjutant4 ,her husband was at  
home in delirium     tremens1           
threatening terrible things4 ,the       
,adjutant went back with     her1       
soothed the poor madman1 got him to bed1
 and sat with him     until the early   
morning4 ,soon afterwards that man was  
soundly     converted1 and is to-day an 
,army bandsman1 while the elder child   
who was wheeled in the perambulator1 is 
a corps cadet4  ,stories abound of her  
early morning visits to pray with       
converts before they faced the world4   
,to catch the factory hands at ,reading 
she would be at their home by six       
o'clock4 ,to earlier workers she has    
called as early as half-past five4  ,a  
ship-owner in ,sunderland had read of   
the ,angel ,adjutant1 and afterwards    
attended her meetings4 ,he was not      
impressed by her conversational powers  
nor her platform gifts1 and often       

questioned in his mind where the secret 
of her influence upon desperate         
characters could be4 ,one ,monday       
morning1 he had cause to go to his      
office early1 and tells how he met      
,adjutant ,lee in the street4 ',out so  
early1 and on a ,monday morning1        
,adjutant8' he remarked pleasantly4 ',i 
would have thought you needed rest after
 your heavy ,sunday4' ,the ,adjutant    
smiled1 and hesitated4 ,the gentleman   
continued1 ',may ,i ask why are you out 
so early8' ,she replied1 ',well1 last   
night we had two remarkable cases       
seeking ,salvation1 and when ungodly men
 are broken up and come to the          
penitent-form1 that is only the         
commencement of the work4 ,i have been  
down to these men's homes to pray with  
them and see them safely into the       
works4' ,says this friend1 ',then ,i    
understood the secret of her power4 ,it 
was the same love that took ,christ to  
the ,cross to save sinners1 working in  
this woman to the same end4 ,i no longer

 wondered at her success4'   ,brigadier 
,southall1 of ,canada1 relates an       
incident connected with a ,sunday's     
meetings1 which he conducted at one of  
the ,adjutant's corps1 which illustrates
 her midnight visitation4      ,having  
heard something of her work1 ,i looked  
forward to the day with                 
anticipation4 ,we had good crowds1 and  
there were a few seekers at     night1  
but no thrilling incident occurred      
during the day4 ,however1     after     
,sunday night's meeting a young man who 
had come to the     penitent-form1      
hesitated about leaving the hall4 ,when 
,adjutant ,lee     spoke to him1 he told
 her he was afraid to go to his home1   
from which     he had been absent some  
time4 ,he confessed to having robbed his
 parents     on two previous occasions1 
and his father had told him never to    
come     back again4 ,the ,adjutant     
determined to accompany him home4       
,arriving     there she knocked1 and in 
reply a voice from an upstairs window   

inquired her business4 ,she explained   
that she had come upon an     important 
matter1 to which the reply came that as 
the family had     retired1 would she   
not indicate her business without       
bringing them     downstairs8 ,she      
replied that she must speak with them   
quietly4 ,she     kept the young fellow 
out of sight when the door was opened a 
few     inches4      ,by tactful moves1 
,kate ,lee got into the hall1 and told  
of the son's     confession and his     
desire to live a new life4 ,this        
produced a storm     of protest4 ,they  
could not trust him any more4 ,the      
,adjutant pressed     upon the mother   
the precious quality of forgiveness1 and
 the     necessity of exercising it if  
we would desire the love of ,god        
extended to us4 ,she gained her way4 ,at
 about two o'clock in the     morning1  
the whole family professed to accept the
 mercy of ,god1 and     the erring boy  
was received again into the home4  ,one 
of the ,adjutant's special visitations  

was to the police station on ,saturday  
night4 ,her friends the police were glad
 to see her1 and willingly allowed her  
to interview the detained prisoners1    
with whom she prayed and left a copy of 
',the ,war ,cry1' for ,sunday's reading4
 ,at least one soul was led to ,god by  
this means4  ',when she got her sleep1  
,i do not know1' says a faithful        
armour-bearer at one corps4  ,from her  
various corps come stories of her sick  
visiting4 ,here1 a child at the gates of
 death2 there a bedridden old man1 whose
 room she tidied and breakfast she      
prepared4 ,again1 a drunken woman1 whose
 body she nursed to health1 while she   
brought her soul to the ,great          
,physician4 ,an outside friend tells    
that once entering a barber's shop he   
found the topic of conversation to be   
,the ,salvation ,army1 which was coming 
in for a drubbing4 ',wait a minute1'    
broke in a rough workman2 ',you don't   
say a word against ,the ,salvation ,army
 while ,i'm about4 ,this ,adjutant ,lee 

is a dear soul4 ,we were in an awful    
hole at our place4 ,missis and the      
youngsters all ill at the same time1 and
 this ,adjutant heard about us2 didn't  
know a thing of us except we were in    
need1 and she came in and nursed them   
all well4'  ,for her soldiers who were  
in health1 spiritually and physically1  
the ,adjutant had little time to spare2 
none for tea-drinking and social calls4 
,she expected her soldiers to practise  
self-denial as she did4 ,one soldier1   
feeling rather deprived on this account 
said1 ',must ,i go on the booze to get a
 little of your attention8' ,searching  
her face carefully1 the ,adjutant       
replied1 ',you are all right1 my dear2  
you must spare me for those who need    
me4'  ,she expected to be guided to     
souls who needed help1 and was1 as the  
following incident shows4  ,two local   
officers moved1 with their family1 from 
a distant corps to ,london where they   
had undertaken heavy business           
responsibilities4 ,the wife was tired   

and anxious1 and felt that now they had 
slipped out of a corps where they had   
seemed indispensable1 it would be better
 for them to remain undiscovered4 ,she  
had1 in fact1 decided to withdraw from  
the fight4 ,when visiting1 the ,adjutant
 stumbled upon them1 muddled and tired1 
as they sat amongst their packing cases4
 ,her radiant face and gracious spirit  
soon drew out of the little woman the   
confession she had meant to hide4 ',when
 ,i came in1' says the husband1 'there  
was the ,adjutant sitting on one of the 
boxes chatting so happily1 she had      
mother feeling she was needed as much as
 ever1 and simply must be in the fight4 
,she came just at the right moment1 and 
we have never looked back again2 that is
 more than ten years ago4'  ,the        
,adjutant1 in order to get about        
quickly1 used a bicycle4 ,one of her    
local officers says1 ',she almost lived 
on her wheel1 and when she heard of the 
motor attachment she wrote and asked me 
to inquire about one for her so that she

 might go faster4'  ,a comrade tells    
that when ,kate ,lee was stationed in   
the country1 she went one day to see    
her1 unexpectedly4 ',i met her carrying 
a large basket1 and on inquiry found    
that it contained the proverbial loaves 
and fishes1 which she was taking to one 
of her converts who was out of work4    
,she made sure that the family had their
 dinner1 then started the husband off to
 sell the fish4'  ,amongst the sinners  
in those terrible places1 where         
respectable people and officers of the  
law are unsafe1 the ,adjutant's figure  
and face were most familiar4 ,when after
 her death1 ,kate ,lee's photo appeared 
in ',the ,war ,cry1' the call came from 
many of these haunts1 ',get me that     
,angel's picture1 we want it down here4'
 ,she won some of her gems in those     
quarters4 ,from one locality she        
persuaded three women to go to one of   
our ,homes and none returned to their   
evil ways4  ,her visitation was often   
discouraging4 ,a lieutenant tells that  

the ,adjutant spent much time and effort
 upon a man and his wife who were very  
wicked and in wretched circumstances4   
,they lived in apartments4 ,the         
,adjutant visited them persistently1 but
 they seemed to become more and more    
hardened in sin1 and she did not have   
the joy of seeing them converted4 ,she  
grieved much and was tempted to wonder  
whether the time spent had been wasted4 
,one day she was asked to visit a man in
 the room next to that occupied by this 
couple4 ,he told the ,adjutant that he  
had looked forward to her visits next   
door1 and always placed his ear near to 
the wall so as to hear her pray4        
,through her prayers he had sought and  
found salvation4  ,dr4 ,carse1 of       
,sunderland1 says3--      ,i met ,kate  
,lee in all kinds of houses1 and at all 
hours of the day     and of the night1  
and she was always on the one           
mission--seeking     souls4 ,one        
morning1 at half-past two1 ,i was coming
 out of one of     the worst slums in   

,sunderland1 and met the ,adjutant and  
her     lieutenant4 ,they were radiant4 
,the ,adjutant had gone to settle a     
family brawl2 had reconciled husband and
 wife1 got them converted1     and      
broken their whisky bottles in the      
gutter4 ,i met her also in     the      
houses of the rich1 and they would have 
kept her there1 but     she never stayed
 after she had finished her ,master's   
business4  ,but ,kate did not attempt to
 encompass the fruitful work of         
visitation merely with her lieutenant's 
assistance2 she organized a band of     
visitors at her corps1 generally godly1 
married women1 who were timid of public 
service4 ,they met at the hall one or   
two afternoons each week1 and went two  
and two to certain districts4 ,the      
,adjutant and her lieutenant initiated  
these comrades into the way of getting  
into the homes of the people4 ,at an    
appointed hour they returned to the hall
 and reported any special case of       
sickness or sorrow to the officers1 who 

followed it up4 ,this method was a great
 feeder to the corps meetings1 and      
provided an outlet for the awakened     
spiritual energies of some              
,salvationists who hitherto had been    
soldiers in name only4  ,she hungered   
for souls1 she sought them everywhere4  
,one morning1 scanning the daily paper  
to see if there were some call for help 
in its pages1 she noticed the case of a 
man awaiting trial for a serious        
offence4 ,she remarked to her           
lieutenant1 ',i must try to help that   
man4' ,straightway she prayed1 then     
wrote the governor of the jail asking   
permission to visit the prisoner4 ,this 
was granted1 but the ,adjutant was not  
allowed to see him alone4 ,she was      
conducted to a triple cage2 a warder    
occupied one compartment2 the prisoner  
another2 ,kate ,lee the third4 ,as she  
gazed at the man through the bars1 to   
introduce herself to him1 and so to     
establish friendly contact and to reach 
his soul1 seemed impossible4 ,she spoke 

to him for a considerable time and      
prayed1 but the face before her was like
 a sphinx1 and he did not answer a word4
 ,kate ,lee came away from the prison   
with a sad heart1 feeling that she had  
accomplished nothing4  ,at the trial1   
the man was convicted and sentenced to  
fifteen years' imprisonment4 ,the       
,adjutant continued to pray for the     
convict1 and at last1 to her great joy1 
she received a letter from him4 ,the    
prisoner told her that on returning to  
his cell1 he had thought over all she   
had said to him2 not only had conviction
 of sin come to his soul1 but hope4 ,he 
had asked ,god to forgive the past and  
to give him a new heart4 ,god had       
answered his prayer4 ,good conduct      
shortened the criminal's sentence1 and  
,kate ,lee saw him discharged1 placed   
him in the care of ,the ,army1 and after
 a term at the ,land ,colony at         
,hadleigh1 in ,essex1 he was restored to
 his friends4 ,until the end of her     
life1 this man corresponded with the    

,adjutant1 whom he always addressed as  
',dear ,mother4'  ,if staying for a     
night at a house1 the ,adjutant         
endeavoured to leave some blessing      
behind her1 and the ,spirit of ,god1    
resting upon quite commonplace words and
 actions1 made them beautiful and       
blessed to the receivers4 ,one woman    
writes1 ',she billeted with me when my  
husband and son were soldiering4 ,it was
 such a cheer to have her presence in   
the home4 ,she wrote in a book for me   
her name1 and ,be true to the ,flag4 ,i 
treasure this very much4'  ,in another  
and different kind of home where she was
 the guest for a night1 the daughter of 
the house1 a bright1 talented girl1     
given up to worldliness1 accompanied the
 ,adjutant to her room to make sure that
 all her needs were supplied4 ,they fell
 into conversation about spiritual      
matters and talked on till the small    
morning hours1 then knelt in prayer1 and
 the girl gave herself to ,god4 ',she   
used to call to see us1 but try as we   

would we could never persuade her to    
rest for even one hour in our home1'    
writes a girl from another home of      
comfort4  ,with her voice trembling with
 love and emotion1 a woman soldier told 
me the following incident3--      ,when 
the ,adjutant was stationed here1 ,i was
 living away from home at     service1  
but coming back for a holiday1 ,i found 
my father ill1 and     stayed to nurse  
him4 ,one evening ,i had a feeling ,i   
should bring the     ,adjutant to him4  
,he was a man who went to no place of   
worship and     made no profession of   
religion4 ,i went to the officers'      
quarters1     and the lieutenant said   
that the ,adjutant had gone out of town 
for     a meeting2 she did not know what
 time she would return4 ,the feeling    
that ,i must get her that night grew on 
me1 and ,i walked about the     streets 
until ,i saw her coming home4 ,it was   
nearly midnight1 and ,i     caught sight
 of her face in the light of a street   
lamp4 ,she looked     like a ghost1 so  

tired and white1 and ,i shouldn't have  
had the     heart to ask her to start   
out again1 but for the strong feeling   
that had come to me4 ',certainly ,i will
 come1' she said brightly4     ,well1   
she came and talked to father1 told him 
the way of ,salvation1     prayed with  
him1 and he prayed1 and she left him at 
peace with ,god1     and happy4 ,an hour
 after she had gone1 he became          
unconscious and     never regained his  
senses4 ,he died that morning4 ,just    
caught his     soul in the nick of time1
 she did4 ,that's the big thing about   
,adjutant ,lee that stands out for      
mother and me1 but ,i couldn't     begin
 to tell you all the little things she  
did4 ,aye1 but she     bothered about   
us1 she did4 ,i never knew the like4    
,the year that ,kate ,lee was born1 the 
artist ,dietrich gave to the world a    
picture1 which1 if not destined to      
become one of the immortals of religious
 art1 has about it an irresistible charm
 for the ordinary eye4 ,the ,saviour    

stands with outstretched arms saying1   
',come unto ,me1 all ye that labour and 
are heavy laden4' ,about ,him are       
gathered people representing almost     
every condition of need and woe4 ,the   
charm lies not so much in the central   
figure as in the adoring love of the    
sorrowing and the sick for the ,one who 
loves them2 little children cuddle about
 ,his robe in utter contentment2 a weary
 mother with babe at her breast1 has    
brought her sick daughter2 husband has  
carried a crippled wife2 a woman 'that  
was lost' bends at the ,saviour's feet  
in an agony of repentance2 an aged1     
blind man is led by his daughter2 a     
maniac1 whose tortured soul looks out of
 haggard eyes1 frames a prayer with     
clasped hands4  ,when in a remote city1 
,i first saw a print of this picture1 a 
line from ,james ,russell ,lowell--',his
 ,throne is with the outcast and the    
weak'--seemed its best title4 ,but as ,i
 look at it to-day1 all the sorrowful1  
needy people who have spoken to me of   

,kate ,lee1 seem to gather around that  
picture and ,i seem to hear the words1  
',aye1 but ,he bothered about us1' and  
there comes to my heart a realization of
 the triumph of ,jesus in this servant  
of ,his1 who grew to be so like her     
,master4 ,surely the world is heart-sick
 for such souls great in compassion1    
self-forgetful1 and triumphant in faith 
as was ,kate ,lee4     ,x  ',,the       
,,angel ,,adjutant'    ,kate ,lee had   
been a ,salvation ,army ,field ,officer 
for fifteen years1 when suddenly she    
became famous4 ,in gathering material   
for the writing of ',twice ,born ,men1' 
,harold ,begbie had been no less        
impressed by the sweetness and wisdom of
 the woman who had won from sin to      
righteousness several of the notable    
characters with whom the book deals1    
than he was with the miracle of their   
conversion4 ,throughout the book we     
catch glimpses of ,kate ,lee-her        
loveliness of character1 her guileless  
wisdom1 and her strength of purpose-as  

,mr4 ,begbie saw her4 ,vividly          
describing ,shepherd's ,bush1 the       
locality in which the ,norland ,castle  
corps operates1 ,mr4 ,begbie pictures   
the incessant1 roaring traffic of the   
main roads1 the ceaseless procession of 
humanity on the pavements1 the          
exhibition of wealth and extravagance in
 the shops-almost frightening to those  
who know of the terrible destitution    
which exists only a stone's throw       
distant--the crowded street markets of  
the poor1 the shabby residential        
streets1 and continues3--      ,one     
turns out of the respectable streets    
where the children are     playing      
cricket1 cherry-bobs1 hopscotch1 hoops1 
and cards1 and     suddenly finds       
himself in streets miserable and evil   
beyond     description4      ,these are 
streets of once decent two-storied      
villas1 now     lodging-houses4 ,the    
very atmosphere is different4 ,one is   
conscious     first of dejection1 then  
of some hideous and abysmal degradation4

 ,it     is not only the people who make
 this impression on one's mind1 but     
the houses themselves4 ,dear ,god1 the  
very houses seem accursed6 ,the         
bricks are crusted1 and in a dull       
fashion shiny with grime2 the     doors1
 window-frames1 and railings are dark   
with dirt only disturbed     by fresh   
accretions2 the flights of steps leading
 up to the front     doors1 under their 
foul porches1 are worn1 broken1 and     
greasy2 the     doors and windows in the
 reeking basements have been smashed up 
in     nearly every case for firewood4  
,here and there a rod is missing from   
the iron railings--it has been twisted  
out and used as a weapon4      ,in these
 streets on a summer evening you find   
the flight of steps     occupied by the 
lodgers1 and the pavements and road-ways
 swarming     with their children4 ,the 
men are thieves1 begging-letter writers1
     pickpockets1 bookmakers' touts1    
totters 7rag and bone men71 and         
trouncers 7men paid by costermongers to 

shout their wares71 and     bullies4    
,the women add to their common          
degradation--which may be               
imagined--the art of the pickpocket1 the
 beggar1 the shoplifter1     and the    
bully4444      ,if you could see these  
bareheaded women1 with their hanging    
hair1     their ferocious eyes1 their   
brutal mouths2 if you could see them    
there1 half dressed1 and that in a      
draggle-tailed slovenliness             
incomparably horrible2 and if you could 
hear their appalling     language       
loading their hoarse voices1 and from   
their phrases     receive into your mind
 some impression of their modes of      
thought1     you would say that human   
nature in the earliest and most         
barbarous     of its evolutionary       
changes had never1 could never1 have    
been like     this4      ,concerning the
 men1 one thing only need be said4444   
,there was     cunning in their faces1  
there was every expression of 444       
underhand     craft1 but they looked and

 lowered their eyes4444 ,they seemed to 
me     'consciously wrong1 inferior1 and
 unhappy4'      ,but more than by       
anything concerning the men and women of
 this     neighbourhood1 one is         
impressed by the swarm of dreggy        
children     playing their poor little  
pavement games in the shadow of these   
lodging-houses4 ,some--can it be        
believed8--are decently clothed     and 
look as if they are sometimes washed4444
 ,the mass of these     children1 above 
five or six years of age1 are terribly  
neglected4     ,i have never seen       
children more dirty1 more foully        
clothed1 more     dejected looking4444  
,i saw many children with sores and     
boils2 ,i     saw some children whose   
eyes looked out at me from a face that  
was     nothing but a scab4      ,a     
mortuary chapel has had to be built for 
this neighbourhood4 ,the     rooms of   
the houses are so crowded that directly 
a person dies the     body must be      
moved4  ,mr4 ,begbie now introduces     

,kate ,lee3--      ,into these streets  
come day after day1 and every ,sunday1  
the little1     vigorous corps of ,the  
,salvation ,army1 stationed in this     
quarter of     ,london4 ,the ,adjutant  
of the corps some years ago was a       
beautiful and     delicate girl4 ,she   
prayed at the bedside of dying men and  
women in     these lodging-houses4 ,she 
taught children to pray4 ,she went into 
public-houses and persuaded the violent 
blackguards of the town to     come     
away2 she pleaded with the most         
desperate women at street     corners2  
she preached in the open streets on     
,sundays2 she stood     guard over the  
doors of men1 mad for drink1 and refused
 to let them     out4      ,on one      
occasion this little woman was walking  
home through evil     streets after     
midnight1 when a drunken man asked her  
if he might     travel by her side4     
,after going some way the man said1     
',no1 you     aren't afraid1' and then  
he mumbled to himself1 ',never insults  

the     likes of you1 because you cares 
for the likes of us4'      ,it is to the
 work of this wonderful woman--so       
gracious1 so modest1     and so         
sweet--that one may trace the miracles  
whose histories are     contained in the
 following pages4 ,the energy1          
resolution1 and     splendid            
cheerfulness of the present corps1 some 
of them her own     converts1 may       
likewise be traced through her          
influence4 ,she has     left in these   
foul streets the fragrance of her       
personality1 a     fragrance of the     
lilies of a pure soul4 ',ah1' exclaims  
an old     jail-bird1 showing me the    
photograph of this woman1 ',if anybody  
goes     to ,heaven1 it will be that    
there little ,angel of ,god4' ,they call
 her     the ',angel ,adjutant4'  ,we   
see the ,angel ,adjutant again in the   
book1 visiting the ',puncher' at his    
work2 braving the abominations of       
',o4,b4,d4's' den1 as she made friends  
with that sodden drink slave and his    

wife1 piloting him to the hall and      
mothering the first signs of grace in   
his stupefied soul4 ,we see her         
mothering the ',criminal1' weeping over 
the fall of ',rags and ,bones1'         
endeavouring to hold the ',failure' to  
his moral and spiritual obligations1    
and1 despite his falls1 refusing to give
 him up4  ',that man1 ,mr4 ,begbie1 is  
wonderful4 ,he's got those men's very   
images on paper1' says one of ,kate     
,lee's converts1 referring to the       
',twice ,born ,men' characters4 ,none   
the less truly did he get ,kate ,lee's  
photograph on paper1 and sent it round  
the world for all to see1 and for       
thinking people to admire1 to wonder    
over1 to praise and give thanks for4    
',twice ,born ,men' was a great success4
 ,its first edition was immediately     
absorbed1 while its present edition is  
the twenty-seventh1 and its ,english    
circulation has reached over a quarter  
of a million copies4 ,it has had1       
likewise1 an enormous sale in the       

,united ,states and ,canada4 ,it has    
been translated into ,french1 ,german1  
and ,swedish4  ,few books of its time   
appealed to so widely differing minds   
and classes4 ,the professor of          
psychology1 the theologian1 the         
prize-fighter1 ,christian mother1 the   
school-boy1 in common interest bent     
their heads over its pages4 ,the ,press 
discussed it from many aspects in a     
chorus of favour4  ',the ,angel         
,adjutant' became an entity whom people 
all over the world desired to know4     
,after she had been thus discovered to  
the world1 wherever she went she was    
received with honour4 ,churches besieged
 her with invitations to occupy their   
pulpits4 ,civic authorities paid        
deference to this spiritual and moral   
specialist4  ,how did the glare of the  
limelight affect ,kate ,lee8 ,a comrade 
who knew more of her inner life than    
almost any other1 lets in a sidelight   
upon her association with ',twice ,born 
,men4' ,her experiences in connexion    

with the book were not entirely sweet4  
,she felt the sting of jealousy1 that   
hurtful thing which1 while uncleansed   
human nature is what it is1 will        
continue to inflict wounds upon those   
chosen for honour1 but ,kate ,lee bore  
it with meekness and in silence4 ',it is
 not easy to bear success1' she said on 
this subject4 ',when ,i have been lifted
 up1 it has meant a cross rather than a 
throne for me4'  ,it is not easy for a  
noble soul to bear a representative     
honour1 unless it is patent to all that 
it is representative and not personal4  
,no one realized more fully than ,kate  
,lee that other women officers had      
worked and are working amongst the      
masses just as she worked1 actuated by  
the same spirit as moved her1 and       
achieving the same results as those in  
which she rejoiced4 ,she would rather   
that another than herself had been      
thrown upon the world's screen to       
illustrate the work4 ,a few weeks before
 she died1 she spoke of this to her old 

friend1 ,brigadier ,elizabeth ,thomas1  
adding1 ',whenever ,twice ,born ,men is 
mentioned1 ,i want to run and hide my   
head4' ,but while she felt all this1 her
 keen sense of true values withheld her 
from putting a trumpet to her lips and  
declaring it4 ,rather1 with that        
,christlike modesty and dignity that    
characterized all her public service1   
she entered every door that publicity   
opened to her and gave her message4 ,she
 occupied many important pulpits1       
filling great churches with interested  
and sympathetic congregations4  ,as ever
 she was about her ,father's business4  
,far from attracting attention to       
herself1 she brushed aside              
preliminaries1 and got directly to her  
subject4 ,for the title of her lecture1 
she did not always choose ',the         
,terrible ,ten' or ',modern ,miracles'  
or ',twice ,born ,men'2 sometimes she   
gave a plain ,salvation address1 or a   
simple call to professing ,christians to
 live the life of ,christ4 ,one lady who

 heard her1 tells how on one occasion   
she held a great congregation in the    
hollow of her hand4 ,tears had flowed2  
heads were shaking in depreciation or   
nodding approvingly1 as she pictured the
 sorrows and the sins of the poor1 and  
,god's power to save them to the        
uttermost4 ,then she 'turned her guns'  
upon her hearers4 ,how did they stand   
before ,god in relation to sin8         
',society is often a cloak for sin that 
is terribly present in the heart4 ,the  
law deals with sin that is found out3   
,god deals with it as it is in the soul4
 ,you and ,i are each going to the bar  
of ,god to be judged as we are4 ,how is 
it with your soul8'  ,a strange silence 
came upon that select audience1 as the  
people pondered straighter and more     
personal questions than they were       
accustomed to hear addressed to them4   
,a lieutenant tells of a railroad       
incident1 which reveals how truly ,kate 
,lee loved to be unknown1 and how she   
would screen herself from praise1 when  

to accept it could serve no definite    
end4 ,she says3--      ,we were         
returning from some ,councils1 and a    
clergyman got into our     compartment4 
,he was very friendly1 and in           
conversation we found him               
enthusiastic over ',twice ,born ,men4'  
,he said how he would count it an       
honour to meet the ',angel ,adjutant1'  
and express to her his thanks     for   
the help he had received by her example4
 ,i felt so proud of her1     and wanted
 to tell the clergyman that the ',angel 
,adjutant' was my     ,captain2 but     
catching a warning glance from her1 ,i  
had to keep quiet4  ,a few hours after  
he heard of ,kate ,lee's death1 ,harold 
,begbie penned the following tribute to 
her memory3--      ,there seems to me   
something in the death of ,kate ,lee at 
this moment     which has a mystical    
significance4      ,the world has just  
received ',the ,life of ,william        
,booth1' and is     making up its mind  
what to think of him4 ,his son1         

,bramwell1 with a     courage which is  
part of his religion1 allowed the       
biographer of     ,william ,booth to    
write freely what he believed to be the 
truth1 and     the whole truth1 of the  
great ,founder of ,the ,salvation ,army4
 ,there     in that book for all men to 
behold1 in the very habit of his daily  
life1 stands ,william ,booth1           
revivalist1 social reformer1 colonizer1 
organizer1 husband1 father1 and man4    
,and now there ascends into the glory of
 ,god one of the most radiant           
spirits that ever blessed the darkest   
places of the earth with a     light    
truly from ,heaven1 little ,kate ,lee1  
the ,angel ,adjutant of     ,notting    
,dale2 the saint of the worst men that  
ever lived1 the     adored angel of     
souls once as foul and brutal and       
besotted with     iniquity as ever      
corrupted human life1 and but for       
,william ,booth     she herself might   
have perished4      ,i am one of those  
who cannot think of ,william ,booth as a

 saint4 ,his     wonder for me1 and his 
greatness1 lies in the fact that he made
     saints2 this turbulent and         
tremendous power1 this unresting energy1
     he made saints2 that is to say1 he 
made the most beautiful and     gentle  
thing that can exist in human life1 the 
spirit that loves the     worst2 that   
descends with joy into the pit of       
pollution2 that is     happier there    
than in the abodes of the sanctified2   
that is wholly     content to be unknown
 and unheard of2 that can save the worst
 and     transfigure the most hideous1  
and itself remain utterly unspotted     
by the world4      ,i was far away in   
the dales of ,yorkshire when ,i heard of
 ,kate ,lee's     death4 ,my first      
feeling was one of gladness1 for ,i     
loved to know she     was beyond the    
touch of pain4 ,then ,i fell into a fit 
of sorrow4 ,why     had ,i not made this
 miracle of ,william ,booth more real in
 the     biography8 ,is there anything  
in life so important1 or anything at    

this moment of the world's history that 
calls so urgently for     proclamation1 
as the miracle of conversion8      ,kate
 ,lee seemed to be at my side4 ,i saw   
the harassed statesmen of     the       
nations attempting to piece together the
 broken pieces of this     war-shattered
 world1 and they seemed to me no greater
 figures than     children playing with 
the parts of a world which they         
themselves     had taken apart4 ,and    
,kate ,lee seemed to say1 ',there is no 
hope for     the world1 no hope at all1 
but the changed heart4 ,until men love  
,god1 they will never love each other4  
,and until they love each     other     
there will be poverty and crime1        
revolutions and wars4'      ,her life   
goes on in the lives of others4 ,she is 
immortal here upon     earth4 ,for ever 
and ever some men and women will be     
better because     in her lifetime she  
made other people good who were bad1    
happy who     were unhappy4 ,but ,i     
would that her spirit could penetrate   

into the     whole life of humanity4    
,how modest she was1 how unassuming1 and
 how tranquil6 ,she had seen     the    
most evil depth of the human heart1 and 
yet she believed1 with     a smile of   
unclouded gladness1 that the human heart
 is of ,god4 ,she     loved the worst   
people in the world4 ,she was tender and
 patient     with the most stupid and   
dull4 ,she never despaired of any soul  
that     looked at her with eyes of     
hunger4 ,the ,pharisee might turn away  
with disgust1 the judge might condemn1  
science might pronounce the     case    
hopeless2 she smiled and waited1 waited 
at the prison door1     waited in the   
pit of abomination1 waited at the hard  
heart4 ,and     while she waited she    
prayed1 quietly1 and calmly2 and while  
she     prayed so great was the love of 
,god in her heart1 she smiled4 ,there   
is no hope for the world until the love 
that was in ,kate ,lee is in     us4    
,let every ,salvationist assure himself 
with every day of life     that his work

 lies only with the unhappy1 the foul1  
the horrible1     the repulsive4 ,to    
this end came ,william ,booth preaching 
in the slums     and alleys of great    
cities1 and on this mission of his went 
,kate ,lee     with a song in her heart 
and a smile on her lips4      ,i never  
looked into human face so full of the   
love of ,god1 so     shining with love  
of humanity1 as the face of this        
',angel ,adjutant4'  ,during the week of
 the announcement of ,kate ,lee's death1
 her name was upon the lips of millions 
of people4 ,newspapers throughout the   
country published her photograph and    
told of how she sought the lost4 ,in the
 saloons around ,london the topic of    
conversation was the loveliness of the  
',angel ,adjutant4' ,almost wherever    
,salvationists appeared1 people         
sympathized with them in the loss of so 
brave an officer as ,kate ,lee4  ,beyond
 the seas1 illustrated journals carried 
the picture of her pure face and the    
story of her love and devotion to her   

,saviour and the sinful1 and mothers    
gave thanks for her life and prayed that
 their daughters might have her spirit4 
,her casket was borne through streets   
lined with thousands of silent1 reverent
 spectators and carried to the grave by 
men once deep-dyed in sin1 now cleansed 
and ennobled by the ,salvation she had  
proclaimed4  ,to queens has less honour 
been shown than to this girl who was    
born in crowded ,hornsey1 who lived a   
life of toil and struggle1 and died     
penniless4 ,why8 ,because the human     
heart1 despite its crookedness and      
failings1 recognizes that love is the   
greatest thing in the world1 and pays   
tribute accordingly4    ,,xi  ,,comrades
 ,,and ,,friends    ,perhaps no class of
 people voluntarily work harder or      
longer hours than ,salvationists4 ,when 
the ordinary worker quits toil for      
recreation1 the ,salvationist drops his 
tools to work at his religion1 and for  
no reward in this life4 ,but for all    
that1 the ,salvationist has his         

compensations4 ,the most precious thing 
about ,the ,army1 he will tell you1 is  
its comradeship4  ,the uniform of the   
military means something of fellowship  
on service1 nothing on leave2 but the   
,salvationist is always on service1 and 
the sign of cap1 bonnet1 or even the    
small ,salvation ,army brooch or        
tri-coloured ribbon1 serves as an       
introduction1 which includes a welcome1 
when ,salvationists meet in any clime or
 country4  ,the uniform stands for the  
acceptance of certain convictions1      
principles1 and consecration to one     
purpose in life1 which knows no barrier 
of nation1 colour1 nor class4           
,salvationists are comrades of a single 
purpose1 the bringing of all men to     
knowledge of ,god4 ,mr4 ,harold ,begbie 
describes this bond of comradeship which
 he found illustrated in a prayer       
meeting which he attended amongst       
,salvationists in ,india4 ,he writes3-- 
,those ,officers represented many       
nations4 ,among them were a ,brahmin1   

a ,singalese1 ,malayali1 a ,tamil1 a    
,german1 a ,norwegian1 a ,swede1 an     
,australian1 an ,englishman1 and a      
,scot4 ,all were praying4 ,the voices   
of those various nationalities rose into
 the air as a cry inspired by     love  
for a sinful world1 with a compassion   
and a longing1 uttered for     the need 
of a common humanity1 and all those     
separate voices and     different words 
rose in a perfect unity like the prayer 
of a single     family under a father's 
roof4  ,constitutionally ,kate ,lee was 
not dependent2 she did not know what it 
was to hunger for society2 to pine for a
 'yarn'2 to ache with desire to discuss 
with a chum small talk of ,the ,army4   
,the passion of her life swept her      
beyond such things and the springs of   
her refreshment ran deep4 ,her business 
was to seek and to save that which was  
lost--to shepherd the sheep--and these  
she sought with a love that never       
wavered4 ,nevertheless1 fellowship with 
her comrades was one of her chief joys4 

,she delighted in ,officers' ,councils  
where all were bent upon seeking        
guidance for the furtherance of the     
,salvation ,war4 ,whenever she was      
thrown into the company of her comrades 
her heart was at once at leisure from   
itself1 and she sought and found        
pleasant and profitable point for       
contact4  ,she felt herself to be a poor
 conversationalist1 and her success in  
fellowship lay in drawing out the       
interests of others4 ,she was a good    
listener1 rather than an entertainer4   
,humility was one of her greatest charms
 and she had no hesitation in confessing
 her limitations4 ',i enjoy the fun1 but
 ,i can't make it2 do help me1' she said
 to a comrade1 when once she found      
herself responsible for guiding the     
conversation of a party of officers4    
,tributes come from comrades of all     
ranks1 from the shy lieutenant1 to the  
veteran commissioner1 telling of the    
sweetness of her communion in           
comradeship4  ,but so great was the     

pressure upon her life1 that during any 
period of respite from her work1 she    
longed1 not for change or entertainment1
 but rest4  ,one cannot talk with ,kate 
,lee's people without discovering that  
they regarded her as a person apart from
 all others4 ,she would drink tea in a  
hovel with outcasts1 or lead a volunteer
 brigade in scrubbing her halls2 handle 
hammer and nails as a man2 collect      
produce for the harvest festival with a 
donkey-cart1 and perform a hundred and  
one other 'unladylike' offices4 ,but    
about her was an atmosphere of intrinsic
 superiority1 that the most untaught    
felt and appreciated4 ,amongst the most 
rough and ready people she is never     
mentioned with familiarity2 but one     
constantly hears references to 'that    
heavenly woman1' 'an angel if ever there
 was one1' and 'that lovely lady'2 also 
mention of 'her private means6'         
,incidentally1 a pathetic interest      
attaches to the illusion of 'her private
 means1' for1 except for her small ,army

 allowance1 ,kate ,lee had no private   
funds4 ,reserve and independence are    
characteristics of the ,lee family1 and 
are1 despite warm affection1 observed   
within their tiny family circle4 ,when  
the mother joined her ,officer daughters
 in their home1 ,lucy and ,kate realized
 that if she were aware of the smallness
 of their allowance1 she would feel that
 a third person could not share it      
without causing strain1 and such        
knowledge would be a continual sorrow to
 her4 ,so they never enlightened her1   
and during the years spent together1    
they endeavoured1 by touching little    
self-denials1 to keep their table and   
wardrobe as in the home days4 ,so the   
little mother lived in peace1 and died1 
and never guessed the truth4 ,it was a  
good training for ,kate1 and later in   
life few women could get more value out 
of money than she4 ,her uniforms were   
turned1 mended1 and worn to the last4   
,her single indulgence was books1 and   
these were few and well chosen4 ,by dint

 of the habit of constant watchfulness  
over her purse1 and the blessing of     
,god1 her little store became like the  
widow's cruse of oil1 and she gave her  
tenth and more to the ,lord's work4 ,but
 it was the graciousness with which she 
gave that made her gifts appear large in
 the estimation of those who received4  
,while ,kate was received and made much 
of by high and low alike1 she made no   
pretence of being well born or well     
educated2 nor did she assume airs4 ,she 
was a perfectly natural woman1 who1     
realizing that she was a daughter of the
 ,heavenly ,king1 sought to rightly     
represent ,him4 ,nothing rough1 mean1   
nor trivial would become a member of the
 heavenly household2 but joy1 peace1    
gentleness1 kindness1 goodness--the     
graces of the ,spirit should be seen in 
her4 ,and they were4 ,the consciousness 
of her heavenly relationship also gave  
her a dignity that held itself          
graciously in any company1 and with     
gentle1 unafraid eyes1 she met the gaze 

of all4 ,kate believed that if we 'walk 
in the light1 as ,he is in the light1 we
 have fellowship one with the other1'   
and from a heart free from selfishness  
and guile1 she looked out upon her      
neighbours1 asking for nothing but to   
understand and bless them1 and be       
blessed4 ,the hearts of all but those   
who hate and reject the good1 rose to   
salute her1 and called her friend4  ,of 
those who loved her and whom she loved  
there is no count2 but here and there   
upon the fields where she fought1 there 
are some to whom her soul clave in a    
particular way4  ,in and out of the     
homes of the rich she went1 bearing     
sunshine and gathering gold wherewith to
 push her campaign2 but she had no time 
to make friendships there4 ,a certain   
leisureliness is inseparable from the   
life of the well-to-do2 time to talk2 to
 be interested in a variety of subjects2
 to be amused2 time even to eat and rest
 in correct form4 ,with ,kate1 life was 
terribly real4 ,on every side her eyes  

saw men1 women1 and little children     
weighed down with sin and sorrow1 and   
her soul joined in the consecration of  
the great soul who wrote3--    ,my every
 sacred moment spend4   ,in publishing  
the sinner's ,friend4  ,thus1 while many
 rich friends opened their beautiful    
homes to her1 placed their cars at her  
disposal1 and begged for her company1   
she passed on her way with a smile that 
was wholly free from censoriousness4    
,and there may have been another reason4
 ,in her nature was a deep love for the 
beautiful1 the harmonious4 ,maybe she   
recognized in the good things of life a 
temptation which she needed to hold at  
arm's-length1 if all her spikenard were 
to be poured out for her ,lord4  ,in any
 case1 it was to ,bethany-like          
households1 where1 as a rule1 the       
occupants did their own serving1 but    
were rich in love and in full sympathy  
with her spirit and purpose1 that she   
tarried to gain strength or refreshment4
  ,one of these friends1 ,mrs4          

,taylorson1 is a bedridden saint1 a     
remarkable woman in her ninetieth year1 
of charming countenance1 keen1 vigorous 
intellect1 great heart and spiritual    
vision4 ,in the school of affliction and
 discipline she had sought and found the
 blessing of ,full ,salvation1 and      
though a prisoner in her home1 her      
interests are wide1 and her influence1  
by the ministry of prayer1 great4       
,hearing of ,adjutant ,lee's arrival in 
the town1 she sent for her1 and from    
their first meeting this aged saint     
rightly estimated the beauty and        
greatness of the ,adjutant's soul1 and  
felt there was a part she could play in 
her campaign4 ,mrs4 ,taylorson says3--  
,i realized that my ministry to her was 
to look after her bodily     welfare4 ,i
 took to my bed whilst she was stationed
 here3 and     living quite near to me1 
she would often slip in for a few       
moments4 ,her sweet face would come     
round the door like a ray of            
sunshine4 ,she would give me a warm     

kiss1 tell me the latest news     --this
 case or that problem to pray over--then
 she was off again4     ,but ,i saw to  
it that my maid always had something    
nourishing on     hand to help that     
dear1 worn body4 ,how my maid loved her6
 ,the     ,adjutant's influence so led  
her into touch with ,christ1 that life  
became changed for her4      ,oh1 how   
,kate ,lee worked6 ,far beyond her      
strength4 ,often1 after her     quest   
for souls1 she would pass this house at 
two o'clock in the     morning4 ,when ,i
 would remonstrate with her1 she would  
reply1 ',oh1     but ,i had such a case 
last night4' ,then she would relate to  
me the story4 ,once1 kneeling by my bed1
 she said1 ',granny1 last     night ,i  
was afraid for the first time4 ,oh1 this
 place1 this place6     ,the sin1 the   
sin is terrible6' ,and she described to 
me the horrors     of iniquity she had  
seen in our town4  ,the transparent     
hands were tensely clasped2 the strong  
alert features relaxed into             

contemplation1 and my eyes lifted from  
the face of the aged saint to the wall  
beside her bed where hung a motto1      
',prayer brings victory4' ,it was easy  
to realize how ,kate ,lee had gathered  
strength for the fight in that little   
sanctuary of faith and hope1 and love1  
with the practical addition of a        
strengthening cup1 'always ready1 that  
the ,adjutant might not be hindered4'   
,kate met her beloved old friend only   
once after her term of three years at   
,sunderland4 ,when leaving ,london to   
spend a week there1 she received a wire 
from her old lieutenant1 then on duty   
amongst the troops in ,france1 ',coming 
on leave2 want to spend week-end with   
you1' to which she replied1 ',going to  
,granny's4 ,come4' ,it was a happy party
 that gathered in that old home4 ,the   
joys of reunion were still fresh1 when  
in the doorway another figure           
appeared--,lucy ,lee1 also home on leave
 from ,france4 ,heaven seemed to come   
down to earth for those four women4     

,three from the rush of the battle1     
bubbling over with stories of the ,holy 
,war1 the fourth--her faculties fresh as
 those of the youngest--delighting to   
linger on the brink of eternity1 that   
she might hold up the hands of these1   
her adopted daughters in battles for    
,god and souls4  ,perched on the crest  
of a hill overlooking a seashore town1  
is a tiny cottage--two rooms up and two 
down4 ,there are flowers in the windows 
and garden1 and within1 simplicity and  
sweet homeliness4 ,the dwellers there   
are an old pensioner and his daughter4  
,the daughter1 a semi-invalid1 keeps    
house4 ,her face is calm as a lake      
resting in the sunshine2 her eyes blue  
as the sky on a spring day1 and her     
voice musical and soothing as rippling  
water4 ,almost twenty years ago1 ,kate  
,lee conducted a battle for souls in the
 little town nestling below the hill4   
,the suffering woman listened to her    
call to arms1 at first from a distance4 
,by degrees the full meaning of the     

officer's life dawned upon her2 she knew
 she could never be a leader2 but she   
could1 perhaps1 be an armour-bearer2 so 
she came nearer1 and nearer1 till she   
took a place at ,captain ,kate's side1  
ready to perform any service possible4  
,a sufferer who triumphed had a peculiar
 charm for ,kate ,lee4 ,this woman1     
caught in the furnace of affliction1 had
 yielded herself to the fire1 and found 
the ,son of ,god keep company with her  
there1 and she grew like ,him4  ,when   
nerves were tingling1 and body and soul 
were weary with sins and sorrows of the 
world1 to no place did ,kate turn her   
steps more readily than to the tiny     
house on the hill4  ',why can you love  
to come here8 ,i have so little to offer
 you4 ,rich people would love to have   
you1 and give you what ,i cannot1' said 
her friend4  ',and you can and do give  
me what no money in the world could buy3
 understanding1 and love1 and rest4'    
,on a sunny day1 ,kate would take a rug 
and a cushion1 a book or some sewing1   

and her friend would accompany her to a 
little knoll1 a stone's throw from the  
house1 which commanded a sea view for   
many miles4 ,and there1 mostly in       
silence1 she would sit1 and sun and rest
 for a day or two1 and then hie back to 
the fight4  ,a mother with a child in an
 invalid chair1 followed ,the ,army     
march many a ,sunday night during one   
summer4 ,the band charmed the child1 the
 sweet face of the officer soothed and  
strengthened the mother4 ,one night1    
mother and child ventured into the      
meeting4 ,at the conclusion of the first
 service1 ,adjutant ,lee was shaking    
hands with the people as they left the  
hall1 and urging them to return1 and she
 beamed on the mother and child1 and    
later1 visited their home4 ,a typical   
home of millions of working people1 but 
true love reigned there1 and made it a  
more pleasant place than many a mansion4
 ,the mother had spinal disease and her 
child seemed to have been born only to  
die4 ,doctor and friends had striven in 

vain to unlock the bands of mother love1
 and let the little suffering life      
escape1 but the mother refused4 ,if love
 and ceaseless care could make a child  
live1 he should live4 ,mother and child 
nestled under the protection of a great1
 loving husband and father4 ,the coming 
of the ,adjutant to that home was like  
the visit of an angel2 but she gathered 
as she gave1 for the soothing atmosphere
 of those tiny rooms fell upon her      
spirit like dew4 ,as well as love there 
was music4 ,the father sat at the organ1
 and as he played and sang1 his strong1 
tender spirit seemed to ring through the
 hymns4 ',just one verse6' the ,adjutant
 would say1 as she dropped in to give   
five minutes' cheer4  ,the ,adjutant lay
 ill in her quarters4 ,bronchitis had1  
as usual1 laid her low during a foggy   
week4 ,she had sent her lieutenant out  
on a round of work1 and1 feverish and   
weak1 gave herself up to rest4 ,there   
was a movement on the stairs and a face 
appeared at the bedroom door4 ,it was   

little invalid mother4 ',how did you get
 here8' the ,adjutant asked4 ',through a
 window1 and you'll not talk4 ,just eat 
this bit of steamed fish4' ,every day1  
until the ,adjutant was able to be about
 her ,master's business again1 the      
little woman ministered to her with     
tender1 joyful love4  ',would you mind  
letting me look at your back8' she asked
 the little mother1 when she had come to
 be regarded as the dearest friend of   
the small family4 ,she looked1 and her  
eyes filled with tears4 ,for a woman    
with such a back1 to work1 as this      
mother worked1 to watch and wait and    
refuse to give up hope for love of her  
child1 this was love indeed4 ,kate ,lee 
would love sin-sick souls in this way4  
',thank you1' she said simply1 'you have
 inspired me4' ,during her stay the     
little boy1 then six years of age1      
definitely yielded his heart and life to
 the ,saviour4 ,when he was fourteen he 
begged to be allowed to join ,the ,army 
,young ,people's ,band4 ',impossible1'  

said the doctor4 ',but1 doctor1 you know
 how he has lived in spite of many      
contrary opinions1 and we wish him to   
devote his life to ,the ,army1' pleaded 
the mother4 ,a tall lad with purposeful 
face1 playing in an ,army band1 is a joy
 to his ,salvationist parents who carry 
in their hearts the faith of ,kate ,lee1
 that one day their son shall be an     
,army ,officer4  ,such were a very few  
of the friends of ,kate ,lee4 ,many1    
because of their great love for her1 and
 conscious of her love for them1 will1  
perhaps1 feel a touch of disappointment 
that they are not included in the       
number1 but the pages of our book will  
not stretch4 ,as ,i think of them all1  
as ,i have seen them in their homes1 and
 know of the many ,i have not been able 
to meet--,i am reminded of strangely    
similar company1 fishermen1 clerks1 and 
a company of humble1 holy women who     
ministered to ,kate ,lee's ,lord and    
,master in the days of ,his flesh4      
,,xii  ,,trophies ,,of ,,grace    ,many 

volumes would be needed to contain the  
story of all the souls who found        
deliverance from sin1 sorrow and terror 
by the message of ,kate ,lee1 but her   
memoir would be sadly incomplete        
without1 at least1 a few sketches which 
illustrate the courage1 the faith1 and  
the love with which she sought and won  
and held souls who1 unless such love1   
and faith1 and courage had been expended
 upon them1 would have died in their    
sin4  ,the following stories are true1  
but they do not profess to be vivid4    
,few of us would care for a             
passport-photograph of ourselves to be  
given to the world as a true likeness1  
and when giving word-pictures of souls  
who are still fighting their way to     
,heaven 'midst many enemies and dangers1
 there is surely need of a kindly       
're-touching6' ,scars which sin has made
 are wisely unnoticed2 sins of the past 
best forgotten2 there are conditions of 
strange and fierce trial in the lives of
 some which1 if told1 would magnify the 

triumph of grace1 but should1 for       
obvious reasons1 remain unmentioned4    
,it was a great change for ,kate ,lee   
when1 after her command of ,norland     
,castle1 she was appointed to ,reading1 
a prosperous county town in charming    
surroundings4 ,in its best business part
 stands a fine ,army hall4 ,it was      
faultlessly kept1 and attended by a most
 respectable congregation4 ,after her   
heavy term in the slums of ,london1 it  
might reasonably be expected that she   
would take things quietly in a          
provincial corps and recuperate her     
spent strength4 ,but ,kate ,lee could no
 more settle down to enjoy a pleasant   
time amongst pleasant people than could 
her old ,general during his field days4 
,she by no means despised her 'nice'    
people1 but she hungered for those      
without the camp4 ',are there none of   
our sort in ,reading8' she inquired of  
the local officers4 ,to be sure there   
were ,silver and ,coley ,streets2 they  
were bad enough for anything4 ,too true4

 ,kate ,lee found in that small area    
drunkenness1 cruelty1 misery1 hideous   
sin--a match for anything in ,shepherd's
 ,bush4  ,she began with the children4  
,poor1 ragged1 neglected little souls   
they were2 not because of want1 but     
because of the sin of their parents4    
,the ,adjutant rented a small hall in   
,coley ,street1 and to it invited the   
children2 they came in swarms4 ,she made
 music for them with her concertina and 
banjo2 sang to them2 chatted with them2 
laughed with them2 patted them4 ,one of 
the first songs she taught them was1    
',let the blessed sunshine in4'         
,straightway they took her to their     
hearts and called her ',the ,sunshine   
,lady4' ,she worked week after week     
amongst them4 ,as well as telling them  
about the ,saviour who wanted to make   
their lives good and happy1 she drilled 
them1 and after a while1 announced a    
surprise to the parent corps4 ,she would
 show them what her ,coley ,street      
children could do4 ,she marched them up 

to the citadel1 where they gave a       
programme of songs1 drills1 and         
recitations4 ,what parents are not      
pleased when some one charmingly loves  
and makes a fuss of their children8     
,certainly1 ,silver and ,coley ,street  
parents were gratified4  ,one little    
group of youngsters begged the ,adjutant
 to come and see their grandfather who  
was dying4 ,she found a dear old        
,christian1 living with his daughter and
 son-in-law1 the latter a terrible      
drunkard4 ,the ,adjutant visited the old
 man until he died1 comforted him1 and  
promised by the help of ,god1 to win his
 son-in-law4 ,it seemed like attempting 
the impossible1 but with ,god on her    
side nothing was impossible with ,kate  
,lee4   ,shepherd's mother died when he 
was six weeks old2 later his father died
 a drunkard4 ,at five years of age wee  
boy ,shepherd was carried home drunk1   
for men had stood him on a bench in the 
tap room and 'filled him up with beer4' 
,he drank for forty years4 ,during a    

brief1 steady bout1 he had married a    
decent girl1 who1 not knowing his       
character1 was carried away by the smart
 appearance of a handsome soldier in the
 glory of red coat and gleaming buttons4
 ,once married1 habit reasserted itself 
as the years stole on4 ,shepherd broke  
up his home1 beat his wife1 and         
terrified his children4 ,his good wages 
went to the saloon-keeper's till while  
his family starved and went in rags4    
,he had not been in a place of worship  
since the day of his marriage until1 in 
an effort towards decency1 in           
acknowledgment of ,adjutant ,lee's      
kindness1 he attended the memorial      
service of his father-in-law4  ,kate    
,lee threw her net1 but never was fish  
more wary1 more determined not to be    
caught1 than ,shepherd4 ,for months she 
followed him4  ',where's father8' she   
would ask the children4 ',in the ,blue  
,lion1' they would reply1 and into the  
',blue ,lion' the ,adjutant would go and
 visit him there4 ,she waylaid him on   

his way home from work4 ,she took the   
corps into the plot of garden in front  
of his house on ,sunday afternoons and  
held meetings there4  ',she fair        
terrified me1' says ,shepherd1 now4 ,he 
was furious with her and determined to  
insult her1 but when he met those blue  
eyes that knew no fear1 brimming with   
love for his soul1 and heard her ringing
 inquiry1 ',and how's ,brother ,shepherd
 to-day8' angry words died on his lips1 
and he sought refuge in escape4  ,at    
last1 word went round the ,coley        
district that the ',sunshine ,lady' was 
leaving ,reading4 ,shepherd would soon  
be free from this bothering1 interfering
 woman4 ,but strangely enough1 he did   
not feel relieved4 ,upon his heart had  
settled a load heavier than lead4 ,he   
felt unutterably oppressed and          
miserable4 ,he must see that ,adjutant  
once more4 ,he went to her farewell     
meeting4 ,as she shook his hand1 and    
looked into his soul to make her last   
appeal1 his heart broke4 ,he had loved  

sin greedily1 but now it appeared       
hateful to him4 ,if only he could be    
free from it6 ,down at the penitent-form
 he cast himself asking ,god to make him
 a new creature4 ,he rose1 feeling      
strangely1 wonderfully light and free1  
sweet and clean in spirit4 ,he was      
delivered from all desire to sin4       
,arriving at home1 for the first time in
 his life he wanted to kneel at his     
bedside and 'say his prayers4'  ,kate   
,lee had won him to ,god4 ,now she must 
leave him4 ,years later1 when visiting  
,reading1 she met ,shepherd1 a bandsman 
in full uniform1 beating the drum in    
,silver ,street4 ,tears of joy ran down 
her face at the sight4  ,shepherd has   
proved to his own happiness and to the  
satisfaction of the town that 'the      
blessing of the ,lord maketh rich and   
addeth no sorrow4' ,by the grace of ,god
 he has never slipped4 ,at the time of  
his conversion he had no clothes but    
those he stood in4 ,when he left ,coley 
,street1 all his furniture went on a    

push-cart4 ,recently he moved house1 and
 needed two vans4 ,he is foreman at his 
place of employment4 ,his wife sought   
salvation two weeks after he was saved1 
and of his family1 five out of the seven
 children are ,salvationists4 ,his home 
is a joyous place4 ,he loves to         
entertain1 to take people home on a     
,sunday afternoon1 and have a happy time
 with singing1 reading ,god's ,word1 and
 prayer4 ,then off to the open-air      
meeting1 where he delights to witness to
 ,god's wonder-working power6 ,saturday 
night1 when his workmates gather round  
,the ,army ring1 and in ,coley ,street1 
are his favourite open-air meetings4    
,shepherd is a happy man4 ,his healthy  
face beams with goodwill to men and     
gratitude to ,god4 ,his eyes grow moist1
 but they still shine1 when he speaks of
 ,kate ,lee4 ',aye1 bless her heart6    
,i'm going to frame that picture of her 
that came out in ,the ,war ,cry1' he    
exclaims with a deep1 ringing voice4 ',i
 look upon her as my mother--a real     

mother to my soul she was4'   ,in the   
streets of ,reading almost any day1 an  
old man may be seen pushing a tinker's  
barrow4 ,the small carriage is gay with 
yellow1 red1 and blue paint and bright  
with polished brass1 and on a           
conspicuous place appear the words1     
',where will you spend ,eternity8' ,the 
barrow-man has a pleasant1 bearded face1
 and steady-gazing1 merry1 eyes1 with a 
cheerful nod and word for every one2 he 
steps in and out of gardens1 mending    
kettles1 sharpening knives1 and doing   
other handy jobs for housewives4 ',mr4  
,wellman1 of ,the ,salvation ,army1' an 
established resident would inform an    
inquirer4  ,thirteen years ago1 ,wellman
 was one of the most wretched men in    
,reading4 ,drink had brought him1 with  
his wife and family1 to a common        
lodging-house1 and there they herded1   
sometimes as many as twelve men1 women1 
and children in one room1 eating1       
drinking1 sleeping1 cursing4  ,a son of 
,christian parents1 ,wellman was a      

decent youth1 but in his early married  
life he began to go down-hill and long  
before ,adjutant ,lee took charge of the
 corps at ,reading1 had reached the dead
 level of misery1 degradation1 and      
hopelessness4 ,he had turned his back   
upon ,god2 he feared ,him1 dreaded ,him1
 longed to escape from ,his presence1   
but the ,heavenly ,father did not       
forsake him4 ,his mother had died1 he   
was filled with sorrow and remorse1 when
 one ,sunday evening ,the ,army band    
halted before the lodging-house4        
,wellman was in the yard lounging       
against the wall when the drum tapped4  
,he walked through the passage and gazed
 at ,the ,army4 ,kate ,lee was leading  
the meeting4 ,she looked at him and     
smiled4 ,there was a world of power in  
that look2 interest1 kindness1          
gentleness1 sorrow for sin4 ,wellman    
listened with apparent indifference to  
the meeting1 and the march moved off4   
,he had heard the ,army drum hundreds of
 times before in ,reading1 but while it 

called to every one to remember ,god1   
its message had never reached him2 but  
the look on that woman's face did4 ,for 
the first time he followed the march1   
and1 arriving at the hall1 was invited  
inside4 ,the place was already full1 but
 a wise-hearted orderly piloted ,wellman
 to a front seat4  ,he has no           
remembrance of the message of the       
meeting2 but he saw himself2 his        
loathsome condition2 his sin to ,god and
 man2 his failure in life4 ,at the      
invitation he went forward to the       
penitent-form and asked ,god to take    
away his sin2 he rose from his knees    
believing that he was saved4  ,how      
wonderful is the work of ,god6 ,wellman 
came into the hall dirty1 unkempt in    
body and soul4 ,for years he had given  
no thought to his appearance1 cared     
nothing for the contempt of respectable 
people4 ,now he fled to the             
lodging-house1 ashamed to be seen4  ,the
 next morning the ,adjutant called to   
see him4 ,he had broken up eight homes1 

and for years had felt no wish for so   
troublesome a possession1 but now he    
longed to get out of that hovel and to  
have a decent place to which he could   
invite this 'angel woman4' ,the         
,adjutant smiled upon him1 told him he  
had only to follow ,god and things would
 soon improve4 ,she fostered the desire 
to make home again with his family and  
his own bits of furniture about him1 and
 helped him to get rooms4 ,during       
,wellman's years of sinning1 whenever he
 had seen the word ,god in print1 he had
 dropped the paper or book as though it 
were hot2 now he opened his mother's    
,bible and found it to be a library of  
delight2 and his spare time1 between    
work and the meetings1 was spent in     
reading it for sheer pleasure4  ,the    
desire for strong drink had been swept  
out of him by one touch of the ,holy    
,spirit1 but his love of tobacco was    
even stronger than of beer4 ,no one     
spoke to him about giving up smoking1   
but from the day of his conversion he   

felt ashamed of the habit and only      
smoked in the house4 ,the heavenly      
vision growing stronger he determined to
 have nothing in his life about which he
 had any doubt1 and he thus reasoned    
with himself1 ',if ,god can cure me of  
the drink1 ,he can cure me of the pipe4'
 ,from that day he had no desire for    
tobacco4  ,wellman's business increased1
 and the ,adjutant was interested in his
 barrow which had taken on a gay        
appearance in ,the ,army colours4       
,pointing to a clear space she remarked1
 ',wouldn't a message go well there8'   
'',twould1 ,adjutant2 what one would    
do8' ,she thought1 ',i think1 ,where    
will you spend ,eternity8 would be a    
good one1' she replied4 ,so ,wellman had
 the words painted on his barrow4  ,his 
quiet eyes smile as he says1 ',her text 
shall preach in ,reading while ever ,i  
can push the barrow4 ,it gives me no end
 of chances to speak to people4 ,some   
ladies on bicycles stopped me one day   
and said1 ,what is the meaning of those 

words8 ,it means that you're going to   
die1 and are you ready for what comes   
after8 ,i told them4 ,some have said1   
,what have you got that rubbish on there
 for8 ,then ,i tell them what ,salvation
 has done for my life4 ,but most people 
know me now1 and look for a little      
word4'  ,he is now ,sergeant ,wellman at
 the corps1 in full ,army uniform1 and  
does useful work as doorkeeper and      
orderly1 always on the watch to welcome 
poor souls such as he was4 ,he has had  
his share of trials since he was        
converted4 ,bronchitis and asthma often 
keep him a prisoner and make work slack4
 ',i don't have to look for troubles1   
they come trooping along1 but grace     
keeps them company1' he says joyfully4  
,then a shade of sadness steals into his
 voice as he continues1 wistfully1      
',what was ,i doing to miss all those   
years8 ,wretched1 terrible years1 mind  
always brooding1 never happy1 never at  
rest6'   ,it is often more difficult to 
rescue a sinful married woman than a    

man4 ,a man as soon as he is converted  
goes to work1 and during the day remains
 under some sort of discipline and      
restraint2 whereas the very privileges  
of a married woman's position often     
become hindrances in the way of her     
,salvation4 ,no one can compel her to   
work1 and undesirable neighbours may    
visit her and tempt her to sin4         
,adjutant ,lee never relaxed hope or    
effort because success was difficult of 
realization4 ,there are bright stars in 
her crown of jewels whom she discovered 
in the depths2 but after a woman has    
been restored to her family1 the past   
forgiven and laid aside1 her dear ones  
are naturally unwilling for the past to 
be recorded1 and in this book we must   
content ourselves with a very slight    
sketch of one who has passed beyond the 
touch of pain4  ,a married woman had    
worn out the patience of a loving       
family4 ,so ruinous to the happiness and
 well-being was her presence in the     
home1 that when at last she went away   

her nearest made no effort to bring her 
back4 ,the ,adjutant found her in the   
depths of sin1 and determined1 by the   
grace of ,god1 that she should be saved4
 ,this was one of the most difficult    
cases she ever undertook4 ,the woman had
 lost hope and will power1 and it took  
love that would not let go1 and faith   
that would not accept defeat1 before the
 desire to rise again stole into the    
poor heart made captive of the devil4   
,at last the ,adjutant persuaded her to 
attend the meetings and there she found 
deliverance4 ,after a few weeks ,kate   
,lee got in touch with the husband in a 
distant town1 but his family had        
suffered too much at their mother's     
hands for him readily to consent to his 
wife's return4 ,yet he was not a        
hard-hearted man1 and upon the          
suggestion of a reconciliation1 if1 for 
six months1 his wife proved herself to  
be indeed a changed woman1 he consented4
 ,during that trying probation the      
,adjutant mothered this soul1 who1 with 

tottering steps1 had turned her face    
homeward1 and she won through4  ,at the 
end of the allotted time a letter       
brought the husband to a meeting-place4 
,he looked apprehensive1 but meeting the
 wistful eyes of a well-dressed1 comely 
woman1 he saw once again the wife he    
loved and the mother his children loved4
 ,that day he bore her off to the       
expectant but anxious home4 ,with       
beating hearts1 the daughters waited the
 arrival1 but it was not the abandoned  
drunkard who had spoilt their home1 and 
horrified and frightened them1 who stood
 on the doorstep with father4 ,it was   
just mother4 ,home was really home once 
more4 ,mother at the head of the table1 
mother's hand here1 there1 upon         
everything4 ,then she became ill4       
,months of agony followed4 ,the doctor  
ordered stimulants2 these were refused  
to the end4 ,slowly the delivered soul  
slipped down death's river2 then1 as it 
met the sea of eternity1 she looked up4 
',all's well6' she said1 and crossed the

 bar4   ,it was through the             
house-to-house canvass of a ,salvation  
,army ,assurance ,agent that ,adjutant  
,lee came into contact with the ,parrot 
family at ,brighton4 ,they lived in a   
poor enough street and house2 but       
thinking people who live close to the   
working classes know that pounds a week 
which should go into the homes          
frequently find their way to the        
saloon-keeper's till4 ',the only saving 
,i want to think about is to get my     
husband saved from the drink1' ,mrs4    
,parrot had told the agent1 and1 like a 
wise man1 he reported the incident to   
,kate ,lee4  ,it was ,sunday morning4   
,there was a tap at the door2 a little  
child appeared1 took one look at the    
pure1 radiant face there1 and           
disappeared saying aloud to his mother1 
',there's a ,salvation ,army lady at the
 door1 mother1 and ,i don't think you   
ought to send her away4' ,kate ,lee     
heard the words1 and uninvited1 slipped 
into the passage4 ,meeting the mother1  

she said gently1 ',if ,i have a welcome 
from the child1 ,i am sure of one from  
you4'  ,that morning the strings of     
,mrs4 ,parrot's harp of hope were       
reduced to one4 ,a brave-hearted girl1  
she had started married life determined 
to fill it with music1 despite the      
prophecies that she was a fool to marry 
,parrot4 ,but the strings of her harp   
broke one by one1 and this morning there
 was no song in her heart2 she could see
 no star in the heavy sky4 ,she was a   
fine type of the working woman2 had been
 servant in a good family1 and had had a
 godly ,sunday ,school teacher who had  
taught her the reality of ,god and the  
efficacy of prayer4 ,through all the    
wretched1 terrible years of her married 
life1 she had prayed and hoped for      
deliverance from the earthly hell in    
which she and her children lived4 ,the  
week before ,adjutant ,lee's visit she  
had in desperation gone to a spiritual  
leader and implored him to try and      
reform her husband1 and had received the

 extraordinary reply1 ',well1 you must  
bear with this little habit4 ,i may tell
 you ,i have the same weakness myself4' 
,little habit indeed6 ,it had lost      
,parrot two businesses4 ,now he pushed a
 barrow1 hawking anything he had money  
to buy2 generally the proceeds went in  
drink1 his family starved and lived in  
terror of him1 and his wife1 the soul of
 respectability1 could not keep the     
family decent4  ,a year ago1 her        
patience completely worn out1 she had   
told him not to come home any more4     
,this was the last straw to ,parrot's   
own wretchedness4 ,he went to a chemist1
 purchased some oxalic acid1 dropped it 
into a pint of beer and drank it2       
stumbling into the street1 overcome by  
pain and gasping for breath1 he fell to 
the ground4 ,the police picked him up1  
took him to the hospital and his life   
was saved4 ,when he had sufficiently    
recovered to go before the magistrate1  
he was sent to jail for a week2 while in
 there1 he made desperate resolves that 

he would do better2 but once released1  
life went on as before4  ,mrs4 ,parrot  
lifted her eyes to the ,adjutant's face4
 ,was ,god going to help her after all8 
,the ,adjutant invited her to the       
meetings4 ,she frankly said her husband 
had no clothes to wear4 ',where was he8'
 ',upstairs in bed4' ,the ,adjutant     
asked if she might go up and see him4   
,mrs4 ,parrot thought she had better go 
and inquire4  ,a ,salvation ,army woman 
wanted to come up to his bedroom and see
 him lying drunk in bed6 ,the impudence6
 ,he would show her out of this ,british
 workman's home quicker than she had    
come in4 ,lunging into his rough        
clothes1 and staggering down the stairs1
 with muttering lips and angry eyes1    
came ,parrot4 ,he found ,kate ,lee      
talking with his children4 ,she looked  
up at him with a smile and said1 ',they 
told me ,i was coming to a drunkard's   
home1 but these don't look like a       
drunkard's children4 ,the dears6'       
,parrot was struck dumb and stood with a

 strangely-working face and a peculiar  
tearing at his throat staring at this   
fair1 fragile woman4 ',i want you to    
come to our meeting to-night1' continued
 the ,adjutant4 ',mrs4 ,parrot tells me 
you haven't any good clothes2 but ,i'll 
have a full suit ready for you in time1 
and shall expect you there4' ,she prayed
 and was gone4  ,this was the first     
vision of ,divine love that ,parrot had 
ever seen4 ,born in a beer shop1        
fighting and quarrelling from childhood1
 his life had been a hideous1 hopeless  
failure4 ,hell he understood--felt2 but 
such words as ,god1 ,heaven1 ,love1 had 
meant nothing to him at all4 ,now they  
did4 ,love seemed to shine all over that
 woman4 ,angels' wings never looked     
lovelier to human eyes than the ,army   
blue of ,adjutant ,kate's uniform looked
 to ,parrot4  ,by-and-by a parcel       
arrived4 ,it contained shirt1 trousers1 
coat and vest1 socks and boots1 collar1 
tie1 and even a handkerchief4 ,parrot   
handled them with wonder4 ,he had never 

worn such clothes--the ,adjutant had    
begged them from a gentleman4 ,he put   
them on1 and walked up and down the back
 yard4 ,how good it felt to be well     
dressed--to look respectable4  ,meeting 
time arrived and1 piloted by his        
wondering wife1 ,parrot went to the     
hall4 ',let's go up out of the draught1'
 diplomatized ,mrs4 ,parrot1 and edged  
her man as near to the front as         
possible4 ,kate ,lee gloried in ,god    
that night4 ,she told of ,his boundless 
love1 ,his seeking--seeking to find1 and
 make good and happy1 every soul of man4
 ,parrot and his wife knelt at the      
penitent-form4  ,next morning ,parrot   
felt desperately ill1 but the craving   
for strong drink had gone4 ,he must face
 life in earnest and see about providing
 for the family4 ,he must have something
 to sell4 ,mrs4 ,parrot remembered a    
kind-hearted man who had promised1 that 
if ever her husband tried to do better1 
that he would help him4 ,parrot walked  
several miles to find this man1 who     

trusted him with a dollar's worth of    
fish4  ,the spiritual life in this new  
convert was very feeble4 ,parrot felt   
comfortable in his mind1 and happy to   
believe that angels still walked this   
earth1 and that one had come his way4   
,an ambition had come into his weak1    
undisciplined will to make a decent home
 for his wife and children4 ,he would   
have been content to have let things    
rest there4 ,but ,kate ,lee bore down   
upon him1 not only with smiles1 but     
commands4 ,he must fight for ,god4 ,he  
must tell all his townspeople of his    
conversion4 ,parrot was terrified1 but  
there was no escape4 ,when the ,adjutant
 arrived with the band to carry him off1
 he slipped out of the back door1 but   
there he was met by the wisest of       
recruiting sergeants1 a man who         
understood men and loved them4          
,trembling in every limb1 ,parrot was   
marched off to ,the ,army ,hall1 and sat
 by the ,adjutant on the platform4 ,in  
an open-air meeting in his own street1  

an ,army cap was placed on his head4    
,there could be no turning back4 ,he was
 literally carried up the ,delectable   
,mountains and shown higher views of    
life2 and1 seeing them1 he desired them4
  ,to-day1 he is proud of his ,salvation
 ,army family1 and of his good wife1 who
 is the neighbours' friend1 helping them
 in trouble1 comforting them in         
bereavement1 praying with them in       
distress4 ,when ,the ,general called for
 homes for the destitute ,austrian      
children1 the ,parrot household was the 
first in the corps to open their door4  
,mrs4 ,parrot has a prosperous business1
 as also have two of their sons1 and    
,parrot is in steady work4 ,he is       
grateful for temporal mercies1 but no   
words can express the gratitude of this 
man and his wife for the miracle of     
,salvation1 the deliverance from sin1   
the love for the things of ,god1 which  
has come to their home and their hearts 
by the grace of ,god1 brought to them by
 the love that feared no insult1 no     

violence2 the faith that would not be   
disappointed1 of ,kate ,lee4     ,,xiii 
,,kate ,,lee',s ,,secret    ,of ,kate   
,lee ,general ,bramwell ,booth writes1  
',she was one of those conquering souls 
who seldom look like a conqueror4 ,she  
presented an extraordinary contrast4    
,she was weak1 and yet she was strong4  
,she was poor1 and yet she was one of   
the richest4 ,she was intensely human1  
with many of the most marked limitations
 which belong to the human1 and yet she 
was in an extraordinary degree          
spiritual1 yes1 even divine4'  ,these   
contrasts were clear to all and puzzling
 to many4 ,not a few people both in and 
outside the ranks of ,the ,army have    
asked the question1 ',wherein lay the   
secret of ,kate ,lee's success8' ,one   
person1 accustomed only to surface      
views1 gave answer1 ',it is that she    
always aims to win trophies4'  ,let any 
one determine to gain distinction for   
himself by lifting from the mire of sin 
souls robbed by the devil of hope and   

will power1 and even desire for         
deliverance2 let them essay to bring    
back from the far country wanderers sunk
 to the level of the brute2 let them    
attempt to break bands of habit forged  
by the devil1 or to deliver the prey    
from the terrible one4 ,he will discover
 the impossibility of his enterprise if 
not his folly4  ,desire to win spiritual
 battles in order to gain personal      
reputation is age-old4 ,from the day    
that ,simon the sorcerer offered ,peter 
money in exchange for miracle-working   
power1 the exercise of which would have 
placed him upon a pedestal above his    
fellows1 the rebuke has rung out1 ',thy 
heart is not right in the sight of      
,god4'  ,shortly before ,jesus left ,his
 little band of disciples1 with the     
charge to preach the ,gospel to every   
creature1 ,he spoke with them on the    
subject of spiritual fruitfulness4 ,he  
assured them that1 ',herein is ,my      
,father glorified1 that ye bear much    
fruit1' and in one sentence ,he made    

clear the secret of spiritual success4  
,he said1 ',he that abideth in ,me1 and 
,i in him1 the same bringeth forth much 
fruit1 for without ,me ye can do        
nothing4'  ,the failure of the ,church  
of ,christ to extend ,his ,kingdom upon 
earth by great sweeping victories1 lies 
in the imperfect apprehension or the    
neglect of this declaration4 ,tens of   
thousands of professing ,christians do  
not abide in ,christ2 consequently1 ,he 
cannot satisfy their soul4 ,the cares   
and pleasures of the world1 and the     
deceitfulness of riches1 occupy them as 
they do the ungodly2 for their pleasures
 they turn to the world4 ,a smaller     
section have faith in ,christ1 and      
realize the joys of ,salvation1 and     
comfort of ,his presence1 but they do   
not yield themselves to ,him for        
service4 ,a smaller section dedicate    
themselves to ,his service1 but rush to 
work for ,god without receiving         
directions from ,him1 with the result   
that much effort is wasted4 ,if every   

consecrated soul would pay heed to      
,christ's direction1 how gloriously     
would ,his ,kingdom extend6 ,not that   
the battle would ever become an easy    
one4 ,the powers of evil against which  
we fight are second only in strength to 
those of righteousness and light4 ,in   
conflict between these powers there will
 always be the sacrifices of war to     
reckon upon1 the spade work1 the        
tunnelling1 the weariness2 surprises of 
the enemy1 rushed advances1 sick and    
wounded to care for1 and captured       
territory to be occupied1 organized1 and
 governed1 before the final victory4    
,kate ,lee was one of the company that  
dwell in ,god4 ,it is difficult to write
 of her secret soul life2 for1 keeping  
no journal she made no record of the    
dealings between her soul and her       
,beloved2 no fights and victories over  
the powers of evil1 no story of         
following the heavenly vision1 nor does 
her very scrappy correspondence contain 
out-pourings of spiritual experience4   

,her life was a lovely epistle of       
week-day holiness for all to read1 but  
it was the outward sign of an inward    
experience4 ,locked in a private box1 a 
,covenant was found after her death     
which is as a key to the inner sanctuary
 in which her life was lived with       
,christ in ,god4 ,it reads as follows3--
      ,,covenant     ,solemnly entered  
into1 ,january1 #ahig2 ,renewed1        
,january1 #aiah     ,,to ,,my ,,precious
 ,,lord ,,and ,,master      ,in the     
first moments of this year ,i present   
myself to ,thee in the     deepest      
humiliation of soul1 sensible of my     
utter unworthiness4 ,i     desire       
nothing in the world so much as to be   
,thine1 and with the     utmost         
solemnity1 surrender myself fully unto  
,thee4      ,i declare ,thee1 ,o ,lord1 
this day1 to be my ,god1 and myself to  
be     ,thine own child4 ,hear1 ,o ,thou
 ,god of ,heaven1 and record it in ,thy 
,book of ,remembrance1 that ,i am       
,thine1 only ,thine4      ,from this    

first day of ,january do ,i solemnly    
renounce all that has     had dominion  
over me1 and every sin1 and every lust1 
and in ,thy     name1 set myself in     
eternal opposition to the powers of     
hell4     ,the whole frame of my nature1
 all the faculties of my mind1 all the  
members of my body would ,i present to  
,thee this day1 as a living             
sacrifice4     ,i consecrate myself to  
,thee2 all my worldly possessions2 and  
,i pray    ,thee to give me the strength
 and courage to exert for ,thy glory all
    the influence ,i may have over      
others4 ,receive and wash me4 ,forgive  
all past failings1 clothe me with ,thy  
perfect righteousness1 and    sanctify  
me throughout by the power of ,thy      
,spirit4     ,help me that ,i may never 
withdraw in any point from this renewal 
of    my consecration and covenant4     
,help me to live in the spirit of real  
consecration and crucifixion2    and    
should ,i fail in carrying out this     
covenant in all points as ,i    ought1  

then1 dear ,lord1 forgive and lead me to
 perfection4     ,in ,thy strength ,i   
promise to be true till death4 ,until   
then1 keep1    guide1 and direct me4    
,remember1 dear ,lord1 this covenant    
when ,i am about to pass away2    and   
should ,i then be incapable of          
recollecting it1 look with pity    on   
,thy dying child4 ,put strength and     
confidence into my departing    spirit1 
and receive it to the embrace of ,thy   
everlasting love4     ,for ,jesus       
,christ's sake4     ,may this petition  
be granted4                             
7,signed7 ,,kate ,,lee4                 
,renewed1 ,january #ast1 #aibj  ,another
 valuable document traces for us ,kate  
,lee's seeking after sanctification4    
,after having lived in the enjoyment of 
this blessing for nearly thirty years1  
she was asked by the editor of ',the    
,officer' to write her experience4 ,the 
following article appeared in that      
magazine three years ago3--      ,soon  
after ,i was converted ,i realized a    

great need in my heart4 ,i     had      
turned my back on the old life1 and my  
face was toward ,god4 ,i     had started
 to travel the upward way4 ,for the     
first few weeks ,i     went with a rush1
 the joy of the new life within buoyed  
me up4 ,i     felt as though ,i was     
walking on air4 ,i did not feel any     
strain of     the upward tread4 ,but    
soon ,i began to feel the tension of the
     daily struggle1 the weary march4   
,there were obstacles in that way       
that impeded my progress4 ,my           
circumstances were against me1 and      
the influences surrounding me had a     
tendency to draw me from     ,christ4   
,i began to stumble and fall4 ,the      
tempter was soon at my side             
suggesting1 ',you're not converted2 it's
 all a delusion2 you     would not feel 
as you do2 you would not fail as you    
have done1     if you were really a     
child of ,god4 ,give it up1 it's no use 
trying1'     he argued4 ,and1 worst of  
all1 ,i knew sin still existed in my    

heart4 ,how often passion had broken my 
peace4 ,how many times     bitterness   
and evil had manifested itself in my    
nature4 ,was ,i     mistaken8 ,had ,i   
ever been converted8 ,was it all a      
delusion8      ,just then ,god in ,his  
love and pity came to my heart2 gave me 
a     revelation4 ,he not only showed me
 myself and my sin1 but showed     me my
 need4 ,i needed something1 and as ,i   
sat in a holiness     meeting ,i        
realized that need was sanctification4  
,for months the     word sanctification 
was to me a heavy burden2 a torture4 ,i 
could     not really grasp its meaning4 
,i read and re-read the theory of       
sanctification1 going from one authority
 on the subject to     another1 only to 
turn away still more puzzled4 ,i then   
set myself     to seek publicly and was 
several times found at the holiness     
table1 pleading for the blessing that ,i
 failed to understand4     ,again and   
again ,i came to the altar1 and1 as far 
as ,i     understood1 laid my all there4

 ,but as soon as the test came1         
without realizing that ,i did it1 ,i    
took from off the altar the     sin ,i  
had laid there1 or the gifts that ,i had
 surrendered to     ,god4      ,this is 
where ,i failed many times1 and during  
my officership ,i have     found scores 
of other souls who have failed on this  
very point4     ,they come sincerely to 
the altar1 definitely laying their gift 
there1 a living sacrifice2 but when the 
knife is felt1 the     realization of   
the dying comes upon them as they feel  
the hurt and     understand fully what  
it means1 they shrink and draw back4    
,abram's     experience1 related in     
,genesis xv41 has been a great help to  
me4 ,he     had to wait for the fire4   
,he prayed all day1 even until eventide1
     and then the birds of prey came    
down2 but he stood by the sacrifice     
and drove them off4 ,then the fire came 
and consumed the sacrifice4      ,that  
was just the point to which ,i had to   
get4 ,i had laid my all on     the      

altar1 but then ,i had to wait for the  
fire4 ,meanwhile1 the birds     of      
doubt1 fear1 and discouragement came    
flying around4 ,i had to get     up     
again and again to drive them off1 and  
hold on to ,god4      ,fresh light came2
 a new path opened up4 ,the laying of   
self on the     altar meant following   
,god fully and showing my colours       
everywhere4     ,could ,i do it8 ,it was
 hard to die to self1 and say1 ',yes1   
,lord4'     ,but as ,i said it1 ,i felt 
,i was accepted1 and afterwards1 when ,i
     carried out that vow1 joy flooded  
my soul and ,i realized that the        
,spirit of the ,lord was upon me4 ,the  
desire to sin was removed1 and     my   
heart yearned to be kept pure and clean4
      ,i have found the need of great   
watchfulness1 and have needed much      
prayer to keep my soul in touch with    
,god and on fire for precious     souls4
 ,although ,i realized1 after ,i was    
sanctified1 that ,i was over     sin and
 no longer under the power of sin1 and  

that ,i was cleansed     from the desire
 to sin1 yet in his subtlety the devil  
has come again     and again and striven
 to bring me down4      ,sometimes he   
has come as an angel of light1 so that  
,i have been led     to the very verge  
of sin1 tempted to indulge in what      
seemed at the     moment harmless1      
perhaps because others1 who professed as
 much as ,i     did1 indulged in it too4
 ,tempted to shrink from the sacrifice  
that a     separated life must mean2    
tempted to give way to the flesh1 one's 
natural desires and inclinations1 ,i    
have even allowed the devil to     take 
me to the edge of a great spiritual     
precipice1 but ,god1 in ,his     mercy1 
has flashed ,his wonderful light upon my
 path in time to show     me where ,i   
was1 and what would be the outcome if ,i
 yielded to the     temptation4 ,oh1 how
 it caused me to pray and seek strength 
which     enabled me to overcome6       
,prayer has been my source of help1 when
 burdens have pressed so     heavily    

upon me that they threatened to crush my
 spirit2 when     disappointments1      
misrepresentations almost overwhelmed   
me1 prayer     has brought strength and 
comfort1 a courage that could face a    
world of bitterness and scorn4 ,i have  
proved that prayer will     enable me to
 retain the substance of holiness4      
,prayer enables me     to retain a      
passion for souls2 keep it burning in   
hours of     disappointment and failure1
 indifference and hardness1 when men    
and devils rise in power against me4    
,one must tread the path of holiness    
carefully1 with a watchful eye     and  
ear always open to ,his voice1 and a    
spirit ever ready to obey4     ,but it  
is a wonderful way1 a way of purity1    
where the soul can see     ,god1 even in
 the struggles of life4 ,a way of joy2  
the deepest of     joys4 ,the           
realization of ,his smile enables me to 
live independent     of all the joys of 
the world and to rejoice in the hour of 
sorrow4     ,a way of power2 when the   

channel is clear ,he works through it   
and     accomplishes ,his will4  ,a     
personal experience of ,full ,salvation 
was the secret of ,kate ,lee's success4 
,this life was not spasmodic4 ,she did  
not pass in and out of the holy place1  
or step on and off the highway of       
holiness4 ,she dwelt there4 ,that does  
not imply that never during those thirty
 years was she overcome by ,satan4      
,once1 into a deep sorrow was poured the
 bitterness of gall through the         
wickedness of another4 ,the enemy came  
in like a flood1 threatening to         
overwhelm and root up many precious     
things1 but the ,spirit of the ,lord was
 there to lift up a standard against    
him4 ',if ye forgive not your enemies1  
neither will your ,father forgive you1' 
was the word that came to her heart4    
,she closed her lips1 hushed her sobs1  
crept to the feet of her ,lord1 where   
are ever the print of cruel nails1 to   
remind ,his children of ,his sufferings 
and ,his forgiveness4  ',i was wrong1'  

she said1 'very wrong4 ,i must forgive1 
,i do forgive'2 and to the close of her 
life she lavished love upon one who had 
sore wounded her4 ',if we sin we have an
 ,advocate4' ,she laid her case in ,his 
hands1 and left it there4  ,the officers
 who served as lieutenants with ,kate   
,lee give us glimpses of the life she   
lived in the privacy of her quarters4   
,we may stand at the door of the        
sanctuary where she met with ,god and   
learn a little4 ,says one of her        
lieutenants1 ',it seemed to me that she 
prayed without ceasing4 ,her life was   
one continual looking to ,god4 ,she     
prayed upon rising4 ,we prayed together 
after breakfast2 later1 she went to her 
room for an hour's private prayer and   
study2 for special undertakings or      
emergencies she had special seasons of  
waiting upon ,god4'  ,how much there was
 to pray for4 ,her own soul and that of 
her lieutenant1 that they might be kept 
in touch with ,god4 ,her corps1 every   
department of it2 the local officers1   

the band1 the songsters1 the home       
league2 the soldiers and converts2 the  
town1 with its sin and indifference to  
the claims of ,christ1 the finance4     
,then1 hers was not a small soul4 ,she  
loved the whole wonderful ,salvation    
,army of which she was a unit1 and her  
leaders and comrades in all lands were  
remembered at the ,throne of ,god4 ,it  
was a great strength to her to feel that
 she lived in the atmosphere of prayer4 
,when in the midst of a specially heavy 
battle for souls1 she would write to    
comrades she knew had power in prayer   
and beg them specially to help her to   
fight through to victory4  ,very real   
were the powers of darkness and evil    
against which this frail little woman   
set herself2 sometimes they pressed her 
sore4 ,she felt something of the sorrows
 and travail of soul of her ,saviour1 of
 whom it is written1 ',and being in an  
agony1 ,he prayed4' ,at times she       
suffered from depressions so heavy that 
they prostrated her4 ,the lieutenant    

says1 ',at these times1 all ,i could do 
was to let her feel that ,i was carrying
 on1 whilst she sought her chief remedy1
 prayer4 ,by and by1 she would come from
 her room1 strengthened and peaceful1   
ready again for the fight4'  ,writes    
another of her helpers3--      ,she was 
a wonderful officer in public1 but ,i   
love best to remember     how she       
conquered in her own private life4 ,when
 we remember how she     attacked the   
devil's kingdom1 we can well believe    
that he did not     leave her           
unmolested4 ,she had her full share of  
difficulties1     hardnesses1           
disappointments1 and physical weakness2 
but1 whatever     her feelings were1 she
 rose above them1 and went on with her  
work4      ,in her office1 over the     
fireplace1 hung a large picture of      
,christ     in the ,garden of           
,gethsemane4 ,on her writing table was  
the same     picture1 but small2 so1 if 
she lifted her eyes from her writing1   
she was reminded of ,him whom she loved 

with her whole heart4 ,as ,he           
conquered by prayer1 so did she4 ,one   
morning1 one of the local     officers  
called to see her4 ,when ,i went to her 
room to fetch her1     her eyes were red
 with weeping4 ',dear1 ,i can't go down 
like this1'     she said2 'will you see 
to the business for me8' ,she had been  
pleading--agonizing with ,god4      ,she
 was very sweet to me4 ,i can see her   
smile now as she first     welcomed me  
to the quarters4 ,i was very timid and  
helpless in     public work when ,i     
became her lieutenant1 but she made me  
feel     that her responsibility was to 
make me a worthy officer4 ,she said1    
',i could get others to do the          
house-work2 you are to be my comrade    
in the fight4' ,she took me fully into  
her confidence1 consulted me     about  
corps organization1 difficulties1       
special efforts1     everything6 ,she   
would tell me all her plans and then ask
 for mine4      ,the first time she     
insisted upon my taking the ,sunday     

night address1     in spite of having   
laboriously prepared1 ,i was so nervous 
that ,i     stopped1 fairly played out1 
in the middle of my talk1 but she got   
up and encouraged me1 and asked the     
comrades to pray4 ,she helped me     so 
much that to give a ,bible address is   
not a difficulty now4 ,i     learned to 
forget myself4      ,had she a weakness8
 ,well1 it may seem much to say it1 but 
though ,i     lived with her so long1 ,i
 cannot think of one2 she was an        
all-round     conqueror4  ,writes still 
another lieutenant3--      ,how ,i love 
her memory6 ,my ,bible was her parting  
gift to me1 and in     it she marked the
 text3 ',in all thy way acknowledge     
,him1 and ,he     shall direct thy      
paths4' ,she passed on to me the method 
that     governed her own life4  ,in    
nothing did ,kate ,lee show her likeness
 to her ,lord more than in her practical
 unselfishness4 ,he wanted nothing from 
the world4 ,he came to give ,himself to 
save it4 ,it was so with her4 ,a woman  

so popular could have drawn to herself  
the homage and service of the crowd2 but
 here she stood aloof4 ,she welcomed1   
indeed she sought1 gifts and service for
 the work of ,the ,army and the poor1   
but she wanted nothing for herself4     
,when she and her lieutenant were so    
pressed with work that they scarcely had
 time to eat their food1 her eye would  
rove over the corps1 and she would      
select a girl whom she felt had a true  
appreciation of the ,kingdom of ,god1   
and ask her if she would like to come to
 the quarters to help with the          
house-work1 so that the officers might  
be freer for soul-saving4 ,many a girl  
counts it the honour of her life to have
 shared that saintly woman's home1 sat  
at her table1 joined in the prayers1 and
 done the work of the house4 ,the       
,adjutant and lieutenant paid her out of
 their small allowance4  ,to her        
soldiers1 ,kate ,lee delighted to preach
 the doctrine of ,full ,salvation from  
sin1 and greatly she rejoiced over those

 who entered into this glorious         
experience of freedom and power4  ,one  
comrade1 who had been a ,salvationist   
for twenty-seven years1 a white-haired1 
sweet-spirited man1 enjoyed his religion
 in the corps1 but was little more than 
a cypher as a soldier4 ,in a holiness   
meeting1 while the ,adjutant spoke from 
the text1 ',not by might1 nor by power1 
but by ,my ,spirit1 saith the ,lord1'   
the old soldier saw in a moment of      
revelation1 that if he were thoroughly  
yielded to ,god and obedient to the     
heavenly vision1 the ,holy ,spirit would
 cleanse him from sin1 and1 despite his 
lack of personality1 and very ordinary  
qualities1 would empower him for        
service4 ,he went forward to the        
holiness table1 seeking this experience4
 ,attached to the corps was a young     
men's ,bible class languishing for want 
of a leader4 ,a few evenings after his  
consecration1 the ,adjutant told this   
comrade that she wished him to take over
 the class4 ,the habit of years strong  

upon him1 he began to plead his         
unfitness2 but inwardly reminded of his 
covenant with ,god1 went away to pray   
and returned to say he was ready for    
service4  ,he laid hold upon those lads4
 ,many young men1 as officers1 soldiers1
 and bandsmen1 bless the day that       
,brother ,fenwick claimed them for ,god4
 ,they are the fruit of his service4    
,the ,adjutant was as watchful to help  
souls convicted of the need of a clean  
heart as to capture the unsaved4 ,a     
sister writes3--      ,i am indebted to 
,kate ,lee for leading me into the      
blessing of entire     sanctification4  
,attending a tent campaign she had      
inaugurated1 after     her address      
setting forth the experience of         
holiness1 she asked     those in the    
congregation who were living up to that 
standard to     rise4 ,condemnation     
filled my soul4 ,i arose1 but only to   
slip out of     the tent by a far door4 
,the ,adjutant noticed the move1 and met
 me as     ,i was making my escape4     

,then she laboured until ,i knelt in    
full     surrender1 yielding my all to  
,god4 ,one of my chief difficulties was 
to wear ,army uniform1 but that was     
included in my consecration1 and        
from the putting on of my first ,army   
bonnet1 nearly twenty years     ago1 ,i 
have been proud to witness for ,christ  
in this way4  ,as a spiritual surgeon   
with skill in diagnosis1 ,kate ,lee     
excelled4 ,a sergeant-major of great    
devotion and good cheer fell into deep  
spiritual depression4 ,no amount of     
pulling himself together or shaking free
 of the dumps1 availed anything4 ,he    
became as miserable as when first       
convicted of sin4 ',but why8' he asked  
himself the question over and over4 ',i 
love ,god with all my heart2 ,i am fully
 consecrated to ,his service2 then what 
is amiss8' ,no reply4 ,to a             
,watch-,night service this man came1    
under a vow not to leave his knees until
 he discovered the reason of this cloud 
and obtained deliverance4  ,during the  

meeting1 he1 the chief local officer of 
the corps1 made confession before his   
comrades and knelt at the holiness      
table4 ,the ,adjutant sought to discover
 his difficulty4 ',sergeant-,major1 have
 you a grudge against any person8 ,now1 
think carefully4' ,the man was silent1  
searching his heart4 ,presently he      
replied1 ',you have found the spot4'    
,years before1 a man had deceived him in
 a matter of business1 thereby bringing 
much trial into his home4 ,by dogged1   
hard work1 the material loss had been   
overtaken1 and the affair forgotten4    
,but there it lay in his heart4 ,the    
remembrance of the man's name brought   
with it feelings of resentment and      
contempt4 ',lord1 forgive me for my     
hardness of heart toward that man as ,i 
now forgive him1' he cried4 ',cleanse my
 soul from every stain of sin and fill  
me with perfect love4' ,in an instant   
the cloud lifted from his soul1 and his 
heart was filled with singing4 ,that was
 a remarkable ,watch-,night service4    

,other battles were fought and won1 and 
not until two o'clock on ,new ,year's   
morning did the meeting close1 with a   
final burst of praise1 and with renewed 
consecration to fight for souls during  
the coming year4  ,dr4 ,garfield ,carse1
 of ,sunderland1 became a soldier of the
 ,sunderland corps1 and entered upon his
 medical career there1 during the       
,adjutant's term4 ,he says3--           
,adjutant ,lee was a great advocate of  
holiness4 ,she preached the     doctrine
 and lived the life4 ,that was the key  
to her success4 ,her     theme expressed
 in many ways was1 ',put off the old    
man1 and put     on ,jesus ,christ4     
,live so that your life reminds people  
of ,his     life4' ,she was a great     
spiritual help to me2 understanding the 
claims of a busy man1 she would drop    
into my surgery and say1 ',i     have   
come to visit you for five minutes4'    
,she would read from     the ,bible1 a  
few choice verses that had refreshed her
 own soul     that day1 and then would  

kneel and pray for me that ,i might     
represent ,christ in my particular      
sphere4 ,she was a great woman6  ,an old
 local officer illustrates her meekness1
 when as a young officer she was        
impulsive and arrived at quick          
conclusions on incomplete evidence4     
',she believed ,i had done a wrong1 and 
wanted me to ask forgiveness of people  
who were themselves in the wrong1 but   
made a fair showing4 ,i said1 ',no1' and
 kept to it4 ,she did not turn bitter   
towards me1 nor 'turn me down1' but was 
kind and sorry4 ,by and by she saw she  
had been mistaken in her judgment1 and  
said sweetly1 ',ah1 yes1 ,i see ,i was  
wrong that time4'  ,says another1 ',what
 ,i thought she was when she came to us1
 ,i was sure that she was when she went 
away4'  ,kate ,lee had a settled        
conviction that 'the servant of the     
,lord must not strive4' ,a comrade      
says3--      ,if misunderstood1 she     
would not justify herself1 even in a way
     that seemed wise to me4 ,she would 

not attempt to hold her own4     ,she   
would stand up for others or for        
principle2 but for herself1     she     
trusted the ,lord to bring forth her    
righteousness as the     light1 and her 
judgment as the noonday4 ,she would say1
 ',it     doesn't pay to contend for    
self1 dear4 ,it ruffles one's spirit    
and lessens one's influence4 ,we must   
stoop to conquer4' ,i was     impetuous 
and hot before ,i knew her1 but her life
 taught me the     meaning of the       
beatitude1 ',blessed are the meek1 for  
they shall     inherit the earth4'      
,during the last year of her life1      
,satan gathered his forces for a last   
onslaught upon ,kate ,lee's soul4 ,she  
was stationed at the ,international     
,training ,garrison in ,london1 and her 
health continuing to be frail1 a change 
was thought to be desirable for her4    
,therefore1 she was appointed to take   
charge of the ,home of ,rest for        
,officers at ,ramsgate4 ,only once      
before had she found it difficult to    

trust ,god concerning an appointment4   
,as to her health1 she was quite        
prepared to die at her post1 but to     
leave the work of training those cadets 
for the field-work which she understood 
so well and loved with such a           
passion--could it be the will of ,god8  
,for some weeks the clear shining of her
 faith and joy suffered an eclipse4 ,she
 maintained a calm exterior1 but1 in    
sore spiritual distress1 sent for an    
old1 trusted comrade to come and see    
her4 ,this officer tells of a very      
sacred interview3--      ,when it was   
convenient for us to have a quiet time  
in her room1     she turned upon me a   
face marked with intense suffering4 ,she
     said1 ',i cannot feel this is      
,god's will1 and so ,i cannot be        
happy4 ,i have never felt like this     
before in all my experience4'     ',but1
 ,katy1 what have we always preached8   
,don't we still believe     that a soul1
 really committed to ,god1 cannot be    
moved1 cannot be     hurt1 except by    

,his permission8 ,he knows you are here4
 ,if1 to     give up the thing you love 
best in life1 is ,his test for you1     
can't you trust ,him and not take it    
from man1 but from ,him1 and     say1   
,thy will be done8'  ,much searching    
communion passed between the            
sister-comrades1 and at last in answer  
to the question1 ',can you not just now 
take life from ,god1 just as you have   
done for thirty years8' ,kate replied   
with decision1 ',why1 of course ,i can1 
and ,i will4' ,then the comrades        
rejoiced together1 knelt in prayer1 and 
when they rose1 peace had returned to   
,kate's heart and shone out of her eyes4
 ',she looked ten years younger1' says  
her comrade4 ',i had an appointment to  
keep and she some shopping to do4 ,she  
took a basket on her arm and tripped    
down the street with me as gaily as the 
girl she was when ,i first knew her4'   
,shortly orders came to proceed to      
,headquarters4 ,she was needed for      
training work in another part of the    

world4  ,then1 sudden1 unexpected       
illness brought her face to face with   
eternity4 ,after the doctor who gave the
 verdict had departed1 the little maid  
went to ,kate ,lee's room to see if she 
needed anything and found her in tears4 
',leave me a little while1' she said4   
,alone with her ,lord1 ,kate ,lee       
realized many things4 ,there was no     
mistake4 ,gently her ,heavenly ,father  
had been loosening her hold on the sword
 here1 in preparation for higher        
service4 ,this last trial of faith had  
been allowed that she might know at the 
end of her career1 as at the beginnings 
of her service1 that she chose the will 
of ,god before her own way4 ,by-and-by  
the little maid1 with leaden sorrow     
dragging at her heart1 crept back to the
 ,staff-,captain's door4 ,she started as
 she met ,kate's gaze4 ,it was full of  
unutterable peace and joy4 ,she smiled  
and stretched out her hands4 ',it is all
 well4 ,god's will is peace1' she said4 
,from that time until the end1 only a   

few days later1 except for the heat of  
the furnace of suffering1 ,satan's fiery
 darts missed the mark4 ,kate had faced 
and overcome the last attack of the     
enemy4 ,she won through to the end4     
,,xiv  ,,off ,,duty    ,the ,regulations
 of ,the ,salvation ,army provide for   
its officers to have1 under ordinary    
circumstances1 from two to three weeks' 
furlough yearly4 ,this respite from     
strain upon body and soul which the work
 involves is brief enough2 it is due to 
their work1 and it is expected that     
officers should make the most of it4 ,to
 assist them1 the authorities have      
instituted ,homes of ,rest at pleasant  
seaside resorts2 at these institutions1 
for a very moderate charge1 under good  
conditions and healthful surroundings1 a
 thorough rest may be enjoyed4 ,but     
officers are perfectly free to make     
their own arrangements if they so       
desire4  ,how did ,kate ,lee take her   
holidays8 ,what spirit moved her when   
the pressure of responsibility for her  

particular charge was removed2 when     
professionalism was1 for the moment1    
dropped8 ',tell me about her holidays8' 
,i asked of an old lieutenant4  ,she    
replied3 ',i never knew ,adjutant ,lee  
take a holiday in the usual sense of the
 word4 ,if she furloughed in ,london1   
much of her time was spent in visiting  
her converts2 if at the seaside1 her    
,bible notes accompanied her thither1 to
 be revised4 ,a few years ago she and ,i
 spent a few days together in the       
country4 ,for months the ,adjutant had  
been working at very high pressure2 she 
was too tired to read or write1 but not 
too tired to meditate upon ,god and ,his
 goodness4 ,those five days are a       
precious memory to me because of the    
interchange of thought we enjoyed4'  ,so
 that officers may take their brief     
furlough without attracting attention to
 themselves1 or receiving unlimited     
calls for service1 they lay aside their 
uniform4 ,the only 'private' clothing   
that ,kate allowed herself were two or  

three white blouses1 a panama hat for   
summer1 and a blue felt for winter4     
,these she wore1 with her uniform blue  
serge skirt and 'three-quarter' jacket4 
,when on holiday1 she often travelled in
 her uniform so as to have more         
opportunities for blessing the people4  
',tell me about ,kate's holidays1' ,i   
asked1 still curious of ,commandant     
,lucy ,lee4 ,into her eyes stole a      
faraway look1 and after some hesitation1
 came vague answers4  ',well1' she      
began1 'last year we had our holiday    
together1 preparing the ,home of ,rest  
at ,ramsgate2 the year before1 ,kate    
came to me in ,france4 ,we had a lovely 
time visiting the hospitals and camps   
together2 but1 of course1 it was not    
exactly a rest4 ,and the year before    
that we spent them fixing up this little
 home4 ,we did enjoy that4 ,and the year
 before that8----'  ,something else     
unsatisfactory to my way of thinking4   
',but tell about a nice restful holiday 
at the seaside1 or in the country where1

 out in the open1 ,kate just unwound and
 was refreshed for her work4'           
',well'--,lucy half closed her eyes and 
smiled wistfully--'somehow there always 
seemed something to prevent plans like  
that4 ,so long as we could be together  
and have a quiet time1 we were perfectly
 happy4'  ,until the end of her life1 a 
certain insularity clung to ,kate ,lee4 
,she gloried to fight in a crowd1 but   
she could not rest with a crowd4 ,when  
set free from duty1 all she longed for  
was some quiet corner with the          
protecting love of her sister--that love
 which perfectly understands and makes  
no demands--filling the days with       
tenderness4 ,as her sister suggests1    
something generally turned up that made 
arrangements for real rest and change   
difficult to arrange4 ,on the face of   
things1 we might judge that in this     
particular ,kate ,lee's usual common    
sense and good management failed her2   
but to one who has seen behind the      
scenes1 into the hidden life of this    

remarkable woman1 it would appear1      
rather1 that in the matter of rest1 as  
in other affairs touching her temporal  
happiness1 ,god shut her up to ,himself 
and taught her1 first for her own joy1  
and then through her life taught others 
the possibility of having nothing1 and  
yet possessing all things4  ,during one 
furlough1 ,kate determined to feel for  
herself the conditions of the very poor4
 ,to this end she spent a night amongst 
the women who frequent our ,women's     
,shelter in the ,east ,end of ,london4  
,dressing in rags1 she went to the door1
 paid her pence for a bed1 passed into  
the long dormitory and1 flattering      
herself that she was so well got up that
 she would not attract attention1 sat   
down beside her bunk4 ,but soon she     
discovered that she was the centre of   
discussion4  ',poor thing1 she's not    
used to this1' mumbled an old woman1    
steadily surveying her4 ,presently      
another1 remarking that she would need  
some supper1 offered her a mug of tea2  

another1 a piece of bread4 ,she accepted
 the bread1 but said she was not        
thirsty1 only tired1 and would go to    
bed4 ,she proceeded to lie down with her
 clothes on4 ,now the women were sure   
she had never been there before4 ',oo   
ever 'eard tell of agoing to bed wif    
close on8' they remarked in loud        
whispers4 ,but seeing the poor1 tired   
thing would not be advised1 they pitied 
her1 told her the most comfortable way  
to lie1 and left her alone4  ,the       
details of that long night remained     
clear in the ,adjutant's memory4 ,the   
miserable seared days of these women    
were echoed in their sleep4 ,groans2    
curses2 snatches of song2 angry or weary
 talk1 with heavy breathing troubled the
 night4 ,oh1 the sorrows that follow in 
the wake of sin2 it pressed upon ,kate  
,lee's heart until it felt like         
breaking4  ,with the first streak of    
dawn she rose1 and noiselessly stealing 
out1 escaped into the street4 ,she felt 
cold and sick4 ,standing at a corner1   

she hailed a bus4 ,the driver gave her a
 glance and drove on4 ,she hailed       
another and another1 but none would     
stop4 ,they did not want to carry such  
as she4 ,at last she managed to board a 
street car1 and the passengers eyed her 
as she crouched in a corner4 ,she knew1 
perhaps for the first time1 what it     
really meant to be poor1 and hungry1 and
 despised4 ,from that morning she       
believed that the very poor suffer more 
in spirit than in body1 and she used her
 experience powerfully to plead their   
cause4  ,one of her furloughs was spent 
in ,sunderland4 ,that visit is still the
 talk of the corps2 it seemed that in   
those few days she laid a hand of love  
upon all4 ,and how full was ,kate's     
heart of grateful joy when she turned   
homeward4 ,one of her most wonderful    
trophies1 after fighting a splendid     
fight for years1 had slipped back into  
the depths of sin4 ,she found him       
desperately ill and wretched2 drew him  
back to the ,saviour2 saw him restored  

and comforted1 and held his hands as he 
waded the river of death1 till his      
spirit reached the other side4 ,then she
 buried his mortal remains4  ,her longer
 furloughs1 those occasioned by illness1
 found her the same loving1 watchful1   
ministering spirit1 as when in health4  
,after the operation1 which followed her
 farewell from the field1 she spent a   
few days in hospital4 ,suffering much1  
and unable to sleep1 still she noticed  
that one of the nurses wore a sad       
expression4 ,waiting until she came to  
attend to her at midnight1 she engaged  
her in conversation1 and1 spiritual     
specialist that she was1 got to the root
 of the nurse's trouble4 ,she had lost  
faith and her life was sadly clouded4   
,at midnight4 while others slept1 in    
that palace of pain1 ,kate led her nurse
 to the ,saviour4  ,later1 at the       
,officers ,nursing ,home at ,highbury1  
,london1 she shared a room with an      
officer from ,india1 and delighted in   
this unexpected way to come in closer   

touch with our missionary work4 ,as     
health returned1 the two officers talked
 ,india to their hearts' content4 ,the  
major from the ,east confided her fears1
 that the little girls of the           
,industrial ,home she had just left     
would miss their ,christmas this year4  
',do not worry about it1 they shall have
 their dollies1' replied the ,adjutant4 
,as soon as she was able to write1 she  
sent letters to many friends1 begging   
for dressed dolls in time to reach      
,india by ,christmas4 ,fifty dollies    
take some getting1 and the number was   
still incomplete when the ,adjutant     
arrived at the ,bexhill ,home of ,rest4 
,an officer who was resting in the ,home
 writes3--      ,she was just a shadow1 
sweet1 mostly silent1 with a cheerful1  
heartening smile4 ,the officers saw in  
her the visible proof that              
unrestrained service pays2 that ,god    
gives good recompense for all     that  
is done for ,him4 ,the ,adjutant's quiet
 enthusiasm roped in     ready          

assistance1 and in good time1 the       
dollies1 beautifully dressed     and    
packed1 with additional tiny surprises  
were ready4 ,she could well     have    
been excused from such spending of time 
and effort1 but it never     dawned on  
,kate ,lee that she needed to be        
excused4 ,she gave all the     time     
without effort1 without knowing that she
 gave2 to her it was     just life4 ,to 
those officer-comrades who assisted her1
 however1 she     was all gratitude4 ,it
 was so splendid1 she said1 that they1  
being     weary1 should volunteer to do 
this sewing for the little ,indian      
girls4 ,she only saw their work1 she    
never glimpsed her own1 so     utterly  
unselfish was her spirit4  ,the         
,adjutant had hoped that her retirement 
from the battle's front might only be   
for a short time2 but the nasal trouble 
was deep-seated1 and her general health 
was affected4 ,she needed a course of   
surgical treatment1 and it was arranged 
for her to rest in ,london4  ,her       

experience somewhat resembled that of   
the apostle ,philip1 when he was caught 
up from the joys of a revival and set   
down in a desert4 ,it was an experience 
difficult to understand1 for her to     
retire1 sick and wounded1 to the rear1  
when there was so much to be done at the
 front of the battle1 so much that she  
might do4 ,but we have seen how she had 
fought the battle out1 and she entered  
'the desert1' her heart at peace with   
,god1 ready to accept any small         
opportunities for service that might    
come her way4  ,she was too frail to    
attend meetings1 but she took up her    
pen1 and having leisure for the first   
time in her ,army career1 revelled in   
the opportunity of writing for our      
periodicals4 ,each paper received       
helpful contributions4 ,in a brief      
article which appeared anonymously in   
',the ,young ,soldier' we catch a       
glimpse of her happy spirit at this     
time3--      ,sometimes ,i go to visit  
men who are in jail1 and try to make    

them     see that ,jesus cares for them 
though they have done wrong4 ,then      
they talk to me4 ,some have told me     
about the mice in their cells4     ,when
 they feel lonely1 the prisoners are    
glad to have the company     of even a  
little mouse4 ,i am a prisoner just now1
 although ,i am     not made to stay in 
a cell2 but when an ,army officer is    
shut away     from all the poor people  
she loves and wants to help1 it seems   
very much like being in a prison2 but ,i
 have some little friends     who come  
to cheer me4 ,at least1 ,i think they   
look upon me as     their friend1 for   
they come to my window and peep in at me
 so     knowingly4 ,then ,i open the    
window very gently and they wait until  
,i put some scraps from my plate on the 
sill1 and then they have     such a     
feast4      ,one of my little sparrow   
friends is partly blind4 ,he only seems 
able to see out of one eye4 ,i guess he 
has been in some fight and     got the  
worst of it4 ,it seems very bad for a   

bird to fight and     have to suffer2   
but then he did not know any better1 and
 perhaps     he was fighting an enemy   
bird who tried to hurt his family4 ,one 
day1 when ,i was watching my sparrow    
friends on the sill1 to my     surprise 
,i saw a little mouse pop out of the ivy
 which hangs     round my window4 ,very 
quickly he picked up a piece of fat that
 ,i     had put there for the sparrows1 
and then ran off so fast2 and1     what 
do you think8 he brought another little 
mouse with him4 ,now     they come along
 about the same time each evening1 just 
when the     birds are having their     
supper4 ,i know that mice like to sip   
milk1 and once ,i dropped just a little 
milk on the window-sill     for them4   
,oh1 how they enjoyed it6 ,you would    
have laughed to     see what they did   
after that2 they sat up1 and rubbing    
their     wet hands together1 made what 
looked like a soapy lather1 and         
washed their faces4      ,some small    
children make a fuss if only their lips 

are washed     after a meal2 they do not
 seem to care how sticky they are2 but  
my mice do1 they like to be clean and   
tidy4 ,god's tiny creatures     teach us
 many lessons1 and if you little ones   
are wise you will     try1 as great     
,king ,solomon advised1 to learn        
something from them     all4  ,the      
daughter of the house in which ,kate    
,lee had taken rooms1 attracted her4    
,commandant ,lucy ,lee lent the girl the
 two volumes of ',catherine ,booth3 the 
,life of ,the ,army ,mother1' which she 
read with delight4 ,in the loving1 eager
 spirit of this school girl1 ,ina1 ,kate
 detected something which reminded her  
of her own early longings4 ,all her     
spiritual mother-love went out to ,ina1 
and she led her into the ,kingdom of    
,god1 and then step by step along the   
way of the ,cross and the highway of    
holiness4  ,it was some time before     
permission was gained for the new       
convert to become a ,salvationist1 but  
gradually the parents began to recognize

 the beauty of a life wholly yielded to 
,god1 and became willing for their      
daughter to go ,kate ,lee's way1 and all
 the way4 ,kate did not make things easy
 for this new recruit4 ,when she saw the
 spiritual light burning brightly in her
 soul1 and the heavenly vision leading  
,ina to visit the saloons1 she          
encouraged her1 and frail though she    
herself was1 she introduced her to the  
best way of doing this work4 ,an        
anonymous article written to ',the      
,warrior' shows how this corps cadet    
learned to fight3--      ,ina's heart   
was filled with a great longing4 ,she   
was tired1 yet     not satisfied1 at the
 end of a busy ,sunday4 ,going to and   
from the     meetings1 teaching a       
company of ,juniors1 seeking souls in   
the     prayer meetings1 and yet how    
little she seemed to be doing when      
the need was so great4      ,then a     
voice said1 ',go to the saloons1 and try
 and win some poor     drink-slave for  
,jesus4' ,how could she obey8 ,she had  

never     darkened the doors of such    
places4 ,brought up in a sheltered      
home1 she had never seen the sad effects
 of drink1 nor all the     miseries that
 follow in its train4 ,but the call had 
come1 and     months ago she had        
promised to follow where ,jesus led4    
,securing     a bundle of ',war ,crys1' 
,ina started off1 trembling at the      
thought     of her venture4 ,as she     
reached the first drink-shop with its   
startling sign1 ',the ,tiger1' the idea 
of entering it seemed to     her        
agitated mind as impossible as to attack
 such a ferocious     beast4 ,the       
suggestion of leaving such a task for an
 older and     more experienced comrade 
was natural2 but no1 the call had come2 
there must be no retreat4 ,so with a    
prayer for wisdom and     strength1 she 
stumbled through the darkened entrance1 
and as the     door swung open1 a blaze 
of light dazzled her eyes4 ,such a sight
     met her fearful gaze6 ,men         
drinking1 women huddled together        

supping the stuff that is cursing the   
homes and blighting the     lives of    
little children4 ,the whole atmosphere  
was repelling4     ,the tobacco smoke1  
the sickly smell of beer1 and the coarse
     jests that fell upon her ears2 but 
her spirit rose to the     attack in the
 name of the ,lord1 as the boy ,david of
 the ,bible     had faced the giant4    
,there was a sudden hush as the crowd   
looked at this uniformed     girl in an 
out-of-the-way district1 and the murmur 
went round1     ',salvation ,army4'     
',yes1' said the corps cadet1 'and ,i   
have come to ask you to     buy a ,war  
,cry4'      ',we don't want war1 ,miss2 
we've had too much already4'            
',yes1' answered the cadet1 'but the    
outcome of the ,salvation ,war     means
 an everlasting peace4'      ,the word  
peace seemed to change the atmosphere4  
',we know you're     all right1' a voice
 answered4 ',you mean well4 ,here's a   
penny1     miss4' ,and then another1 and
 yet other hands were stretched out     

for a paper4      ,whilst she was       
handing round the papers1 ,ina's heart  
was going     up to the ,lord in prayer 
that each might be the means of         
blessing1 and even directing some soul  
into the way of life4     ,then with a  
kindly smile and a hearty ',god bless   
you1' she     passed out and into       
another bar4 ,here sat a military man   
drinking with his wife4 ',will you buy a
 ,war ,cry'8 she asked4     ',no1' came 
the rough answer4 ,then turning to the  
wife1 an appeal     was made4 ,in a     
nervous1 confused way the woman bent her
 head     low1 and sought for a penny   
for the paper4 ,the husband seemed      
touched by his wife's action which may  
have called to mind their     better    
days4 ',well1 miss1 ,i couldn't buy a   
,war ,cry1 as ,i like     my beer1 and  
,i don't want to be a hypocrite4' ,but  
the cadet     told him he could read a  
',war ,cry' even if he did like his     
beer1 but she prayed in her heart that  
it might be the means of     making him 

hate his beer4      ,the man and woman  
read interest and love in the young     
face1 and     as she left the place1    
with a ',good-night1 and ,god bless     
you1'     the words echoed after her4   
,crossing the road with renewed energy1 
she was soon within the     doors of    
',the ,little ,bear1' which was known as
 one of the     roughest houses of that 
quarter4 ,sitting in the corner was an  
old man whom she asked to buy a ',war   
,cry4'      ',yes1' he answered warmly1 
'after what you did after the air       
raid last week1 ,i should think ,i      
would4' ,sitting huddled in     another 
corner was a poor1 wretched 'drunk1'    
ragged1 dirty1     and woe-begone4      
,seeing the ,salvationist1 and before   
she had     opportunity of offering him 
a ',war ,cry1' he held out a penny      
saying1 ',here1 give us one2 ,i like you
 people4' ,before she     left he was   
made to feel that ,the ,army loved such 
as he--and     who knows the result of  
that word8      ',the ,lion' had still  

to be attacked1 but ,ina had the value  
of     her experience in ',the ,tiger'  
and ',the ,bear1' and no longer         
trembled4 ,it was not all smooth        
sailing4 ,we are not told if     the    
lions in ,daniel's den lay down         
perfectly still1 or whether     some    
came close to him1 sniffing and         
snarling2 but we are told     that they 
were powerless to hurt ,god's child4    
,even in this     vile place the devil  
could only go 'so far4' ,his servants   
seemed forced to give respect to ,god's 
messenger in spite of     themselves4   
,the saloon-keeper's wife appeared on   
the scene and bought a     ',young      
,soldier4' ,ina was quick to enrol her  
as a customer1 and     now1 week by     
week1 ',the ,young ,soldier' is handed  
to her little     daughter with the     
prayer that her father and mother may be
 led     to ,god4 ,as ,ina enters the   
saloon bar there is a respectful        
hush and the little missionary is able  
to sow the seed4 ,a     soldier is      

accosted who is on leave from the       
trenches4 ,he     tells of his troubles1
 of that terrible battle when he felt   
his need of ,god4 ,before she leaves him
 a tear is seen1 as he     promises to  
seek ,god4 ,many such incidents are     
happening week     by week as she goes  
on her round4 ,only eternity will reveal
     the outcome of such efforts4       
,is there another corps cadet who should
 take up this work8  ,corps ,cadet ,ina 
writes of the influence of her spiritual
 mother upon her life3--      ,after ,i 
had become a ,salvationist and longed to
 work as she     had worked1 she        
accompanied me to teach me the art of   
successful 'saloon-raiding4' ,she made  
several bar frequenters     special     
cases4 ,sometimes she got them to give  
her their names1     and these went on  
our special prayer list4 ,we had cases  
in     the saloons as well as the bar4  
,if she could induce them to     give   
their addresses1 she would take me with 
her to visit     them in their homes1 or

 would keep in touch with them by       
writing4 ,we had several conversions4   
,as we walked from one place to another1
 she would impress     upon me the      
importance of keeping in the spirit4    
',it is not     merely selling ,the ,war
 ,cry1' she would say2 'it is the       
grand opportunity of dropping words for 
,god4'  ,as we see this warrior broken  
in health1 undergoing continual         
treatment of a very painful nature1 yet 
week by week accompanying the corps     
cadet to saloons in a district outlying 
the ordinary activities of an ,army     
corps1 we realize the truth of ,the     
,general's words3--      ,her appetite  
grew by what it fed on4 ,she loved      
sinners from the     beginning1 but she 
went on until she could not live without
     them4 ,she was insatiable4 ,her    
soul could not be satisfied in     any  
other way4 ,she was always working for  
souls1 seeking souls1     knocking at   
the doors of mercy for souls1 loving    
souls4  ,the corps cadet continues3--   

,i thank ,god for sending her into my   
life4 ,for years she was ,the           
,salvation ,army to me1 all ,i knew of  
it2 and years before ,i was             
permitted to go to a ,salvation ,army   
meeting1 ,i had determined     that ,god
 and ,the ,army would have all my life4 
,her life was wonderful4 ,even though   
ill and on rest she had a     plan for  
every hour of the day4 ,sometimes she   
would visit the     people4 ,if they    
disappointed her she would try the      
harder to     win them4 ,she was always 
hunting round to help families in need4 
,she spent a great deal of time in      
writing1 and when ,i would     persuade 
her to leave her desk and come for a    
walk1 she would     give me what she    
termed1 ',field ,drill4' ,oh1 those     
talks2 how ,i     treasure the memory of
 them6 ,on one of the last occasions she
     said to me1 ',the sins of the world
 will do one of three things     for    
you2 they will either harden your heart1
 or break it1 or     soften it4 ,i want 

you to have a soft1 tender heart4'      
,sometimes she would commend me2 but1 as
 a true friend1 she would     also      
reprimand me when ,i needed it1 yet     
always in love1 showing     me where ,i 
might be better4 ,she taught me how to  
study the ,bible1     and infused into  
my heart some of her love for it4 ',i   
mean to     make the ,bible my one book4
 ,it is one of my ,new ,year's          
resolutions1' she told me at the        
beginning of this year1 and at     the  
same time mentioned a new idea which    
would make study of the     ,word of    
,god more easy4      ,she taught me by  
example1 as well as by what she said1 to
 conquer     by prayer4      ,when she  
was not writing articles or revising    
subject notes1 she     wrote letters to 
those she had been the means of         
blessing4     ,beautiful letters they   
were2 sometimes she delighted me by     
dictating them and letting me type them 
for her4      ,although she found her   
long periods of rest trying because of  

her great love for souls1 she maintained
 a bright1 beautiful     spirit1 and had
 a smile whenever one saw her4 ,she     
compared her     last few years to a    
long dark tunnel1 and just before she   
died1     when anticipating her new     
appointment1 she said1 ',i really       
believe ,i'm coming to the end of it at 
last4'  ,surely one of the most         
beautiful pictures in ,kate ,lee's life 
is here4 ,ill1 in a sense alone and     
amongst strangers1 yet triumphant1      
filling the days with any little        
services that came to her hand1         
performing them as faithfully as she had
 performed her field duties in the glare
 of the limelight1 and seeking to bring 
into one young life the spirit that     
would give to the world a warrior after 
her own heart1 against the day that her 
own feet could no longer be swift and   
beautiful for ,god4    ,,xv  ,,at ,,her 
,,desk    ,in ,john ,wesley's house in  
the ,city ,road1 ,london1 is a small    
room which was built expressly to be the

 prayer-chamber of the ,founder of      
,methodism4 ,when ,i entered the small  
sitting-room of one of ,kate ,lee's     
field quarters1 ,i was conscious of     
feelings of reverence similar to those  
which possessed me in ,wesley's         
prayer-room4 ,there she had wrestled and
 prayed1 planned and studied1 written   
and interviewed callers who sought her  
help4 ,it was holy ground4  ,the        
sitting-room of the little home which   
she enjoyed for the last two or three   
years of her life1 was a reflex of her  
character in modesty1 simplicity1 and   
usableness4 ,a soft green paper covered 
the walls1 dark lino the floor1 a rug or
 two here and there2 a writing-desk1    
book-case1 a cottage piano1 a couple of 
easy chairs1 and a couch completed the  
furniture4 ,on the walls and mantleshelf
 were ,army photos1 a print of ,christ  
at prayer2 a few treasures1 'with a     
meaning' 7her sister explains71 picked  
up here and there as mementoes of her   
furloughs2 a small ,french bronze of    

,jesus carrying ,his cross2 a petrified 
bird's nest1 which has served as an     
object lesson in children's meetings1   
and so on4  ,this quiet room was the    
dearest of retreats to ,kate ,lee4      
,here1 with her sister1 who anticipated 
her every wish and lavished love upon   
her1 she shut the door upon the world   
with its turmoils1 and gave herself up  
to study and rest4 ,her books were her  
greatest treasures4 ,in them she enjoyed
 the company of the greatest and best of
 souls1 who believed as she believed1   
fought for the things she counted worth 
while1 and triumphed as she was         
endeavouring to triumph4  ,her bookshelf
 contained1 perhaps1 one hundred volumes
 in all2 chosen1 as were all her small  
possessions1 with an eye to the highest 
values4  ,a notebook furnishes a list of
 the books she read during her field    
service2 they included ,the ,founder's  
and ,the ,army ,mother's works1         
,finney's ',revivals1' many biographies1
 ,meyer's ',bible ,characters1' and more

 thoughtful studies such as ,butler's   
',analogy4' ,how she had managed time   
for reading during those busy1 rushed   
days1 is revealed in a reply to a young 
officer who had consulted her on        
self-improvement4 ,she wrote1 ',i       
trained myself to read one chapter of   
some good book every day4'  ,to sit at  
the desk where ,kate ,lee had worked1   
open its drawers and draw out the       
contents1 was to discover on everything 
the stamp of the principles which had   
governed her life4 ,everything was in   
perfect order4 ,here is her diary1 a    
memorandum of coming events and         
engagements fulfilled2 and her accounts4
 ,here a locked box2 in it a tiny       
leather bag1 holding the balance of her 
',lord's money1' with a reference to her
 diary for the exact amount due2 also   
the covenant mentioned elsewhere4 ,a    
much-worn ',where ,is ,it8' contains a  
record1 with shorthand remarks1 of every
 address she had delivered1 in          
alphabetical order of the place where   

she had spoken4 ,she commenced these    
entries at her second corps1 nearly     
thirty years earlier1 and by reference1 
could ascertain in a few minutes the    
addresses or lectures she had given on  
,holiness1 ,salvation1 ,social1 or other
 subjects1 whether in ,sunderland1      
,brighton1 ,croydon1 ,thetford1 or      
elsewhere4 ,for her there was no        
unpleasant wondering as to whether she  
might repeat her subject on a return    
visit anywhere4  ,kate had a peculiar   
shyness and reserve regarding her       
subject-notes4 ,they were sacred to her2
 she had received them on her knees 'in 
the mount1' often in loneliness and     
tears4 ,commandant ,lucy drew out from  
her sister's desk three half-leather1   
locked volumes4 ,she handled them       
gently1 smiled and hesitated a moment1  
',no one but ,kate has ever opened      
these1' she said4 ',sometimes ,i used to
 tease her1 and pretend to take one up1 
but no1 until the end that was not      
allowed4'  ,a key was inserted in one of

 the books1 and it fell open4 ,treasure 
trove indeed6 ,six hundred pages of most
 carefully prepared subject-notes and   
illustrations on every imaginable topic 
that might appeal to the soul4 ,every   
page an example of method1 care1 and    
good taste4  ,under bold1 red headings1 
in her shapely1 flowing hand1 the       
various subjects are classified1 and set
 out4 ,the second volume is similar2 the
 third is only half filled1 and turning 
to the end it seems as though she       
anticipated that this was to be her last
 book1 for there are personal notes and 
entries on the chief events of her life4
 ,the latter begins1 ',born ,august #c1 
#ahgb2 born again ,september #ag1 #ahhe4
 ,first bonnet1 ,alexandra ,palace1     
#ahhg2 ,trade ,headquarters1 ,november  
#bj1 #ahhi4 ,commissioned ,lieutenant1  
,june #bj1 #ahij4 ,chalk ,farm ,training
 ,garrison1 ,june #ai1 #ahib4' ,then    
follow her appointments till the last1  
which appears in pencil1 when she was   
',awaiting appointment4'  ,there are    

mottoes she chose on ,new ,year's ,day  
for many years4 ,among the number are   
',keep thy ,soul ,diligently'2 ',deal   
,courageously and ,deal with the ,ones  
'2 ',obey1 ,bear1 ,seek'2 ',stand by the
 ,flag4'  ,the first of the             
subject-notes in the last of the volumes
 deals with ,barabbas4 ,one sees him in 
the dungeon1 a thief1 a terror4 ,there  
is a picture of the world in his day4   
,he is called to die4 ,christ appears4  
,christ dies for ,barabbas4  ,the next  
notes are on ',life4 ,how to view it4   
,the ,servant2 the ,mistress2 the       
,workman2 the ,master2 the ,soldier2 the
 ,sergeant2 the ,local ,officer2 the    
,officer4'  ,ezekiel seemed to have     
gripped the ,adjutant's imagination     
during the last year of her life2 she   
had prepared several powerful addresses 
from his prophecies4  ',paradise ,lost' 
and ',paradise ,regained' provides      
thought for several closely-packed      
pages4 ,then follow a series of         
addresses to young people on ,good      

,behaviour4 ,i4 ,at ,home4 ,,ii4 ,in the
 ,street4 ,,iii4 ,in ,the ,salvation    
,army ,citadel4 ,,iv4 ,toward the       
,opposite ,sex4 ,v4 ,on ,tobacco4 ,,vi4 
,reading4  ,there are comprehensive     
notes on ,christianity4  ,notes of a    
,session at the ,college for ,staff     
,officers4  ,twenty closely written     
pages on the ,bible4 ,how written8 ,why 
so called8 ,written by whom8 ,notes on  
each book4 ,translations1 etc4  ,madam  
,guyon on prayer4  ,many pages on       
',preaching' being expressions from     
master preachers1 showing how to capture
 the souls of men4  ,to fill over one   
thousand pages with careful1 close      
writing1 took time4 ,but ,kate ,lee did 
no fancy work2 she never gossiped2 she  
kept no pets2 she did not even 'garden'2
 she seldom went for a walk except on a 
mission4 ,she cared only for those      
things that would forward the ,kingdom  
of ,god1 and while some played with     
shells and made sand castles that a     
day's tide swept away1 she delved in the

 ,king's mines1 finding precious things 
wherewith to serve the ,holy ,war4      
,kate gathered in order to give out     
again4 ,her gift of expression was small
 at the beginning1 but she so stirred it
 up and improved it1 that1 with         
increasing ease1 she was able by both   
spoken and written word to express her  
thoughts in simple1 direct ,english that
 reached hearts4 ,the knowledge grew    
upon her that she would not always be   
able for public work1 and she determined
 to prepare herself to appeal to souls  
by her pen4 ,in her last letter to her  
sister1 she wrote3--      ,there are one
 or two things ,i would like you to see 
to for me4 ,in     the cupboard1 under  
my writing-desk1 you will find some     
articles ,i     have written4 ,no4 #a4  
',temples of ,fire4' ,it is a subject   
that has     been upon my soul for a    
long time4 ,i did not offer this series 
for     publication as ,i intended to   
shape it up again4 ,i hardly know if the
     articles will be considered worth  

accepting2 but if something could     be
 done with them1 ,i should be glad4     
,there is another series ,i was trying  
to write on ',the ,master's             
,locals4' ,you will also find1 ',the    
,story of ,jesus1' and ',thoughts       
about the ,cross1' and several other    
little articles4 ,i am afraid     none  
of them are up to the mark1 but if      
anything could be done with     them to 
help souls1 ,i should rejoice4  ,these  
manuscripts show how she spared herself 
no pains to prepare a message4 ,over and
 over again she would draft a sentence1 
a page1 or an article until she felt the
 message to be arresting4 ,then she sent
 it forth with much love and prayer4    
,when it appeared in print--often       
anonymously--sometimes under her name or
 initials1 she delighted and wondered   
that ,god gave to her the broad platform
 of ,the ,army publications4 ,the       
following articles1 both of which       
appeared in ',the ,war ,cry1' indicate  
something of the fresh1 crisp heart     

messages that she gave to saint and     
sinner from her platform4 ,when pressed 
by editors of ,the ,army publications   
for an article1 she took some hours from
 her sleep in order to prepare them for 
the press4 ,kate did not speak from     
notes4 ,she had in her ,bible a few     
headings on a sheet of paper1 but having
 prepared her subject with great        
prayerfulness1 after reading the        
,scriptures she left the reading desk1  
and in the simplicity and earnestness of
 her pure soul1 freely gave out her     
message4      ,a ,,glorious ,,cleansing 
',lord1 if ,thou wilt1 ,thou canst make 
me clean'     7,matthew viii4 #b7       
,the story of the leper is1 to my mind1 
one of the most wonderful     stories in
 the ,bible1 as it so forcibly          
illustrates how ,god looks     upon and 
deals with sin4 ,leprosy was in the days
 of ,christ an     acknowledged type of 
sin1 and we see in the condition of the 
leper     a picture of its utter        
loathsomeness4      ,i fancy ,i see the 

poor fellow outside the city gate--cut  
off from     his home and friends4      
,but they do not forget him1 and each   
morning some loved one--a mother1       
perhaps--at an early hour comes to the  
gate and there places a little          
basket of provisions sufficient for his 
needs of the day4 ,then she     goes    
away1 and from a distance watches the   
poor creature draw near1     and take   
the much-needed food4 ,one morning the  
basket must1 ,i fancy1     have         
contained1 in addition to the food1 a   
message which1 as the poor     leper    
reads1 brings a ray of hope into his    
wretched1 weary life4      ,the note    
tells of ,jesus1 the wonderful ,christ1 
who is going about     healing all kinds
 of incurable diseases1 and even raising
 the dead     to life4      ',oh1 if    
only you could see ,him6 ,if only you   
could get     near enough to ,jesus1    
there might be a chance for you1 my poor
 boy6'     his mother may have written4 
,as he reads1 his poor face brightens as

 he murmurs to himself1 ',yes1     ,i   
will try1 ,i will risk all2 ,i will     
chance the consequences4'      ,let us  
look at him a moment4 ,here is vileness 
indeed1 a very type of     impurity2 and
 here we see how sin looks in the eyes  
of ,god4      ,his limbs swollen1 his   
hair white1 tumours appear on his jaws1 
his     breath noisome1 and his whole   
person fitted to inspire loathing4      
,leprosy is infectious and of slow      
progress4 ,it begins within the body1   
and throws out a moisture which corrupts
 the outside1 and covers it     with a  
kind of white scale4 ,it is said that   
the body becomes so hot     that a fresh
 apple held but an hour in the hand will
 be withered and     wrinkled4 ,the     
parts of the body infected become       
insensible1 and in     time fall off4   
,the leper is conscious that he is vile4
 ,he wears the leper's garment1     and 
day by day from his lips comes the      
mournful cry1 ',unclean1     unclean6'  
,then1 the leper is not only conscious  

of his vileness1 and     acknowledges   
it1 but he despairs of cleansing4 ,he   
knows that unless     some ,supreme     
,power intervenes death will ensue4     
,it was1 perhaps1 his desperate         
condition which led this leper1 of whom 
we speak1 to break1 with heroic courage1
 through the ceremonial law1     and to 
expose himself to the risk of being     
stoned to death that he     might cast  
himself at the ,saviour's feet4         
,see him venturing through the gate into
 the city to find ,jesus4 ,and     when 
at last he approaches the place where he
 expected to see ,jesus1     he         
discovers to his great disappointment   
that the ,lord has gone up     the      
mountain side4      ,i fancy ,i see the 
leper crouching1 waiting1 and watching  
for ,jesus4 ,at     last1 that wonderful
 ,form appears1 and comes down the      
mountain with a     great crowd         
following4      ,how can he get to      
,jesus8 is the leper's first thought4   
,with a dash and     the cry1'          

,unclean6' which causes the crowd to    
make way and shrink back     in horror1 
he rushes forward and prostrates himself
 at the feet of     ,jesus4 ',lord1 if  
,thou wilt1' he cries1 ',thou canst make
 me clean4'      ,here we see the vast  
difference between curiosity and need4  
,the crowd     follow out of curiosity4 
,the leper flings himself in abandon at 
,jesus'     feet because of his need4   
,need alone will make a man really      
come to ,jesus4 ,the soul that feels its
 need1 and realizes its sin1     will   
make an effort--a dash to get to ,god4  
,listen to the leper's prayer6 ',lord4' 
,he owns ,jesus as his ,lord4 ,he       
makes a complete1 unconditional1 and    
unreserved surrender1 and feels     his 
helplessness6 ,only ,god can save him6  
,that is the way to come to     ,jesus6 
,his was a model prayer--simple1 short1 
direct4 ,it was grounded in a           
glorious faith in the power of ,christ  
to heal2 a prayer that did not     limit
 ,god2 believed1 indeed1 that with ,him 

nothing was impossible4      ,it is well
 to recollect that ,god has never failed
 with a case yet4     ,those who have   
wandered the farthest away from ,him1   
those who have     sunk the lowest1 ,he 
can restore1 and will never turn ,his   
ear from a     prayer fashioned like    
that of the leper's4      ,i fancy ,i   
see the breathless crowd shrinking back 
in horror6 ,i fancy1     too1 that ,i   
hear those clear1 beautiful words ring  
forth3 ',i will2 be     thou clean4'    
,but ,jesus not only speaks2 to the     
astonishment of the     crowd1 ,he puts 
forth ,his hand and touches the leper4  
,that touch     may have been a         
violation of the letter of the law1 but 
not of the     spirit4 ,jesus knew ,his 
touch would give healing to the leper1  
and not     pollution to ,himself4      
,at the cry of the leper1 ,jesus touched
 him immediately1 true figure of        
,god's readiness to forgive and cleanse 
sin4      ,jesus is the same to-day4 ,he
 deals with sin and the sinner in the   

same     way4 ,if you will come in the  
same spirit as the leper1 ,his hand will
     be immediately stretched forth to  
save4      ,when ,jesus touched the     
leper ,i can picture the crowd drawing  
nearer4     ,they watch the wonderful   
change take place4 ,a flush passes over 
the     leper's pale face1 the          
despairing look gives way to an         
overwhelming     look of joy4 ,the      
cringing stoop and feeble gait change to
 an upright     attitude and a firm     
tread4 ,see him going to show himself to
 the     priest4 ,he is commanded to    
'tell no one1' but as he goes he meets  
an     old friend4 ,the temptation is   
too great2 he tells him what has        
happened1 and then another and another4 
,he cannot keep the truth in1     but   
blazes it abroad4      ,oh6 ,if you     
would find ,christ you must push through
 the difficulties     and the hindrances
 that would keep you away from ,him4    
,if1 in the     spirit of the leper1 you
 come as you are1 conscious of your sin1

     confessing it with faith in ,god's 
power to cleanse you1 you will     hear 
the selfsame words from those gracious  
lips3 ',i will2 be thou     clean1' and 
immediately your leprosy1 your sin1 will
 leave you4        ,i see the new       
creation rise1         ,i hear the      
speaking ,blood2       ,it speaks6      
,polluted nature dies1         ,sinks   
'neath the cleansing ,flood4        ,the
 cleansing ,stream ,i see1 ,i see1      
,i plunge1 and1 ,oh it cleanseth me6    
,oh1 praise the ,lord1 it cleanseth me6 
,it cleanseth me1 yes1 cleanseth me6    
99       99       99       99       99  
,,harvests3 ,,joy ,,and ,,sorrow        
',the harvest truly is plenteous1 but   
the labourers are few'     7,matthew ix4
 #cg7      ,as we read these words of   
the ,master we fancy we can see ,his    
benign     and majestic ,presence as ,he
 stops and1 turning round1 looks not    
upon     the beautiful harvest fields1  
with waving corn1 but upon the vast     
field of the world1 with its teeming    

masses of humanity4      ,so many are   
ready to look upon the cornfields of    
gain1 to look for     something to fill 
their baskets and store1 but hearts like
 the     ,master's are wanted that see  
the great harvest fields of humanity1   
all ripe and ready to be gathered in4   
,hearts are wanted that will     not    
only go out in sentimental sympathy1 but
 that will give a     helping hand1     
where it is required1 leaving the fields
 of gain1 and     toiling for love      
amidst human need4 ,there seem to be two
 thoughts     in the mind of the        
,master4 ,as ,he speaks ,he strikes two 
notes--one of     joy1 and one of       
sorrow4      ,a plentiful harvest always
 brings joy4 ,another harvest of the    
earth     is being gathered1 and as ,i  
write ,i am looking upon the golden     
cornfields1 and see the men all busily  
engaged4 ,thank ,god for plenty6        
,do we praise ,god sufficiently for ,his
 mercies8 ,do we always value     them8 
,sometimes we do not fully appreciate   

them until they are     withdrawn4      
,it seems to me that if the ,master     
walked our crowded cities1 ,he would    
repeat again those words1 ',truly the   
harvest is plenteous4' ,plenty to       
reap2 only labourers are wanted to go   
out4 ,the masses are still there2       
the need is for some one to go to the   
masses4      ,then the note of sorrow   
seems to drown and spoil the note of    
joy4 ',the     harvest is               
plenteous'--rejoice6 ',but the labourers
 are few'--cause for     sorrow4 ,the   
masses are there--the opportunity--but  
so few to take hold     of it4 ,corn to 
be gathered in1 but few reapers4        
,the harvest was plenteous in the time  
of ,christ1 but it is even more     so  
now4 ,the people are waiting for us1    
they expect us and look to us1     who  
are the followers of ,christ1 to go to  
their help6      ,oh1 the open doors6   
,was the door of the public ear ever    
more ready to     listen to us than at  
the present time8 ,those who once turned

 a deaf     ear1 and did not believe in 
us1 now say1 ',yes1 you are right4 ,you 
have     got the right thing1 and are   
doing the right thing4'      ,were      
people ever more ready to open their    
doors to us than they are     now8 ,how 
they appreciate the visit of the        
,salvationist6 ,the doors1     too1 of  
the workhouses1 the prisons1 the        
hospitals are opening more     widely to
 us4      ,yes1 the people are ready to 
open their hearts to us4 ,the poor      
drunkard1 as he rolls from one side of  
the road to the other1 exclaims     when
 he sees a ,salvationist1               
',god--bless--,general--,booth6'        
,the masses may not always rush as      
excitedly after us as they once did     
--there are so many counter-attractions 
now--but they are there4 ,we     must go
 to them2 they need us4      ,i have    
heard the story of a little boy who lost
 his mother1 and was     found lying    
upon her grave weeping and praying4     
,some one who had felt     moved to do  

something for the motherless boy        
discovered him in this     position4    
',jesus has sent me to you6' said the   
lady4 ',i am going to     love you as my
 own little boy4' ',oh1' he said1       
through his tears as     he looked up as
 though he had been expecting her1 'so  
,jesus has sent     you6 ,you have been 
a long time coming though1 haven't you8'
      ,do the sinners and drunkards feel
 we are a long time coming1 because     
the labourers are too few1 and you have 
kept back from becoming one8      ,above
 the note of joy1 above the plentiful   
harvest1 rings out so     loudly the    
note of sorrow--',but the labourers are 
few6' ,how few in     comparison to the 
masses6 ,so few labourers who will put  
off the coat     of formality1 who will 
pull up the sleeve of ease6 ,few who    
will work     by the sweat of their brow
 and make a sacrifice for souls6        
,sacrifice     is needed in ,god's      
service to-day as much as ever1 and     
never was     there a more urgent call  

for men and women who1 like our precious
     ,general1 can say1 ',i am never out
 of it2 ,i sleep in it2 ,i shall die    
in it4' ,nothing worth anything can be  
accomplished without sacrifice4         
,how many are there in ,god's service   
who merely look on8 ,more are     wanted
 who will work4 ,the success of ,the    
,army has been because of its           
willingness to come down to the level of
 the people--to strive to     save them4
 ,a reckless dying to self is what is   
needed4 ,was it not     dying made the  
harvest8 ,the dying is part of the      
success4 ,the grain     was dropped into
 the ground1 and died before it could   
spring forth     and produce living     
results4 ,there must be the dying to    
sin1 and to     self1 and               
self-interests4      ,men and women of  
heart are wanted--men and women1 who in 
seeking     souls will give themselves  
up in the spirit of the champion aviator
     who said1 ',if ,i had not succeeded
 ,i should not have been here4 ,i was   

determined to win1 or die in the        
attempt4'      ,labourers are wanted who
 will dig right deep down into the heart
 of     sorrow1 and find those desires  
and longings after purity and goodness  
which even the heart itself scarcely    
realizes are there4      ,in the man of 
the world1 though one would hardly      
believe it as one     sees the cynical  
look and sneer and hears him say1 ',i   
don't want your     church--your ,army6'
 there is underneath1 in spite of his   
apparent     indifference1 a longing    
after ,god and a disgust of the world4  
,men and women are wanted to grapple    
with the vast harvest--this great       
opportunity--and to gather in ,god's    
sheaves4 ,oh1 to leave the world     of 
vice and folly as naked as the earth is 
after the harvest6 ,empty               
public-houses6 ,empty gambling dens6    
,empty abodes of impurity6 ,empty       
slums6 ,empty all places where ,god is  
not6 ,but thanksgiving in the     home2 
the ,house of ,god filled with rejoicing

 people1 telling out of     hearts of   
gladness that labourers came into the   
fields of sin and     gathered them in4 
,many letters1 folded and handled until 
almost worn to pieces1 but treasured    
above gold1 lie before me4 ,they are    
addressed to ,kate ,lee's spiritual     
children1 to the sick1 the discouraged1 
or those living far from an ,army hall  
and rarely able to get to the meetings4 
,these letters are short1 often mere    
notes of one page1 rarely running into  
more than two or three folios2 and they 
are not clever4 ,kate had little        
imagination in her make up2 she did not 
see pictures wherever her eyes lit1 and 
never had time to give to studied       
composition4 ,the value of these letters
 to us is that any ordinary girl1 anyone
 with a heart 'at leisure from itself'  
could write such letters4 ,over and over
 again in ,the ,army ,founder's life we 
find him saying1 ',it is heart work we  
want4 ,,heart work4' ,it is because     
,kate ,lee's letters came from a heart  

full of love that they reached hearts   
and never failed to bless them4  ,she   
had a delightful way of remembering the 
anniversary of some of her trophies'    
conversion4 ,she called them birthdays4 
,here is a little scrap to a man        
battling bravely against ill health and 
other adversities3--      ,i am         
enclosing a ,money ,order for five      
shillings so that you can get     some  
little thing for yourself or your wife4 
,just a little birthday     gift for    
your twelfth birthday4 ,god bless you6  
,keep near to     ,jesus and do all in  
your power to lead those around you to  
,him4     ,praise ,him that ,he has kept
 you all these years4 ,he is a wonderful
     ,saviour and worthy of our praise4 
,no work of art was so beautiful in the 
eyes of ,kate ,lee as the photographs of
 men and women to whom ,god had given   
'beauty for ashes4' ,she writes to      
one3--      ,the photo is lovely--,i am 
proud of you4 ,it gives me real joy to  
hear     that you are still wheeling    

your barrow around and reminding souls  
of     ,eternity4 ,give my love to your 
precious wife4  ,to a man just lifted   
from a pit of sin1 and whose feet still 
tottered1 she wrote3--      ,i cannot   
call and see you as ,i am away until    
,friday night ,then ,i shall     look   
for you at the meeting4 ,i have asked a 
comrade or so to call and     see you4  
,i am praying much for you4 ,hold on to 
,god1 and ,he will     prosper you and  
bless you1 and soon1 if you only serve  
,him with all     your heart1 things    
will be so different with you and your  
dear family4  ,to one in deep           
bereavement3--      ,i wish ,i had been 
home when the letter came so that ,i    
could have sent     you word by the next
 post4 ,in these trying hours ,i rejoice
 that you     are fully the ,lord's1 and
 can trust ,him4 ,we cannot understand  
why     sorrow and bereavement should   
touch us1 but ,god allows it in love4   
,she regarded the 'funniosities' of     
people with a large indulgence4 ,one old

 comrade who had put on the uniform     
during her command at his corps1        
believed that no one could buy a jersey 
and cap so well as 'the dear ,adjutant1'
 so wherever she was1 he sent to her    
when he needed new uniform4  ,her       
,christmas remembrances did not take the
 form of considerable presents to       
special friends or comrades who might   
remember her in return4 ,rather1 her    
love overflowed in a flood of loving    
messages4 ,calendars1 leaflets1 cards   
costing only a penny or two1 with just a
 word of greeting1 flew in all          
directions1 carrying the remembrance of 
her smile1 her voice1 and her faith and 
prayer that her comrades and friends    
would press on through sacrifice and    
service to victory4  ,but it would seem 
that the letters she most loved to write
 were to young officers and those who   
wished to become officers4 ,she         
counselled one3 ',seek ,god with all    
your heart4 ,if you will pay the price  
of letting ,him have all ,his way1 ,he  

will fill you with a passion for souls4'
  ,to a young captain she wrote a few   
weeks before her promotion to ,glory3-- 
,there is nothing in the world like     
soul-winning4 ,if you will only give    
up yourself wholly to it1 and let ,god  
fit you for it1 ,he1 who is no          
respecter of persons1 can do for you as 
much as for any other soul     whom ,he 
has called4      ,i have found one of   
the greatest helps to soul-winning1 next
 to ,bible     study and prayer1 is the 
reading of helpful books4 ,i know that  
the     officer who does her duty to the
 people has little free time1 but ,i    
used to make myself spend a certain time
 each day in study1 and kept     a note 
book to make notes of any paragraph that
 impressed me so that     ,i would not  
forget the thoughts which inspired me4  
,have you read     ',tongues of ,fire1' 
by ,william ,arthur2 ,s4 ,d4 ,gordon's  
',quiet ,talks on     ,prayer'8 ,to read
 such books on your knees1 drinking in  
the wonderful     truths they set forth1

 would help you towards the realization 
of all     your desires4  ,kate ,lee    
loved girls in their teens1 and they    
were much drawn to her4  ,some officers 
who excel in helping the rag-tag class  
of young people1 as ,kate ,lee did1     
fight shy of those of refined training  
and better education4 ,this may possibly
 arise from a dread lest these keen     
young folk may take their soundings and 
soon 'touch bottom' in many directions4 
,kate feared nothing4 ,common-sense1 an 
even balance1 and true love count most  
with the young1 and of these qualities  
she had abundance4  ,major ,mary ,booth 
says3--      ,dear ,angel ,adjutant6    
,how ,i loved her6 ,miriam and ,i1 when 
we were in     our early teens1 did     
several week-ends for her and ,i was    
much     impressed by her love for the  
poor4 ,her zeal1 and the influence of   
it1 remains with me to-day4 ,after the  
meetings were over1 ,miriam and     ,i1 
when taking supper with the ,adjutant1  
often stayed till one     o'clock in the

 morning1 listening to her tales of the 
poor drunkards4     ,i remember         
specially one night1 she tried to drag  
us to bed1 but we     finished by       
getting her to sit down on the stairs   
and tell us some     more of her        
thrilling experiences4  ,the following  
extracts from letters show her winsome  
way of helping them to aim at the best  
things3--      ,i have started a series 
of articles on the ',five ,senses1' and 
felt     you would like to help me4     
,will you keep your eyes open for       
illustrations bearing on the subject1   
spiritual or otherwise1 and     pass    
them on to me4 ,i have the subject in my
 mind and keep finding     fresh        
material for it2 if you will help me1   
you will have a share in     the outcome
 by and by1 if the idea develops        
satisfactorily4  ,from another letter3--
      ,i am sending you ',the ,life of  
,the ,general4' ,it is only a cheap     
copy1     but ,i saw it on the bookstall
 last night1 and thought you would like 

to have it4 ,it is so wonderful to see  
how ,god raised him up and used     him 
as ,his instrument4 ,it shows what      
wonderful things ,god can do when       
one is fully yielded to ,him1 and what  
responsibility rests upon us     each4  
,if ,william ,booth had held back1 we   
see what he would have     missed1 and  
his great work would have been left     
undone4  ,still another3--      ,i am   
feeling concerned about you4 ,you must  
not let yourself get down4     ,nerves  
can be conquered1 and you know where to 
get strength to rise     above them4 ,i 
am praying for you and believe ,god will
 do great things     for you4 ,do not be
 surprised that training is necessary   
and that the     training comes in the  
way we should prefer not4  ,then she    
turns the girl's thoughts away from     
herself and concludes with1 ',pray for  
me4'     ,,xvi  ,,unexpected ,,orders   
,kate ,lee's last five years were as the
 life of a bird with a broken wing4 ,she
 struggled hard to do as she had ever   

done1 but again and again had to admit  
that her strength had failed4 ,following
 the operation which closed her work on 
the field1 she spent a year under       
drastic and painful surgical treatment4 
,when sufficient strength was recovered 
to enable her to undertake an           
appointment under the eye of her doctor1
 she was promoted to the rank of        
,staff-,captain and saw two brief       
periods of service at the ,international
 ,training ,garrison in ,london1 and a  
few months in the ,candidates'          
,department at ,headquarters4 ,then     
another breakdown1 and another year's   
furlough4  ,her health again improving1 
to her great delight the ,staff-,captain
 was re-appointed to the ,training      
,garrison1 this time as ,secretary of   
,field ,training4 ,twelve months of     
golden service followed4 ,she revelled  
in her work amongst the women cadets1   
who1 under her holy1 gracious influence1
 were trained in the arts of service on 
the field4 ,she had a remarkable        

influence upon the cadets4 ,they knew   
her record1 and accepted her because of 
that2 but coming close up to her they   
rejoiced in her as a teacher and a      
leader because of what they found her to
 be4 ,the cadets delighted in her       
classes4 ,she made the field work appear
 to be the most glorious calling on     
earth4 ,she inspired the weakest girl   
with hope that she might rise and excel 
if she would be at pains to grip herself
 and make the most of the talents and   
opportunities ,god had given her4 ,she  
held herself up as an example of what   
,god can do with a timid girl who was so
 entirely yielded to ,him as never to   
say ',i can't4'  ,the air raids on      
,london were very severe during that    
twelve months4 ,one ,saturday night1    
,leyton suffered terribly1 and on       
,sunday morning1 ,staff-,captain ,lee   
with a detachment of cadets arrived to  
minister to the needs of the terrified1 
and in many cases1 homeless people4 ,the
 police at once gave them right-of-way  

in the distressed area4  ,there were    
lodgings to arrange for people whose    
homes were in ruins1 letters and        
messages to send to anxious relatives1  
terrified little children and the elder 
people to comfort and provide food for4 
,the ,staff-,captain was in her glory4  
,her cheerful face1 ringing voice1 and  
capable management had a remarkably     
soothing and steadying effect upon the  
distressed people1 while the cadets     
revelled in the service she set them to 
perform4  ,to be included in a campaign 
led by ,staff-,captain ,lee was a great 
delight to the cadets chosen for this   
privilege4 ,this the twelve sergeants   
,footnote3 ,probation ,officers selected
 to assist in the work of ,training4    
enjoyed in the recess between the       
sessions4 ,southend1 during holiday     
season1 was the place chosen for the    
attack4 ,house-to-house visitation1     
open-air 'bombardments' among the       
holiday crowds1 and great meetings in   
the citadel were included in the attack4

 ,the first to lead the way of eighty   
seekers for pardon or purity was a      
little child1 unaccustomed to ,salvation
 ,army meetings4 ,dressed in white1 with
 wistful1 earnest face1 the little one  
had listened to the ,staff-,captain's   
message1 and when the invitation was    
given she came forward1 looking up to   
the platform with inquiring1 wondering  
eyes4 ,then at the penitent-form the    
,staff-,captain pointed the little one  
to ,jesus4 ,she loved to rescue the     
drunkard and criminal from the pit of   
sin1 but to lead a little child to the  
,saviour was the dearest joy of all to  
,kate ,lee4 ,the following day she      
visited the child in her home2 her      
parents both sought the ,lord and became
 ,salvation soldiers4  ,the             
,staff-,captain's example amongst the   
cadets was more powerful than her word4 
,one tells of a week-end visit to       
,shepherd's ,bush with a brigade1 and   
one of her local officers asking if she 
couldn't spare half a day to visit his  

home1 to which she replied1 ',you know  
me better than to think that is in my   
line4' ,she was away with her cadets by 
eight-thirty next morning4  ,many are   
the loving1 tender memories of the      
cadets she trained4 ,those who1 by      
reason of long distance or for other    
reasons1 could not go home for          
,christmas1 reckoned they were          
privileged to remain at the garrison    
because of the tender love              
,staff-,captain ,lee expended on them1  
whom she feared might feel lonely and   
deprived at the ,christmas season4      
,after recess came a transfer for a few 
months to ,the ,army's ,holiday ,home at
 ,ramsgate1 where it was hoped that the 
good air and freedom from heavy         
responsibility would re-establish her   
health4 ,the officers to whose comfort  
she ministered during the holiday       
months1 recall sweet memories of her    
influence4 ,one says3--      ,she was   
wonderfully gentle in spirit4 ,but about
 her was a strength     and authority   

that made one feel all the while the    
presence of a     superior soul2 that   
one must be at his best in her company4 
,in     guiding the conversation at the 
table she showed a winsome              
discretion2 pleasant1 bright topics were
 the order2 she enjoyed     wholesome   
fun and encouraged it1 but unkind       
criticism and sarcasm     could not live
 under her eyes4  ,another writes of her
 sweetness to the little children who   
stayed in the ,home2 how they remembered
 the stories she told them1 and her     
quaint little grace before meals1 which 
they adopted for home use4  ,receiving  
word to return to ,london and prepare   
for a foreign appointment1 she came on  
wings of joy4 ,her doctor gave her a    
reassuring report1 and to her friends   
she sent notes of pure happiness1       
telling that at last after six years of 
hoping against hope1 her doctor had     
given her a clean 'bill of health' and  
she was well enough for service in any  
part of the world4 ,she had not the     

strength of former days for field work1 
but somewhere in ,america1 ,australia1  
or ,canada1 she was to be appointed to  
training work4 ,how she would love the  
girls committed to her charge4 ,how she 
would pray over them1 travail in spirit 
for them1 until she saw the passion of  
,christ born in them1 and they go out to
 do the work that had been her delight4 
,her face glowed with joy2 her eyes     
sparkled2 her feet skipped2 her hand    
gripped as she told her comrades1 ',i'm 
good for ten years yet4' ,she went to   
her dressmaker with the palpitating joy 
of a bride-elect4 ,she sorted her       
papers2 tore from their mounts and      
rolled the photos of her field          
associations2 chose a few of her        
favourite pictures and packed them4 ,all
 was ready1 and waiting orders she spent
 the days at her desk1 or visiting her  
spiritual children4 ,she appeared to be 
so well4 ,then1 bronchitis1 which foggy 
weather always induced1 laid her up for 
some days4  ,her sister ,lucy watched   

her with a strange misgiving at her     
heart4 ,kate had always been of an      
independent disposition1 had despised   
breakfast in bed1 but for a week or two 
she accepted this indulgence without    
resistance4 ,the least noise pained her1
 and the loving1 mother-sister crept    
about in soft slippers1 pondering things
 in her heart but saying nothing1 until 
one morning she declared1 ',little dear1
 ,i think it's more than a bottle of    
bronchitis medicine you need2 ,i'm going
 to ask the doctor to call4' ,kate was  
resting somewhat listlessly1 but at that
 word she rose1 the commander in every  
tone of her voice4 ',indeed1 no6 ,i'm   
not very grand this morning1 but not    
that4 ,if you're late for the office1 of
 course you must give a reason1 and no  
idea that ,i'm not fit must get around4'
  ',but----' persisted ,lucy4  ',well1  
you can go to-night if you still feel   
so1' compromised ,kate1 and smiled her  
sister away4  ,the following day the    
doctor called1 and gave an opinion that 

hastened a specialist to the tiny       
cottage4 ,he was a kind man and shrank  
from giving a verdict that meant a full 
stop to this precious life4 ,an         
immediate operation was the only hope to
 save life1 and this was arranged4      
,from the first1 ,kate ,lee felt she was
 going ,home4 ,she wrote to a special   
friend1 ',i have my appointment2 very   
different from what ,i expected2 but    
all's well4 ,i am in ,his will4' ,the   
comrade hastened to her to learn the    
news1 ',where are you going8' she asked4
 ',to another country altogether--to    
,heaven1' she replied4  ,there was a    
wondrous peacefulness about the little  
home as those two gentle women made     
preparations for the hospital4  ,kate's 
last day at home was spent chatting with
 her sister1 writing letters settling   
personal affairs1 and resting4  ,down to
 the very brink of the ,river she       
wrestled for souls4 ,the last letter she
 wrote that day was to ,lieut4-,colonel 
,mary ,bennett1 of the ,women's ,social 

,work1 in ,london1 whose interests she  
had enlisted in a woman addicted to     
drugs4 ,she writes1 ',i am feeling      
concerned about her4 ,i meant to do my  
part fully in helping you1 and am       
grieved to fail you in this way4' ,then 
she mentions her sudden illness and     
continues on the subject of self-denial 
7,self-,denial ,week was to begin the   
following ,saturday71' ,i was trying to 
give you a little surprise1 and1 as ,i  
have no special target this year1 felt  
,i would like to do a little for your   
home4 ,as this has come it will not be  
much ,i am afraid1 but ,i have three    
pounds for you which we have both       
collected4 ,my sister will bring it     
over4' ,her personal ,self-,denial gift 
had gone to give another corps a lift4  
,she was full of hope that the corps    
were having a good ,sunday4  ,the       
morning of her last day at home1 the    
corps cadet whom she had come to call   
'my little ,leff1' was with her4 ,she   
writes3--      ,i will never forget that

 talk2 she went over the names of her   
dear1     saved drunkards1 one by one1  
giving me messages for some ,i would    
see4     ,she urged me to continue      
praying for them1 if the ,lord called   
her     ,home4 ,she said it would be a  
luxury to slip away2 then1 sitting up in
     bed and looking right into my face1
 she said1 ',little ,leff1 those     are
 the people ,i want you to live for4    
,you do1 and you will love them1        
won't you8' ,with the tears running down
 my face1 ,i promised that     ,i would 
do so4  ,a few days under observation at
 the ,mildmay ,hospital1 to which she   
was admitted and cared for with much    
tenderness not only for ,christ's sake1 
as is the purpose of that excellent     
institution towards sufferers1 but for  
her work's sake1 then came the          
operation4 ,the warrior spirit entered  
into fires of suffering that she had not
 hitherto felt2 but while the flesh     
shrank1 her faith triumphed4 ,her       
sister1 who had hovered about her bed   

during the week1 spent the ,sunday with 
her4 ,even then1 those women held       
themselves at attention at the call to  
service1 and1 at the request of the     
,sister of the ward ,kate occupied      
before the operation1 ,commandant ,lucy 
left her sister's side and conducted a  
service with the patients4  ,kate felt  
that she had not much longer to live1   
and reaching for her writing pad and    
pen1 she wrote a last message of love   
for her sister and brother4 ,her sister 
found the letters in her blotter after  
,kate had 'gone home4' ,to her she      
wrote3--      ,i am writing this line in
 case ,i do not see your dear face      
again1 as     ,i want you to have a last
 message of love4 ,it will not be long  
until     we meet again1 and you can    
think of me watching for you4 ,i do not 
want to leave you all alone1 but the    
thought that to-morrow ,i may     see   
,his face thrills my soul1 and it would 
be easy to slip away4 ,i     am very    
tired1 but ,i want to finish my course1 

and am quite willing     to face the    
struggle again if it is ,his will4444   
,now1 my own     treasure1 ,i cannot    
write more1 but must say one great big  
thank you     for all you have done for 
me1 and for all the love you have       
lavished     upon me4  ,the next morning
 when ,lucy saw ,kate again1 she was    
sure that soon her precious sister would
 see the ,king in ,his beauty4 ,what the
 separation would mean to her no one    
would fully know2 but1 as ever1         
forgetful of herself1 she sat beside    
her1 smiled and said brightly1 ',little 
love1 if you see mother before ,i do1   
tell her ,i'm coming4' ,back came       
,kate's ready smile1 and she replied1   
',rather6' so naturally that for a      
moment it seemed impossible that she was
 on the borderland of earth4  ,but soon 
the brave spirit became troubled4 ',what
 is it1 little love8' asked ,lucy4      
',oh1 the people1 the people6 ,i haven't
 the heart to send them away4' moaned   
,kate4 ,her mind was wandering1 and the 

ruling passion of her life1 in death was
 strong upon her4 ,she was out amongst  
the crowds1 seeing their sins and their 
sorrows1 and their needs1 and in a dim  
way was conscious that she no longer had
 power to serve them4  ',darling1 do not
 worry any more2 you have loved them and
 sought them all these years1 and now   
you're going to rest1' said ,lucy4 ,the 
words reached her ears1 but she shook   
her head1 ',i haven't the heart to send 
them away1' she moaned4  ,faithful1     
brave little follower of ,the ,army's   
,founder1 in life2 even to her deathbed 
there came an echo from his4 ,in his    
blindness1 ,william ,booth had mourned  
to his daughter1 ',oh1 the sins1 the    
sins of the people6' ,he went into      
eternity1 sighing for the sins and      
sorrows of the world4  ,but further back
 than the human1 we can trace this      
spirit4 ,the ,saviour1 looking upon a   
multitude of needy souls1 is saying1 ',i
 have compassion on the multitude2 ,i   
cannot send them away4' ,william ,booth 

caught the spirit of ,christ2 he lived  
it2 breathed it into thousands of his   
followers1 of whom there has not fought 
and triumphed in life and death a truer 
saint and soldier than ,kate ,lee1 the  
,angel ,adjutant4  ,we conclude this    
sketch of her career with some words of 
,general ,bramwell ,booth3 ',i pray that
 many of those who knew her1 and of     
those who did not know her1' he says1   
'may be stirred up by the testimony of  
her life and death to walk in the same  
path1 and so glorify ,god and bless     
their fellows4'