There was no surplus, ever! The
multifarious efforts to meet the needs of the poorest of the cities' poor,
alone, kept everyone on the strain. There seemed no possibility of doing
more. Besides, how could they spare the workers to meet the new demand
without taking them from places where they were greatly needed at home?
And other perplexities darkened the way. There were those sitting in high
places of authority who had strongly advised the Salvation Army to remain
at home and go on with their street meetings, telling them that the
battlefield was no place for them, they would only be in the way. They
were not adapted to a thing like war. But well she knew the capacity of
the Salvation Army to adapt itself to whatever need or circumstance
presented. The same standard they had borne into the most wretched places
of earth in times of peace would do in times of war.
Out there across the waters the Salvation Brothers and Sisters were
ministering to the British armies at the front, and now that the American
army was going, too, duty seemed very clear; the call was most imperative!
The written pages on her desk loudly demanded attention and the Commander
tried to bring her thoughts back to them once more, but again and again
the call sounded in her heart.
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