This need unfortunately is not passing away, as you will all well know.  But I suppose some of you have come from distant lands with bags of francs and dollars to present The General with an ample supply of this requirement.  He thanks you beforehand.

(b) Nevertheless, and notwithstanding all our shortcomings, the position now occupied by our Social Operations, and the influence exercised by them on the great and small of the earth, is in evidence in every Continent and on every hand.

There is no doubt that the world, as a whole, feels much of the admiration and gratitude which the Press lavished upon me on my recent Birthday—­admiration which was assuredly intended not only for myself, but for The Army as a whole, and not only for The Army as a whole, but for its Social Workers in particular.

     1.  And now, in conclusion, let me summarise a few of the advantages
     which have flowed out of the Social Work, and which will continue
     to flow out of it as long as time rolls on.

     (a) The first benefit I will mention is the Salvation of
     thousands of souls.

     (b) The world has been further benefited by the knowledge of
     Salvation spread throughout every part of the habitable globe.

(c) The world has been further benefited by the Conviction that has been brought to governmental, philanthropic, and religious agencies, as to the duty they owe to the classes we seek to benefit.

     (d) The world has been further benefited by the sympathy created
     in the hearts of royal personages, scientists, literary people, and
     the Press generally; indeed, in every class and grade of mankind.

     (e) The world has been further benefited by the removal of misery
     on such an extensive scale as had never even been dreamed of as
     possible.

     Think of the multitudes who, by our operations, are daily saved
     from starvation, vice, crime, disease, death, and a hundred other
     nameless woes.

In some of the principal cities in Italy, Holland, Germany, and elsewhere, visited during my recent Continental Campaign, I have been looked upon with unspeakable satisfaction and enthusiasm as The General of the Poor, and The Salvation Army has been regarded as their friend.

     (f) The world has been further benefited by the help which our
     Social Operations have afforded to the Field and other Departments
     of The Army all over the world.

(g) The world has been further benefited by the confidence the Social Work has created in the hearts and minds of our own people—­both Officers and Soldiers—­as to the truth and righteousness of the principles and practices of The Salvation Army.

     (h) The world has been further benefited by the answer which the
     Social Work constitutes to the infidel’s sneers at Christianity and
     the assertion of its effeteness.