widest fame, while comparatively few, beyond those of her most trusted Officers, are brought into admiring touch with her brilliant executive powers. All these, however, unite in most unstinted praise and declare that functioning in this sphere, the Commander even excels her platform triumphs. But one must know her well and watch her every day to understand her depth of insight into character, her wideness of vision, her skill of making adverse circumstances serve her ends. Born with an innate genius for leadership, swallowed up in her work, wholly consecrated to God and His service, she looks upon men, as it were, with the eyes of the God she loves, and sees the best in everybody. She sees their faults also, but she sees the good, and is able to take that good and put it to account, while helping them out of their faults. Those whom she has so helped would kiss the hem of her garment as she passes. It is easy to see why she is a leader of men. It is easy to see who has made the Army here in America. It is easy to see who has inspired the brave men and wonderful women who went to France and labored. She would not have me say these things of her, for she is humble, as such a great leader should be, knowing all her gifts and attainments to be but the glory of her Lord; and this is her book. Only in this chapter can I speak and say what I will, for it is not my book. But here, too, I waive my privilege and bow to my Commander. Grace Livingaton Hill She Called the Little Company of Workers Together and Gave The Lassie Who Fried the First Doughnut in France.... "Tin Hat for a Halo! Ah! She Wears It Well!"...... The Patient Officers Who Were Seeing to All These Details 81 Here During the Day They Worked in Dugouts Far Below the 112 They Came To Get Their Coats Mended and Their Buttons 113 The Entrance to the Old Wine Cellar in Mandres.. 142 The Salvation Army Was Told that Ansauville Was Too Far 143 L'Hermitage, Nestled in the Heart of a Deep Woods...... 146 L'Hermitage, Inside the Tent.... 147 "Ma"... 168 They Had a Pie-baking Contest in Gondrecourt One Day.... 169 |