The age-herald., 1897-10-06

anxious to get back to the work that I could hardly content myself to pass the promised three there.
 T returned to Paris and went to | work as a regular cadet. We were terri
 ply psrsecuted there. and one night a man was killed before my eyes at the very door Of cur hall At the end of six
 weeks was publicly commissioned with | two other girls to go to Switzerland | The work had ben begun in Switzsr-
 land three or four years earlier and the army had been much persecuted. Miss Booth was expelled from the country,
 and officers were imprisoned for mere
 frifies, such as writing Are You Saved?' on the snow. It was necessary to hold the meetings in all sorts of out-of-the-
 way places. such as kitchens, stables, and the woods.
 We were sent to open a corps in the mountains near Geneva. Even the minis- ters spoke against us. We couldn't get police protection, and tine roughs stoned us and our converts and followers un-
 mefcnully. After two months we saw
 that 1t would take male officers to con
 duct corps successfully up there in
 the mountains, and so we were trans ferred and stationed about six miles from Neuchatel. There we had five
 large villages to work, with our hall in the centre We had a great deal of trouble there, too, but we did a. fine work and saved many souls. While at tHiS pldce dll OI lne OIIlceTS ln Ine sur rounding cantons were ordered to Neu- chatel to attend a two days meeting and council which was held to cele- brate the opening of a new hall. The Army had outgrown its quarters there and piece of land had been bought
 on which a substantial brick building that held about 1,500 had been erected.
 The leader of the work there, Major Clibborn, knew what a lot of trouble there would be, so he asked the chief
 nf fn al o,,c tserh Ao I~ao a mob from gathering. There were fifty Salvation Army officers on hand, thirty women and twenty men. The first day was noisy, but we got on very we'll; it
 was not so bad. But the secendl Words cannot describe 1t. At the afternoon
 meeting an angry crowd gathered in and about the hall. That night it had increased to a moving sea of muttering evil-looking people.
 Admission to the meeting was by ticket, as it was thought that this would keep out the wetst elsment. Did it? Well I should say not. The crowd swept by the doorkeeprs, and entered ths hall shouting, yelling, swearing; the lights were put out, chairs and benches broken up, windows knocked out, but the meeting went on. Meanwhile out s.de all who could not get in went on like wolves. One never hears anything like a European mob in America. It is noise that strikes a chill.
 III lile lIOIbl TOW dl IIe Ile6llIlB SdL a big, burly, sullen, wicked-looking man in his shirt sleeves. We all noticed him because he looked as if he wanted to kill us. As the meeting went on amid the howlings of the mob, his face gchanged and softened Whsn we asked all who wanted to give their hearts to God to come forward, he was the first to kneel at the psnitent form. We prayed and talked with him, and at last, when it was time to closs the meeting, he arose and said that he had been saved. Thsn he took something from his sleeve; it was a loaded stick. Way ing it backward and forward in a dra- Ematic mannef, he cried out:
 E Money and drink have been given me to come here and take a front seat so that I might break some of the Sal vationists' heads, but the Salvationists have broken my heart indeed
 ''The women officers were ito be enter atained at different places, while the men were to be left to guard the hall, for 4the rioters were bent on destroying it. JThet was th=ir idea in gathering. A man and his wife who had influence in Neuchatel arranged to take all of us home with them and to send us to our places from there. < They. were both white haired, and they led ths way out of the hall. We lassies followed two by double picket and we marched out be- tween them, but they did not follow us and as soon as w had passed through the lines the mob fell on us.
 We were knocked down, kicked and cuffed, and beaten. My comrade was knocked down, and some one jumped on her. She shriek=d and ehrieked, and some man, kinder than the rest, had msccy on her and rescued her. He car ried big stick, and he let it fly on all sides so she and I got out with his help, and made our way home. One by one the others began to come, and we count- ed them. Finally, when all had ap- peared, with a few broken ribs, bruised heads, and so on, we knelt and thanked God for taking care of us and asked Him to hslp the men at the garrison. And they needed 1t, I can tell you, for they had an eventful night.
 Next day the government forbade our holding any ml0re meetings and put its official seal on the doors and windows of our hall We stationed garrison th:re, however but the police forbade even family prayer. We went on hold- ing meetings in cottages and Kitchens just the same, and sdon President Ru- chonet, who was very good Christian man. sent out a commission of two men to examine into the work of the army The commission reported that our doc Urine was practically the same as theirs and that our work was turning many bad citizens into good ones. That was our victory. The seals were removed from our hall and our work went on. Presidsnt Ruchonet's widow has ap- peansd on our platform many times since then.
 Just before he sent out that commits sion. Miss Sterling, a Scotch woman, was imprisoned in the castle of Chiffon, where only men of the lowest type ars imprisoned, for holding a childrens meeting. The charge was proselytzlnS, though the parents of all the children present had consented to their going there. Miss Sterling was in prison thpee months and her health was i'm. paired for life. shall never foIget tha day she was taken to Chiffon. She looked back at me, smiled, and shouted at the top of her lungs, Victory? It was like the times of the Huguenots Tn France and the Covenanters in scotland. She was right in her prophecy. yic- tory was given to us, and now the Sai- s yation Army is doing grand work in Switzs zsrland. While she was In prs son the jailer's wife and daughter were