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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: main spring. Nobody can become acquainted with our soldiers in any
land, without being almost immediately struck with their extraordinary
gladness, and this joy is in itself one of the most infectious and
influential elements of the Army's success. But if this be so, amid the
comparatively well to do, judge of what its results are likely to be
amongst the poorest and most wretched! To those who have never known
bright days, the mere sight of a happy face is as it were a revelation
and inspiration in one.
6. But the Army's success does not come with magical rapidity;
it depends, like that of all real work, upon infinite perseverance.
To say nothing of the perseverance of the Officer who has made the
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