Lord Wolseley and General Gordon

LORD WOLSELEY was full of enthusiasm for General Gordon― “God’s friend,” as he called him. In his “Story of a Soldier’s Life,” Wolseley said of Gordon: ― “In a conversation I had with him the year he left England, never to return, he told me he prayed daily for two men, of whom I was one. I believe the other was Colonel J. F. Brocklehurst, C.V.O., C. B., then commanding the Royal Horse Guards, and of whom I know he was very fond, and of whom he had the highest opinion. Gordon absolutely ignored self in all he did, and only took in hand what he conceived to be God’s work. Life was to him but a Pilgrim’s Progress between the years of early manhood and the heaven he now dwells in, the home he always longed for. When in any difficulty his first thought was: ‘What would my Master do, were He now in my place?’ It was this constant reliance upon his Maker, this spiritual communing with his Saviour upon every daily occurrence in life, that enabled him absolutely to ignore self and to take no heed for what to-morrow might bring forth.”