"Nevertheless, I did not answer discouragingly. After a momentary
pause for thought and prayer, I replied, 'Well, if you feel you
ought to stay, stay. We have trusted the Lord _once_ for our
support, and we can trust Him _again_!'"

"That night," says The General, "The Salvation Army was born."

Before long God moved the heart of one of the most benevolent men in
England, Mr. Samuel Morley, to promise them his influence and support
without any condition but the continuance of the work thus begun. But no
amount of monetary help could have placed The General in a position to
establish anything like the permanent work he desired. He writes:--

"I had hardly got successfully started on this new path before my
old experience of difficulty met me once more. On the third Sunday
morning, I think it was, we found the old tent which formed our
cathedral, blown down, and so damaged by the fall, as well as so
rotten, that it could not be put up again. Another tent was
impossible, as we had no money to buy one; so, as no suitable
building could be obtained, there was nothing for it but for us to
do our best out of doors.

"After a time we secured an old dancing-room for Sunday Meetings.
But, there being no seats in it, our Converts had to come at 4
o'clock on Sunday morning to bring the benches in, and work till
midnight, or later still, when the day's Meetings were over, to
move them out again. For our week-night Meetings we had hired an
old shed, formerly used to store rags in, and there we fought for
months."

What a testimony to the character of the work already accomplished, and
the readiness of the little force already raised to toil like pioneer
soldiers for the love of Christ!

Most of the Converts of those days "had been forgiven much." The
following letter from one of them may give some idea both of the nature
of the work done, and the surrounding circumstances:--

"Dear Sir,--I have reason to bless the hour that God put the
thought into your head to open the Mission at the East-End of
London, for it has been the means of making me and my family happy
in the love of Christ; it has turned me from a drunkard,
blasphemer, and liar, to a true believing Christian. At the age of
thirteen, I went as a waiter-boy in a public-house, where I
remained until I was sixteen. Here I learned to love the