on both sides, that the main object of John Wesley--the
exaltation of Christ for the Salvation of men--was for the moment almost
lost sight of.

Mr. Booth joined with the most earnest people he could find; but though
they gave him opportunity to hold Meetings, he wrote to one of his old
associates:--

"How are you going on? I wish I knew you were happy, living to God
and working for Jesus.

"I preached on Sabbath last to a respectable but dull and lifeless
congregation. Notwithstanding this I had liberty in both prayer and
preaching. I had not any one to say 'Amen' or 'Praise the Lord'
during the whole of the service. I want some of you here with me in
the Prayer Meetings, and then we should carry all before us."

Thus we see emerging from the obscurity of a poor home a conqueror,
fired with one ambition, out of harmony with every then existing
Christian organisation, because of that strange old feeling, so often
expressed in the Psalms of David, that the praises of God ought to be
heard from all men's lips alike, and that everything else ought to give
way to His will and His pleasure.

In speaking to his Officers later on he said:--

"When the great separation from the Wesleyan Church took place, Mr.
Rabbits said to me one day: 'You must leave business, and wholly
devote yourself to preaching the Gospel.'

"'Impossible,' I answered. 'There is no way for me. Nobody wants
me.' 'Yes,' said he, 'the people with whom you have allied yourself
want an evangelist.'

"'They cannot support me,' I replied; 'and I cannot live on air.'

"'That is true, no doubt,' was his answer. 'How much can you live
on?'

"I reckoned up carefully. I knew I should have to provide my own
quarters and to pay for my cooking; and as to the living itself, I
did not understand in those days how this could be managed in as
cheap a fashion as I do now. After a careful calculation, I told
him that I did not see how I could get along with less than twelve
shillings a week.

"'Nonsense,' he said; 'you cannot do with less than twenty
shillings a week, I am sure.'

"'All right,' I said, 'have it your own way, if you will; but where
is the twenty shillings to come from?'

"'I will supply it,' he said, 'for the first three months at
least.'

"'Very good,' I answered. And the bargain was struck there a