to it,
and were appointed to some sphere of labour called a Circuit. Just
before the Conference met he was astonished to hear that it was proposed
to appoint him as Superintendent of a London Circuit. He was able to
persuade the authorities concerned to alter this intention on the ground
of his comparative lack of experience, although he expressed his
willingness to take the post of assistant minister under whomsoever the
Conference might appoint as Superintendent.

In due course, the appointment was made, and he found himself assistant
to a Superintendent who, he tells us, was "stiff, hard, and cold, making
up, in part, for the want of heart and thought in his public
performances by what sounded like a sanctimonious wail."

This gentleman strongly objected when, as a result of the reports of Mr.
Booth's services appearing in the Press, he was urgently invited to
visit other places, as he had visited Guernsey. The Conference
authorities, however, prevailed, and insisted, in the general interest,
upon his place in London being taken by another preacher, and his
services being utilised wherever called for.

It was thus by no choice of his own, but by the arrangement of his
Church, that Mr. Booth, instead of remaining tied down to the ordinary
routine of pastoral life, was sent for some time from place to place to
conduct such evangelising Campaigns as his soul delighted in. Who can
doubt that God's hand was in this disposal of his time? He was allowed
to marry, though his young wife had to content herself with but
occasional brief spells of association with him.

His Campaigns were really wonderful in their success. He would go for a
fortnight, or even less, to some city where the congregation had
dwindled almost to nothing, and where one or two services a week,
conducted in a very quiet and formal way, were maintained with
difficulty, owing to the indifference or hopelessness of both minister
and people. For the period of his stay all the usual programme would be
laid aside, however, and he would be left free to carry out his own
plans of daily service.

How remarkable to find him so completely carrying with him all who had
been accustomed to the old forms, and introducing, with the evident
sanction of the president and authorities of his Church, such
re-arrangements, records, and reorganisation as he desired.

But the strange, the almost inexplicable thing is that, without his even
remarking upon it, all should g