I wanted to go forward at all costs.

But I was not to be defeated or turned from the object on which my heart was set in this fashion, so I called them together, and addressing them said, 'My comrades, the formation of another Church is not my aim.

There are plenty of Churches.

I want to make an Army.

Those among you who are willing to help me to realise my purpose can stay with me.
Those who do not must separate from me, and I will help them to find situations elsewhere.'" They one and all chose to stand by The General, for those who were really set upon the formation of deliberative assemblies had already left us.
This was in February, 1877, and in the following July the last Christian Mission Conference met to celebrate the abandonment of the entire system that Conference represented, and to assure The General that he had got a real fighting Army to lead.
It was only at the end of 1878, during which year the "Stations," which we now call Corps, had increased from thirty to eighty, that in a brief description of the work we called the Mission a "Salvation Army." But the very name helped us to increase the speed of our advance.
The rapidity with which The General selected and sent out his Officers reminds one constantly of the stories of the Gospel.