One who became one of his foremost helpers, had formerly been a notorious sinner, and had indeed only been converted a fortnight, when because he already showed such splendid qualities he was sent by a girl Officer to The General with the strongest recommendation for acceptance.
It was arranged for him to speak with The General on the platform, after a Meeting.

The General, who had, no doubt, observed him during the evening, looked at him for a moment and then said, "You ought to do something for God with those eyes! Good-night!" "I had never had such a shock," says the Commissioner, as he now is.

"If that's being accepted for the Work, I said to myself--what next, I wonder." But, sure enough, in another three weeks' time he was called out from his place of employment by a Staff Officer, who asked him, "Can you be ready to go to M---- next Monday ?" And he went.
This young man had been a devotee of billiards; but had become interested in The Army by seeing two of our "Special" speakers--one a very short Officer, the other a giant doctor from Whitechapel, who weighed some 334 lbs., wheeled up a steep hill in a pig cart, to a great Open-Air Meeting.

After listening many times without yielding, he was startled out of his coolness by a large Hall in which he attended a Night of Prayer being burned to the ground the next day.

The next evening, with one of his companions, he went to the Penitent-Form and found the mercy of God.
When The General was at all in doubt about a Candidate for Officership, he would often draw such a one out by means of the most discouraging remarks.