To one who had gone expecting a hearty welcome, he said, "Well, what good do you think you'll be ?" The General's eldest son being present, desiring to help her, remarked upon the high commendation her Officers gave her.

He wished to send her off directly to a Corps; but The General, still uncertain, said, "No, send her to Emma," which opened the way for her immediately to leave her business and go to the newly-opened Training Home for women under his daughter's direction.
A similar Home for young men, under the present Chief of the Staff, Commissioner Howard, provided means to take those about whose fitness for the Work there was any doubt, and give them a training prior to sending them on to the Field.
In 1880, The General addressed the Wesleyan Methodist Conference of the United Kingdom.

That Conference is one of the most powerful Church assemblies in the world, directing as it does the entire forces of its Church within the British Empire, and consequently influencing very largely all Methodists in the world.

It was a remarkable testimony to The General's work that, so early as 1880, its most influential leaders should have been able to arrange, despite considerable opposition, for him to address the Conference which that year sat in London.

The President, in welcoming him, warned him that they could only give him a limited time in which to speak.
What an expression of his sense of liberty and power "from on high," that The General should at once have begun by saying, "Mr.President, in our Meetings we are accustomed to bring any speech that seems likely to go on too long to a close by beginning to sing.