Should my blessed Saviour want me to do the work over again, I should do it to-morrow." "The General," says one of his chosen associates of those times, "always reminded me so of the captain of a vessel in a stormy sea.

Perfectly calm himself in a way, yet going resolutely ahead with unerring aim, quickly deciding whenever a decision was needed, and always ready to take all the risks; he trained his folks how to go through everything that came, to victory." One of the weakest of the many women whom in those days he taught how to rise up out of their ease and go to battle and victory, says of her first sight of him, more than forty years ago, "He gave me the impression in that Meeting of a man of God, whose only aim was the Salvation of souls.

I got saved at one of Mrs.Booth's Meetings, when I was still a girl only twelve years old.

They used to call me 'Praying Polly.' But, never having had a day's schooling, when he wanted me to become an Officer, I feared my own incompetence.

Mrs.Booth said 'You will see God will punish you.' She had seen something of my work in Meetings where I had to take up collections and turn out roughs, and so had no doubt told The General what she thought I could do.
"Sure enough I was laid up completely, lost the use of one limb, and had to use crutches.