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The Authoritative Life of General William Booth

CHAPTER X
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We kept up the Meeting till after ten o'clock, by which time seventeen people had come out to seek Salvation.
"The police sent me a message one Sunday evening, during the Meeting, that they wanted me at the police station.

I replied that I was engaged that evening; but that I was at their service any time after six the next morning.

So they had me up the Monday morning, and sentenced me to a month's imprisonment.

But they never enforced it, till I left the town.
"In another place we had no Hall, and I have seen my Soldiers in the early morning trample snow down till it was hard enough for us to kneel upon for our Prayer Meeting.
"In Tipton one of the Converts was called the 'Tipton Devil.' He once sold his dead child's coffin for drink.

When we got him, a week later, to the Penitent-Form, and I said to him, 'Now you must pray,' he said, 'I can't pray.' 'But you must,' I said.


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