A monster brewery that illumines the whole city every night with a search-light has been running alternate slides, one saying, 'Buy our Lager Beer,' and the other, 'General Booth at the Convention Hall Monday night.' The building for my Meeting to-night will hold 8,000 people, and on Saturday 4,000 tickets were already sold.
"You will be a little interested in this because you will know something of the difficulties that seemed to lie ahead of me when I started.

God has been very good, and I hope my Campaign will do something towards the forwarding of His wishes in the country." The reception at New York was one of the most enthusiastic The General ever had.

At four o'clock on the Saturday morning, enough of his followers and friends to fill fifteen small steamers had assembled, so as to be sure to be in time to meet his liner.

By way of salute, when the great steamer appeared, they discharged seventy-three bombs--one for each year of his life, as yet completed.
The _New York Herald_ said of his Sunday there:-- "Eight thousand people heard General William Booth speaking yesterday at the Academy of Music.

The rain had no effect in keeping either Salvation Army people or the general public from the Meetings.