[The Authoritative Life of General William Booth by George Scott Railton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Authoritative Life of General William Booth CHAPTER XIII 18/18
Even when the Converts were provided with a second supply of badges, they were called to the police-station, and again deprived of them.
But the leader had learnt from The General too well the lessons of patient endurance and continuance to give way.
And when the police saw her followers supplied a third time with the signs of union with us, having in the meantime had so many opportunities to learn more both of the leader and of her people, they concluded that it would be, after all, the best for the public interest to let them alone. Two newspapers in the two languages of the country were issued and sold in all the public-houses.
Congregations were gathered in all the cities, and even small towns, and everywhere the authorities could see that no spirit of discontent with anything but sin and evil habits was being created, but that the police would find their tasks lightened, and the life of the poorest of the people brightened and bettered, if they let the work go on..
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