The plan was adopted, therefore, as at the funeral, of a complete form of service, each point of which was indicated on the programme, and by large illuminated signs.

By this means the audience, of some 15,000, was able closely and unitedly to join in all the songs and prayers, whilst scenes from Mrs.Booth's life, and messages taken from her writings and from The General's, were also on the great lantern screen passed on to them.

Thousands of the most careless and thoughtless were present; but there was no break in the solemnity of the service.

Hundreds went as requested, from the Meeting to a room in the stables, to volunteer for life-service as Officers.
What it cost The General to be present on this, and, since then, on similar occasions, specially after his daughter's death, may be imagined; but he never hesitated to endure this, for the sake of the many souls such services have invariably aroused to repentance, faith, and self-sacrifice for the War.

Writing, in 1905, to a friend, he says:-- "Were you at the Memorial Service?
That was a trying ordeal for me, but I hear that many were benefited.