While recovering from this illness, which left me far from strong, I received a note from a companion, Will Sansom, asking me to make haste and get well again, and help him in a Mission he had started in a slum part of the town.

No sooner was I able to get about than I gladly joined him.
"The Meetings we held were very remarkable for those days.

We used to take out a chair into the street, and one of us mounting it would give out a hymn, which we then sang with the help of, at the most, three or four people.

Then I would talk to the people, and invite them to come with us to a Meeting in one of the houses.
"How I worked in those days! Remember that I was only an apprentice lad of fifteen or sixteen.

I used to leave business at 7 o'clock, or soon after, and go visiting the sick, then these street Meetings, and afterwards to some Meeting in a cottage, where we would often get some one saved.