An Officer or Soldier accompanies the Penitent to his home or to his employer, should such a course appear likely to help him to effect any reconciliation, or take any other step to which his conscience calls him.

The names and addresses of all Penitents are recorded, so that they may be afterwards visited and helped to carry out the promises they have made to God.
For convenience' sake, in very large Meetings, such as those The General himself held, where hundreds at a time come to the Penitent-Form, a room called the Registration Room is used for the making of the necessary inquiries and records.

In this room those who decide to join The Army have a small piece of ribbon of The Army's colours at once attached to their coats.

But this Registration Room must in no way be confused with an "Inquiry Room," where seeking souls can go aside unseen.

The General was always extremely opposed to the use of any plan other than that of the Penitent-Form, lest there should be any distinction made between one class and another, or an easier path contrived for those who wish to avoid a bold avowal of Christ.
And he always refused to allow any such use of the Bible in connexion with Penitents as has been usual in Inquiry Rooms, where the people have been taught that if they only believed the words of some text, all would be well with them.