I wanted liberty to move forward in it.

So when the Conference definitely declined my request to set me free for evangelistic work I bade them farewell.
"It was a heart-breaking business.

Here was a great crowd of people all over the land who loved me and my dear wife.

I felt a deep regard for them, and to leave them was a sorrow beyond description.
But I felt I must follow what appeared to be the beckoning finger of my Lord.

So, with my wife and four little children, I left my quarters and went out into the world once more, trusting in God, literally not knowing who would give me a shilling, or what to do or where to go.
"All my earthly friends thought I was mistaken in this action; some of them deemed me mad.