I confess that it was one of the most perplexing steps of my life.

When I took it every avenue seemed closed against me.

There was one thing I could do, however, and that was to trust in God, and wait for His Salvation." The difficulty of the Church was really insurmountable at that time.
Since those days most of the Protestant Churches have learnt that evangelistic work is just as essential as the ordinary pastoral ministrations.
The fact is, that neither the Booths nor the Church were then aware that God, behind all their perplexities, was working out a plan of His own.
Who laments that separation to-day?
As the evangelists of any Church they could not possibly have become to so large an extent the evangelists of all..