This is how the people are laid hold of.
"Shall this good work be hindered for the want of a few hundred pounds ?" The supply of "pounds," alas! though called for in such religious periodicals as at that time were willing to report the work, did not come, and The General says: "After six years' hard work, we had nothing better for our Sunday Night Meetings than a small covered alley attached to a drinking-saloon, together with some old discarded chapels, and a tumble-down penny theatre for week-nights." At last a drinking-saloon, "The Eastern Star," having been burnt out, was acquired, and rebuilt and fitted as a centre for the Work, to be succeeded ere long by the large covered People's Market in Whitechapel Road, which was for ten years to be The Army's Headquarters, and which is now the Headquarters of its English Men's Social Work.
Throughout all these years of struggle, however, the Converts were being drilled and fitted for the further extension of the Work.
The idea of forming them into a really permanent Organisation only came to their Leader gradually.

He says:-- "My first thought was to constitute an evangelistic agency, the Converts going to the Churches.

But to this there were three main obstacles:-- i.

They would not go where they were sent.
ii.

They were not wanted when they did go.
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