After a momentary pause for thought and prayer, I replied, 'Well, if you feel you ought to stay, stay.

We have trusted the Lord _once_ for our support, and we can trust Him _again_!'" "That night," says The General, "The Salvation Army was born." Before long God moved the heart of one of the most benevolent men in England, Mr.Samuel Morley, to promise them his influence and support without any condition but the continuance of the work thus begun.

But no amount of monetary help could have placed The General in a position to establish anything like the permanent work he desired.

He writes:-- "I had hardly got successfully started on this new path before my old experience of difficulty met me once more.

On the third Sunday morning, I think it was, we found the old tent which formed our cathedral, blown down, and so damaged by the fall, as well as so rotten, that it could not be put up again.