“A young man under the right-hand gallery, having briefly spoken, one of Mr. Booth’s helpers, a Yorkshireman, with a strong voice and hearty manner, told of the Open-Air Meetings, the opposition they encountered, and his determination to go on, in spite of all opposition from men and Devils.

“A middle-aged man on the right, a sailor, told how he was brought to Christ during his passage home from Colombo.  One of the Dublin tracts, entitled, ‘John’s Difficulty,’ was the means of his conversion.

“A young man to the right, having told how, as a backslider, he had recently been restored, a cabman said he used to be in the public-houses constantly; but he thanked God he ever heard William Booth, for it led to his conversion.

“Three young men on the right then spoke.  The first, who comes five miles to these Meetings, told how he was lost through the drink, and restored by the Gospel; the second said he was unspeakably happy; the third said he would go to the stake for Christ.

     “A middle-aged man in the centre spoke of his many trials.  His
     sight was failing him, but the light of Christ shone brilliantly in
     his soul.

     “The chorus—­

        Let us walk in the light,

     was then sung.

     “A young man described his feelings as he had recently passed the
     place where he was born; and a sister spoke of her husband’s
     conversion, and how they were both now rejoicing in God.

     “After a young man on the left had told how his soul had recently
     revived, another on the right testified to the Lord having pardoned
     his sins in the theatre on the previous Sunday.

“Two sailors followed.  The first spoke of his conversion through reading a tract while on his way to the Indies four months ago.  The other said he was going to sea next week, and was going to take some Bibles, hymns, and tracts with him, to see what could be done for Christ on board.

     “The verse—­

        I believe I shall be there,
        And walk with Him in white,

     was then sung.

“A young man of the name of John, sometimes called ’Young Hallelujah,’ told of his trials while selling fish in the streets; but he comforted himself by saying, ‘’Tis better on before.’  He had been drawn out in prayer at midnight on the previous night, and had dreamed all night that he was in a Prayer Meeting.  He was followed by a converted thief, who told how he was ‘picked up,’ and of his persecutions daily while working with twenty unconverted men.

“A man in the centre, who had been a great drunkard, said, ’What a miserable wretch I was till the Lord met with me!  I used to think I could not do without my pint a day, but the Lord pulled me right bang out of a public-house into a place of worship.’