Cadet has since done, by just taking a class or Company on Sundays, never
dreaming of doing more. An elder girls' Company was given to her; and she
had fifteen girls to teach, whose ages varied from twelve to nineteen.

Two half-days she spent every week in preparing for her Company, and in
trying to make each lesson end in a practical way, so as to do them real
good.

Then on Sunday, when the rest of the children had been dismissed, Miss
Mumford would beg to be given the key of the room and would remain
behind, holding a little Prayer Meeting with her girls. Sometimes they
would stay on for an hour and a half, and many by this means became truly
converted.

Often with so much praying and singing Catherine quite lost her voice
before the end of the Meeting; but, so long as souls were saved, she did
not mind that.

Soon after her marriage Mrs. Booth took another class of this same kind,
and also a little sort of Sergeants' Meeting, and then--for you see our
Army Mother was led on, just as you or I may be, step by step--she gave
a short talk to the Band of Hope children (something like our Band of
Love of today) on the evils of drink.

'Oh, how I wish,' she wrote to her father, 'that I had started speaking
years ago!'

A little later on Mr. and Mrs. Booth moved to Gateshead, and there the
people were very much surprised to hear their minister's wife pray aloud
when her husband had done speaking; for in those days very few women