"_bide some bringing down_." Well, the Lord can do it. They tell me,
too, that I am immensely popular with the people. But _that_ is no
comfort unless they will be saved.'

She laboured to get the truth home to the hearts of her listeners, and
that is why her talking was so blessed.

'God made you responsible,' she said, 'not for delivering the truth, but
for GETTING IT IN--getting it home, fixing it in the conscience as a red-
hot iron, as a bolt, straight from His throne; and He has given you also
the _power to do it_; and if you do not do it, _blood_ will be
on your skirts. Oh, this genteel way of putting the truth! How God hates
it! "If you please, dear friends, will you listen? If you please, will
you be converted? Will you come to Jesus? Shall we read just this, that,
and the other?" No more like apostolic preaching than darkness is like
light.'

How can I show you some of the marvellous results of her preaching? In
every part of our land her influence and words made themselves felt; the
largest buildings were crowded with all classes of society, and glorious
cases of conversion and sanctification crowned her labours everywhere. A
lady who was at some of her women's Meetings at Lye, near Birmingham,
tells us:--

'The women left their work, and in all sorts of odd costumes flocked to
the Meetings, some with bonnets, some with shawls fastened over their
head, others with little children clinging to their necks. All, with
eager, inquiring faces, took their seats and listened to the gracious
words which fell from the lips of dear Mrs. Booth. And when the
invitation was given, what a scene ensued! It baffles all description.