Crowding, weeping, rushing to the penitent-form came convicted sinners
and repentant backsliders. When the form was filled the penitents dropped
upon their knees in the aisles or in their seats, so that it was
difficult to move about.'

When holding some Meetings in a Rotherhithe chapel (for The Army was only
just beginning its work, and our Army Mother took Meetings in different
churches and chapels up and down the land), the victories were just as
glorious, and one of her Converts says:--

'There were many remarkable cases of conversion at these Meetings.
Amongst others there were the two daughters of a publican. When one
sister was saved the other went to hear Mrs. Booth on purpose to ridicule
the services. But she was seized with such an agonizing realization of
her sins that she came down from the top of the gallery to the penitent-
form, crying out aloud, "I must come! I must come!" Soon after their
father gave up the public-house, and they afterwards became members of
Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle.

'I have seen as many as thirty persons seeking Salvation in a single
Meeting, and some years afterwards, when I looked at the register of our
chapel, I found about one hundred names of those who had professed to be
converted at this time.'

Our Army Mother, too, was equally straight and fearless with the rich
when, later on, they also came in crowds to hear her. She had but one
message and one gospel for all alike. She says, 'By God's help I will not
regard the person of man, but will plainly and fearlessly declare the
truth, come what may.' God honoured this spirit, and her Meetings in the
West-End of London, where the great and rich live, were some of the most