I can scarcely deseribe this new Corps, let me say at the start it is only ten weeks' old, and they raised £10 for the Extension Fund.
In ten weeks they have had 494 seekers at the penitent-form, and 190 have signed the pledge in, five nights.
On Sunday, while in the open-nir, a man who appeared half drunk, rushed into the ring, and appeared as though he was going to speak, when some of the Soldiers turned him back. "Let him come in! let him come in! " said the Captain, "Come along, my brother!" The man marched forward, and pulled a quart glass bottle of beer out of his inside pocket of his coat and smashed it on the ground and then knelt to pray. The Captain said, "I will never turn another drunken man back while I live." *The man was hooked into the ranks to the Hall and I believe gave himself to the Lord. Oh Lord, keep him firm!
A little Soldier, Eliza Ann Black, only seven years of age, did her part well in nearly every meeting, and I believe much good was done by the singing.
An Overflow Meeting was held in the large room underneath the Hall, and then I heard 500 were unable to gain admission. The power of God was mightily felt all round.
On Monday night I gave some particulars of the rise and progress of The Salvation Army, and five souls came forward; in the three days thirty-six souls came to the penitent-form, and thirty-eight signed the pledge.
From, "The War Cry," page 1, 1st December 1881.
Liverpool V.
We opened this Corps on Saturday afternoon,
(Capt, Black), —Private W. Tudor writes :- "During, the past week, which has been one of grand and glorious victories, something like sixty-seven souls have professed to find peace in a sin-pardoning God. Hallelujah! But, praise God! that is nothing in comparison to what we shall have yet. We mean to go forward in the strength of our great Commander, Jesus Christ, and bring Birkenhead to His feet.
From, "The War Cry," page 3, 16th February 1882.
A wonderful work is going on here; Barracks packed. Overflow meeting at 500 in the lower room; crowds outside; many disappointed and had to go away. 35 came out to the penitent form. Something will have to be done to get a larger place; there are hundreds who would come in if there was room. If the work goes on in the future as during the five months the Army has been here, the drink traffic must fall all together. Hallelujah!
From, 'The War Cry', page 3, 2nd March 1882.
(Capt. Whorton) -Lieutenant Reid writes: "We arrived at this Station on Thursday, to take charge. A good band of Soldiers welcomed us, and on Friday night we bad a grand Holiness Meeting, twenty-seven came out for the blessing of clean heart. Glory to God! we mean this Station for Jesus. On Sunday God gave us the victory, and at night twenty-eight souls; two Halls packed, and hundreds ourtside. We mean Birkeanhead for Jesus."
From, "The War Cry," page 3, 16th March 1882.
I do not know where the meetings were held.