This Station ha been opened five months, during. which time about 250 prisoners have been taken. Some of them were hard workers for the devil, but are now working for Jesus, and they say that they find Him the best master, and that they are living in hopes of spending their new year in a right and proper way. One says, that he used to go to a public-house and get drunk, and if all did not please him when he got home he would throw his food under the grate. And if his wife spoke to him about it, he would knock her down. Well, at last, he believed his wife would as soon have seen the old devil come into the house, as to see him come home drunk; but, glory to God, The Salvation Army came along, and got him into the fountain, and now he and his wife are "Bound for the land of the pure and the holy." Hallelujah!
From, "The War Cry," page 3, 29th December 1881.
The Fishponds Soldiers have just celebrated their first anniversary, for which they have much cause for thankfulness, for God hath indeed wrought wonders among them in one short year.
A great many of the most notorious characters have been rescued—have bean saved—and today they are living monuments of God's love, mercy and power.
Sunday was a most glorious day. We marched out in the morning to Rodney Hill, about six miles, hundreds, it not thousands, of people following us.
Afternoon, a real Hallelujah Free-and-Easy, in which it was difficult to close, in order to go for rations, and to prepare for the evening meeting.
At night, the Barracks, which is a splendid wooden building, was cremmed to excess, and God's presence wonderfully near all the way through...
From, "The War Cry," page 2, 16th March 1882.
I do not know where the meetings were held.