n Hall Prayer Meeting.

"Two young lads, recently converted, having given their experience,
a dock labourer, converted seventeen months ago, asked the prayers
of the Meeting for his wife, yet unconverted. Some of his comrades
during the last week said, 'What a difference there is in you now
to what there used to be!'

"Three young women followed. The first spoke but a sentence or two.
The desire of the second was to live more to Christ. The third had
a singularly clear voice, and gave her experience very
intelligently. It was a year and a half since she gave her heart to
the Saviour; but her husband does not yet see with her. Her desire
was to possess holiness of heart, and to know more of the language
of Canaan.

"The experience of an old man, who next spoke, was striking. Mr.
Booth had announced his intention, some time back, of preaching a
sermon on 'The Derby,' at the time of the race that goes by that
name. This man was attracted by curiosity, and when listening
compared himself to a broken-down horse. This sermon was the means
of his conversion.

"The verse then sung was:--

Can you tell me what ship is going to sail?
Oh, the old ship of Zion, Hallelujah!

"Two sisters then spoke. The first had been very much cast down for
seven or eight weeks; but she comforted herself by saying, ''Tis
better on before.' The second said it was two years since she found
peace, and she was very happy.

"A young man told how his sins were taken away. He worked in the
city, and some one took him to hear the Rev. E. P. Hammond. He did
not find peace then, but afterwards, as a young man was talking to
him in the street, he was able to see the way of Salvation, and
rejoice in it. He used to fall asleep generally under the
preaching. 'But here,' he said, 'under Mr. Booth, I can't sleep.'

"A little boy, one of Mr. Booth's sons (the present General), gave
a simple and good testimony. He was followed by a young man, and
then an interesting blind girl, whom I had noticed singing heartily
in the street, told of her conversion.

"A girl told how she found peace seventeen months ago; and then Mr.
Booth offered a few concluding observations and prayed. The Meeting
closed by singing:--

I will not be discouraged,
For Jesus i