d after a tea, for which the people had paid a shilling
each, to announce the collection, the woman-Captain, to my
astonishment, simply said, 'Now, friends, go into the collection.
Whack it into the baskets.' The whole audience was evidently fond
of her, and they very heartily responded.

"If asked to explain our methods, I would say: _Firstly, we do not
fish in other people's waters, or try to set up a rival sect._ Out
of the gutters we pick up our Converts, and if there be one man
worse than another our Officers rejoice the most over the case of
that man.

"When a man gets saved, no matter how low he is, he rises
immediately. His wife gets his coat from the pawn-shop, and if she
cannot get him a shirt she buys him a paper front, and he gets his
head up, and is soon unable to see the hole of the pit from which
he has been digged, and would like to convert our rough concern
into a chapel, and make things respectable. That is not our plan.
We are moral scavengers, netting the very sewers. We want all we
can get, but we want the lowest of the low.

"My heart has gone out much after Ireland of late, and ten weeks
ago I sent out there a little woman who had been much blessed, and
four of her Converts. They landed at Belfast at two o'clock in the
morning. They did not know a soul. Our pioneer (contrary to our
usual customs) had taken them a lodging. We had said to her, 'Rest
yourselves till Sunday morning'; but she was not content with this.
After a wash, a cup of tea, and a little sleep, they turned out,
found a Christian gentleman who lent them a little hall, had it
crowded at once, and now, though only ten weeks have passed away,
we have Stations in four other towns, two in Belfast, and two
others are getting ready for opening. Blessed results have
followed. The people, we are told, come in crowds--they are very
poor--they sit and listen and weep, rush out to the Penitent-Form,
and many are saved.

"Now, Mr. President, I think I may say that it is a matter for
great thankfulness to God that there is a way--a simple, ready
way--a cheap way, to get at the masses of the people.

"_Secondly. We get at these people by adapting our measures._ There
is a most bitter prejudice, amongst the lower classes, against
churches and chapels. I am sorr