Arnold - Salvation Army

Another district close by, on following Sunday. I was assured, from different sources, of the very rough reception the Army would receive here - that there was only one other place in the county that was as rough and devilish. People who knew were sure that the mob would not allow open-air meetings and the like. So we were forewarned to get good and ample protection for what we did and be very cautious how we did anything at all. However, the little Gospel Trumpet and her colleague went to Arnold, trusting in Jesus and had victory and thirty souls.

From, 'The Salvationist', December 1879, page 315.

(Capt. Cheeseman).—We have much to rejoice over. Our meetings are well attended. Souls are being won over to the Lord's side in spite of the prophecies, by publicans and others, that our Soldiers will not stand. Week after week finds them still in the ranks of The Army. Some now begin to count years since they left the tap-room and its associations, and witness, day after day, to the power of God to take away the appetite for drink. One brother said he knew religion was good for him, because he had to borrow a pair of trousers to go to meeting when he first went, but now he had plenty of his own.

From, "The War Cry," page 3, 19th January 1882.

I do not know where the meetings were held.