Says the treasurer of one of her corps:--

Soon after she arrived here she gave me a list of questions,
including, 'How many saloons in the town? How many houses of
ill fame? How many places of worship? What proportion of people
go to church? When she compared these figures with the population
she was able to estimate the grip of evil on the town, and the
efforts made by the people of God to combat it. She reckoned all
the godless people of the town were her concern, and laid her plans
accordingly. She called upon the police, the civic authorities, and
the ministers, intimating that she was there for the good of the city,
and asked to be allowed to co-operate with them. It was not long
before the governing people realized that an uncommon force for
righteousness had come among them.

Says another of her local officers, 'Our city had never been so conscious
of the presence of The Salvation Army as a regenerating force in its
midst, as during her stay.'

Her ministering spirit played like a flame upon every section of the
corps until the whole organization pulsated with life. Every evening of
the week the citadel was ablaze with light and humming with activity, the
soldiers unwilling to stay away one night for fear of missing a good
thing.

In order to promote a spirit of prayer in a corps, the Adjutant's plan
was to form a prayer league. She chose the most spiritual amongst her
soldiers and adherents, and pledged them to spend a portion of each day
in prayer for an outpouring of the Spirit of God upon the corps and town.
These comrades became a great strength in the battles for souls which