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Sixteen-year-old Eliza Shirley said “yes” to such a c all when she and her mother Annie left England in late 1879 and moved to Philadelphia to unofficially launch The Salvation Army in America. The city was then plagued by vice and alcohol abuse as local workers sought to escape the drudgery and degradation of industrial life. Paying their own passage to America, Eliza and her mother arrived in Philadelphia and almost immediately began to prepare their first meeting place for the Army. They laboured day and night to restore an old abandoned chair factory with no floors, broken skylights, unplastered walls, and an aging horse in the corner of the main room. At first only 12 people came, but the Holy Spirit blessed their efforts and this determined evangelical movement began to thrive. Eliza and her parents endured taunts, jeers, physical abuse, and even opposition from local authorities, yet nothing could stop the soul-saving work that they believed God had called them to do.
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