he General is as vigorous as
he was fifteen years ago. In appearance, The General reminded
myself of Canon Kingsley. They have the same Anglo-Saxon,
falcon-like features, and the same indomitable energy and courage.
Canon Kingsley was not so well provided with hair as The General;
but, on the contrary, he could boast of a more prominent nasal
organ. Both men had flashing eyes, deeply-set and overhanging
eyebrows, giving force and determination to the face.

"Both the late Canon and General Booth were equally sturdy
specimens of Saxon descent, and both worked for the masses. Canon
Kingsley, as he would admit to-day, was before his time, and in
aiding the Chartist movement made a fatal mistake. Canon Kingsley,
as shown in _Alton Locke_, endeavoured to raise the masses to
heights attainable only by men of education and men of thought, and
to-day the recoil of that pernicious doctrine is being felt.

"General Booth places a man in the position God intended him to
occupy, and if the man can raise himself higher by strenuous effort
then well and good.

"The Salvation of General Booth is the true Salvation--the
Salvation of regeneration, and the world's thinkers are surely
recognising the fact that The Salvation Army is a factor to be
reckoned with. General Booth and his people have succeeded when all
others have failed."

_The Rhodesia Herald_, of Salisbury, said:--

"General Booth has well been called the Grand Old Man of The
Salvation Army, for undoubtedly it is his remarkable personality
and fierce energy which has made The Army what it is to-day, and
has enabled it to do a work which no other religious organisation
has attempted to do on anything like the same scale, and to reach a
section of the people who remained untouched by the more orthodox
methods of other bodies. It is not so very many years ago that
branches of The Army in many towns in the United Kingdom were
striving to make headway against most determined
opposition--opposition employing methods of which the authors soon
became heartily ashamed. Yet to-day, the different branches of The
Army are doing their work, not only unmolested, but helped and
encouraged by all classes of the community. And this because The
Army has wrung recognition by transparent honesty of purpose, and