More than 65,000 persons came to Clapton Congress Hall to look upon his
face as he lay in his coffin, and more than 35,000 gathered for the
great Memorial Service in the Olympia, the largest obtainable building
in London, on the evening before the funeral. All the press commented
upon the remarkable joyfulness of our funeral services, and the funeral
itself the next day was admitted to have been the most impressive sight
the great city has seen in modern times.

In addition to officers, many bands from all parts of the country came
to join in it.

The coffin had been brought in the night to Headquarters in Queen
Victoria Street. The funeral procession was formed on the Embankment,
and whilst it marched through the city all traffic was suspended from 11
till 1 o'clock. The millions who witnessed its passage along the
five-mile march to Abney Park Cemetery seemed as generally impressed and
sympathetic as the multitude gathered there. It was indeed touching to
see not only policemen and ambulance workers; but publicans and numbers
of the people offering glasses of water to the sisters who had been on
their feet for six or seven hours before the service was ended.

The memorial services held all over the world on the following Sunday
were attended by quite unparalleled crowds, of whom very many publicly
surrendered their lives to God.

The following letters to members of his own family show the spirit of
affection and of cheerfulness which to the very last distinguished him.

To his youngest daughter, the widow of Commissioner Booth-Hellberg, who,
though she had been fighting in one post or another in this country,
India, America, Sweden, Switzerland, or France for over twenty years, he
still regarded as his "baby" and special darling, he wrote:--

"Hadley Wood,

"_May_ 3, 1912.

"My very dear Lucy,--

"Your letter is to hand. I am interested in all you say. It was
very kind, indeed beautiful, of you to sit by the couch of dear
Erickson all those hours. But it will be a recollection of pleasure
all through your life, and I have no doubt, after the fading hours
of this life have passed out of sight and thought, it will give you
satisfaction in the life to come.

"There is a great deal in your suggestion that we should do more in
the hospitals. It would be, as you say, beyond question a means of
blessing and comfort--indeed, of Salvation to many of the