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self-respecting citizenship. Then there was the 'Submerged Tenth'--the
human wreckage tossed hither and thither by the swirling currents of the
social sea. To safeguard the one class, and to save the other from
themselves and their circumstances, the Social scheme was launched, and
those who estimate its success by moral valuation rather than in terms
of finance, will say that it has justified itself, though it never
accomplished what The General fondly hoped.

"Now that his worn-out body lies awaiting burial, The General's personal
worth and the worth of his work are frankly confessed even by those who
were once his bitterest critics. _The Times_ had a leader in which it
said that he rose from obscurity to be known as the head of a vast
organisation 'well known over all the world, and yielding to him an
obedience scarcely less complete than that which the Catholic Church
yields to the Roman Pontiff.' We wish _The Times_ had followed _The
Standard_ in dropping the invidious quotation marks from the title,
General. William Booth was a great leader of men in a world campaign of
individual and social Salvation. Why reserve the title only for men
skilled in the art of wholesale human slaughter?"

The Times, _August 8, 1912_

"The death of General Booth, which we announce with great regret this
morning, closes a strange career, one of the most remarkable that our
age has seen, and will set the world meditating on that fervent,
forceful character, and that keen, though, as some would say, narrow
intelligence. Born of unrecorded parentage, educated anyhow, he had
raised himself from a position of friendless obscurity to be the head of
a vast Organisation not confined to this country or to the British race,
but well known over half the world, and yielding to him an obedience
scarcely less complete than that which the Catholic Church yields to the
Roman Pontiff. The full memoir which we publish to-day shows how this
Salvation Army grew up--the creation of one man, or rather of a pair of
human beings, for the late Mrs. Booth was scarcely less important to its
early development than was her husband. Both of them belonged to the
Wesleyan body, of which William Booth at the time of his marriage was a
minister, though a very independent and insubordinate one; and deep
ingrained in both was the belief which is a more essential part of the
Wesleyan than of any other creed, the belief in conversion as an
instantaneous change