of life. The
Code Napoleon and the Methodist Connexion were much too well adapted to
human needs to disappear with their authors. On the other hand,
movements and systems which depend wholly upon one man do not often
prove to be more than ephemeral. But none would deny that there is much
to be learnt from The Salvation Army and from the earnest, strenuous,
and resourceful personality of the man who made it. Let us hope that, if
The Army as an Organisation should ultimately fade away, the great
lesson of its even temporary success will not be forgotten: the lesson
that any force which is to move mankind must regard man's nature as
spiritual as well as material, and that the weak and humble, the poor
and the 'submerged,' share in that double nature as much as those who
spend their lives in the sunshine of worldly prosperity."

The Daily Chronicle, _August 21, 1912_

"To-day we have the mournful duty of chronicling the passing of William
Booth, the Head of that vast Organisation, the Salvation Army. The world
has lost its greatest missionary evangelist, one of the supermen of the
age. Almost every land on the face of the globe knows this pioneer and
his Army, The Army which has waged such long, determined, and successful
battle against the world's ramparts of sin and woe. Not one country, but
fifty, will feel to-day a severe personal loss. From Lapland to Honolulu
heads will be bowed in sorrow at the news that that striking figure who
has been responsible for so much of the religious progress of the world
of to-day is no more.

"The stupendous crusade which he initiated had the very humblest
beginnings. It opened in the slummy purlieus of Nottingham, that city
which gave to the world two of the greatest religious leaders of modern
times--General Booth and Dr. Paton. It has passed through periods of
open enmity, opposition, criticism, but its Leader and his band of
devoted helpers have never lost sight of their high aim. They were
engaged in 'war on the hosts that keep the underworld submerged,' and
they have now long been justified by their unparalleled achievements.
The time of scorn and indifference passed, and General Booth lived to
receive honour at the hands of kings and princes, and to have their
support for his work.

"It is not given to every man who sets out with a great purpose to
accomplish his aims. But of General Booth it may be said that he did
more. His Movement reached dimensions of which he proba