ver he found it with a heart entirely selfless and absolutely pure.

"Even if The Salvation Army disappeared from every land where it is now
at work--and, though it will not disappear, I anticipate during the next
ten years many changes in its organisation--to the end of time the
spirit of William Booth will be part of our religious progress. We
cannot unthink ourselves out of his realism, out of his boundless pity,
out of his consuming earnestness. He has taught us all to know that the
very bad man can be changed into the very good man, and he has brought
us back, albeit by a violent method, to the first simple and absolute
principles of the only faith which purifies and exalts humanity.

"When the dust has blown away, we shall see him as perhaps the greatest
of our time."

The Post of Berlin

"What he aimed at, for the solution of the Social question and the
uplifting of the lowest classes of people by their own works, assures
for him the respect of the entire civilised world."

Berlin Local Gazette

"In the person of General Booth was embodied one part of the Social
question, and, if any man succeeded in bringing any part of it even
nearer to a solution one must say it was William Booth.

"His plainness as a man, his genial gift as an organiser, his burning
zeal, his self-sacrificing devotion to his aim, prepared and levelled
the road for him, and no man, friend or foe, will withhold from him
their tribute of high respect as he lies on his bed of death."

The Morning Post of Berlin

"General Booth, the ancient blind man, always kept his glad heart. He
was able to point his opponents, who brought up their theoretical maxims
against him (and who latterly became ever fewer) to his practical work."

The Berlin Evening Paper

"There has hardly ever been a General who in an almost unbroken career
of victory subdued so many men and conquered so many countries as
William Booth. His person gained the high respect of his contemporaries
through his long, priestly life, and he will ever remain an example of
how much, even in a time of confusion and division, one man can do who
knows what he wants, and keeps a clear conscience."

Berlin Midday Paper

"In General Booth we have, undoubtedly, lost one of the most successful
organisers of the day."

Berlin Day Paper (Tageblatt)

"Whoever has seen and heard Booth in a huge Meeting in Circus Busch will
never forget him--the snow-whi