s knew how to
keep himself down to the practical."

Strassburg Post

"Hard upon himself, he exercised the same severity upon others, from the
highest of his Officers to the least in his Army."

Schwalish Mercury of Stuttgart

"He made his Army out of the soil of London's misery-quarter, and its
present is the work of his unwearyable devotion, the energy sustained by
the fire of his zeal for his idea."

Muhlhaus Daily

"His personality grew out of the old Puritan spirit."

Elbing Latest News

"He is the model of a successful business man. But he is a business man
who never works for himself, only for others. So wrote one of the man
whom death has now taken from what was the creation of his life. In him
has passed away one of the characteristic figures of the century's
tendency. His many-sidedness, it is not too much to say, had no equal.
Bringer of Salvation--social politician--wholesale business man--are
only three comparisons which cannot by far exhaust the description of
the phenomenon Booth. If ever the word can rightly be used of any one,
then of William Booth it can be said he was a benefactor of mankind."

Altona News

"Modern time has few men to show whose spirit had any such
world-embracing might, and who, out of so unlikely a beginning, knew
how to raise up _so_ gigantic a work as compels us to be filled, if not
with love to him, at least with the greatest respect for his honourable
intentions."

Vogtland Gazette Plauen

"These were the innermost feelings of his whole life which drove him to
his marvellous life's work--religious zeal and sympathy."

Frankfurt Gazette

"William Booth had a mighty will, and he strove on for tens of years
from promise to fulfilment."

Augsburg Evening Gazette

"His brilliant talent for organisation, and his ability always to strike
the right note, which would take with the masses, were the most
outstanding specialities of the deceased."

Rhein-Westphalian Gazette

"Here is a work done by an extraordinarily organising genius so great
and such a model, socially speaking, as to fill even the opponents of
the old philanthropist with respect."

Journal Des Debats, Paris

"Never, perhaps, has a man been the creator of such Social Work as this
one who has died after having passed fifty years running all over the
world in search of the miserable ones; who had no hope."

Gaulois, Paris

"His li