d cry
out seventy years before, in a prophetic transport, 'The trumpet has
sounded the signal for the fight. Your General assures you of success
and a glorious reward. Your crown is ready. Why do you wait and hesitate
so? Forward, forward, forward!'

"Booth was not one to be intimidated. He tolerated insults with Olympic
patience. He just wiped off the dirt his persecutors threw at him, and
smilingly invited them to follow him. Thus, about seventy years of age,
he began the beneficent career which accomplished a truly marvellous
work of philanthropy and love, and which gained for him not only the
esteem and veneration of the poor of East London, and of the choicest
citizens, but the personal friendship of his Sovereign."

The Age, of Milan

"The death of Booth causes consternation through all England, because
through the vast Organisation, The Salvation Army, he was so well known
for his works of humanity and beneficence.

"Indeed, he was one of the most celebrated men in the world. The great
humane work he founded during the seventy years of his apostolate is
destined to remain as one of the highest expressions of modern
philanthropy and charity. The Army is an immense federation of hearts
and consciences which was created, guided, and led to triumph by Mr.
Booth."

The Press, of Turin

"The Founder and General of The Salvation Army, dead at eighty-three
years of age, after seventy years of unwearyable apostolate, was one of
the purest and most popular heroes of modern Christianity. He was not
content to preach the Gospel only from the parchment--a mystic and a
poet, yet a practical man of forethought, he was able, out of nothing,
to create a Society of militant propagandists for the social redemption
of the lost crowds, and to fight against idleness, alcoholism, and evil
habits."

The Halfpenny Paper

"The message that General Booth is dead will cause sorrow not only in
his country or in Europe, but all over the world. Now, at his death, the
whole world knows his name, and thousands follow in his footsteps."

Social Demokrat

"No free religious movement has ever become so great or laid so strong a
hold upon all classes of society.

"General Booth will be named in history as one of the strongest and most
remarkable personages that ever lived. He was a product of society, such
as it was, and the Movement he raised was born of that state of things,
firstly as a reconciler, and then