 Section XXVIII, Tributes Part I. The great tribute the General received by the vast assemblies in every country at his funeral and memorial services said far more than any words could have expressed of the extent to which he had become recognized everywhere as a true friend of all who were in need, and of the degree to which he had succeeded in prompting all his officers and people to act up to that ideal. The following, a small selection of the most prominent testimonies born to his life by the press of various countries will give some idea of what was thought and felt by his contemporaries about him and his work. The Christian World August 22, 1912. No name is graven more deeply in the history of his time than that of William Booth, founder and general of the Salvation Army, who passed to his rest on Tuesday night. At sixteen the Nottingham Builder's son underwent an old-fashioned conversion, and as he told a representative of the Christian World, within six hours he was going in and out of the cottages in the back streets, preaching the gospel that had saved himself. From that day he toiled terribly, and never more terribly than since his sixtieth year, after which the social scheme was launched, and the general undertook those evangelistic tours in which he traversed England again and again in every direction and covered a great part of the Western World. How he kept up is a miracle, for he was a frail-looking figure, and he ate next to nothing, a slice or two of toast or bread and butter, or rice pudding and a roasted apple, where his meals for many years passed. It was his great heart, his invincible faith, his indomitable courage that kept him going. Plutarch would have put William Booth and John Wesley together in his parallel lives. Each man thought in continents. The world is my parish, said Wesley, and Methodism today covers the world. Joe General Booth believed in world conquest for Christ, because he believed in Christ's all-conquering power, and he had the courage of his conviction. He learned much from Wesley, for he began as a Methodist. He knew what can be done by thorough organization, and what financial resources there are in the multiplication of small but cheerful givers. Like Wesley, too, he combined the genius for great conceptions with the genius for practical detail, without which great conceptions soon vanish into thin air. He was more masterful than Wesley. When he broke away from the Methodist's new connection and founded the Christian mission of which the Salvation Army was the evolution, he found that committees wasted their time in talk and were distracted in opinion. He read lives of Napoleon, Wellington, and other great commanders, and came to the conclusion that a committee is an excellent thing to receive and carry out instructions from a masterful man who knows what he wants, but otherwise they are worthless. He persuaded those of his colleagues who had unbounded belief in him, and whose sole concern was the progress of the mission, to accept the military organization with himself as commander-in-chief, and with his driving power and the inspiration of his heroic example. Those officers went to every part of Great Britain, and to something like fifty different countries, and did exploits. That system may work with a selfless Christian hero who is born Caesar or Napoleon. The Salvation Army's severe testing time has now come, when it will be seen whether, after all, the more cautious Wellingtonian methods of Wesley laid firmer foundations. The secret of General Booth's personal force and commanding power was an open one. To him there were no realities so demonstrable as the realities of the spiritual world. Most of all the reality of Christ's real personal presence and saving power today. He found that unquestioning faith in Christ's saving power worked everywhere and under all conditions. We differed from him on theological details, but we gladly recognize that scores of thousands of moral miracles in the shape of lives remade that were apparently shattered beyond repair and trodden in the mud of dissipation and bold habitual sinning verified the faith. The burglar who had been forty years in prison and penal servitude, the most shameless of Magdalen's, the drinker and gambler brought down to the embankment at midnight, greedy for a meal of soup and bread, the man or woman determined to end a state of despair and disgust with the world by suicide, these, under the influence of the Salvation Army, became new creations. But the same conviction and the evidences of its miraculous operation captured a large number of men and women of the cultured and refined classes who were either the victims of moral weakness or who felt the challenge to service and sacrifice for the sake of others. Kings, queens, and royal princes and princesses were glad to see General Booth and gave their encouragement to his work, and it was fitting that when King Edward died a Salvation Army band should comfort the widow lady by playing in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace, her husband's favorite hymns. The social work was an inevitable outcome of the evangelistic work. It had its dangers, and the Salvation Army has not escaped all of them without scathe. But it was found that the difficulty with thousands of the converts was that of giving them a chance to redeem their past and to nurse them physically and morally till they were able to stand alone in a position to take their places again in the ranks of decent and 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 estimated 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 time had a leader in which it said that he rose from obscurity to be known as the head of a vast organization, well known all over the world, and yielding to him an obedience scarcely less complete than that which the Catholic Church yields to the Roman patef. We wished 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 organization, 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 patef. The full memoir which we publish today shows how this Salvation Army grew up, the creation of one man, or rather 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 affecting the whole life. Booth himself had been converted at fifteen, and at sixty he wrote of the hour the place of this glorious transaction as an undying memory. Out of this idea of conversion, as not only the most powerful motive force in life, but as a force which was, so to speak, waiting to be applied to all, arose the Salvation Army movement. It was not, of course, in any sense a new idea. Christians had been familiar with it in all ages, and both the New Testament and the history of the early saints supply instances in support of it. But Booth was probably more affected by more recent evidence. Even perfect as had been his training for the ministry, he doubtless learned pretty thoroughly the history of Wesleyan Whitefield, and of the astonishing early years of the Methodist movement. In his own youth, too, revivalism was an active force, and he himself had been strongly moved by an American missionary. His originality laid in carrying down the doctrine not only to the highways and hedges, but to the slums, the homes of the very poor, the haunts of criminals and riffraff, in getting hold of these people, in using the worst of them converted, as he honestly believed, as a triumphant advertisement, and then in organizing his followers into a vast army with himself as absolute chief. When the methods adopted, nothing need be added to what is said in the memoir. They are familiar to all, though not so familiar as they were some twenty years ago. The root idea of William Booth's religion, the object of his missionary work, was the saving of souls. Translated into other language, this means the establishment of a conviction in the minds of men, women, and children that they were reconciled to God, saved, and preserved to all eternity from the penalties of sin. We do not propose to enter on the delicate ground of theological discussion, or to argue for or against the truth or value of such a conviction. The interesting point in relation to General Booth's ideas and personality is to note how this belief is worked into the system of the army in the official program, fantastically called the Articles of War, which has to be signed by every candidate for enrollment. This curious document, which will greatly interest future social historians, consists of three parts. A creed, as definite as any taught by the churches. A promise to abstain from drink, bad language, dishonesty, etc., and a solemn promise to obey the lawful orders of the officers, and never on any consideration to oppose the interests of the Salvation Army. The last part, the promissory part, is made much stricter in the case of candidates for the position of officer. These solemnly promise not only to obey the general, but to report any case they may observe in others of neglect or variation from his orders and directions. Membership of the organization thus depends on absolute obedience, and on a profession of faith in Salvation, in the definite sense formulated in the Articles of War. The two are inseparably conjoined. And we reflect upon what human nature is, in the class from which so many of the members of the Army have been drawn. When we think how difficult it is to reconcile the hand-to-mouth existence of the casual laborer with any high standard of conduct, let alone of religion, general booth's success, partial though it has been, is an astonishing fact. It implies a prodigious strength of character, and a genius for seeing what would appeal to large numbers of humble folk. Will that success continue now that general booth is dead? Everywhere we hear that the Army is not bringing in recruits as fast as of old. Its novelty has worn off, its uniforms are no longer impressive, its street services, though they provoke no opposition, do not seem to attract the waste-roll and the rough as they did at first. We can readily believe that the work goes on more or less as before, but the gatherings we suspect are mostly composed of those who have long frequented them, and of a certain number of new members drawn rather from existing sex than from persons till now untouched by religion. Then with regard to the other side of the Army's work, the social schemes outlined in Darkest England have met with only moderate success, as all cool observers foretold in 1890. They have at least provided no panacea for poverty. Probably Mr. Booth felt this during the last years of his life, and he has been spared the sight of the still further decline of his projects, which to most of us seems inevitable. Of course some persons are more confident. They argue that Napoleon's system did not disappear after Waterloo, nor Wesley's system with the death of its founder, and that the Roman Catholic Church is as strong as ever, though Pope after Pope disappears. That is true, but for the very reason that these systems were elaborate organizations based on the facts of life. The Code Napoleon and the Methodist Connection were much too well adapted to human needs to disappear with their authors. On the other hand, movements in 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 learned 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 organization 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. Today we have the mournful duty of chronicling the passing of William Booth, the head of that vast organization, the Salvation Army. The world has lost its greatest missionary evangelist, one of the supermen of the ages. Almost every land on the face of the globe knows this pioneer in 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 today 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 today is no more. The stupendous crusade which he initiated had the very humblest beginnings. It opened in the slummy Perlews of Nottingham, that city which gave to the world two of the greatest religious leaders of modern time, General Booth and Dr. Patan. It has passed through periods of open enmity, opposition, and 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 honor 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 probably never dreamed in its early days, yet the extraordinary results made him ever hungrier for conquest. In a way, the latter years of his life were perhaps the most notable of his whole career. He displayed a vitality and enthusiasm which seemed to increase with the weight of time. At a time when most men seek a greater measure of repose, General Booth worked on with all the freshness of early years, and it can be said that he has died in harness. He did not lift his finger from the pulse of the far-reaching organization which he brought into being until death called. The story of the growth of the Salvation Army is the most remarkable in the history of the work of the spiritual, social, and material regeneration of the submerged. From the by-ways of all the world, human derelicts, which other agencies passed by, have been rescued. No one was too degraded, too repulsive to be neglected. The work is too great to be estimated in a way which can show its extent. It has been achieved mainly by two great factors. The first is perfect organization. Lord Walsaly once described General Booth as the greatest organizer in the world. The second feature was the wonderful personality of the Army's Chief. He impressed it not only upon his colleagues, but upon those whom he wished to rescue and on the public at large. He radiated human sympathy and enthusiasm. His loss will be a heavy one for the world. It will be a severe blow for the Army. But we cannot think that his good work has not been built upon sound foundations, and that the war he directed so ably and so long will be relaxed. Nationally, the Army has done magnificent work in fifty countries, and it has therefore tended to promote a greater spirit of brotherhood among the nations. Today the whole world will unite to pay its tribute to a splendid life of devotion to a great cause. To that world he leaves a splendid example. And it will be the highest tribute that can be paid to his memory to keep green that lofty example which he set before all peoples. The News will be received by hundreds of thousands of salvationists with profound and reverential grief, and by many who are not salvationists, and who never could be, with respectful and sympathetic sorrow. For whatever we may think of William Booth, and of the wonderful organization which he so triumphantly established, it is certain that he belonged to the company of saints, and that during the eighty-three years of a strenuous life he devoted himself so far as in him lay to the solemn duty of saving men's souls and extending the divine kingdom on earth. That success attended his efforts is, from this point of view, not of so much consequence as that the success was deserved by the patient, devout, and self-sacrificing zeal of the founder of the Salvation Army. Long ago William Booth prevailed against the easy skepticism of those who found fault with his aims, and the sincere dislike of humble and reverent men who doubted whether the cause of religion could be advanced by such riotous methods. Not only was the general of the Salvation Army a saint and a mystic who lived in this world and yet was not of this world, but he also was possessed of much practical ability and common sense, without which the great work of his life could never have been accomplished. We need only refer to that remarkable book which he published in 1890, In Darkest England and The Way Out, in which will be found proposals to remedy the crying evils of pauperism and vice by such eminently wise expedience as farm colonies, overseas colonies, and rescue homes for fallen women, to say nothing of picturesque but also practical devices such as the prison gate brigade, the poor man's bank, the poor man's lawyer, and Whitechapel by the sea. How is it possible to ridicule the objects or character of a man who has proved himself so earnest a worker for God? As a matter of fact, William Booth was nothing less than a genius, and toward the end of the nineteenth century, the world at large gave very generous recognition not only to the spirit and temper, but to the results of an extraordinarily effective and indeed epic-making movement. At the instance of King Edward VII, the general was officially invited to be present at the coronation ceremony in 1902. Nothing could have marked more significantly than this single fact, the completeness of the change of public feeling. And when in 1905 William Booth went on a progress through England, he was welcomed in state by the mayors and corporations of many towns. Is it better to live in this world with no religion at all, or with a narrow and violent form of religious belief? People will judge the deceased teacher and chief in respect of his theological and propagandist work in accordance with the views which they hold upon this alternative. As regards his social labors, his passionate effort to help the submerged tenth, his widespread helpfulness of the poor, his shelters and refuges, the feeling must and will be almost universal, that he was an energetic and warm-hearted benefactor of his kind, who wrought much good to his times, and helped others to do it, and who had what Sir John Sealy called the enthusiasm of humanity in very honorable, if noisy and demonstrative form. But since the general mingled all this with a cult, a distinct theological teaching, a theory of the divine government and destiny of mankind, which was in external form, as Huxley styled it, cyberantic, the question does and must arise whether religion of the salvationist school does good or harm to the human natures which it addresses. It is not necessary to dwell upon the dislike, we might indeed say repulsion, felt by serious and elevated minds at the paraphernalia, the pious turmoil, the uproar, the banalete of much that has developed under the banners of the Salvation Army. Prayers uttered like volley-firing, hymns roared to the roll of drums, and the screaming of fives have been features of this remarkable revival, which outraged many of the Orthodox, and made even the judicious and indulgent ask whether any good could come out of such a Nazareth. Nobody gave utterance to this feeling with greater moderation or kindness than cardinal manning when, while confessing that the need of spiritual awakening among the English poor was only too well proved by the success of General Booth, that the moral and religious state of East London could alone have rendered possible the Salvation Army. His eminence added these grave sentences. Low words generate low thoughts. Words without reverence destroy the veneration of the human mind. When a man ceases to venerate, he ceases to worship. Extravagance, exaggeration, and coarseness are dangers incident to all popular teachers. And these things pass easily into a strain which shocks the moral sense, and deadens the instinct of piety. Familiarity with God in men of chastened mind produces a more profound veneration. In unchastened minds it runs easily into an irreverence which borders upon impiety. Even the seraphim cover their faces in the divine presence. Yet against what new movement of spiritual awakening in the people, against what form of religious revival might not the same argument of offended culture and decorous holiness be employed? And where with the lower masses of men be today if religion had not stooped out of her celestial heights from the first chapters of Christendom until the last to the intellectual and moral levels of the poor and lonely? In the sheet, knit at four corners and lowered out of heaven, there was nothing common or unclean. If, as is practically certain, general booth by the vast association which he founded and organized touched with a sense of higher and immortal things countless humble and unenlightened souls. If in his way and in their way he brought home to them the love and power of heaven and the duty and destiny of men, then it is not for refined persons who keep aloof from such vulgar tasks to mock at the life and deeds of this remarkable man. The particulars which we give elsewhere of his career show how, like Wesley, Whitefield, and Spurgeon in this country, and like Savarnala, Peter the Hermit, and the Safi mystics abroad, William Booth, the builder's son of Nottingham, was obviously set apart and summoned by time, temperament, and circumstances for the labors of his life. Like Luther, his answer to all objections, worldly or unworldly, would always have been, I can no other. Meeting in Ms. Catherine Mumford, the wife who exactly suited him, and reinforced by many children, all brought up in the temper and vocation of their parents, the general made his family a sort of headquarters staff of the Salvation Army, and celebrated his household marriages or bewept his domestic bereavements with all the eclat and effort of ecumenical events. We saw him buy up and turn into stations for his troops, such places as the Eagle Tavern in Grecian Theater, overcome popular rioting at Bath, Guilford, Eastbourne, and elsewhere, fill the United Kingdom with his war cry and his fighting centers, and invade all Europe and even the Far East. At home he plunged insatiable of moral and social conquests into his crusade for Darkest England, being powerful enough to raise in less than a month as much as all England and the colonies contributed for the Gordon College at Cartoon in response to another victorious general. For General Booth certainly ended by being victorious. If the evangelical creed he inculcated was rude, crude, and unideal, it was serious, sincere, and stimulating. He waged war against the devil as that mysterious personage was understood by him, with the most wholehearted and relentless zeal. He enjoined, let it be remembered, an absolute temperance, soberness, and chastity upon the officers and rank and file of his motley host, and ugly as some may think the uniforms of salvationists. The police and magistrates know that they cover, for the most part, honest hearts. Could the general have affected all this, or a tenth part of it, if he had not lent himself to the eternal necessities and weaknesses of the uneducated, and given them his drill, his banners, his drums, his prayer volleys, his pokebonnets, and his military tunics? We doubt it. And in contemplating, therefore, the enormous good this dead man did, and sought to do, and the neglected fields of humanity, which he tilled for the common master, we judge him to be one of the chief and most serviceable figures of the Victorian age, and well deserving from his own followers the ecstasy of grief and veneration which is being manifested, and from contemporary notice the tribute of a hearty recognition of pious and noble objects zealously pursued, and love of God and of humanity made the passion and the purpose of a whole, unflinching life. Daily Chronicle, August 22nd, 1912, by Harold Begbie Scarcely could you find a country in the whole world where men and women are not now grieving for the death of general Booth. Among peoples of whom we have never heard, and in languages of which we do not know even the alphabet, this universal grief ascends to heaven, perhaps the most universal grief ever known in the history of mankind. One realizes something of the old man's achievement by reflecting on this universal grief. It will not do to dismiss him lightly. More it will not do to express a casual admiration of his character, an indulgent approbation of his work. The man was unique. In some ways he was the Superman of his period. Never before has a man in his own lifetime won so wide a measure of deep and passionate human affection. It will not do to say that by adopting vulgar methods and appealing to vulgar people, General Booth established his universal kingdom of emotional religion. Let the person inclined to think in this way, dress himself in fantastic garments, take a drum, and march through the streets shouting hallelujah. There is no shorter cut to humility. Many have tried to do what William Booth did. Many men as earnestly and as tenderly have sought to awaken drugged humanity and render the kingdom of heaven a reality. Many men have broken their hearts in the effort to save the Christian religion from the paralysis of formalism and the sleeping sickness of philosophy. It is not an easy thing to revivify a religion, nor a small thing to rescue many thousands of the human race from sin and misery. Let us be generous and acknowledge, now that it is too late to cheer his heart, that General Booth accomplished a work quite wonderful and quite splendid, a work unique in the records of the human race. Let us be frank and say that we ourselves could have done nothing like it. Let us forget our intellectual superiority, and instead of criticizing, endeavor to see as it stands before us and as it really is, the immense marvel of his achievement, our canons of taste, our notions of propriety will change and cease to be, the saved souls of humanity will persist forever. I remember very well my first impression of General Booth. I was young, I knew little of the sorrow of existence. I was perfectly satisfied with the traditions I had inherited from my ancestors. I was disposed to regard originality as effectation and great earnestness as a sign of fanaticism. In this mode I sat and talked with General Booth, measured him, judged him, and had the audacity to express in print my opinion about him, my opinion of this huge giant, this Moses of modern times. He offended me, the tone of his voice grated on my ears. His manner to a servant who waited upon him seemed harsh and irritable. I found it impossible to believe that his acquaintance with spirituality was either intimate or real. Saints ought to be gentlemen. He seemed to me a vulgar old man, a clumsy old humorous, an intolerant, fanatical, one-idead heivers. Later in my life I met him on several occasions, and in each meeting with him I saw something fresh to admire, something new to love. I think that he himself altered as life advanced, but the main change of course was in myself. I was able to see him with true revision because I was less sure of my own value to the cosmos and more interested to discover the value of other men, and I was learning to know the sorrows of the world. There is one very common illusion concerning General Booth. The vulgar sneers are forgotten. The scandalous slander that he was a self-seeking charlatan is now ashamed to utter itself except in vile quarters. But men still say, so anxious are they to escape from the miracle, so determined to account for every great thing by little reasons, that his success as a revivalist lay only in his powers as an organizer. Now nothing is further from the truth. General Booth was not a great organizer, not even a great showman. He would have ruined any business entrusted to his management. He would long ago have ruined the organization of the Salvation Army if his life had been spent on that side of its operations. Far from being the hard, shrewd, calculating and statesman-like genius of the Army's machinery, General Booth has always been its heart and soul, its dreamer and its inspiration. The brains of the Army are to be looked for elsewhere. Bramwell Booth is the man of affairs. Bramwell Booth is the mastermind directing all those worldwide activities. And but for Bramwell Booth, the Salvation Army as it now exists, a vast Catholic organization, would be unknown to mankind. General Booth's secrets, so far as one may speak about it at all, lay in his perfectly beautiful and most passionate sympathy with suffering and pain. I have met only one other man in my life who so powerfully realized the sorrows of other people. Because General Booth realized these sorrows so very truly and so very actually, he was able to communicate his burning desire for radical reformation to other people. The contagiousness of his enthusiasm was the obvious cause of his extraordinary success. But the hidden cause of this enthusiasm was the living, breathing, heart-beating reality of his sympathy and sorrow. When he spoke to one of the sufferings endured by the children of a drunkard, for instance, it was manifest that he himself felt the very tortures and agonies of those unhappy children, really felt them, really endured them. His face showed it. There was no break in the voice, no pious exclamation, no gesture in the least theatrical or sentimental. One saw in the man's face that he was enduring pain, that the thought was so real to him that he himself actually suffered and suffered acutely. If we had imagination enough to feel as he felt the dreadful fears and awful deprivation of little children in the godless slum of great cities, we too should rush out from our comfortable ease to raise salvation armies. It would be torture to sit still. It would be impossible to do nothing. This wonderful old man suffered all his life as few have ever suffered, and his suffering arose from the tremendous power of his imagination. At a meeting he would tell amusing stories, and in the company of several people he would talk with a gaiety that deceived. But with one or two deeply interested to know why he was a salvationist and what he really thought about life, he would open his heart and show one at least something of its agony. He was afflicted by the sins of the whole world. They hurt him, tore him, wounded him, and broke his heart. He did not merely know that people suffer from starvation, that children run to hide under a bed at the first sound of a drunken parent's step on the stair, that thousands of women are friendless and defaced on the streets, that thousands of boys go to their bodily and spiritual ruin only for want of a little natural parental care, that men and women are locked up like wild beasts in prison, who would be good parents and law-binding citizens, where love allowed to enter and plead with them. He did not merely know these things, but he visualized and felt in his own person the actual tortures of all these perishing creatures. He wept for them, he prayed for them, sometimes he would not sleep for thinking of them. I have seen him with suffering face and extended arms walk up and down his room, crying out from the depths of his heart. O those poor people, those poor people, the sad, wretched women, the little trembling frightened children meant to be so happy, all cursed with sin, cursed and crushed and tortured by sin. And he would then open his arms as if to embrace the whole world and exclaim, why won't they let us save them? Meaning, why won't society and the state let the Salvation Army save them? His attitude towards suffering in sorrow was, nevertheless, harder in many ways than that of certain humanitarians. He believed in a devil, he believed in hell, and he believed in the saying that there are those who would not be persuaded though one rose from the dead. And so he held it, the wisdom of statesmanship, that when all men have been given a fair opportunity for repentance, and after love has done everything in its power to save and convert the lawless and bad, those who will not accept salvation should be punished with all the force of a civilization that must needs defend itself. The word punishment was very often on his lips. I think that he believed in the value of punishment almost as profoundly as he believed in the value of love. He believed that love could save the very worst man and the very worst woman in the world who wanted to be saved. And he also believed that nothing was so just and wise as rigorous punishment for the unrighteous who would not be saved. I think that he would have set up in England if he had enjoyed the power which we give to politicians two classes of prison. The reforming prison, controlled only by compassionate Christians who believe in love, and the punishing prison which isolates the evil and iniquitous from contact with innocence and struggling virtue. In that direction this most merciful man was merciless. Why he became a salvationist is very clear. He knew that the center of life is the heart. He saw that all efforts of statesmanship to alter the conditions of existence must be fruitless or at any rate that the harvest must be in the far distant future of humanity while the heart of man remains unchanged. He suspected the mere respectability which satisfies so many reformers. Even virtue seemed to him second rate and perilous. He was not satisfied with abstention from sin or with the change from slum to model lodge housing. He held that no man is safe. No man is at the top of his being. No man is fully conscious of life's tremendous greatness until the heart is definitely and rejoicingly given to God. He was like St. Augustine, like Coleridge, and all the supreme saints of the world in this insistence upon the necessity for a cleansed heart and a will devoted to the glory of God. He was different from them all in believing that this message must be shouted, dined, trumpeted, and drummed into the ears of the world before mankind can awaken to its truth. He made a tremendous demand. Toward the end of his life he sometimes wondered, very sadly and pitifully, whether he had not asked too much of his followers. I think, to mention only one particular, that he was wavering as to his ban upon tobacco. He was so certain of the happiness and joy which come from salvation that he had no patience with the trivial weaknesses of human flesh, which do not really matter. Let us remember that he had seen thousands of men and women all over the world literally transformed by his method from the most miserable animals into radiant and intelligent creatures, conscious of immortality, and filled with the spirit of unselfish devotion to humanity. Is it to be wondered at that the general of this enormous army should scarcely doubt the wisdom of his first terms of service? But toward the end he suffered greatly in his own personal life, and suffering loosens the rigidity of the mind. Those of his own household broke away from him. The dearest of his children died, trusted officers forsook him. Some of those whose sins he had forgiven again and again deserted his flag, and whispered scandal and tittle-tattle into the ears of degraded journalism. He was attacked, vilified, and denounced by the vilest of men in the vilest of manners, sometimes sitting alone by himself, blind and powerless, very battle-worn and sad. This old man at the end of his life must have suffered in the solitude of his soul a grief almost intolerable. But he became more human and more lovable in these last years of distress. We are apt to think that very remarkable men who have risen through opposition and difficulty to places of preeminence must sometimes look back upon the past and indulge themselves in feelings of self-congratulation. It is not often true. A well-known millionaire told me that the happiest moment in his life was that when he ran as a little boy bareheaded through the rain into his mother's cottage, carrying to her in a tight-clenched fist his first week's wage. A six-penny bit. Mr. Lloyd George told me that he never looks back, never allows himself to dream of his romantic life. I haven't time, he said. The present is too obsessing, the fight is too hard and insistent. Mr. Chamberlain in the early days of tariff reform told me much the same thing. Perhaps we may say that men of action never look back. And so it was with General Booth. He might well have rested during these last few years in a large and grateful peace, counting his victories, measuring his achievement, and comparing the pulpit in Nottingham with the first wind-battered tent in East London with this innumerable army of salvation which all over the world has saved thousands of human beings from destruction. Sometimes smaller men are able to save a family from disgrace, or to rescue a friend from some hideous calamity, or to make a crippled child happy for a week or two, and the feelings created by these actions are full of happiness and delight. But this old rough-tongued, weather-beaten and heart-tortured prophet, who had saved not tens but thousands, who could see with his own eyes in almost every country of the world thousands of little girls rescued from defamation, thousands of women rescued from the sink of horror advice, thousands of men newborn from lives of unimaginable crime and inequity, thousands of homes once dreary with squalor and savagery, now happy and full of purest joy. Nay, who could see, as I have seen in India, whole tribes of criminal races numbering millions, and once the despair of the Indian government, living happy, contented, and industrial lives under the flag of the Salvation Army. He who could see all this, and who could justly say, but for me these things had never been, was not happy and was not satisfied. He ached and groaned to save all such as are sorrowful. In the last letter he ever wrote to me, a letter that broke off pitifully because of his blindness from the big, bold, challenging handwriting, and became a dictated, typewritten letter occurred the words, I am distressed. He was chiefly distressed by the overdivotion most of us pay to politics and philosophy, by the struggle for wages, by the clash between master and man, by the frivolity of the rich, the stupor of the poor, by the blindness of the whole world to the necessity for the cleansed heart. He did not want to establish a Salvation Army, but to save the whole world. He did not want to be acclaimed by many nations, but to see suffering and poverty and squalor clean banished from the earth. And he believed that with the power of the state at his back, and with the wealth now squandered in a hundred abortive directions in his hands, he could have given us a glad and unashamed England, even in a few years. He knew this and believed it with all his heart. And he held that his dictatorship would have hurt no just man. He suffered because poverty continues and thousands are still unhappy. For such men, this world can never suffice. They create eternity. Others may criticize him, and no man ever lived, I suppose, easier for every little creature crawling about the earth in self-satisfied futility to criticize and ridicule. For myself, I can do nothing but admire, revere, honor, and love this extraordinary old realist, who saved so many thousands of human beings from utmost misery, who aroused all the churches of the Christian religion throughout the world, who communicated indirectly to politics a spirit of reality which every year grows more potent for social good, who was so tender and affectionate and cordial, and who felt for suffering and sorrow and unhappiness wherever 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 organization 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. 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 civilized 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 organizer, his burning zeal, his self-sacrificing devotion to his aim, prepared and leveled 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 laterally 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 organizers of the day. BERLIN DAILY PAPER TAG BLOOD Whoever has seen and heard Booth in a huge meeting in Circus Bush will never forget him. The snow-white, flowing beard and the great upright figure of the blue uniform with the red-figured jersey, the furrowed face of typical English character, and the finely mobile orator's mouth with the searching eyes under the noble forehead, and the prominent nose that gave him almost the aspect of an eagle. GERMAN WATCHMAN With that constant willpower which sprang from deep and upright conviction, and with a faculty for organization which won him hearty recognition from all who knew him, he was able to do such great things. NATIONAL GAZETT BERLIN His unsulliveness and his zealous devotion to his creation, the army, was beyond all question. BERLIN EXCHANGE CURRIER Whoever saw and heard him knows that he remained, after all, the simple, unassuming, humble man. The secret of his personality was the embodiment of an unshakable religious devotion. It rang out in his burning, earnest words. It breathed in the deep heartfelt prayers in his meetings. It expressed itself in wondrous deeds of love, which ignored difficulties and shrank from no sacrifice. This made of him the organizing genius who led the worldwide salvation army, with all its higher and lower departments, with strength and security. William Booth was, as its founder and general, perhaps the most popular man of our day. NATIONAL GAZETT BERLIN And so, General Booth, who has now died at 83, risen to be one of the greatest benefactors of the murdering industry period. His name is Graven and Brass in the social history of the 19th century. He was a man through whose soul the great breath of brotherly love and devotion moved, and therefore his example will never be forgotten. THE BIDEN PRESS OF CARLSRU The Salvation Army is today the mightiest free organization of social help in the world, and the man who made it was once a street missionary, despised and without influence, whom part of the despairing mass of the east of London threw stones at, whilst another part, with alcohol-fevered eyes, hung on his lips, if ye have faith like a grain of mustard seed. THE GENERAL GAZETT OF EFFORT In General Booth, one has closed his eyes who was able to make a visible reality of the faith that can remove mountains. The bonapart of free social help has died. THE COLONE TIMES One of the greatest benefactors of mankind has passed away, and as success is the greatest joy, also one of the happiest of men. The Salvation Army is a good Christian undertaking, and William Booth was one of the noblest Christians whose name history can record. HENOVER CURRIER Booth was the born orator of the people. He possessed, above all, the rare gift of keeping always to the level of his hearers, and so to speak about the highest themes that the wayfaring man understood him. Hamburg Stranger's paper. To the last he was the living, energizing center of the army, and to the last breath in the truest sense, its general. MUNCHIN LATEST NEWS With the decease of General Booth, mankind has demorned the loss of a willing, self-sacrificing benefactor, a noble philanthropist of the most distinguished purpose. The Kingdom's messenger of Berlin. What he accomplished in the fighting of drunkenness or other evils is too well known to need description. Taken all in all, whatever anyone may have to say about any details of the army's methods, one must agree with the daily chronicle that the loss of General Booth is a heavy blow, and the whole world will unite with us in applauding such a life of devotion to a great end. The Cross Gazette of Berlin. It was seen that he was not merely a preacher of repentance, but a real shepherd of his sheep, who had an open heart and a good understanding for all in need. German News of Berlin. He was no quack, no charlatan, and Carlisle, had he known him, would have certainly put him into his list of heroes as priest and prophet. It is great what the army has done in fighting manifold human miseries such as drunkenness. We have often known learned men and politicians, who went over the seas, coffers at it, come back its admirers. Markish People's Paper of Barmen. Our opposition on principle does not prevent or acknowledging that the army has done much good to the poorest of the poor. German Daily Paper of Berlin. With the greatest pity he combined the most iron discipline and sacrificed to the happiness of all every personal enjoyment. Germania of Berlin. But the light that always led him out of the deepest darkness to the day was his sympathy for his brethren, whose misery in the east of London so deeply laid hold of him. Daily look-around of Berlin. Perhaps the most remarkable fact about him was that with all his gigantic plans he never lost himself in fantasy, but always knew how to keep himself down to the practical. Strasburg Post. Hard upon himself he exercised the same severity upon others, from the highest of his officers to the least in his army. Schwallisch Mercury of Stuttgart. He made his army out of the soil of London's misery quarter, and its present is the work of his unwariable devotion, the energy sustained by the fire of his zeal for his idea. Mulhouse Daily. His personality grew out of the old Puritan spirit. Elbing Latest News. He is the model of a successful businessman, but he is a businessman 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 Businessman, are only three comparisons which cannot by far exhaust the description of the phenomenon Booth. If ever the word can rightly be used of anyone, 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 honorable intentions. Buckland Gazette Plown. 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 fulfillment. Augsburg Evening Gazette. His brilliant talent for organization, and his ability always to strike the right note, which would take with the masses, were the most outstanding specialties of the deceased. Ryan Westphalian Gazette. Here is a work done by an extraordinarily organizing genius, so great and such a model, socially speaking, as to fill even the opponents of the old philanthropist with respect. Journal de Debate. 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. Galois Paris. His life may be thus summarized. He brought back to God and to morality many souls who had gone to materialism and vice. He founded pretty well everywhere seven hundred fifty refuges for the unfortunate. He found work for those who had none. He despised human respect in order to do good. The Little Republican Paris. It is a very exalted moral figure which has disappeared from this world, as well as even more than a person singularly famous. If he became a preacher, he was certainly born an apostle. He had the genius of conversion and wanted no other career here below. There is not a city in the Anglo-Saxon world where his army has not snatched by hundreds men from drunkenness and women from prostitution. The Republic. Paris. An indefatigable organizer ceaselessly working for the success of his effort. He created, besides numerous groups of salvationists, night refuges, popular restaurants, workplaces, journals, and reviews. The Intrangent Paris. In general, Booth passes away a truly world personage whose influence extended to the two hemispheres and perhaps as much among the savage as the civilized. He discovered his real path and founded the Salvation Army, which has recruited millions of faithful ones in the most diverse nations, even in our skeptical France. The Voltaire. Paris. We have not to judge his religious efforts, nor even his methods, which often seem to us from some aspects so very absurd. But one must recognize that the army created hospitals, retreats, refuges without number in all countries of the world, including France, and that the devotion of its soldiers has been unbounded. From the social point of view, General Booth was certainly a benefactor. Gilblas. Paris. Struck by the misery which some quarters of London displayed to him, he conceived the idea of evangelizing these masses and to bring them along with the Christian light, physical comfort, and moral union. An intelligent work humane in its principles beautiful in its aspirations. It merits that we salute with respect the remains of him who undertook it with all his disinterestedness and all his heart. General Business Paper of Amsterdam. The world has to mourn the death of one of the noblest men who ever lived. A man who, undiscouraged by scorn, contempt, and continual mockery, kept on working according to his convictions, conscious that he had a great vocation to fulfill, seeking the welfare of his fellows no matter what race or class they might belong to. With his departure will be mourned a man who accomplished great things, and of whom his most ardent opponents have to admit that he, by his example and by his incomparable power to work, and his mighty talent for organization, has been able to be a blessing to many. William Booth has gone to his eternal rest. He has not lived and worked in vain. His name does not belong only to his fatherland, but to the whole world, for he was a benefactor to every land, and to all humanity. If any name shall continue to live, it is his. The People Amsterdam. A man has died whose figure, owing to his career, his self-chosen sphere of labor, his manifested power and talent, and through his success, too, has become a world figure who may be variously judged, but awaken sympathy everywhere and scarcely anywhere enmity. Booth was a man for the outcasts of society, for the poorest and most miserable, for those who had no strength left and were entirely unarmed in the fight for existence. The Fatherland Amsterdam. Yes, truly he was a great idealist. That was why he could not be content to remain an ordinary minister. His ideal went beyond the circle of his communion. He wanted to overcome the world by love and divine worship, and work for all mankind. And we see the results everywhere, just as in this country, so at the other side of the world. The Amsterdammer. The saving of souls was the great all-consuming passion of the founder of the Salvation Army. To satisfy this heart-moving desire, he began his wide-stretched organization, and notwithstanding the great social work which represented a great amount of practical social betterment, he continued in every direction in the Army only to honor the opportunity it gave him to win souls for God and the Army. The Evening Courier of Milan. When he stepped to the front of the platform, he seemed transfigured. His rapid and incisive words poured from his mouth with unrestrained eloquence. All the foundation of all we say, he cried, are the eternal truths of the Gospel, indestructible as the pillars of the throne of God, and the Apostle spoke out. In that body, worn with age, was born again something of that unconquerable faith which had made Booth as a lad cry out seventy years before in 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 patients. 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 marvelous 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 choices 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 organization 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 in general of the Salvation Army, dead at eighty-three years of age, after seventy years of unwariable 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, he had 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 Half-Penny 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 Democrat. 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 as a protest. To accomplish such a work as has been done cannot be without result on the future shaping of society. The Morning. Today the Salvation Army stands as one of the mightiest and most remarkable religious organizations that the world has ever seen. John Copping Post. One of our times, and perhaps all times, greatest and most remarkable personages, the Salvation Army's founder and general William Booth died in London yesterday evening. Behind him lies a path such as few have ever traveled, before him lies the rest with his Lord, in whose service he labored almost all his long life. Swedish Morning Standard. The world has lost one of its noblest and most remarkable men. A great benefactor of mankind has been called home. Our time's greatest spiritual general has died at his honorable post. Peace to his brave and worthy memory. Nor Copping News. Few of the most noted men of the day did anything like as much work as the general. He was the leading spirit in all his world organization's least details. He spent most of his time traveling all around the world. Gothenburg's Post. Wherever in the world men's hearts beat for men's sorrows and misery. The message of General Booth's death will be received with sadness and mourning, for with General Booth departed the greatest modern apostle of Christianity, charity, and mercy. A sort of savior, up to the level of modern machinery and wholesale industrial city life, and one of the most discussed and remarkable of modern personages. Gothenburg's Evening. William Booth's life was one in storm and battle. A great man's life. The life of an unwirried fighter. Now the whole world bows before the great man and the great life which will live through all time and go on bringing help to the suffering. Smolin's Post. Booth's blessed and energetic all-world embracing efforts have, during the last decades, had general recognition, and his native land has, in various ways, testified its respect for what he has done in the service of mercy. Uppsala News. William Booth's sleepless energy and restless activity succeeded in forcing his work's recognition, even where people did not approve his methods. And many who before despised him will, now that he is gone, admit that he has done more for his fellows than many whose names have gone down to posterity. Malmo S. S. Daily. It is one of the day's strongest personages who is gone, a man with utmost wealth of energy and power. One could hardly believe he belonged to our times, and yet he had all the qualities of our nervous and restless epoch. There was much in him to remind of the old prophets, the lonely man of God fighting with the mighty and the wrong. Nobody can dispute that the army did much good. Stockholm Morning. It lay in the leader's extraordinary foresight that the army had a great and blessed work to fulfill, to save the deepest sunken in the community. End of Section 30. Recording by Tom Hirsch. Section 31. Organization. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Tom Hirsch. The high reputation which the general gained as an organizer seems to make it desirable to explain as fully as we can what he aimed at and by what means he made the army the remarkable combination it has become. We have happily in several of our books his own dissertations on the subject, for he always sought to make clear to all who should follow him, especially in this respect, the reasons for his plans. In his introduction to orders and regulations for staff officers, he writes as follows. Some of the converts resided in other parts of London, and they soon commenced themselves to hold meetings afterwards, and to win souls in their localities. I was entreated to care for these also. The Christian churches, even when they were willing to receive these converts, were as a result generally so much occupied with the maintenance of their own existence, or so lukewarm in coping with the necessities of the poor people, as to be unequal to the task of caring for them. I soon found that the majority of those who joined the churches either relapsed again into open backsliding, or became half-hearted professors. I was therefore driven to select men and women who I knew to be lovers of souls, and to be living holy lives, for the purpose of caring for these new converts. These helpers I afterwards directed to hold meetings in the streets and in cottages, and then in halls and other meeting places. The Lord was with them in great power, and hundreds of wicked and godless people were converted and united together in separate societies. These operations were, in course of time, extended to the provinces where my late beloved wife, who was my unfailing helper and companion in this work until God took her from me, preached with much acceptance and remarkable results. It soon became difficult and at length impossible for me to express my wishes and give my instructions to my helpers by word of mouth, and consequently I had to issue them in the form of correspondence. This I also soon found to be a task beyond my ability, and yet if unity and harmony were to be preserved among the people God had given me, and if the work were to be carried on successfully, it was evident that they must know my wishes. I was therefore compelled to print such directions and rules as I deemed to be necessary. This practice has continued to the present day, and been increased by reason of the advance of the work to an extent I never could have anticipated. Some seventeen years ago I issued a volume of Orders and Regulations for Field Officers. More than once since then this book has been enlarged and revised to date, and although some further developments have been made since that time, that volume may be taken as the expression in general terms of my present convictions of what a Field Officer of the Salvation Army should be and do, and as such I commended to the attention of officers and soldiers of every rank in the Army throughout the world. Soon after the publication of the Orders and Regulations for Field Officers, a volume describing the duties of divisional officers was issued. This volume has also been outgrown by reason of continued developments in the organization of the Army rendering further enlargements necessary. Meanwhile the ablest and most devoted officers throughout the world have been contriving, and with the authority of headquarters, executing what have seemed the wisest and best methods for attaining the objects we have in view. It now appears to me not only desirable, but absolutely necessary, that these uses Jews should be again examined and classified, and if found to be in harmony with our principles, corrected, reduced to writing, and then, endorsed by my authority, published for the benefit of the Army throughout the world, and for the advantage also of those who will hereafter be our successors in the responsibility for carrying forward the war. The Orders and Regulations contained in this volume are the result. It was my intention to make this book a complete compendium of regulations for staff officers of all departments in all parts of the world. But it became evident that owing to the multiplication of the different branches of our operations, and the diversity of the regulations required by their varied character and conditions, such a volume would have been swollen to most inconvenient dimensions, and I therefore determined to omit everything not applying to the officers under the command of the British Commissioner. It must not be inferred from this that the staff officers employed at international headquarters, or of those engaged in the social work, do not rank equally with those whose duties are here and described. Further orders and regulations required by them, and for staff officers in other territories, will be issued from time to time as needed. The regulations contained in part one of this volume are to be carried out as far as possible in all territories and departments. The regulations herein contained must not be regarded as a final authority on the duties and responsibilities to which they refer. Development has been the order of the Army from the beginning, and will, I hope, remain so to the end. Our methods must of necessity be always changing with the ever-varying character and circumstances of the people whom we seek to benefit. But our principles remain as unchangeable as the throne of Jehovah. It is probable that in succeeding years other orders and regulations will be issued by the Central Authority to take the place of these I am now publishing. It is right and safe and necessary that it should be so. God will, I believe, continue to make known from time to time to those who follow His good pleasure, the way in which the war should be carried on. And the Army will, I hope, continue to receive and record in orders and regulations that manifested well and by obedience continue to go forward from victory unto victory. I think I may truthfully say that in no words which has been my privilege to write in the past, and in no work that it has ever been my lot to undertake, have I been more conscious of the presence and guidance of another spirit than in the preparation of these regulations. That spirit has been, I believe, the spirit of eternal light. I have asked wisdom of God, and I barely believe that my request has been favorably regarded. Of this, I think, these regulations will to those for whom they have been prepared bear witness. These regulations are not, I repeat, intended as a finality. If any staff officer into whose hand this book may come, or may be brought into knowledge of the working of the regulations contained in it, can suggest any improvement, let him do so. If he can show any plan by which the end aimed at can be more simply or inexpensively or effectually gained, either as regards work, or men, or methods, or money, by all means let him make the discovery known to us. God is in no wise confined to any particular person for the revelation of his will. It would be the vainest of vain desires, were I so foolish as to wish that it should be so. Let him speak by whom he will. What I want is to see the work done, soul saved, and the world made to submit at the Saviour's feet. I cannot conclude without saying that there has been present with me, all the way through the preparation of this book, a vivid sense of the utter powerlessness of all system, however wisely it may have been framed, which has not in the application of it that spirit of life who alone imparts the vital force without which no extensive or permanent good can be effected. And now, on the completion of my task and at the moment of placing it in the hands of my officers, this conviction is forced upon me in an increasing, I may almost say a painful degree. No one can deny that the religious world is full of forms which have little or no practical influence on the minds or hearts or lives of those who travel the weary round of their performance day by day. Are the regulations that I am now issuing at no distant date going to swell the number of these dead and powerless systems? God forbid that it should be so. Nothing could be further from my contemplation than such a result. However, there must be regulations. They are necessary. If work is to be done at all, it must be done after some particular fashion, and if one fashion is better than another, which no one amongst us will question, it must be the wisest course to discover that best fashion and to describe it in plain language so that it may be acted upon throughout our borders until some better method is made known. We want certain things done in the army for the salvation of souls, for the deliverance of the world from sin and misery, and for the glory of our God. And the regulations herein set forth represent the best methods at present known either to me or to those around me for the accomplishment of these things. Therefore praying for God's blessing upon them, I send them forth in the expectation that the staff officers whom they concern will render a faithful, conscientious, and believing obedience to all that they enjoy. All this was only written in 1904, and there has been nothing since materially to change the system set forth in the 350 odd pages which follow, and which explain as fully as was necessary how the plans which are so fully explained in the volume of orders and regulations for field officers above referred to were to be carried into effect throughout the whole country. The opening chapter of these regulations explains the organization as follows, the general divisions of the army. The divisions of the army in the field are at present as follows, ward under the charge of a sergeant, core under the charge and command of a field officer, section under the charge and command of a sectional officer, division under the charge and command of a divisional commander, province under the charge and command of a provincial commander, territory under the charge and command of a territorial commissioner. A ward is a place of a town or neighborhood in which a core is operating, placed under the charge of local officers, whose duty it is to watch over the welfare of the soldiers and recruits belonging to it. A core is that portion of a country in which a separate work is carried on and for which it is responsible. It may consist of a city, a town, or a particular district of either, and it may include one or more societies in adjoining places, or it may consist of a number of such societies grouped together, in which case it is called a circle core. A section is a group of cores placed under the command of one or more officers. A division consists of a number of cores grouped together with that part of a country in which these cores are situated. A province comprises a number of divisions. A territory consists of a country or part of a country or several countries combined together as the general may decide. In orders and regulations for his territorial commissioners, that is, those who hold the highest command over whole countries, he writes, the higher the authority with which officers are entrusted and the larger the responsibilities resting upon them, the greater is the need for that absolute devotion to the principles of the army, and that complete abandonment to the purposes of God, which our orders and regulations express and represent, and without which no system, however perfect, and nobody of men, however capable, can achieve the great work he has called us to do in establishing the kingdom of God in the earth. One of the greatest problems connected with all organizations is the keeping up to the ideal of those who are in danger of forgetting it, and therefore the following section will, we think, be found especially interesting to those who may ask, how has it been done, or how is it to be done? It is the section on the development of field officers and reads as follows. The divisional officer is responsible for seeking to develop the spiritual life of the FOs. No matter what gifts or zeal the officer may possess, if he is not walking in the light and living in the favor of God, it is vain to hope that he will be really successful. The D.O. must always, therefore, when he comes in contact with officers under his command, make inquiries with regard to their spiritual life, leading them to acknowledge their faults and heart conflicts so that he may give suitable counsel and help. The D.O. must regard himself as responsible to God for maintaining the devotion of the officers under him to the great purpose to which they have already consecrated their lives. He cannot expect to deal faithfully with an officer on such matters unless he does so, and he must bear in mind how easy it is to draw back from that wholehearted sacrifice without which no officer can succeed. The D.O. must see that his officers possess and live in the spirit of the army. Without it, their officership will be like a body without a soul, or like a locomotive without any power. The D.O. must encourage officers to cry out to God for this, and must continually explain its importance. The D.O. must understand that if officers under his command decline in their love for souls and become careless about the progress of their work, he will have failed in a very important part of his duty. The D.O. exists for the purpose of helping and saving his foes. The D.O. is responsible for the development of energy and enterprise in his officers. One great temptation of foes is to settle down and to be content with a formal discharge of duty, and what is worse still, to offer all sorts of excuses for their lackadaisical laodicy and condition. Few people have in themselves sufficient force of character, human or divine, to keep them pushing ahead for any considerable length of time. Officers who, when they first entered the field are like flames of fire, will, if not looked after, get into ruts and content themselves with holding so many meetings, doing so many marches, raising the ordinary core funds, meeting the ordinary expenditure, keeping the ordinary number of soldiers on the roll, and doing everything in the ordinary day, while the world, undisturbed, is going forward at express speed to hell. The D.O. should endeavor to prevent this settling down on the part of his officers by continually stirring up their minds with inducements to labor and encouragements to renewed activity and increased sacrifice for the salvation of the world. The D.O. is also responsible for the improvement of the gifts of his officers and of their efficiency for the work they have in hand. He must not only show them wherein they fail, but must teach them how they may do better. The D.O. must encourage his officers. If they have gifts and capacities, and none are without some, he should cheer them forward by acknowledging them. He should point out where they do well, at the same time setting before them the higher positions of usefulness they may reach with a little application and perseverance. He may always remind them of officers who, during the early part of their career, have had little success, but who, by sticking to the fight, have reached positions of great usefulness. There are few officers who, during their early days, are not cast down and tempted to think that they do not possess the gifts necessary to success, and that they have missed their vocation in becoming officers. This class of melancholy feelings should be battled with by the D.O. with all his might, for, if allowed to run their course, the result will be not only depression, but despair and, perhaps, desertion. The D.O. should give particular attention to the development of the ability, energy, and religion of the lieutenants in his division. Their position in a corps often makes it difficult for them to exercise their gifts to advantage, and they are often depressed and discouraged. A D.O. should always inquire on his visiting a corps having a lieutenant whether he is happy with his CO and in the work, what special work he has to do and for which he is actually responsible. Every division must have its own officers meeting, which should always be conducted by the divisional officer, unless the provincial commander or some officer representing headquarters be present. Every officer in the division must be present at, at least, one officer's meeting in each month, and where it is possible in great centers, meetings should be held once a week. The D.O. must be careful that the officer's meetings do not involve a financial burden on the officers, and he must make such plans, as will avoid this, and submit the same to the PC. It will sometimes be found convenient to pool the traveling expenses, but this may easily work unfavorably to the smaller corps, instead of in their favor, and in such cases the D.O. must assist his F.O.s with part of the traveling expenses incurred in attending officer's meetings in all such cases where F.O.s are drawing the standard salary or less for their support. Should his funds be insufficient to meet the whole of the burden in such cases, he must apply to the PC for assistance. The officer's meetings should always be held in a comfortable room of a size proportionate to the number of officers present. The officers should be seated directly before the leader. Only field officers shall be admitted. A D.O. who wishes to meet his local officers with his F.O. may announce a special meeting for that purpose at any time. There shall always be at the beginning of a meeting some considerable time spent in prayer for the officer's present and the division in general, the Universal Army, its officers and soldiers, and especially for any portion of it that may be suffering persecution or passing through trial, for wisdom for those upon whom the direction of the Army lies, the supply of money and all else needed to carry on the war, the mightier baptisms of the Holy Ghost and the salvation of a large number of souls. The D.O. or any other officer present shall have the opportunity if desired of pouring out his soul in loving exhortation to his comrades, but nothing in the nature of discussion or the expression of opinions on any orders that may be given must be permitted. The officer being most used of God at the time should be asked to urge his fellows to more holy living, greater self-denial, and increased activity. There shall be the opportunity for the publication of any great blessing that may have been obtained or any remarkable work of grace that may have been realized in the souls of the officer's present or in their core or for the description of any other wonderful work of God that may have been wrought during the week in the division. When it all possible, every officer present should pray aloud during the meeting. There should occasionally be a time set apart for the confession of unfaithfulness and for the open reconsecration to God in the war on the part of any officer. There should be a general rededication of all present to the war at every meeting. There must be a time set apart for the statement by the DO of any event of general interest to the whole army, or of any remarkable occurrence in the division, or any meetings, demonstrations, or other services of importance that may be likely soon to take place in the division or elsewhere. There must be an opportunity after the meeting to transact business. It is of the greatest importance that there should always be time allowed for personal intercourse between the DO and officer's present. The DO should always announce at the commencement of the meeting that he will be glad to see any officer present, personally, at its close. It will seem what an enormous power the DO possesses in this meeting for inspiring, directing, and controlling all the forces of his division. How every week he can spend the greater part of a day, and as much more time as he likes, in making his officers who have the leadership of the army in that neighborhood, think and feel exactly as he does. How solemnly important then it must be that the DO should think and feel just as our Lord Jesus Christ would have him think and feel on such an occasion, and in the presence of such an opportunity. It is most important that the DO should arrange beforehand, with great care, such business as will have to be transacted. For instance, he should have, among other things, a list of the matters requiring attention. He will save himself much trouble and correspondence, much loss of time, and much expense in traveling by seeing the officers about matters that concern their core and themselves, personally, at the meeting. If he have no such list, it is probable he will forget some of the most important questions of business he has on hand. He should have a list of the officers he wants to see, together with the business upon which it is necessary that he should confer with them. Notes must always be taken by him of the results of these interviews according to rule. Especially should any engagements the DO makes for himself be carefully recorded. The DO should make some personal spiritual preparation for the meeting. There must, of necessity, be many things of a perplexing and trying character in connection with the officers whom he will have to meet, and the condition of the core concerning which he will have information. He ought, therefore, to make an opportunity beforehand for special prayer for divine guidance and strength, and so entering the meeting with his mind calm and confident in the insurance, not only of the divine favor in his own soul, but that God will sustain and direct him in the meeting and in all the business that may subsequently come before him. The condition of heart and spirit in the DO at such times will be instinctively felt by every officer in the room before the meeting has been going on for a quarter of an hour, and this will have far more influence, as has been remarked before, on his command than anything he may say or do. How important is it, then, that he should be as Saul among the prophets, not only head and shoulders above everyone present as regards authority, but in the possession of the wisdom and power of the Holy Ghost.