Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-13

| purchased Of druggist AT one dollar n bottle
/ or six bottles for five dollars.
| sures you of success and a glorious re-
ward; your crown is already held out! Then
why delay? Why doubt? onward! onward
| Onward! Christ for met Be that your
| motto: be that yoIr battle cry: be that
your war note: be that your consolation:
| be that your plea when asking mercy of
| God; your end when Offering to man; your
hope when e1clrcled by darkness; your tri-
umph and victory when tscke1 by DEATH
1t was impossible that such n man could
remain in business, although he seemed so
admirably fitted for success i'm 1T. Not long
after his arrivel in London he left business
behind him and entered the ministry, where
he had remarkable success from the first.
1t was in London In 1851 that he met
Catherine Muniford, the wonderful woman
who afterward became his wife. and who
Is well called The mother of the Saliva
ton Army" She was as remarkable as he,
and after their marriage. n 1885, they
v orked together as evangelists with almost
Unparalleled success. But the storS of Mrs.
Rooth nils two large volumes as told in a
fascinating way by her son-in-law Com
missioner Booth-Tucker and there is not
room to even begin to tell it here. AS a
speaker. leader and In every capacity she
vas her husbands equal, If not superior.
No woman In England commanded such
audiences while she lived. and i9,Sa people
| followed her funeral when she died six
years ago. Besides all her public work she
- up ncr nine cfiilren that eScry
one of them became Christian as a child.
and every one except an invalid daughter is
now an active officer of the Salvation Army.
All that she accomplished Is made the
more remarkable by the fact that she was
herself lifelong invalid
IL Is extremely difficult to summarize the
life work of Gen. Booth, Ia which his wife
took so great part. but 1t Was well done
In the Conqueror. the Salvation Army maya
zine for last July by a writer who gave
what he called "A Jubilee Glimpse of the
General"
His Religious Work.
The head of the Salvation Army was
converted in the year 1914. when fifteen
years Old he says. and from that day to
TINS his life has been spent in unceasing
effort for the salvation of others
on three different occasions he has literal
~ left all to obey the voice Of God, and
en- two of these Occasions he had to cast
rpon God, not only himself. but also deli
ate wife and family of young children.
''He has never drawn from the army funds
any personal expenses. and draws none
now. The financial system adopted at head
quarters is 80 constructed that il he desired
to appropriate 90 cents of the arny money
he could not do 50 without the collision of
live different officers.
I'm lSJ2 he took his first charge as a MN
lister in London with the "Reformcrs" a
section of MethOdists, and was asked by the
TREND, who undertook to pay his salary,
bow much money he would require Twelve
Shiilings lS3l yer week will keen me in
bread and cheese" was the reply. The gem
tleInan however. thought this not enough
ana insisted on giving him Il ts5) weekly
Ana in order to lie a minister with this
pittance he had given up good business
position and excellent earthly prospects.
IN 1851, after Seeing m..iii;udcs OF souls
saved as minister and evangelist In the
Methodist Npw fNoDneyipo ~
obedience 20 the voice of God went out
not knowing whittier he went. without a
friend and without a farthing." And this
TOO, in spite of the greatest POSSIBLE press
ure put upon him to remain In IT aud tho
Prospects of comfort. fame ana honor ii he
stayed there.
in the fall Of the same year the general
ano mrs. Booth went to Cornwall whore
within the next eighteen months they savr
IN Their meetings no fever than T.VyI con-
versions
wenty-seven years afterward the writer
went |" that county. and there he saw and
conversed with dozens of peopia who .ara
saved IN those days. and heard graphic d.
sctiPuohs or various sermons, meetings and
incidents OF that awakening. In lS.s5 after
Tour years OF success IN soul-saving in other
parts OF Great Britain after The fashion of
CORNWALL. the general, for the third time
went iortn alone. and almost penniless on
the Mlie Emo Waste in i4ondon-to 20 after
the lost sheep in the greatest city In the
world This step was largely due to dis
satisfaction with the way In which The con-
Verts saved in his services had been treataJ
or rather neglected, by the Churches int
which he had sent them
From 1865 10 1873 were the DAYS of the
christian Mission. Among the practices of
the salvation Army, which were devsloned
even in the earlier days of the mission were
these: The utilizing of women's abilities,
both In meetings and in administration:
continuous open-air work: the holding of
meetings every night in the week; taking
collections In all meetings; the occupation
or buildings and rooms ordinarily used for
secular, II not vicious, purposes; making
every cause or society support Itself; utiIiz-
ing converts as soon as they were saved:
marching In procession through the streets:
making responses during prayers and a6
dresses In meetings and. later in the mis-
sion days. an approach to uniform and the
use OF such musical Instruments as the
violin In the services.
1t is almost impossible now to conceive
the amount of opposition excited by some of
these things. or how revolutionary thew NOT
those days. "
salvation Army. stations" were called
corps, the flag was designed by the gen
eral. the motto. Blood and fire" was
adopted, and Mrs. Booth invented the halle
iu]sh bonnet. At the end of that year the
army had eighty-one corps and 127 officers
meetings ~
In 1890 Commissioner Railton kroupbt rb.
first expedition that left Great Britain to
New York. In 1881 the army pioneers start
ed for Australia and New Zealand and La
Marechale Booth-Clibborn commenced our
work in France. In 1882 India Sweden
Canada, South Africa and Switzerland were
opened; Germany in 1886: Holland and Dem
mark followed in 1887, Norway In 1850
South America, Finland and Belgium In
1882 northern Italy in 1891 and Jamaica In
1892 while this year is to be signaiized by
the invasion Of Spain. Egypt, Palestine
Japan, Java, Demarara and Malta
To-day the forces of the army consist of
some 1000 corps. under IL, 900 officers, who
hold 10000 services every week, in forty
countries and colonies. The total circulation
of Its thirty-three weekly and monthly pa
pers, in twenty-one languages, Is about
iO.0000o0 copies per year. OF nearly a mil
lion per week These papers. too. are all sold
not given away-and there is not one paid
outside" advertisement to be found In one
copy in any land or language.
'In 1890 the general published that epoch
making book, 'Tn Darkets England and the
Way Out" This volume contained the
largest, deepest, most far-reaching, most
statesmaniike and. at the same time most
practicable scheme-for a man who had the
Salvation Army behind hlm-for the aboll-
tton of poverty and pauperism that the
world has ever seen. OF the numerous
agencies described in this book MANY are