The herald., 1894-12-20
FIGHTING AGAINST SATAN,
General Booth Will Soon Be in
Los Angeles.
The Founder of the Salvation Army
Is on His Way.
He Is One of tho Grand Old Men OF the
Age-His Views and His
Methods.

in a few days. He is at present in San
Francisco. where he ia interesting and
teaching thousands in the ways and
methods of the new religious orgsniza-
ton.
A London correspondent. speaking of
the general, says;
He ia one of the grand old men of the
time, You may not agree with his
methods. His red shirt may offend
your esthetc sense. But you cannot
stand face to face with him for a mo-
ment without feeling the wonderful, in
domitable force OF the old man. 1t is in
every line of the face-the enormous
hooked nose, the deep-set eyes under
tie beetle brows. the stern mouth and
the waste Of ragged. gray beard. There
is no doubt fit. General William Booth
is one OF the grand old men.
The Salvation army is one of the most
extraordinary movements in this age of
strange social alterations. 1t began in
a tent in the old Quaker burial ground,
in Brick lane, Wnitschapel, with the
preaching OF a Raunt, eccentric, eagles
beaked evangelist. 1t began noisily
with the beating of drums and the mel
huEuOlt VI pcHltoub stAuOt5s IL
has marched around the world and
everywhere have been the beating of
drums and the melancholy howlings OF
penitent sinners; in the slums of every
city, in the villages of every land, in
Zulu jungles, in India, China, Japan /;
wherever it's trumpets have sounded the
miserable ones, the declassed and
wretched, thieves and hsrlots have
fallen into line; 1t is an army OF Pyms
and Pistols. all shouting for the glory of
God and the defiance OF the devil. 1t is
o social phenomenon, As nearly "a
anything. perhaps, it recalls that early
fanatic enthusiasm of the early Chris.
tisn. 1t was made up of the lower
orders. 1t courted persecution, 1t
fought personal devil, wrestled with
him, out-howled him and triumphed.
Men and women of serious intellect
looked upon it aekance. But this army
of fanatic salvation marched on,
The movement is without precedent.
And the man who directs it-a grim,
old man, looking like peddler of Yam
kee notions--will tell you that today it
is only in its beginning; that its goal
will not be reached until "every man
and woman is redeemed, morally, men,
tally, socially" He speaks of this as
confidently as you and l speak of to-
morrow'a dinner.
Ir an interview Booth said:
II want to establish the social work
of the army more securely, l want to
broaden and deepen it. From the very
beginning have felt that the only way
to help man who is down is to help
him all around. Preach Christ to him
Yes, but take him out of the gutter.
wash him, feed him, give him work.
Christ expects you to do that much for
him, and Christ will save his soul.
When mans down. get him up. Raise
his body. raise his mind. raise up his
soul, In our farm colony down at Had
leigh we have tried this plan in small
way. We have taken paupers, drunk
ards. thieves vagabonds, and washed
them, clothed them, put them to work.
We pay them wages and call up their
manhood. No work, no pay. And we
preach Christ-He ia the beginning and
end of our work. The farm lie self
supporting, that is when the initial out
lev is provided. The paupera we took
from the Stepney workhouse cost the
ratepay ers-in food. buildings, salaries
and sll the expenses of maintaining
them as paupers-more than it cost us
to put ten times their numbe back into
honest livelihoods, decent men, clean in
body aud soul.
"If | only had the means!
81 shall establish colony. either in
Africa or Australia in some of the un-
used lands OF Australia. think. There
will De farms and villages. The plan
will be identical with the one l have
proved successful at Hadleigh."
"But you meet men who cannot be
reformed, do you not?"
eyes. And the man who Ia given
honest and pleasant work, who is toned
up, morally, mentally and physically,
and after patient and efficient trial
proves himself incapable of reform,
should be locked up and made to work
But such men are few. My plan, if
England only knew it, would save her
the frightfully expensive and sadly in-
efficient machinery of charity-alm-
house, poorhouses and all"
General Booth went into figures. He
is no dreamer, this old man. He proved
the ndisputable success OF this farm
colony at Hadleigh. For my part l
could not see why it could be success.
fully extended.
In every man who founds new re-
ligion or new religious movement
there is something OF the shrewd and
practical man of affairs, something of
the fighting man, something of the
dreamer OF dreams.
"Do you believe there will ever be re-
ligious unity ?" asked.
II do not know when it will come"
he eaid. but come it will. l know it.
1t ia the end OF my miseon. There will
be unity. and it will be that of the Sal
vation Army. We do not go to them,
they are coming to us. Our influence
has been very strong on all the creeds
and churches. Our methods are copied
by all the denomination. These church
armies of the Church of England, these
boys armies of the different Nonoon-
formist bodies are bringing them all
close to Us. In the end they will be one
of us. We are Christ's men His SOL
diere, who answered His call to 20 forth
into all the world. The Salvation Army
has only to be true to the Master to win
the world for Him."
grand old man-dreamer. politician,
fighter, the stern, indomitable dictator
OF this strange army.
He was born in Nottingham April 10,
1926 He was local preacher at II, at
10 was called to the ministry OF the Wes-
leyan Church. From the beginning he
had way of prowling about ths slums.
OF taking poor devils by the hand and
compelling them to come in. His eld-
ers did not believe in taking the Bible
quite this literally and edged him
out of the church. He became an