The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-01-26

onics should be men who have been sound
ly converted, and after the proper tests wo
can send them to over sea colonies"
do you think the millennium will come
If all the world is converted to tho Saliva
ton Army" asked a mischievous reporter.
1T would be very near at hand, and If
the newspaper men were converted it
would be n long step in that direction"
said the general, with o twinkle in his
eye and no moro questions were asked
General Booth Is tall and wiry man,
slightly stopped with hair once very black,
but now nearly all gray, with deep, clear
grayish eyes and long and rather 1eshy
nose and long gray beard He has a decid-
ed air Of command and the general ap-
pcarance of natural organizer. And such
he certainly is, for at the age Of As he sud
denly changed tho plans and habits of q
lifetime and extemporized n new and very
unique organization, which in less than
a score Of years has spread all over the
civilized world, and whatever may DO
thought of its methods, is certainly one Of
the great potencies of the age. He has q
remarkable memory for details and figures
and can tell at n moments notice how far
he has travelled on his present tour. having
been in Canada four weeks before going
to New York, and how many addresses he
has delivered and at what places and tho
ayeIIge size of his audiences.
Counting from the first movement In
the east of London in 1865, it Is really 90
years since General Booth began his pecul-
lar sort OF work, but the Salvation Army
proper is much younger. The general was
reared in the Established church. but as
tho result Of peculiar religious expert.
once became a Wesleyan Methodist and in
no long time an exhorter. He studied dill.
igently to fit himself for the ministry and
in due time became licensed preacher in
the New Connection, an offshoot Of the
Wesleyan church. In 1861 he quit tho reg
ular ministry in order that he and his
wife might devote themselves entirely TO
work among the very poor Of London. and
1t Is question If the wife was not rea "
the originator of the Salvation Army. It's
members always spoke of her MS its moth
er' and the remarkable proceedings at her
funeral few years ago attracted much 1T
tention. His son, Ballington Booth. and
tho latter's wife are equally active in tho
work. Both tho ladies had superior op-
portunitics In their youth, and Mrs. Cath
crime Booth, wife of the general. was n
writer Of great ability. Although tho
mother Of eight children and very efficient
in training them, sho preached often and
wrote many interesting works.
No matter what ono may think OF Gen.
eral Booths scheme for retaining Lon
don's poorest, his writings thereon arc well
worth reading merely as scintillations of
an active and peculiar intellect. They are
thlckset with sentences which remind ono
OF lngersoll's epigrams or Carlyle's CON
uensations. For instance; "A masscd non
uiation IN the city outgrows its intelli-
sence. What we have to do, therefore. is
10 grow new nervous system for the
oooy polite, TO create a means Of swift
communication between the communitv
us Whole and the meanest OF its mem
ocis' so that the city may regain what the
village possesses.
1t is a mistake to imagine that men
ooJeet 70 DC governed. They like to DO
go'erned' provided that the governor has
ms mead screwed on right and is ready to
,0voshl1e what Is vital to the community.
All 'he apartments OF the scheme will DO
governed not on the principle of counting
noses out on tho principle Of admitting
directing BRAIN" '''N
II was late in 1887 that Gcnero, md
l-NlNNNNN AuClF INST Man for
aiding tho London Door. bnt tho -,
abandoned IL, their very practical minds
realizing that system Of Nero eivins,
could not ho maintained, and that IL e
could It would do moro harm thnn cool
AFTER much study they devised the threc.
iold plan OF "mctropolo, home colony nnd
colony over tho sea. The first was ~ ~,
Immediate though temporary employment NJ
IN tho city. After a sitting process thor
tho willing were to 10 to a homo colon,
ana thence In due time to a colony ovcr
,no , sea Inc general In his Darkest Eng.
lana intimatcd that ono-tenth of Tho one
urc population Is IN extreme poverty AVA
OF that tenth about one third is I'm tbe v,-,.
depths OF misery and vice. This ma, n,
an oSaggcration, but the reality is haS
enough; He says tho difficulty has been
not win money, but with men. He neccs.
'arily began on n small scale. ana .ho =,
suits so far arc as stated in his interv,svv