The times., 1897-12-25
MRS. BOOTH sLAND[REO
Husband Says Malicious Attacks
Frustrated Her.
PATRIcIAs { MISSIONARY
Worked for the Fallen, the Poor,
and the Imprisoned d-Own Family
Turned Against Hcr-Now She
Lies In Hospital Dying From
q Broken Heart

New York Dec. 24.-Mrs. Ballingtol
Booths deadly illness is lIclen heart
The figure of speech has in this, as in a!
cases, tasis in reality. Her pbysicia ns
at the Presbyterian Hospital last night
shook their heads sadly and said: "A mir
acie, the miracle OF her splendid will
| may save her.
/ Her heart was broken literally, after
| she had read line in letter infleXib.t {
as fate, written from London by Fer elder
sister, sa wing: Il shall yer .oiIin again
By using il in writing TO YOU Mrs. 2al
lington Booth might have shrugged her
shoulders at this if sEefad been less sen ii
tive.
Sensitive as she is, the amazing phri.e
| might have grieved her only intensely but
it came after a long series of feartrendiDg &
| Incidents so constant, so refined i'll tfeiT
| cruelty. borne by Ter With sCt angelic
resignation That its torture was like that
| OF the heated iron orucifix On tie lips "f
the MARTYR. She could not resist it.
| AT Chicago, Salvation Army IN an, led | y
| principal officers, disturbed one of .1er
meetings until she was compelled To re
| buke them ty name, an appeal TO them
in general having had no other .if -ct
than thei, jeering with renewed insoience.
| At London, in the Training Home, girls
receiving instructions for trip TO New
| York We're told to avoid Mrs. BaIiingt ton
Booth as Il woman OF lost reputation, in
a
Capt. Minnie Turner cast off her Saliva
| ton Army uniform and cane here TO
| enlist among the Volunteers.
At Montclair, N. j., in the Chlrens
Home, was q girl whom Mrs. Ballington
Booth protected. An officer of the Sal.
walton Army wrote IL this girl letter 30
disgracefui In its references to Mrs. Raj
lingt0n Booth that the matron suppressed
It. size wrote to the girls guardian, If
youi ward should read this letter We
could not keel, her here.''
Anonymous letters Jfaifiof absurd charges
against MIS-. BallingtpngBooth filled her
mail every day. 1tcy &cre written, evi-
IDENTIFY. hy persons WHO Believed they were
serving God by in2uiting her. The sim
cerity of the sentiments a,nazcd her. The
number of letters Increased as the success
OF the Vol -ateers increased,
Coumander B5,iiington Bootl, received
from leaders Of thee salvation Army. per
sistent appeals to leave .his wife, accusing
her of an infinity Of defects catalogued i'll
part with Iare ingenuity.
Mrs. BaIlington Booth5was ostracised by
the Booth family, by fIiends whom she
admired, by acquain: sncss whom size
esteemed, by persoJs in whom She had
r{r Nx-.ar D 10
UnpaI q dobable. ,aesaE..
She had quilted the Salvation Army.
The maiden naneeof AIRS. Booth was
Maud Eliza beth ChaIlesworth. Her father.
the Rev. Dr.. Samue! 3. CharIesworth, was
pastor If Lirichouse Parish, London, an
Episcopal minister, like lis father, whom
the people Of Ipswich, in Suffolk, admired
ardenty.
The family has an ancient record of
scholarship Miss NJ. Charlesworth, the
Volunteers aunt, is the author of Minis
tering Children" Professor Colwell, the
Volunteers uncle is professor Of sanscriu n
Cambridge University; the Volunteer S elder
sisters. Anna and Florence, are wives or
Church of England clerg ymen. The Vulun
teer wa alN avs Volunteer.
Her vocation came to her partially rom
ed by herself In her girlhood she de led
her leisure 10 the poor, the children he
old people and the infir,n of her fathers
parish, not through others, but in person,
with true charity.
1t was her teautiful partri1fan hands that
made the beds of the miserable. She did
not slnd her aims by messenger, ba: dis
tributed them herself CDntemptuous thrn,
perhaps, of those who iueditatc anh pray |
i'll solitude for others, she preferred air lady |
acts of charity rather than any ,ther |
expression Of love for humanity. She was |
graduated, and her fat her took her TO Paris |
for voyage iii which she might praciiee |
among strangers her perfect knowledge Of |
French
She was sixteen years of age and she |
had read Les Misera bles'' of Victor Hugo. /
She was certain then, in her admiration
for tnif work, that she would do some
thing, some day, for convicts like Hugo's
hero. But there was other work to be
done IL Paris then.
COnmander Ballington Booths sister was
eXhortDg the destitute and the ba ndonad
in that terrible district of Parts. the Car
rieres d'Ainerique," which impresses one
as region OF another age. 1t vas the
fashion among students to go to the me IT
ings of the "a Armee du Salut." They
were extraordinarily picturesque meetings.
Daudet the novelist, attended one at the
urgent request of pupils Of the College lie
France, and wrote "LEvangeliste' fr I'm
the Impression which it produced upon him
In its pages is charming description Of
a young woman whose large linipd eyes
subduec the toughest attendants, whom her
'oice afterwarti Conquered The original
Df this slight sketch was Maud EIizabe
She spoke in French with
IN amazing accuracy, and her accent was
though not at all Partisan. One
would hs We ina gined she,,va educated in
Her Converts We're collegians as
we'll as vagabondss OF the .'Car.ieres
j l'Amerique" district OF Paris.
She went TO SwitzerIanu, where the fed
,ral COVER nment, as well as the popular
Prejudice, opposed the Salvation Army saw.
igely. But her knowledge Of French, she
aid, her PERSONAL 9charrn,. undoub. etly,
made her success in Switzerland superb
the was famous as a sSalvationist when
he returned to Engiend.l
Commander BaIlington Booth admired 9er
Without an Idea that she thought of him;
he said that his speeches had inspired lier
o becom" Salvationist, and he did not
NOW it; but they met on the same plat
orm one day, and they acknowledged that
hey lad been in love with each otn n for
long time.
At their wedding, In London, "our thou
and persons We're present. He was the
most popular speaker among the Saliva ton
SITS in England; she was the most s,Iccess-
ul in attracting affection and Confidence.
eneral Pooth appointed them to .lir.ct
he Salvation Army in the United Sta.es