The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-11

They have been in Kansas City since
Monday where the leader of the Saliva
zionist movement has been thrilling au
diences with the message which he has
He has visited the United States before.
but this will be his first stop in Topeka
and il is extremely unlikely that tbs
p.ople of this place will ever again be
aule to see or hear him. He will be met
a the station by the local corps OF SAL
vatiorists. and it is desired that as
many people outside the Army go to
the depot and show their appreciation oil
his Willingness to stop here and SPEAK
Ensign IOhn Howard, of this city, has
been in Kansas City all week attending
the councils which General Booth has
been holding with the southwestern dis
trict SalVatiOnists and it is due to his
exertion that the stop of the general IN
Topeka was promised
Besides General Booth there are his
daughter, Consul Booth-Tucker, who Is
prominent in the work in America.
Colonel Lawlie his private secretary.
and Major Cox.
General Booth is considered as one Of
the greatest of present-day characters
The movement for the salvation or
mems souls regardless of their rank OF
position is the chief purpose of his lie.
and to this end he deVOtes himself with
a zeal that is untiring- 1t is said that
he spends only about four of the
tWenty-fOur hours of each day in sleep,
rapher is al hand who is ready to take
the djctations which he may wish to
give. Besides touring different coun-
tries of the world General Booth keeps
up the affairs which come to him in his
position as bead of the Army. He also
writes considerable matter, contributing
each week to the Salvation Army pert
pdicalS. He is 70 years old. but is Wig
The story which he has briefly told re-
garding his own conversion and the
movement for the help OF the fallen is
as follows:
1T is SIS years ago since decided that
l was in the wrong, since 1 saw the aw-
fulness of going to hell. Then, when 1
was saved, 1 decided that it would not be
right for me to stop there, but that 1
must &C out and help others to be saved.
I went out into the slums of London and
I beheld the continent of crime and vice and
misery there. That was to be my battle
/ field. And so I began and we have since
worked among the poor. They are our
/ constituents.
I'VE haven't done much among the
rich yet We had to fight great deal
! Of prejudice against Some people
make himself notorious to get his name
/ in the newspapers. For 10 years we hard
/ ly got any results. 1t was battle against
opposition But we won at last and began
to grow. to reach out, and now I verify
believe that we will reach the North pole
J D@ASA eIi1 VI oti 6tOSi q p4i41ttA AAAgII> SCI
there"
In order to understand what the Saliva
ton Army Is doing IL is necessary to re-
member that Its flag is flying in At diff
/ terent countries of the world There are
7.4o5 separate bands with 1900 local off
GERS and 10000 bandsmen. The Army
publishes 81 different periodicals q differ
! ent War Crys in % different languages.
| and the whole of them have a circulation
| of one million There are SIS institutions
where 17o00 people are fed and housed
regularly: ia rescue homes where last
year 5000 women were cared for. and
rs homes for ex-criminals where during
/ the last wears 1000 ex-criminals have
been housed.
General Booth has been in America since
october 8. touring Canada and the United
States. and his reception has been most
hearty. In Denver. whence General Booth
goes from here three meetings will be
held and from there he will go to Salt
Lake City There meetings win be held in
the Mormon tabernacle On the Pacific