Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-07
GEN. BOOTHS SOJOURN
President Will Entertain
Noted Salvationist.
HANNA TO GIVE DINNER
WILL OFFER PRAYER IN UNITED
STATES SENATE.
Personal CHARACTERISTICS Of Man Who
Has Done So Much Toward Re-
claiming Souls.
HANNA TO GIVE DINNER

claiming Souls.
When Gen. william Booth comes to
Washington he will receive a royal well
come. The President OF the United States
Is to entertain him at luncheon February
II. and Gen. Booth viii be asked to deliver
the opening prayer in the United States
Senate February ID.
The same day he will be presented to SEN
ators and representatives who are inter-
.ested in his work and who desire to meet
the head Of the Salvation Army.
Senator Hanna Of Ohio will give dinner
at the Arlington Hotel February II in Gen.
Booths honor. which will be attended by
number Of prominent personages as guests.
The general and Commander Booth-Tuck-
er will deliver addresses at an open reli-
gious meeting to be held at the First Con-
gregational Church during the time he Is
in the city. A big public meeting will be
The meeting will be presided over by Com
missioner Fl. B. F. Macfarland, and Cen
eral Booth will deliver an address on the
work of the Salvation Army in the United
States, comparing it's development here
with Its progress in England.
The party expects to leave Washington
Saturday of next week for Philadelphia,
where extensive arrangements for their en-
tertainment have been made. They will
sail from New York for London March 4.
Cen. Booth and party are now in the
of the Salvation Army movement. He will
go from this city to Philadelphia, and later
to New York. He expects to sail for his
home in England March 4. That will end
and Canada. -
Hanna Tells Of Great Work.
II have been In touch with the movement
Of which General Booth is the head for
many years." said Senator Hanna to Star
reporter this afternoon, "and 1 am in full
sympathy with 1t. I have observed the
good results in my own city, where I have
been closer in contact with the efforts and
consequent results. and have also noted
the outcome Of the work Of the Salvation
Army throughout the country.
1T Is noble work. being conducted con-
scienttously and faithfully by a devoted
band. I am glad to cooperate with them in
every way, and am. glad to pay tribute of
my esteem and consideration to the man
who Is at the head of the movement"
2,5OO,O 900 Conversions.
1t Is estimated that General Booth. during
the last twenty years Of his life. has made
converts at the rate Of 5000 year by his
personal efforts alone. Prior to that period,
1t Is calculated by the Salvation Army
authorities, he averaged LOCO converts each
year, making a grand total of $4,000 con-
verts to the generals personal credit. In
the last ten years alone the army has re-
corded 2.500.0o0 conversions throughout the
world.
Gen. Booth has been engaged in the work
Of helping unfortunate men and women, as
the head of the Salvation Army and the
Christian Mission for nearly sixty years
His work has been praised by rulers Of
many nations and by. men prominent in the
affairs of the world.
Journalist Stead's Praise.
William T. Stead, the noted English Jour-
nalist and author, spent several weeks in a
study of Gen. Booth and his work. and said
in writing the results of his study, that
the general has been one Of the most for
tunate Of men, and fortunate most Of all
in his enemies. who have enabled the Sal
walton Army to pose as the champion Of
liberty Of speech and liberty Of procession
and have furnished 1t with officers whose
university has been the furnace Of tribula-
ton.
In further describing the personal char
acterfstics Of the noted evangelist OF the
people Mr.. Stead says:
Personal characteristics.
''Gen. Booth is most fortunate also in
the possession Of a keen sense Of humor
This gift comes as a revelation to most Of
those who hear him for the first time But
he has the saving gift OF humor well under
control, and 1t stands him in good stead.
Homely and plain spoken. there is in him
good deal of the same fibre that there
was In Abraham Lincoln.
Both were tall spare men. who loved
joke, and who yet were called OF God to
stand in the breach In a grave crisis, which
was assuredly no Testing matter. The
northern armies fought none the less hero
ically because Of Old Abe's jokes, and the
Salvationists are none the less strenuous
in the saving of souls because their general
clenches an argument with humorous
sally which sets the audience in a roar.
A Man Of One Idea.
IF you were to ask General Booth what
he regarded as the secret Of his strange
success. he would tell you that it was be-
first to last he has been dominated by one
central thought, which has possessed him
as by consuming passion.
THAT one idea has been passionate
yearning love for his fellow men. From
his boyhood in nottingham he has always
been full Of sorrow for the sufferings and
the miseries Of men and women. His heart
has gone out to them, and his whole soul
has been preoccupied with the one question,
How can best do something for them?
How can l help them? How can I best
bring some light and warmth and love and
joy into these darkened, cold and miserable
hearts?
Enthusiasm for Humanity.
THAT was the work that he felt called to
perform. and that sacred passion. that ire
sistible enthusiasm for humanity has been
the central fire by which the whole Saliva
ton Army has caught the glow which dis
tinguishes 1t from all other denominations"
1t is stated on authority that Gen.. Booth
did not plan the conquest Of the world, but
that the progress Of the Salvation Army
movement has developed because 1t was
forced upon him.
The establishment Of the army In Austria
liza was tthe consequence OF the emigra-
ttfon to that country Of an erstwhile
drunken milkman, who had been converted
at Stepney, England.
The movement was started in the United
States by a convert from Coventry, who
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