The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-06
LONG LIVES IN WORK
MINISTER'S WITH FOUR AND FIVE
 DECADES or EXPERIENCE.
General William Booth, Head of SaI- vatiOn Army, Best Known of These Deans of the worlds
 Clergy.

Great reverence is due the grand old men and women of the present day re- | ligous world. but none more than Gen | eral William Booth of the Salvation Army, who is now touring the United States and whose name belongs at the head of list that includes the names of Rev. Robert Fulton Crary, Rev. James Park. Mrs. Lavina Beadle, Sis ter Mary Domitilla, Mrs. William But Ter, Rev. William Melancton Johnson, Rev. Thomas Lord, Rev. Thomas M. Preble and Right Rev. Charles Ham ilton..
 of all these General Booth stands out pre-eminently. His name is the best known, but the others have all &C., complished in their limited fields as much as he has in the great world space that has been seized upon by the Sal vation Army. His organization now works in tifty-three countries and col- onies, and has 1S.000 commissioned of- ficers. who command over 700 corps of 1 Salvation soldiery.
 General Booth was, first of all, a Methodist, and left that church to work in tabernacle which was only a rough old tent in disused burying ground in the famous Whitechapel district of East London. For a dozen years his work was confined to that section, and
 
 cry part of the civilized world
 | He has seen his modest mission grow until It's charities include prison gate and rescue work, inebriates homes, boys and girls homes. farm colonies, emigration, naval and military homes, maternity homes. nursing work, Samar- itan brigades, hospital and benevolent visitation. Indian schools, trades union work. insurance societies and, more re- gently. anti-suicide bureaus.
 He has been himself honored with the degree of doctor of civil law from oxford University. and has had the greatest honor conferred upon him that an Englishman can have--that of the freedom of the city of London.
 His world tour. which brings him now to the United States, makes him visitor here for the fifth time This week he will spend looking over the Shlcago field. after which he goes to St. Louis.
 Just at the time when General Booth reels himself at the zenith of his work and but 7S years of age. Rev. Robert Fulton Crary, of the Episcopal Church or the Holy Comforter, at Poughkeep- sie' N r., is retiring, at the age of n. closing his forty years pastorate ain tne one church, where he had grown to be a great power for good For TOUT decades he has been a leading fig ure In the religious life of the city. has written much that has attracted attention, and will devote the rest of ms days to intellectual pursuits along the established lines of a conservative religion
 e. another pastor who has preached iSl Re, loT5y years and is now to retire is ! Of the Silliman Memorial Presbyterian n Church at Cohoes. N. Y. He had been tn ttn t9e ministry six years before going s9 year r0hoes' he so that now in his 74th year, ne ends forty-six years of preaching, being the dean of all preachers in his section. He has de- tfiNere4 2lS4l sermons. has won honors rom Union, College, has been several , times d moderator of the Troy Presby- : tery, as well as moderator of the State synod and has been several times a nneeptr6esenttatiye net6s It to the Central Assembly
 Fifty years in holy orders is the record of Rt Rev. Charles Hamilton, tne the Bishop of Ottawa. his first work Quebec Cathedral. He is now seventy three years of age and has been the head of the Ottawa Diocese since 1896. de fds I SUI has an unwearying capacity up his great Christian work, which Is Shared by his wife, who is Vice-Pres- ldent' of the National Council of Wo- over sixty years of ministerial eff Motherwell Preble. of Somerville, Mass, who on his 97th birthday preached in the Second Advent Church of Lynn. He talked for more than a
 half hour and showed little trace. of his age For forty five years he has at intervals been working on The God Like Narrative of the Bible a revision of he Scriptures that he be lieves will attract attention.
 A centenarian Is Rev. Thomas Lord ] of HorncaStle. England. Recently ne