Arizona republican., 1907-09-28

, tic head craned forward: the ascetic eager face, keen, yet kindly: the blaz- ing eyes, and long arms still 1.-the make up the image of some prophet or 1 lawgiver Of old.
 His personality is full of paradox
 He is mystery personified: plain rough. hOmely, yet giant power somewhere to achieve things that [ dwarf the work of even John Wesley Opposite if not contradictory traits meet in the makeup of his character Rough h-and-ready speech with refined spiritual instincts; strong common sense with a suggestion of sensation alism: broad tolerance with narrow principles: the masterfulness of an au- tocrat with the simplicity of child
 BORN LEADER OF MEN.
 Yet there are no inconsistencies. His character reveals various phases. but it is all of one piece. There are no artificial joints in it. It is like a length Of planed timber of variegated shades. but one tone.
 Tn William Booth there is displayed 
 calls an able man. a man who has made fortunes out of waste material the waste material of human life.
 The Salvation Army is the most scientific institution for soul-saving the world has ever seen. The master stroke in the scheme is to leave noth- ing to chance and very little to Provi- dence. The Salvation Army. in the in tention of its founder, is not SO much of a church as it is a crusade. a cru sade against sin.
 noticeable trait in the broad char acter of this leader of men is his con fidence in the ultimate fulfilment of the dreams Aof his earlier days. Not MOhammed at the moment when he was launching the armies which offer ed to the world Islam or the sword. not Hildebrand in the height of his power. showed himself more supremely possessed with the sense of his provi dential mission than does General Booth. And with all this his energy admits of no eXaggeration. He is one of those men whose life moves with increascing momentum of growing faith and hope.
 THE KEYNOTE OF HIS MAKEUP.
 His devout and fervent submission to his Cod is a trait in the life of the great reformer that has left it's i'm precision in the hearts of his followers. It is the force which dominates his life-the one idea that he lives and acts in the presence of a Higher Pow CT. Upon that single thought his whole life has been rearer. And out of the unity Of that force has been developed the trinity of virtues which have ami mated every action which he has per strong and immutable sense of jus tice. To each his due-this Is the key note of his whole makeup. He has stood erect and walked without . waver in his path. His sense of recti- tude has ever ordained that neither fear nor favor should ever sway him from the perfectly straight line of scrupulous equity, as he might under stand the relation of things.
 And in the order of things. in them selves q most remarkable metamor- phosis. there are few, if any, who to- day doubt the perfect honesty of his judgment and the absolute disinterest- edness of his purpose. even though they may differ with him in opinion.
 A MAKER OF HISTORY.
 As a preacher. traveller. writer. philanthropist and social reformer. the name of General Booth has been close ly identified with the progress of all most every nation in the world. Any one writing the history Of the world in the latter part of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. will find it necessary to give the Salvation Army substantial recognition as one of those great sO- cial forces which have tended to swing humanity with a mighty lift heaven wards. The languages of the world are its languages. and the worlds GUS toms are .ts customs.
 Like a cvclone the Army has risen and swept into the course of human ity, smashing 10 pieces like some spir- itual bomb the hard and fast notions of religious propriety in which Chris tianity was becoming embedded, whiri ing against the giant forces of evil that had come to look upon the world as their own, undermining and dyna hitting social and religious customs, which had locked up the social and spiritual activities of Christian men, flattening out opposition. overriding apathy. until it has established itself in a few years as one of the most mag nificent engines of spiritual energy to be found in the wide world.
 The Army grew, it was not made. It was a development. not the outcome of a settled plan. When in 1861 the then Rev. William Booth started on his life work, he had no more idea of the plan or form of the ultimate development of the Salvation Army than the proverbial man in the moon" It came about as the result of a series of inspirations.
 From the hour of its birth in those trying days in London's east end, the