New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-07

Booth must have been well nigh as
striking figure as now. Tall, slight,
ardent, he was on fire to carry the Cos
pei to the submerged TENTH" and no
soothing, Indifference, hardship or ac-
tual danger could deter him. He con-
tinued his open air preaching even
/ while gaining an education and while
employed at clerical work during the
day. He was warned by the doctors
| that his health would not stand the
! strain and that if he did not desist
] his life would pay the penalty, but be
| hesitated not at all. Even when a
comrade fell at his side Booth went
on. He received a private education
from a Methodist tutor and was or
dained to the ministry in the New
| Connection church at the age Of TWEEN
ty-three. Three years later he was
married to Catherine Mumford, the
| remarkable woman who was after
ward to win the worlds love as the
"mother Of the army" AS long as
Booth could act as travelling evangel-
| tst he was content to remain in the
regular ministry, but when the con-
ference required him to settle down to
the ordinary circuit work he resigned
A certain dramatic scene in connection
with that resignation is yet recalled.
In the gallery at the conference sat
girlish figure, and when the decision
! was reached that Mr.. Booth was to
| give up his evangelical work the as
sembled ministers were not little
startled to hear clear voice ring from
| above, "Neyer!' 1t meant the cutting
| off Of scant livelihood and facing
the world without a dollar, not an
| easy thing for woman to do, espe-
cially since there were already little
! mouths to feed, but the nobIest causes
| in this world have been built on the
heroism Of women.
Life Often Endangered.
| Out of the ministry and also out of
a livelihood, Booth began preaching in
an old tent in Quaker burying
ground. The tent, which was donated,
was ripped to pieces in storm, after
which meetings were held in cheap
halls, in parks or in byways and alley
| ways. The work was in the worst Sec
ton of London, Whitechapel;7 and the
young preachers life was often endan
gered by the hostile mob. The cause
throve on persecution, however, and
in 1865 in a literally God forsaken part
| of the great city called Mile End
Waste the Salvation Army was start
ed. 1t was not at first called by that
name, but was known as the Christian
mission. Booth had a happy faculty
Of coming phrases and in 1877 penned
the line, ''The Christian mission is a
volunteer army" Then he erased the
word volunteer" and in place thereof
| wrote Salvation" The name stuck
and was the real inception of the
army as it exists today. There was no
preconcerted plan Of adopting it, but
rather a spontaneous growth. In
short time the leaders were called
captain" Booth himself became the
general" uniform was adopted,
drums, bugles and marching columns
were brought into requisition, and
new era was started in religious prop
uganda among the poor.
In 1879 the War Cry was started,
which now, with kindred publications
Of the army, Is printed in twenty-one
languages and circulates over million
copies week. In 1880 the cause took
on international scope by invading
America. The next year it was carried
into France. In 1885 the purity cru
SADIE was started for the protection of
young girls. In 1886 General Booth
made his first trip to the United States
and Canada, holding 200 meetings in
three months. In 1890 appeared his
| most famous book, Gin Darkest Eng
land and the Way OUT During the
same year was founded the celebrated
Hadleigh Farm colony, system which
the army has extended over the earth.
Then India was invaded, and the In
dian banking system was inaugurated
to protect the poor from extortionate
! rates of interest. There followed the
establishment Of homes and employ
ment for Armenian refugees, the naval
and military league to work among
| soldiers and sailors throughout the
| world, homes for fallen women, shell
tiers for waits and strays, prison gate
homes for ex-convicts, servants homes,
| hospitals, factories and workshops,
bureaus for temporary and permanent
employment, poor mems lawyer de-
partment, bureaus for tracing lost and
missing friends, food depots and shell
tiers for the destitute, free beds and
finally the anti-suicide department.
| A Universal Traveller.
Whatever may be thought Of the re-
| ligious methods Of the Salvation Army,
| it's social work merits and receives uni
| yersal praise Behind all these benef-