Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
MISS BOOTH IS
HEARD BY THREE
LARGE AUDIENCES
SALVATION ARMY COMMANDER
DRAWS BIG CROWDS
FRAlL LOOKING WOMAN DIS.
PLAYS GREAT STRENGTH
Slender WiIIow-Llke Body Sways
with Her Words-PIays on
Harp Accomplishments
for Two Solos

women orators, yesterday successfully
carried out task that many mascu-
line speakers would hesitate to under
take-addressing three large congrega-
lions in one day.
Miss Booth, frail woman though she
is, with the cares of the vast army on
her shoulders, enthused three times
congregations that taxed the great
Temple auditorium and, aside from
this, played an accompaniment at the
afternoon service for two solos.
Wonderful was the subject OF her
afternoon address, and wonderful
was on the lips of hundreds of peo-
pie as they left the great building, said
with all reverence of the woman who
had taken her text from the words of
the Prophet Isaiah.
Miss Booth, she who braved the
worst slums of the great metropolis of
London in her early teens and went
through places where strong men were
afraid to follow, entered the platform
clad in a simple uniform with the
epaulets of the commander on her frail
shoulders. Her uniform fitted snugly
to her slender, willow-like body, which
seems to bend and move with every
emotion, while from her right shoulder
was draped a great white sash loosely
knotted at the left knee. Seated by her
golden harp, her face esthetic in love-
illness, and her white fingers lovingly
touching the strings, Eva Booth made
a picture long to be remembered-frail
but with the warrior strength, simple,
but eloquent, every inch the woman
and the commander.
Told of Old Prophet
His Name Shall Be Called Wonder
full" the words of the Prophet Isaiah,
was the text chosen by Commander
Booth for her lecture, which is well
known under the title of Wonderful"
She said in part:
THE Savior of a world, the man to
bear our sorrows. His name shall be
called wonderful.
'It was in the midnight of the age,
the whole land was covered with the
gloom of superstition. Isaiah the proph-
ct lived in the great crisis and he
proved himself the greatest of the He
brew prophets.
at was in the great city of Jeru-
salem that he consecrated his life. He
has pictured her in times of war and
in times of peace, her modes and her
worship and her iniquities, and looking
across the sea into the distance he
seems to trace in the stars some prom
Use. Looking through the darkness of
the intervening centuries Isaiah traces
a whole galaxy of light for the morrow
"He sees heaven and earth linked;
God and man brought together, a man
ger the promise to the throne and
hears the distant promise of peace and
good will-his name shall be called
Wonderful.
Faith Was Wonderful
wonderful was the faith of Christ.
While the artists brush has endeav-
ored to paint the face of Christ, the
best cannot produce it. How could a
sculptor sculpture a portrait of that
face when divine inspiration beggars
description? We look in the Bible but
we cannot find any description-it was
too wonderful. We know that beauty
of character adds beauty to the face,
that right living adds light to the coun-
tenance, therefore what must the win
dow Of that face of Christ have been
like?
THAT heart that made itself bare
that he might bear our griefs, what
artist could picture that divine face?
When we see that face, not the face OF
the manger or again the face bathed In
the tears of Gethsemane, but the one
in glory, then shall we shout our praise
and fall back to the words of Isaiah,
and say WONDERFUL
HE was wonderful in sorrow. We
have known some people who have had
more than their share of sorrow-busi-
ness perplexities. sickness and death.
Death followed Christ from babyhood
to the cross. He was no sooner in the
world than. they wanted to kill him.
He knew his danger He knew when
he escaped Herod that they would get
him. He knew when he went into the
Judgment hall every sorrow and insult
that he was to receive. He knew that
they would get two giant beams and
make a cross and nail those feet and
hands that had sought only to COM
fort and bless.