Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-15

| crowd OF poor Whitechapelers and be-
fore that first meeting was over he had
made several conversions, a perform
ance that he has been repeating
throughout the world for AZ years.
How He Started the Army.
This first meeting resulted in the
formation of the Christian mission,
from which 1t was the evangelist's
custom to send his converts to the ex-
listing churches of the locality, bus
finding that they were not welcomed
and were in danger OF slipping back
from sheer want of comradeship and
oversight, Re set about forming So
cieties of the converted. These he
found to be a potent agency for bring
ing ia more, as the needless East
ender could be impressed by the
words of former "pal' when he
would not listen to a minister. SO was
created the central idea of the Saliva
ton Army
The need OF organization became
apparent, but several methods were
tried with little success before Gen.
Booth hit upon the military idea and
named his organization the Salvation
Army From that time. on the move
ment grew amazingly and it has con-
tinued to grow without ceasing to
this day.
Spread Over the World.
The movement began spreading to
other countries of the world in 1881
when it first reached the United
States through the influence of a silk
weaver who had emigrated from Gov
entry, England. bringing with him the
Salvation Army idea and a strong de-
sire to continue in the work. 1t
reached Australia in the same year
through milk dealer from Stepney,
and soon afterwards the first Canadian
corps was organized in a similar
| fashion.
/ Five years later, in 1886, the gen
eral made the first of many visits to
the American branches of the army
and he has seen them grow from a
few small corps into a veritable army
of tremendous influence and unsur-
passed efficiency His first great
world-tour was made in 1891, when he
visited South Africa, Australia and
India. Since then he has visited the
United States, Canada. Australia, New
Zealand and India four times, South
Land each once.
During all these travels the actual
executive responsibility for the gov.
! eminent of the army has never been
lifted from his shoulders. Even on
shipboard he is an interchangeable work
err planning and writing through the
days.
I Gen. Booth Honored
One of the most remarkable of the
many tributes paid to the general by
the great of the world was that of the
( mikado of Japan during the visit to
that country. The mikado personally
received the general with great
warmth and he was accorded remark
able ovations in Yokohama Tokyo
Sendai and Kyoto, a circumstance of
strange import when it is realized that
/ Japan is not Christian country.
Another interesting distinction given
1 Gen. Booth was the comforting on him
! of the degree of doctor of civil law by
! Oxford university. The Significance
of this honor will be better under.
stood when it is stated those who re-
ceived university honors with him at
the time were Prince Arthur of Con
naueht, the prime minister of Eng
land. the lord chancellor, the speaker,
Sir e. Grey. the archbishop of
| Armagh. Sir Evelyn Wood the Ameri-
can ambassador, Mark Twain and
Rudyard Kipling
AS writer Gen. Booth is remark
| able, both as stylist. as a thinker
and as producer. He has written in
| all 81 volumes, besides innumerable
| articles for the army publications.
| His best-known book is I'm Darkest
England and the Way Out" in which
| he outlined his scheme for social re-
form by means of colonization 1.-THE
| Training OF Children Love. Mar
| riage and the Home,' and his books
on reform are among the others of
the generals best-known literary pro
| auctions
His Greatness In Time of Trial.
The greatness of this born leader
OF men shone with especial bril-
liancy during that most trying period
in the history of the movement, when
disagreements caused a split In the
| Army's American forces and they d.
! vided. one part becoming the volun.
teers of America with the generals
o"h Sou' beiihSton bOotn, at ltS mead.
| Through this serious break, which
threatened the progress of the work
for time, the patriarch maintained
such simple and dignifed attitude of
acceptance as to strengthen greatly
his position before the world.
or those who have left him. the
general wrote: ut was to be expected
that in such work as ours, demanding
as it does arduous toll and constant
self-denial and often real hardships
of one kind or another. some should