Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-08-31
GENERAL BOOTH
BURIED IN ABNEY
PARK CEMETERY
All Business Ceases While Pro-
cession Marches to Cemetery
FUNERAL SERVICE
REVIVAL MEETING

Thirty-Four Thousand People Attend
Funeral and Scores Declare They
VIII Lead Better Lives-servlces
Were Without Pomp or Symbols of
Mourning, the Poor Predominating.
London, Aug. 29.--General William
Booth, founder of the Salvation Army,
was buried today by the side of his
wife in Abney Park cemtery. There
was pathetic exhibition of general
grief as the cortege moved through
the streets. Business was suspended
while the procession moved About
six thousand members of the Saliva
ton Army from all parts of the world
were in line.
The Funeral
Last night the funeral services were
held at the Olympia, and were con-
yerted into great revival meeting,
during the course of which sinners
were invited to come forward to the
mercy seat" Scores accepted, and
the service was declared one of the
most remarkable ever held under the
Salvation Army auspices.
In accordance with traditions, the fu-
neral services were without pomp or
symbols of mourning, but were car
ried out with moving fervor and inn
pressiveness. Thirty-four thousand
persons participated in the function.
In Plain Coffin
The body of the late general, in a
plain pine coffin rested on a satafaque
in front of the big platform across the
end of the hall, where all the chief
officers of the organization were seat
ed and where forty bands of music
were massed.
Diqnitaries at Funeral
The front rows of chairs before the
coffin were filled with representatives
of various bodies, and, alse, the equer-
ry of the king, several mayors in their
robes and chains of Office delega-
ton from the stock exchange. minis
tiers and clergymen of all the protest
ant churches and Jewish rabbis, and
throughout the house. But the rank
many notable personages were seated
and file of the great gathering was
composed of the plain people for
whom the army works and of whom it
is composed.
The service itself was not only
memorial, but mammoth meeting of
prayer and praise.
New General of Army
Then came the new general of the
army, Bramwell Booth with his wife.
both wearing uniforms of commission
ers, and members of the Booth famil-
les.
The coffin was covered with flag,
and on it rested the generals Bible
and cap. AS it was borne down the
aisle the immense audience stood, and
the Salvation Army soldiers were at
salute.
Silent reading, alternating with
hymns, continued throughout half an
hour, following which a true Saliva
ton Army revival service was con-
Quoted and an invitation to sinners
anu W COlic W lIlC lutl-
cy seat"
Dozens Accept Invitation
Scores of persons forced their way
through the crowded aisle to the mer-
cy seats on either side of the platform,
where they knelt in prayer. In some
cases the police were required to force
way for the penitents. AS the peni-
tents went forward the singing shouts
of encouragement of amens increased
in volume until the Olympia was turn
ed into a colossal old-fashioned reviv-
al.
Striding back and forth on the plat
form, Gen. Bramwell Booth, swinging
his arms above his head, led the sing
ing, pausing frequently to remind sin
ners that the dead leader had given
his life to saving them. The revival
service was concluded with the sing
ing of His Blood Can Make the Vilest
Clean; His Blood Avails for Me-"