Milford chronicle., 1912-08-23
GENERAL BOOTH
DIES IN LONDON
-OundeT Of Salvation Army Sue.
CumbS TO Long Illness.
WAS SO YEARS OF AGE
Btarted Crusade to Save Souls Forty.
Five Years Ago in slums Of London
and Movement is Still Progressing.


and Movement is Still Progressing.
ay al
aTty General William Booth, founder and
ore thcommanderinchief Of the Salvation
will Army, died in London General Booth,
.ha who was eighty-three years old, had
been seriously i'll for several months.
His condition was so serious that the
y the end was expected. He had been un.
peOpleEonscious for some hours.
word He had been failing since last May
when an operation for cataract was
ns'an performed on his left eye.
and th William Booth was born in Not
tion bingham, Eng. April TO- 1929. His
father was a carpenter, who had
" ~ little but a consuming religious
nOmlnseal TO support him in the world.
uachiBy dint of much economy the carpen-
ter managed to give his son a half
Education, and to send him to a pri-
whlchyate theological tutor for preparation
may YIN the Methodist ministry. At twenty
| three the young man took his first
" HS Church, a small chapel in Nottingham.
teal During his travels over England on
who's preaching tour the minister met Cath
crime Mumford, and after a long en-
=. gagement they we're married in 1853
The Rev. Mrs. Booth was in many
OIAOWayS a IemdIhdDle woman. Sne n3d
publithe same regliOus feeling as her hus-
band, the same instinct for organiza-
tion, and a strong appealing quality in
DelaVher personality, which later served to |
State attract the people Of the slums Of
London to her
PuO'- He laid plan before the conference !
tounoof Methodist new connection church. |
TO bct was radical; they would have none
Of It.
sesslc Before 1873, when the Salvation
the sIArmy had its inception. Booth had
to mi learned the bitterness OF the work
that he had selected for himself Prob
lne ably the btterest moments that the
and tndOmitable evangelist was ever made
fo,,rto feel followed the first marchings of
this altered Christian army of regen-
eVeISerated souls through the streets of
"rOaWhitechapel. It was a holiday for the
+timasses whenever a little band stran-
gled out of their tabernacle and
WsIemarched behind their weesing instru-
to tments.
+hss, Everything that lent itself to hurl-
ing was hurled and in many cases the
the police sided with the roughs and ar
tie rested the Salvationists for obstruct-
-,etlng the highways. Then when noise
Of this sensational evangelisting
Whlreached the ears of the clergy of the
d-e5wrath, and denounced the vulgar sen
:, sationalism" and the irreverent trum-
WltIpery' of this Salvation Army.
and But Booth persisted in their work
d;4;, Before the Salvation Army was four
years old, General Booth and his wife
PaILbegan the long series of social re-
Delaorms and sterling charities which =.
.,et stand monuments to their greatness !
as enduring as the army itself. !.
uem Latest statistics show that the army
evehas 1913 corps in the afty-six coun-
s.ries Of both hemispheres, with about
21,000 officers and employees, and mil
,iIonions of members. Records of the army
tagoshow that annually it houses 100000 S
persons, and feeds 100000. f
With the growth Of the Salvation b
ischArmy came the development of its
tor generals" insistence upon a despot- y
5sm more military than any other at y
tribute of the army. Through that n
goVgery insistence rose the breach be-
borsween himself and his son. Ballngton,
f,.Rhich resulted in the establishment
0f the Independent body known as the
Volunteers of America. Probably this u
creoreak was the greatest grief that was "
ever visited upon the veteran evan n
gelist y y
on In 1906 General Booth peremptorily u
the,alled Ballngton Booth from his com =
-, smand in America, and later sent Eva, "
ais daughter over here, to relieve the
nekebeious son of his command tI
Ste Instead of obeying his fathers com .l'
nand to give up his post in America ~
and return to England, General Bal w
staington Booth seeded from the army
un.n the spring of 1906, and with the De
a., financial backing Of several wealthy We
men in New York and the support of 10
anmany of the former loyal Salvation
visits he started the Volunteers Of wa
America. He did not see his father ou
rom the time of his secession to the TO
griay of General Booths death. nor was
plthere any communication between ms
hem tht