The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-08-28
TTLLLIH BOOTH.

Groo " iiam Booth Commander in Chief of the Salvation
Army died last Tuesday night The tenth of last April he
was eighty years old He forty eight hours
His last words the promises of God saying:
They are sure they only beeve During his i'll
of eeconae were received from all the
world The general pleased with from John Wanamaker
which read Farewell thee who thought of thy SELF but
only of others.
born His father capenerhsd William educated for the
Methodist ministry and at the of % he pastor of the Method
list church During his circuit riding England
he met Cane Mumord They loved the work and
loved each other After long engagement in which the young
preacher tried make enough Justify his marrying they
united in 1856.
Cathrne Mumord Booth a remarkable woman she had
organization and appealing quality in her
sonav which served the people of the and for
gotten London They watched her. bad faith in her
gous quick love the light tn It she did With
Gen Booth led of thousands of and women out of
darkness.
Gen Booth and Mrs. Booth revvaIlsts They
thought would those in the sums of London and he
plan campaign before the conference of the Methodist New
Connection Church 1t too radical smacked too much of
show, it exciting they would have none of it.
Then Booth with three little children alone
help very dreg Of the city Ia London in Mile
End Waste in 1865 he pitched and called the Christian
Here Salvation Army born People stormed his
tent him letters and interrupted the singing in his
services by cs and ye from OF roughS But the
discouraged.
Under stones and decayed vegetables of the white chapel people
and ebues established clergy of London Gen Booth and
his wife continued They stayed in the Sums They studied
they and YELL he taught them yell aeuh"
Consequently he began and
religious the sembance gala He organized
faithful followers band of not 100 them
forms and tambOurines
Before many the with hundreds of officers its
and Mrs Booth established social reforms sterling
charities and training schools for the sums these
supported by the voluntary that dropped the nightly
At last 1884 Queen Victoria recognized him and
his work and him down at his tabernacle in the dark
London BY this recognition the work of the Salvation
Army spread rapidly and with the breach between Gen
Booth and his Balngton Booth Seems strange that
and great Gen Booth had suffer such serious living
trouble in his immediate family Gen. Booth from the begin
ming directed the thousands of dollars rolled
into the fathers hands each and there ask him
accounting it, The felt that the dictatorship of the
father had been carried ntoebe lengths the father found the
Independent and at all amendabe to discipline and rules
from London There reconciliation between them. The
breach existed years Bamwe Booth the generals eldest
child and chief of staff in London General Booths Be-
sides these and daughter Eva there four other children
Herbert Booth Cahrne Marion and Lucy Booth Tucker They
born the work of their mother and father Each of them
strong the service The greatest grief of Gen. Booths
life that when ngton Booth split the army and formed the
Volunteers of America Only those who pass by his grave will be
reminded Gen. Booth is dead-for shall still him living
through his wonderful Christian deeds.