White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-25

GEN. WILLIAM BOOTH, AFTER
LIFE WORK FOR WORLDS IN
FORTUNATES, PASSES AWAY
AT RIPE OLD AGE.

General William Booth, the vener-
able founder and head of the Saliva
ton army, died at his residence in
H~adleywood, Enfield. England. He
had been unconscious for as hours
and during that time had lost
strength rapidly. He was in his
eighty-fourth year.
General William Booth, who de-
veloped the greatest organized
movement since the beginning of
Christianity for the saving of human
souls, was the o of a Nottingham,
England, carpenter. He was born in
that city on April 10, 1929.
He chose preaching for a profess
sion and studied theology under a
private tutor for the Methodist New
Connection church. In 1852, when
he was 23 years of age, he entered
the ministry, but was not formally
ordained until six years later.
In the meantime he was appointed
to do circuit work, but he had re-
eeived a taste of evangelism and it
appealed to him. To his imaginative
and ambitious mind the work of min
istering week after week to the same
congregation palled; he longed for
fresh fields and a continued fight
after human souls.
While travelling through the
try, particularly in London, General
Booth was struck by the poverty of
the people in the slums. From OBJ
servation he concluded that poverty
and sin we're to a certain extent al
lied and that to do the most effective
work and to get the best results he
should transfer his efforts to the
poverty-stricken deniZens of the
slums.
July 5, 1866, is a memorable day,
because on that day General Booth
took the first step which led after
wards to the founding of the Saliva
ton Army. This effort was first
styled the Christian mission, but 1t
laid the seeds for the great interna-
tional army of faith which was to
follow.
The name of the organization was
changed to the Salvation Army and
General Booth began the gigantic
task of establishing a regular army
to fight sin and poverty. From a
humble beginning in London this
great organization has grown until it
has 1913 corps, circles and societies
established in fifty-six countries and
colonies with about 21,203 officers
and employees.
As a concrete example of the ma
terial benefits of the army, ~6,327,249
persons are supplied with beds in a
single year, while in the same length
of time nearly II, 900. 900 are fed.
While in New York in 1907 he
gave out a remarkable interview, in
which he said: MY wife has preach
ed and all my children have preach
ed; now the third begat are begin
ming to preach. l pray to God there
may never be a break in the line
While General Booth was optimis-
tic by nature, at times he became dis
eouraged by his daily contact with
sins of the world. Two years ago
during an address he predicted the
imminent dissolution of the world by
fire because of the great wickedness
of the human race.
General Booth was a great believer
in the inherent goodness of woman,
and often expressed the belief that
every time a woman sinned she was
led to it by a man. He pondered for
three years whether or not he should
marry the girl of his choice because
he was not SURE he could make her
as happy as he wished.
On his eighth birthday, while the
light of human vision was swiftly
fading. the aged humanitarian donat-
ed $4,000, goo for the founding of a
university of humanity to teach those
doing social refarm work. 1t will be
erected in London.
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