Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-22
Appointed e Years AGO
-YEAR-OLD DOCU-
MENT OPENED AND READ
YESTERDAY.
FUNERAL ON AUGUST 29
Remains of thc Late General VIII BE
Laid Ia Rest Beside the Grave
OF Ills Wile.

LONDON, Aug. 21-In the presence
Of all the Salvation Army commission
CTS and the principal officers in Lon
con at the international headquarters,
General Booths testament. entrusted
L. the Armys solicitor twenty-five
years ago, appointing the late com
mander-in-chief son, Bramwell
Booth, to succeed hinI was opened to-
day and read,
Bramwell Booth, who has Been
chief OF staff of the Army since 1880.
accepted the succession formally, with
much feeling. His speech was a
was followed by an impressive SER
vice.
General Booths funeral will take
place August 29 at Abney Park ceme-
tery in Etoke Newinglin, where his
wife Is buried. Many thousands OF
persons are expected to participate
In the funeral service for the Army,
which will take place on the preced-
ing night at the great Hall OF
Olympia
Several newspapers suggest that tn .
generals work entities his body to
lie In Westminster or st. Pauls ca
thedral, where many OF the nations
greatest heroes are entombed, but his
wish was to be buried beside his
wife.
Bramwell Booth presided at the
meeting at the international head
quarters today. The chief of staff
said that he called the officers to-
gcther to hear the reading Of the doc
ument appointing General Booths
successor. The Army solicitor pro-
duced a large sealed envelope, which
had lain in his safe just twenty-five
years to a day.
After the envelope was passed
around the circle of officers, Solicit
tor Ranger cut it open and read the
formal appointment of the chief of
staff as commander-in chief. The So
licltor then formally asked Bramwell
Booth If he accepted the post. The
chief Of staff replied with deep emo
I.OU, dCCtDlllG lut aPPpiheii'hs
All the commissioners followed,
briefly speaking Of their loyalty and
their indA htedness to the Army.
Bramwell Booths speech, accepting
the leadership of the Army. bestowed
upon him by his father, was as fol-
lows:
my comrades, I accept this ap-
rointment. l do so, even If no other
consideration moved me in that course
but my generals wish, and | am
strengthened in that purpose because
of the fact, which I had no knowl-
edge of until few months ago, that
this appointment was made during the
lifetime Of my beloved mother.
Il can only hope in the strength and
wisdom Of God to enable me to dis
charge the responsibilities / am now
taking upon myself. / cast myself
upon Him and invoke His aid. Next
to His help must rely upon you and
upon the help of those you represent,
and as earnestly as l can, / cast my
self upon you and invoke your aid.
II promise that by the strength OF
God that l will, to the full measure
of my ability, dlschai\e the obliga-
tions this office imposes on me as
the yare set forth in our foundation
documents. / will do this in fear of
God, out of love for the Army, and
out of the regard to the memory OF
him whose thought and purposes these
instruments express. You will not eX-
pect to speak Of him today. ! felt
last night as we closed his eyes and
/ saw him pass away, that here was
concluded a life of splendid conflict
for righteousness and, may / not add
life of splendid triumph for the
cause of Christ.
'I must with the whole strength OF
my heart. ask you to help me and my
dear wife. So far as God shall en-
able us, we accept these blessings
with a single eye for His glory, for
the blessing Of the world and for the
salvation Of the people. My dear.
comrades, accepttheappolntmentof
comrades, I accept the appointment
Of the Nenera'"
King George was one OF the first to
telegraph his condolences 10 the be-
reaved family. Messages also were
received from Premier Asquith, the
archbishop of Canterbury and other
prelates of the church Of England;
the lord mayor Of London. Sir Thorn
as r. Crosy; the earl Of Meath and
the earl Of Aberdeen, and many 9TH
crs, including representatives Of all
the protestant creeds and prominent
persons Of the Jewish faith.