The Penn's Grove record., 1912-09-20
GEN. BOOTHS WORK
FOR THE FALLEN
Men Whose Labors Have Been
Along the Same Lines Join
in His Praise.

u6dLu 0uQ6 q career mat WAS
MA unique in the worlds history.
Civilization is his debtor in a
greater degree than 1t is aware, for 1t
hardly appreciates the civilizing force
of the religious and moral awakening
which he wrought.
For nearly fifty years he had been
the leader of a crusade which sought,
not to recover the physical sepulcher
of the Lord from the possession of
the infidel, but to rescue and raise up
the spiritual image of the Savior in
the sin-smothered hearts of the low
Hest and most debased of Gods crea-
lures; not to carry the gospel on the
Point Of a sword. nor to evangelize
the world by the fear of damnation.
but to teach divine love and mercy
and to stir stagnant souls with songs
of sympathy.
He did not establish a new church
Or proclaim a new faith; he did not
concern himself much about creeds;
he did not despise sects or antagonize
churches; he simply carried the old
faith into dark places which the
churches could not or would not pene-
trate.
His genius devised novel methods
and he evolved a great organization
which has spread to the four corners
Of the earth. The banners of Saliva
ticr Army float today in f%orty-nine
lands and it breaches the gospel in
twenty-four languages. A million peo-
pie read its periodical publications and
uncounted millions hear its word. It's
drum-beat, it's fife and It's tambourine
sound around the world. 1t feeds the
poor, it asylumns the orphans, it
nurses the babies, 1t ministers to the
sick, It embraces the outcast and lifts
up the fallen.
The lessons of his achievement are
many. From the standpoint of human
endeavor his life teaches the wisdom
Of doing well what the hand finds to
do without measuring its present i'm
portance OF %appraising its immediate
dignity. The pioneer preacher of the
slums CT London could never have con
ceived at the outset the ultimate per-
sonal triumph which he beheld in his
last hours-more millions paying him
the homage of love and gratitude and
admiration than in modern times have
sorrowed for the death Of any ruler
of church or state. And 1t all came
TO pass as a consequence of patient,
~persevering effort in pursuit Of hum
BILE opportunities which the great and
the rich and the conceited despised.
1t is we'll for a. man to have a vision
Of future accomplishment, but 1t Is
better for him to do the days work
with diligence.
From the standpoint of militant
Christianity General Booths wonder
full work among the poor, the wicked
and the abandoned Of the cities seems
almost like a rebuke to those who sit
in cushioned pewst once a week to hear
learned discourse and artistic music.
The rich need the gospel, to be sure,
but more than they need eloquent
speech and consoling anthem they
need the sympathy that literally and
heartfully suffers with their unfortun-
ate fellows. At any rate, the Saliva
ton Army has reaffirmed and exem-
pliied the brotherhood Of man in a
way that was we'll nigh forgotten in
many churches, and If it has not fra
~ternized all Christian endeavor after
the manner of the master 1t has at
least brought Christianity down to the
comprehension of the lowly and has
made 1t real to those who otherwise
would have looked upon it as an i'm
possibility or a mockery.
The supreme lesson is the reward
Of faith. OF Gods promises the dying
man said: They are sure, they are
sure, IL you will only believe" Inter
preted by his life, these words mean
no mere selfish hope of immortal be-
ing and future happiness, for always
he wrought to save others and for
get himself. They have a nobler, and
a diviner meaning-the promise Of sat
isfaction for unselfish service, of the
visible harvest of cleaner and happier
lives from the seeding Of righteous
ness and virtue, of a loftier civiliza-
ton built upon sacrifice, and of spir-
itual emancipation from the bondage
of sin and self1shness.
1t is good to know that his work will
continue under the direction Of his
trained and consecrated son and
daughters. He built so ~enduringly that
no individual is necessary for the
maintenance of the army. He re-
leased a force which the world needed
and which will continue under the
spiritual law in the natural world un-
til there is no longer a submerged part
of humanity in need of preaching and
healing.-Fort Worth Record.
Seeking.
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