Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-25
1HES x SALVATION ARMY x BIBLE MUSIC
How "General'' Booths Organizing
Genius Built Up HOMOGENEOUS Force

William Booth, the founder Of the
hypnotic religion of the Salvation Ar
my. whose tactics were thoroughly
explained by Sir Walter Besant years
ago In one Of his London east side
nolels. was a strategist Of the first Or
der. He founded his movement on dis
cipline. but, primarily, he observed the
state Of public opinion, and, with a
wisdom peculiarly casuistieal, he kept
his ear to the ground.
AS one Of his critics has intimated,
much of the unrest" of the fashion
Of passive resistance" and even Of
sugragette militancy. can be traced TO
the original salvationists' bold de-
fiance of municipal laws. But the
ways Of Salvationists changed az
General Booth studied the effects
of his methods upon the public and
hearkened to the criticisms Of those
who were shocked by the conduct Of
some of the recruits.
1t would be rare. indeed, now 20
have every recruit shouting: Il have
slept in the arnfnl.pf soldiers, 1 have
slept in the arms of sailors, I have
slept in the arms of policemen, but
last night I slept in the arms of
Christ"
The doctrines of the Salvation
Army are not, indeed, as they were at
first; but, also. it may be said
neither are those of some other forms
of religious faith, nor of social sci
ence. When Queen Victoria ruled
over the empire of Great Britain
William, Booth set his face against
the sport of kings; but when King
Edward VII. assembled the throne the
head of the Salvation Army saw a
new light
Early in the progress Of the army
tobacco was forbidden to every male
penitent Afterwards, when the gen.
eraP' engaged in colonizing schemes
his subordinates at Hadleigh issued
tobacco as part of the generals farm
| colonists' wages. Other times, otheI
manners, indeed, as william Booth
well understood.
But upon one point there can bt
scarcely two opinions, that is, thai
William Booths genius for organiza-
ton was unrivaled
The christian Mission" as it was
first called, says H. F. Provost Bat.
tersby has reversed In its latter days
the experience of Browning's Pa
| triot.' With a bishop willing, but not
encouraged to be its guest, and q
letter Of sympathy and commenda-
ton from the head of the Anglican
church, the Salvation Army may well
describe the progress of the confer
ence Of the nations" as roses, roses
all the way" But it had experience
full and sufficient experience, OF
the mud and the stones.
Its founder himself had been plaz-
tered with every odious missile that
mob can lay hands on, and more
than one of his followers had beer
brought by i'll treatment very near an
end A generation ago nearly seven
hundred of these followers had beer
in single year brutally assaulted
and eighty-six in the same period
suffered from Imprisonment.
The survival Of the Christian Mis-
sion" or Salvation Army in view oil
such treatment, undergone in all parts
of England and America, at least is
a marvel. marvel one, in great part
to the wonderful spirit of organiza-
ton born in the mind of William
Booth.
But 1t is a strange commentary or
the inconsistency and changeableness
of human nature that this genius o.
William Booth was not developed
until twenty years after his founda-
ton Of the army. In all that earlier
period he had shown the utmost aver
sion to all forms of organization.
There are those who have specu-
lated on the theory that the very