The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-22

version Of:
Best beloved OF my soul.
I am here alone with Thee;
And my prison Is a heaven
Since Thou sha~est It with me.
In French 1t runs rather prettily:
%. Toi que mon Anne adore
lie ne suis pas seuls lei.
Car je ty re;rouve encore
Et Je suIs au ciel ainsi.
Ma Vie est a ton service.
Je tappartIsns sans retour,
Corps 81 anne en- sacrifice
Je to sulvrai mutt ct Jour.
Combattons dams Ia sounrane-
FIT les yeuS. baignes de pleurs;
Bien pres est la dslivrance
NoIcI rhomme de douleurs.
81 yoix chase ma t~ristes.e
Mon chagrin siest dlsslpe:
Ja rhante aVec allegresse.
Mon cachot est transformeL
Al milleu de la tempets
Rien ue peut troubler ma palx.
Son amour que rlen n'arrete
Peut me garder a Jama,sL
The Marecha,e must have been
gifted with unusual %eloquence and
that magnetic power which alone
makes a great speaker or a great
actor. AT 10 years old she began to
speak In public. Her first speech was
quite spontaneous. No one had re-
quested her tn speak. Her brother
Bramwell was conducting an open
air meeting opposite a public house
in Hackney. His sister stepped up
beside him and said: II will say a
few words She delivered her mes
sage with a fiuency and directness
that compelled attention. Between IA
and Is her power over assembled peo-
pie ecam 40 marked that 1t was
decided that she should definitely
enter the evangelistic work. She went
at first with the General himself
about western England and Wales.
Mrs. Booth. the mother, thus describes
her daughter in a letter to a friend:
81 heard Katie for the first time since
we were at Cardiff. | was astonished
al the advance she had made. l wish
you had been there. l think you
would have been as pleased as I was.
1t was sweet. tender. forcible and
divine. / could only adore and weep.
Slt lDohtu N ah hhNi NV BNob'V
were melted and s%pellbound like chill
dren."
OF her sincere love for the outcast
and the downtrodden there can be
no question:; nor OF her hopeful
faith in them. Once when a Calvinist
addressed her as one of the elect"
she burst out: 81 am not one OF the
elect and | don't want to be. l would
rather he with the Door devils outside
than with o on the inside
Shrewdly enough her mother OBJ
served of this anne sect: 1T seems
a REGULARITY of Calvinism that IL
/ makes those who hold 1t far more
interested in IL, and anxious about
It's propagation, than about the dimi-
mutton Of sin and the salvation OF
souls"
OF formal education Katherine
Booth seems to have had a minimum.
hut she had a profound education in
the instructive workings OF the
heart and she used a foreign language
as easily and tiuently, both in speech
and written composition, as her own.
In the year 1881 Katherine Booth was,
in the words OF her b!ographer. "dedi-
Gated to France Although no more
~ ~
than "A delicate and high minded girl.
she was considered TO have won great
spiritual victories in England.
Katherine Booth settled first in the
Sums Of Paris. She said: France is
more sensitive to disinterested love
than any nation | have eve known,
France will neve: accept n religion
without sacrifice. These were the
80 hAHA NUsnEly
in Paris. and II ! had to begin II over
again to-day | would go on the same
lines. When | knew what ! had TO
do my mind was at rest. ] said, We
will lay ourselves out for them: they
shall know where we live. they can
watch MS day and night, they shall see
what we do and judge us"
Again she touches a very profound
mystic truth when in the same On
rectlon she says; There is "A truth
almost Theoretically sealed. 1t would
he sacrilege, IL would he desecration,
It would be wrong, unfair. unjust II
Divine power were given on any other
terms than absolute self-abandon-
mert." Her dealings with the SORROW
fui and the suffering and sinners III
indeed sinners be moi only those who
have suffered too much) show extreme
ddroitness and understanding as well
as a profound and wide reaching
human sympathy. Moreover, the tone
OF refinement and taste is entirely diff
ferent from the tone of salvationists
elsewhere. When La MARKETABLE was
living in the Rue d~'.Angouleme a priest
of the neighborhood passing her in
thA .t,Ant ztnn..AI n,,l DnlI sklA.-
La Marechale, I want to tell you that
since your work began In this quarter
the moral atmosphere OF the whole
place has changed, meet the fruits
everywhere and l a tell better than
you what you are doing"
Before the end Of one years work