The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

t1eman with a Duster" employs ia regard to General BramweI Booth are theso
 "Because General Booth wears as uniform he commands the public4 curiosity: but because Gf that curios- ity, the public perhaps misses his considerable abilities and hiH singular attractions. EIis worst enemy is hls frogged coat: attention is rediverted from his head to his epauiettes; he deserves, 1 am convinced, more in- telligent lnqulsitiyeness".
 "The Gentleman vita Duster" declares that General tsramvsll Booth is To be regarded as the original foundsr of tLas remsrka5ts and trGly catholic 3o6y of Christians, known as the salvation Army; his picturesque father and his wonderful mother were the humanity of that movement but their son was the first impulse of spiritual fanaticism. The father was the dramatic snowman of tll.s movement: the son it's 'fire;' the mother endowed It with the energy Of deep and tender emotion; the son provided 1t with machinery.
 According to the author of Painted Windows. General Booth Is shown io have two distinct manners" a fan atic and a man of business--a really great administrator. He keeps the Salvation Army demand hard and high, is untouched by modernism and unattracted by Anglicanism. General Booth listens when it is your turn to speak, says the author with the whole of his attention strung up to the highest pitch. his eyes wide open staring ar you; his mouth pursed rp in little 'O' of sue tioni his fingers pressing to his ear the receiver of machine which overcomss his dsaGnessi fis whole body leaning across the table in his eagerness 10 hear every word you say".
 Instead of a text over his mantel shelf, one might expect to find the commercial legend Business Is Busi- ness, but even that is not at the in- nermost secret of this extraordinary mans nature: for at the back or every thing l am convinced is the cold and commanding intensity of really great fanatic. He believes as no little child believes. in God and Satan, Heaven and hell. and the eternal conflict of good and evil, and hc believes, too. as few priests of orthodox churches believe. that a man must be born again before he can inherit the Kingdom of Heaven" Such evidences of mediocrity as exist in the Salvationist are purely ] intellectual; morally and spiritually. he is the advance guard of the hu- man race" says the author in con clusion.
 Of Canon Barnes. of Archbishop Davidson and of Bishop Temple the author has much to say. He rathes finishes the Rev. Dr. Orchard of the Kings Weigh House church. Duko street w. Not long ago the author asked one of the greatest figures in Che Anglican church what he thougnr of the great Free Cnurchman. Dr. Orchard. The divine raised his eye brows-"a ritualistic dissenter, What is 1t possible to think of him ," l said that he attracted good many people to his services in the Kings Weigh House church and that I had heard Mrs. Asquith was sometimes member of his congregation. That answered the dignitary, would not make me think any higher of Dr. Orchard"
 one wonders whether after all condi- tions are really as deplorably weak in England as The Gentleman with Duster" pictures them when it comes to professionalism as represent ed by the Church of England.
 It seems almost unthinkable tha. the influence of John Wesley. Keble. Pusey Newman Gin his Anglican days), could be so far lost as to merit such a situation.