Big hearts are scarce.
"In an age of materialism and greed William Booth has stirred the world with a passion for the welfare of men.

His trumpet-call has been like the silvery voice of bugles.

His spirit will live, not only in lives made better by his presence, but in the temper of all the laws of the future." We shall see from the welcomes given to him by great official personages, that these remarks do not in the least exaggerate the feeling created all over the country by the activities of The Army.

Had The General merely made great proposals he would only have been looked upon in the generally favourable way in which men naturally regard every prospector of benevolent schemes.

But the country recognised in him the man who, in spite of the extreme poverty of most of his followers, had raised up, and was then leading on, a force of obedient and efficient servants of all men.
The journey was arranged, for economy of time, so as to include a visit to Canada, and its general course was as follows: From New York he travelled to St.John's, New Brunswick, where the Premier, in welcoming him, said the work of The Salvation Army had "placed General Booth in a position perhaps filled by no other religious reformer." From New Brunswick he passed on to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Montreal (where he was the guest of Earl Grey, the Governor-General), Ottawla, Kingston, Hamilton, London, and Toronto.