A terrific crowd.

I talked for an hour and ten minutes with the same force and fervour as in my most successful efforts; 147 came on to the stage in the After Meeting." It was thus in the smaller matters of personal strength and health, as in the greatest affairs, that The General struggled, believed, and triumphed all through his career.
Australasia has gone farther than most countries towards State socialism.

But it was well remarked by some statesman many years ago, "We are all socialists now." No man within his times was more intensely devoted to the cause of the poor than William Booth.

He was indifferent to no practical scheme or effort for the improvement of the people's condition in any land.

But for that very reason he loathed, with uncommon vigour, such socialism as would spurn and crush out of the world the man who is no longer in first-class physical condition or desirous of earning an honest living by hard work, instead of going about to create hatred between man and man, and would prevent those who will not submit to any man's dictation from leaving their families to starve when work is to be obtained.
The General's indignation was specially aroused when "socialist" spouters tried to block all his plans of beneficence with their foul misrepresentations.