The future of humanity, he believes, can only be secured by 'conversion.' "Look at him in his car! There he sits, with a light-coloured overcoat buttoned round his neck, a grey forage cap pressed over his ears, his hands in his pockets, his eyes looking straight ahead, and his lips biting at his beard--an old, old man in the newest of motor-cars.
"Through lanes where Wesley rode his horse, poring over a book as he went, General Booth flies in his beflagged car--on the same errand.

These two men, so dissimilar in nature, so opposed in temperament, and separated by nearly two hundred years, the one on horseback, the other in a motor-car, sought and are seeking the same elusive end--the betterment of humanity.
"One feels as one rides along our country roads with General Booth the enormous force of simple Christianity in this work of evolution.

One sees why Wesley succeeded, and why The Salvation Army is succeeding.
"'We make too much of sin,' says evolution.

'We don't make half enough of sin!' cries The General.

Politicians and men of science seem like scene-shifters in the drama of life, and religion stands out clear and distinct as the only actor.
"'People have taken to The Salvation Army because it's so kind to poor people,' General Booth tells me; 'they know I love the poor, they know I weep bitterly for all the hunger and nakedness and sorrow in the world.