[The Authoritative Life of General William Booth by George Scott Railton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Authoritative Life of General William Booth CHAPTER XXII 13/13
If the rich won't help Lazarus through us, then their money must perish.
We must do the best we can. "Join the Light Brigade, and give a halfpenny per week! We shall get through.
Is your soul prospering? Cast yourself this morning on your Lord for a supply of _all your need_." This "Light Brigade" is another invention of the General's, partly founded upon the Indian habit of taking a handful out of every new supply of food, and laying it aside for the priests. The "Light Brigade" consists of Soldiers and friends who place on their table a little box, into which all who like can drop a little coin by way of thanksgiving to God and care for the poor before they eat.
These are called "Grace-before-Meat" Boxes, and in England alone they produced last year L8,284.
17_s._ 2_d._ for the support of our Social Work. Altogether I venture to say it will be found that for every shilling he ever got anywhere he prompted the giving of at least a thousand shillings to other benevolent enterprises, and that mankind is indebted to him for the stirring up to benevolent action of countless millions who never even heard his name. At the same time it will be found that by his financial plans he has made The Army so largely dependent upon public opinion that, were its beneficent work to cease, its means of survival would at the same time become extinct, so that it could not continue to exist when it had ceased to be a Salvation Army..
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