The funeral procession was formed on the Embankment, and whilst it marched through the city all traffic was suspended from 11 till 1 o'clock.

The millions who witnessed its passage along the five-mile march to Abney Park Cemetery seemed as generally impressed and sympathetic as the multitude gathered there.

It was indeed touching to see not only policemen and ambulance workers; but publicans and numbers of the people offering glasses of water to the sisters who had been on their feet for six or seven hours before the service was ended.
The memorial services held all over the world on the following Sunday were attended by quite unparalleled crowds, of whom very many publicly surrendered their lives to God.
The following letters to members of his own family show the spirit of affection and of cheerfulness which to the very last distinguished him.
To his youngest daughter, the widow of Commissioner Booth-Hellberg, who, though she had been fighting in one post or another in this country, India, America, Sweden, Switzerland, or France for over twenty years, he still regarded as his "baby" and special darling, he wrote:-- "Hadley Wood, "_May_ 3, 1912.
"My very dear Lucy,-- "Your letter is to hand.

I am interested in all you say.

It was very kind, indeed beautiful, of you to sit by the couch of dear Erickson all those hours.