Then, with regard to the other side of The Army's work, the Social Schemes outlined in _In Darkest England_ have met with only moderate success, as all cool observers foretold in 1890.

They have, at least, provided no panacea for poverty.

Probably Mr.Booth felt this during the last years of his life; but he has been spared the sight of the still further decline of his projects, which to most of us seems inevitable.

Of course, some persons are more confident: they argue that Napoleon's system did not disappear after Waterloo, nor Wesley's system with the death of its founder, and that the Roman Catholic Church is as strong as ever, though Pope after Pope disappears.

That is true, but for the very reason that these systems were elaborate organisations, based on the facts of life.