The Code Napoleon and the Methodist Connexion were much too well adapted to human needs to disappear with their authors.

On the other hand, movements and systems which depend wholly upon one man do not often prove to be more than ephemeral.

But none would deny that there is much to be learnt from The Salvation Army and from the earnest, strenuous, and resourceful personality of the man who made it.

Let us hope that, if The Army as an Organisation should ultimately fade away, the great lesson of its even temporary success will not be forgotten: the lesson that any force which is to move mankind must regard man's nature as spiritual as well as material, and that the weak and humble, the poor and the 'submerged,' share in that double nature as much as those who spend their lives in the sunshine of worldly prosperity." The Daily Chronicle, _August 21, 1912_ "To-day we have the mournful duty of chronicling the passing of William Booth, the Head of that vast Organisation, the Salvation Army.

The world has lost its greatest missionary evangelist, one of the supermen of the age.