Many have tried to do what William Booth did.

Many men as earnestly and as tenderly have sought to waken drugged humanity and render the Kingdom of Heaven a reality.

Many men have broken their hearts in the effort to save the Christian religion from the paralysis of formalism and the sleeping sickness of philosophy.

It is not an easy thing to revivify a religion, nor a small thing to rescue many thousands of the human race from sin and misery.
"Let us be generous and acknowledge, now that it is too late to cheer his heart, that General Booth accomplished a work quite wonderful and quite splendid, a work unique in the records of the human race.

Let us be frank and say that we ourselves could have done nothing like it.