General Booth was not a great organiser, not even a great showman.

He would have ruined any business entrusted to his management.

He would long ago have ruined the organisation of The Salvation Army if his life had been spent on that side of its operations.

Far from being the hard, shrewd, calculating, and statesmanlike genius of The Army's machinery, General Booth has always been its heart and soul, its dreamer and its inspiration.

The brains of The Army are to be looked for elsewhere.