It rang out in his burning, earnest words, it breathed in the deep heartfelt prayers in his Meetings, it expressed itself in wondrous deeds of love, which ignored difficulties and shrank from no sacrifice.

This made of him the organising genius who led the world-wide Salvation Army, with all its higher and lower departments, with strength and security.

William Booth was as its Founder and General perhaps the most popular man of our day." Neckar-Journal of Heilsbron "And so General Booth, who has now died at eighty-three, risen to be one of the greatest benefactors of the murdering industry period.

His name is graven in brass in the social history of the nineteenth century.
"He was a man through whose soul the great breath of brotherly love and devotion moved, and, therefore, his example will never be forgotten." The Baden Press of Carlsruhe "The Salvation Army is to-day the mightiest free Organisation of Social help in the world, and the man who made it was once a street missionary, despised, and without influence, whom part of the despairing mass of the East of London threw stones at, whilst another part, with alcohol-fevered eyes, hung on his lips.

'If ye have faith like a grain of mustard seed!'" The General Gazette of Erfurt "In General Booth, one has closed his eyes who was able to make a visible reality of the faith that can remove mountains.