[The Authoritative Life of General William Booth by George Scott Railton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Authoritative Life of General William Booth CHAPTER XXV 43/51
We have often known learned men and politicians who went over the sea scoffers at it come back its admirers." Markish People's Paper of Barmen "Our opposition on principle does not prevent our acknowledging that The Army has done much good to the poorest of the poor." German Daily Paper of Berlin "With the greatest pity he combined the most iron discipline, and sacrificed to the happiness of all every personal enjoyment." Germania of Berlin "But the light that always led him out of the deepest darkness to the day was his sympathy for his brethren, whose misery in the East End of London so deeply laid hold of him." Daily Look-round of Berlin "Perhaps the most remarkable fact about him was that with all his gigantic plans he never lost himself in phantasy, but always knew how to keep himself down to the practical." Strassburg Post "Hard upon himself, he exercised the same severity upon others, from the highest of his Officers to the least in his Army." Schwalish Mercury of Stuttgart "He made his Army out of the soil of London's misery-quarter, and its present is the work of his unwearyable devotion, the energy sustained by the fire of his zeal for his idea." Muhlhaus Daily "His personality grew out of the old Puritan spirit." Elbing Latest News "He is the model of a successful business man.
But he is a business man who never works for himself, only for others.
So wrote one of the man whom death has now taken from what was the creation of his life.
In him has passed away one of the characteristic figures of the century's tendency.
His many-sidedness, it is not too much to say, had no equal. Bringer of Salvation--social politician--wholesale business man--are only three comparisons which cannot by far exhaust the description of the phenomenon Booth.
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