If ever the word can rightly be used of any one, then of William Booth it can be said he was a benefactor of mankind." Altona News "Modern time has few men to show whose spirit had any such world-embracing might, and who, out of so unlikely a beginning, knew how to raise up _so_ gigantic a work as compels us to be filled, if not with love to him, at least with the greatest respect for his honourable intentions." Vogtland Gazette Plauen "These were the innermost feelings of his whole life which drove him to his marvellous life's work--religious zeal and sympathy." Frankfurt Gazette "William Booth had a mighty will, and he strove on for tens of years from promise to fulfilment." Augsburg Evening Gazette "His brilliant talent for organisation, and his ability always to strike the right note, which would take with the masses, were the most outstanding specialities of the deceased." Rhein-Westphalian Gazette "Here is a work done by an extraordinarily organising genius so great and such a model, socially speaking, as to fill even the opponents of the old philanthropist with respect." Journal Des Debats, Paris "Never, perhaps, has a man been the creator of such Social Work as this one who has died after having passed fifty years running all over the world in search of the miserable ones; who had no hope." Gaulois, Paris "His life may be thus summarised.

He brought back to God and to morality many souls who had gone to materialism and vice.

He founded pretty well everywhere 750 Refuges for the unfortunate; he found work for those who had none; he despised human respect in order to do good." The Little Republican, Paris "It is a very exalted moral figure which has disappeared from this world, as well as even more than a person singularly famous.

If he became a preacher, he was certainly born an apostle.

He had the genius of conversion, and wanted no other career here below.