The two are inseparably conjoined.

When we reflect upon what human nature is, in the class from which so many of the members of The Army have been drawn, when we think how difficult it is to reconcile the hand-to-mouth existence of the casual labourer with any high standard of conduct, let alone of religion, General Booth's success, partial though it has been, is an astonishing fact.

It implies a prodigious strength of character, and a genius for seeing what would appeal to large numbers of humble folk.
"Will that success continue now that General Booth is dead?
Everywhere we hear that The Army is not bringing in Recruits as fast as of old.

Its novelty has worn off; its uniforms are no longer impressive; its street services, though they provoke no opposition, do not seem to attract the wastrel and the 'rough' as they did at first.

We can readily believe that the work goes on more or less as before; but the gatherings, we suspect, are mostly composed of those who have long frequented them and of a certain number of new members drawn rather from existing sects than from persons till now untouched by religion.