GENERAL BOOTH
IS 88 YEARS OLD
SALVATION ARMY CZILEBRATES
THE ANNIVERSARY.
ALL LANDS DO HIM HONOR
Day Is Marked in America by Launch
ing of His Plan for a University
of Humanity.
Now York.—With great mass meet
ings in every city and rejoicing wher
ever its soldiers are found, the Salva
tion Army on Saturday celebrated the
eightieth birthday of its founder and
<-ommander-in-chief, Gen. William
Booth All the Christian world par
ticipated in the occasion, for every
where tho venerable philanthropist is
honored for his deeds for unfortunate
humanity.
(Jon. I Sooth himself preside- 1 , over
several monster mass meetings in
I.oiicloi:, His advanced age and (lie
112«. that, lie was operated on recently
for eataiact did not deter him from
taking pari in the celebrations held by
his devoted soldiers.
University of Humanity Launched.
In America tho day was marked
especially by the launching of another
of Gen. booth's original schemes for
social reform in the I'nited States.
At every post of the army was an
nounced the beginning of work to
found a University of Humanity, a
great institute for the training of
■workers in social service. The uni
versity will lie divided between New
York u.nd Chicago, and it is expected
10 begin with a fund of $1,000,000. The
gathering cf this luud is the work
that the army now enters upon in com
memoration of its famous leader's
•completion of his eightieth year.
As a much-needed stone in the great
organizational structure that William
Booth has been building during the
past 47 years, this' idea of a school
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GENERAL WILLIAM EOOTH.
for the systematic training of his
worlu rs has been in his mind for sev
eral years. On his last visit to the
United States the general made his
first tentative announcement of the
plan. Since then he has worked out
man\ of the details and he has just
consented to 'lie beginning of pre
liminary work in this country where
the need for trallied workers has been
especially great.
Growth of Great System.
It is perhaps not generally realized
that 111 o whole intricate modern ma
chinery of civilization for the uplift
ing of the submerged tenth, the vast
system of charities now so essential
a port of modern life, is to a very
large extent an outgrowth of the
Booth idea He was the first to see
that the unfortunate could be be
reached by those who had stiff 'ted as
they had. and that they must be
reached by practical worldly help be
fore they could be prepared to begin
the cleaner life. It was the Salvation
Army which first made a practical
working success of this now familiar
principle of so-called missionary work.
Thi: whole plan of campaign\ for
raising the fallen began on a Ofery
simple scale in the poverty-sir ic Sen
and crime-infested East end of Lon
don and under the impetus of William
Booth's singular force of mind and
pereonality and the momentum that it
has gathered with almost miraculous
rapidity it has developed into a truly
astonishing organization.
Some of the departments of its
work are: Prison-gate and Rescue,
Inebriates' homes, Boys' and Girls'
homes. Farm colonies. Emigration,
Jfaval and Military homes, Maternity
homes, nursing.. Samaritan brigades,
hospital and benevolent visitation, po
lice court work and Indian school
training.
No other religious organization in
the world's history lias branched out
into so many departments of philan
thropic. effort and absorbed them aa
part, uf its religious duties.
Need of Trained Workers.
Tlie scheme for a University of Hu
manity grew naturally out of the de
velopment of the 20 other depart
ments. With a field as wide as the
world itself the work of the Salvation
Army is only limited by the number
of workers that can be secured and
its effectiveness by the understanding
and earnestness of these workers. As
uplift work lias grown front local ef
forts to help a few into a great in
clusive movement which must miss
none, the problems of organization
have grown greater. Charity has be
come a science and its application an
art requiring the highest development
of personal qualities of insight and
altruism. There is thus pressing need
for workers of quite exceptional quali
iiication. These qualifications must
first of all be inherent acd must then
be developed by experience and spe
cial training.
This is the new work planned by
Gen. Booth. Those women, for in
stance, who are togo among the
slums of the big cities must not only
have the desire to help but must know
how real helpfulness can best be se
cured. They must understand by a
study of practical sociology some
thing of the social forces th.it create
this poverty and crime and wretched
ness. They must understand the dan
ger of the unwise charity that merely
increases dependence and understand
the value of better living conditions
in raising the moral courage of those
to whom fate has been unkind. They
must be able not only to correct home
conditions themselves but to impart
their knowledge and to inspire with
a desire for betterment.
Value of the Organization.
This will lie but a small part of the
university's training in social service
as planned by the patriarchal evangel
ist, but it serves to show of what value
such an organization will be.
Of the general's plan for the uni
versity he himself said recently: "I
want to train men and women to deal
with misfortune. I want them in
structed to combat with the weak
nesses and i'ins of the drunkard, the
criminal, the pauper and the would-be
suicide."
At SO years of age the head of the
Salvation Army, after more tlian half a
century of almost unceasing activity,
in as vigorous and untiring as at any
time in his career. The inexhaustible
vitality and intellectual and physical
activity of this social reformer, philan
thropist. preacher, author and traveler
are marvelous. At fourscore he in
traveling many thousands of miles
over the world every year, controlling
the destinies of his more than 7,000
corps of Salvation soldiery with their
18,000 commissioned officers, distribu
ted among every civilized country,
preaching constantly to vast audiences
and doing an amount of literary work
that would be a factor to many a pro
fessional author with no other occupa
tion.
William liooth was born on April 10,
1829. in Nottingham, England, and was
trained for the Methodist ministry,
which he entered and became on of
the strongest evangelistic forces in
that church. He grew dissatisfied,
however, at i"aching only those with
some religious training and convic
tion. lie fell, that there were thou
sands whose need was far greater and
he gravitated to the East end of Lon
don where wretchedness of all kinds
was the rule.
In a disused buHal ground on Mile
End road he pitched «n old tent and
the first Salvationist meeting was
held in lhat tent in 1861. The flerv
eloquence of the earnest young
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY APRIL 15, 1909
preacher caught, the attention of a
crowd of poor Whitechapelers ana be
fore that first meeting was over had
mado several conversions, a per/orm
aDee that he has been repeating
throughout the world for 47 years.
How He Started the Army.
This first meeting resulted in the
formation of the Christian mission,
from which it was the evangelist's
custom to send his converts to the ex
isting churches of the locality, but
finding that they were not welcomed
and were in danger of slipping back
from sheer want of comradeship and
oversight, he set about forming so
cieties of the converted. These he
found to be a potent agency for bring
ing in more, as the heedless East
ender could be impressed by the
words of a former "pal" when he
would not listen to a minister. So was
created the centra! idea of the Salva
tion Army.
The need of organization became
apparent, but several methods were
tried with little success before Gen.
Booth hit, upon the military idea and
named his organization the Salvation
Army. From that time on the move
ment grow amazingly and it has con
tinued to grow without ceasing to
this day.
Spread Over the World.
The movement began spreading to
other countries of the world in 1881.
when it first reached the United
States through the influence of a silk
weaver who had emigrated from Cov
entry, England, bringing with him the
Salvation Army idea and a strong de
sire to continue in the work. It
reached Australia in the same year
through a milk dealer from Stepney,
and soon afterwards the first Canadian
corps was organized in a similar
fashion.
Five years later, in 188 C, the gen
eral made the first of many visits to
the American branches of the army
and he has seen thein grow from a
few small corps into a veritable army
of tremendous influence and unsur
passed efficiency. His first great
world-tour was made in 1891, when he
visited South Africa, Australia and
India. Since then he has visited the
United States, Canada, Australia, New-
Zealand and India four times. South
Africa twice and Japan and the Holy
Land each once.
During ail these travels the actual
executive responsibility for the gov
ernment of the army has never been
lifted from his shoulders. Even 011
shipboard he is an indefatigable work
er, planning and writing through the
days.
Gen. Booth Honored.
One of the most remarkable of the
many tributes paid to the general by
the great of Ihe world was that of the
mikado of Japan during the visit to
thai country. The mikado personally
received the general with great
warmth and lie was accorded remark
able ovations in Yokohama, Tokyo.
Sendai and Kyoto, a circumstance of
strange import when it is realized that
Japan is not a Christian country.
Another interesting distinction given
Cen. Booth was the conferring on him
of the degree of doctor of civil law by
Oxford university. The significance
of this honor will be better under
stood when it is stated those who re
ceived university honors with him at
the time were Prince Arthur of Con
naught, the prime minister of Eng
land. the lord chancellor, the speaker.
Sir E. Grey, the archbishop of
Armagh, Sir Evelyn Wood, the Ameri
can ambassador, Mark Twain and
Iludyard Kipling.
As a writer Gen. Booth is remark
able, both as a stylist, as a thinker
and as a producer. He has written in
all 21 volumes, besides innumerable
articles for the army publications.
His best-known book is "in Darkest
England and the Way Out," in which
he outlined his scheme for social re
form by means of colonization. "The
Training of Children," "Love, Mar
riage and the Home," and his books
on reform are among the others of
the general's best-known literary pro
ductions.
His Greatness in Time of Trial.
The greatness of this born leader
of men shone with especial bril
liancy during that most trying period
in the history of the movement, when
disagreements caused a split in the
Army's American forces and they di
vided, one part becoming the Volun
teers of America with the general's
own son, Ballington Booth, at its head.
Through Ibis serious break, which
threatened the progress of the work
for a time, the patriarch maintained
such a simple and dignified attitude if
acceptance as to strengthen greatly
his position before the world.
Of "those who have left him" the
general wrote: "It was to be expected
that in such work as ours, demanding
as it does arduous toil and constant
self-denial and often real hardships
of one kind or another, some should
prove unworthy, some should grow
weary and others should faint by the
way. It. could not be otherwise for we
are engaged in real warfare and who
ever heard of war without wounds or
losses? But even of those who do thus
step aside from the position of officers
a large proportion remain with us en
gaged in some voluntary effort in our
ranks."
Writes of His Creed.
Of his creed the general has written
very beautifully. He says:
"The simplicity of our creed has
been, as I believe it will remain, one
of the principal helps to our unity.
We stand for the old truths. The
faith which can be interpreted in
terms of duty, of unselfishness, of
purity, of love to God and man, is the
only faith we really care about. What
ever may be the case; with the select
minority, the consciousness of sin,
the force of evil habit and the influence
of passion, are all vivid realities with
the great, masses of the population.
To them we bring the promise of de
liverance by Jesus Ohrist."
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