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Show SALVATION ARMY LEADERJS DEAD GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH DIES AT AGE OF EIGHTY-THREE AT HOME IN ENGLAND. Founder and Head pf World-Wide Organization Or-ganization Believed That Poverty and Sin Were to a Certain Extent Allied, and Ministered to Needy. London. General William Ilooth, tho vcncrnblo founder and head of tho Snlvatlon army, died at his residence In Hadloywood, Knflutd, Tuesdny night. Ho had been unconscious for 8 hours and during that time had lost strength rapidly. Ho was In his eighty-fourth eighty-fourth year. General William Ilooth, who developed devel-oped tho greatest organized movement slnco tho beginning of Christianity for tho saving of human fouls, was the son of a Nottingham, Kngland, car pentor. Ho wns born In that city on April 10, 1829. Ho choso preaching for n profcs3loE and studied theology under a private tutor for tho Methodist Now Connection Connec-tion church. In 1852, when ho was 23 years of ago, he entered tho ministry, but was not formally ordained until six years later. In tho meantime ho was appolntod to do circuit work, but ho had received a taslo of evangelism and It appealed to him. To his imaginative and ambitious am-bitious mind tho work of ministering week after week to tho samo congro- iff GEN. WILLIAM BOOTH. I gallon palled; ho longed for fresh fields nnd a continued light after human hu-man souls. Whllo traveling through tho coun try, particularly In London, Genornl Booth was struck by tho poverty ol tho peoplo In tho slums. From observation obser-vation ho concluded thnt poverty and sin wero to a certnln extent allied and thnt to do tho most efToctlvo work and to got tho best results ho should transfer his efforts to tho poverty-stricken poverty-stricken dcnlzons of tho Blums. July C, 18C5, Is a memornblo day, hecauso he-causo on thnt day General flooth took tho first step which led afterwards to tho founding of tho Salvation Army. This effort was first styled tho Christian Chris-tian mission, but it laid tho seeds for tho great International army of faith which was to follow. Tho namo of tho organization was changed to tho Salvation Army nnd-Gonoral nnd-Gonoral Ilooth began tho gigantic task of establishing a regular army to fight sin nnd poverty. From a humblo beginning be-ginning In London this groat organization organiza-tion has grown until It has 8,973 corps, circles and Eoclotics established In flfty-slx countries nnd colonics with about 21,203 officers nnd omployoes. In almost every city of con3equonce thoro Is a branch with barracks whore beds aro maintained nnd food (a dispensed dis-pensed at a vory cheap rato. Tho Salvation Army soon found thnt Its ramifications woro so great and so wldosproad wns the Interest in Its work that It noeded nn official organ. bo tho newspaper War Cry was started start-ed and Is In n flourishing condition. As a concroto oxumplo of tho material mate-rial boneflts of tho army, 0,327,219 per-Bons per-Bons aro supplied with boda In a single year, while In tho samo length of time nearly 12,000.000 aro fed. General Ilooth mado n number of trips to tho Unltod Stntos. llramwoll Booth, eldost son of the general,' who has been his fnther's chief of staff for thirty yoars, will sue-ceed sue-ceed his father as commandor-ln-chlef of tho Salvntlon Army. |