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Show A PRACTICAL TEST. Not 'the least of the qualities which, during" his latest visit to America, have endeared General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, to the people of this country,t is his frank and intimate attitude to all who approach ap-proach him. Particularly is this noticeable no-ticeable with newspaper reporters, to whom he never denies himself. His modesty is almost a fault, and it is extremely difficult to obtain from him an interview of anything like a personal nature. But no one who talks to him for five minutes can doubt his earnestness and sincerity. A little while ago, after he had completed com-pleted giving out an interview to a young reporter, the lad asked him: "General, don't you find that -modern theories of ethics are really superseding sup-erseding Christianity and that they tend to show that Christianity is merely a good working plan devised by man?" The other newspapermen in the room expected an explosion of righteous right-eous wrath, but, instead, General Booth only smiled gently and shook his wonderful head. "The man who thinks that Christianity Chris-tianity is a human invention," he said, "has only to try to live up to its principles prin-ciples to prove that it is not. Take any of them forgiveness, for example. ex-ample. Sec if it is natural in human nature to forgive. And if you think Christianity is superseded, try "forgiveness "for-giveness again, and sec if it has as yet been worn out by too much use. No, my friend, I think that, when you come to try to forgive all your enemies en-emies and to return them good for evil, you will come to the conclusion that He who did all this for those who crucified Him was more than man." |