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Show SALVATION ARMY " LEADER IS DEAD GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH DIES AT AGE OF EIGHTY-THREE AT HOME IN ENGLAND. Founder and Head of World Wide Organization Or-ganization Believed That Poverty and Sin Were to a Certain Extent Allied, and Miniatered to Needy. Ioiidou. c;,.f.r,i William Month, the venerable loiinder and head of tlm j Salvation army, died at hi resident. in MadH wood. Enfield, Tuesday1 night, lie had been untonm-lnus fur 4S hernia and during that time had lust strength rapidly. II,. was in his eighty-fourth eighty-fourth year. Ceneral William liooth. who developed devel-oped the greatest organized movement s.'nce the beginning of Christianity for the saving of human sou's, was the i sun f a Xiittinchaui, England, car ! I penter. iiu a:i horn In that city on j A pi II 10, Dc'ii. lie choM pleaching for a profem'em ) ami studied thc-ohmy under a private tutor for the .Me ho tlx! New Conner-j Conner-j ticm church. :i s:,2. when ho was 111! , yeara of aw. ho entered the ministry. but was n it formally ordained until six eirn later. In the in, mi me he wa-c npp linte l to do elrriii' wmk but he had received ja t ! e of evange'.l -in and ,t nppeaVl to him. To his Imaginative and imi-hlMous imi-hlMous mind lh work of mliih.teriiig week aricr week to the buiiu! conisre- GEN. WILLIAM BOOTH. gallon palled; he longed for fresh fields and a continued IK-ht after hu man souls. Qs'.Vhile traveling through th' country, coun-try, particularly in London, General llooth was struck by the poverty ol the people In the slums. From obser vat Inn he concluded that poverty and sin were to a certain extent allied and that to do the most effective worii and to get the best results he should trannfer his efforts to the poverty-stricken poverty-stricken denizens of the slums. July 5. 1KC, Is a memorable day, because be-cause on that day Ceneral Mooth took the first step which led afterwards to the founding of the Salvation Army. This effort was first styled the Chrlv tian mission, but It laid the seeds for the great International army of faltb which was to follow. The name of the organization was changed to the .Salvation Army and General Mioth began tho gigantic task I of establishing a regular army to fight sin and poverty. From a humble b ginning In Ixndon this great organlza tlon haa grown until It has 8,973 corps, circles and societies established In fifty-six countries and colon'eg with about 21,203 officers and employees. In almost every city of conaequencs there la n, branch with barracks whers j beds ar maintained and food U dis- pensed at a very cheap rate. The Salvaiion Army soon found that its ramification were so great and so widespread wm the Interest in iti work that it needed an official organ, so the newspaper War Cry was start ed and is In a flow l-hlng condition. As a concrete example of the mate rlil beiiedis of the army, 0.327.24:1 per sons are supplied with beds In a finl? year, while In the same lentil of time nearly 12.m o.uiiu are fed. General Iwnth innde a number of trips to the I'niied S'a'ea. ( Mrnmwell Mouth, eldest son of th genera!, who has l.e-n ,U fuiher't ; el'lf of staff for tlility yea,', will sii" ; ce"J bis lather s e ommaniler in chle) j of the Salvation Army. |