Ogden Sun | 1905-10-24 | Page 4 | General Booth

GENERAL BOOTH i in deciding to present he freedom of london to general booth chief of the salvation army the corporation of the english metropolis his done a graceful and in a large measure a grateful act among tho names 0 those who have been honored by chis distinction are many eminent in the arts and sciences lu literature and statesmanship and yet loiero arc scarcely a dozen who have done so much work as that which stands 0 o the credit of alii indefatigable of one i of the most successful charitable organizations of modern days there arc many who sneer at e method of lie calvn army and who regard as corybantic christianity the preaching of tho gospel to the accompaniment compani ment of a brass band but the infallible test of a religion is its insults ic and there is not a single scoffer of general booth and his army who can maintain the assertion that he and it has not done a vast amount of good in london and other english and I 1 american cities where the denizens of the slums are tar from tho atmosphere and environment of religion where vice holds its undisputed sway and the concomitants of human misery and degradation are ever present this has been essentially tha case members of the salvation army hao never hesitated to invade the r citadel of infamy the abodes of drunkenness and ariete and there are hundreds today who date their reformation from the gentle admonitions of the blue garbed classies lassies of the sisterhood 0 the universal univ eisal poor itla therefore a grateful act for tho corporation of the greatest city in the world to honor thus the founder of a system or organization which lives faithfully up to abo motto the world is my country and my religion is to do good general booths life work needs no seal of human approval but it is not the less gratifying that the city fathers of london should follow the example set by their king and queen such recognition of the grand and ever growing work of the salvation army marks a significant triumph over the and ridicule which dogged its footsteps in the early days of its career