throughout his fatiguing
day's work. His voice has great carrying power, and the speaker was
distinctly heard throughout the auditorium. Despite the fact that
they could not gain admission to the building, at the evening
service, people remained standing in the drenching rain from 7:30
till after 9 o'clock to see The General leave."

"At the close of his last address," says _The Times_, "167 men and
women had been persuaded to his point of view, and went to the
Mercy-Seat."

How generally the whole country, and not merely the central areas, was
stirred by the mere arrival of The General, may be guessed from the
following words taken from the _Omaha Daily News_ article of the Monday
for its readers through far-away Nebraska:--

"One of the arrivals on the steamship _Philadelphia_ is General
William Booth of The Salvation Army. That vessel never carried
before so great a man as this tall, white-haired, white-bearded
organiser, enthusiast, and man-lover.

"Wherever men and women suffer and sorrow and despair, wherever
little children moan and hunger, there are disciples of William
Booth. The man's heart is big enough to take in the world. He has
made the strongest distinct impact upon human hearts of any man
living. This is a man of the Lincoln type. Like Lincoln he has the
saving grace of humour, and sense of proportion. There is something
of the mother-heart in these brooding lovers of their kind. There
is the constraining love that yearns over darkness and cold and
empty hearts. Big hearts are scarce.

"In an age of materialism and greed William Booth has stirred the
world with a passion for the welfare of men. His trumpet-call has
been like the silvery voice of bugles. His spirit will live, not
only in lives made better by his presence, but in the temper of all
the laws of the future."

We shall see from the welcomes given to him by great official
personages, that these remarks do not in the least exaggerate the
feeling created all over the country by the activities of The Army. Had
The General merely made great proposals he would only have been looked
upon in the generally favourable way in which men naturally regard every
prospector of benevolent schemes. But the country recognised in him the
man who, in spite of the extreme poverty of most of his followers, had
raised up, and was