fight all his life long--against well-meaning hesitation, against
hard-hearted egoism, and against the idle indifference born of
ignorance. And these three streams that have flowed against him in
every part of the world have not been able to hold him back. To
those who think he has only become an important man, and to those
who measure a man's worth by the outer honours he gains, he became
a man of importance when London made him a citizen and Oxford an
honorary Doctor. And now men are better inclined to excuse in his
case the curious title of General of a curious Army.

"I have often heard the grey-headed General in Public Meetings. For
the first time on Saturday evening I got near to him in a more
private way. And then it seemed to me like a picture, as when a
grey warrior, a commander with snow-white beard and keen profile,
stands upright by the mast of a ship and gazes straight before him
towards a new country.

"And General Booth, despite his eighty-one years, is looking out
towards new land. He does not live on memories like the generality
of old men. He does not allow himself any favoured spot by the
fireside. Full of fight and always leading, General Booth stands at
the centre of a gigantic apparatus. And the old gentleman does not
look like allowing men to take the control out of his hands.

"Everything about him displays energy and justifiable
self-consciousness. He energetically shook my hand. With the
ability of the man of the world he drew the conversation to that
which was nearest to his heart. And what his eyes can no longer
exactly observe his ears doubly well hear. He arrived on Friday
evening from Denmark, holds three Meetings in Hamburg on Sunday,
travels on to Potsdam on Monday, and occupies himself with thoughts
of a journey of inspection in India.

"The comfortable arm-chair that was offered him he declined almost
as if it were an insult.' That is meant for an old man,' he said;
and really the remark was justified when one heard the plans of the
grey General, for he has plans such as one of the youngest might
have. He appears to me like an able business man who constantly
thinks how to expand his undertaking and to supply it with all the
novelties that a time of progress offers. He has altogether modern
views. H