ture which only God can compute, he knew that ten thousand others were perishing without comfort and without hope. The travail of his soul was not the travail of a hermit seeking in the solitude of a wilderness to comprehend the glory and the greatness of God, but the travail of a man living in the midst of human want and human sorrow, and with all the love in his heart being able to succour only one here another there. And he suffered because of men's indifference and men's incredulity. He had proofs to show in every country of the world that love can transform the evil life and restore the shattered life; an enormous host followed him wherever he moved, shouting the hallelujah of triumph; but the world, for the most part, shrugged its shoulders, and left the suffering to suffer and the perishing to die. And in spite of the malignity which assailed him, the envy which traduced him, and the hatred which never ceased to compass his destruction, this love for the poorest, the lowliest, and lost persisted to the end of his life. greatness is this, that among the many who speak of love he lived a life of love.
Fortunately for the enlightenment of the future and for the encouragement of all ages the documents left behind him by William Booth present to our gaze an indubitable likeness of the living and imperfect man. None of the mists which still creep towards us from the Middle Ages and obscure the portraits of the saints dim his rich humanity; nor is it likely that in days to come any forlorn worshipper of heroes will arise to invest this simple preacher in the ghostly robes of myth and legend. Aberglaube will not invade. He will confront for ever the gaze of mankind, a rough, fallible, and tempestuous figure, a man of little learning, a man of vigorous impulsiveness, a man masterful and vehement, a man inordinately zealous and inordinately ambitious, but a man inspired, and in everything one who with the whole force and passion of his extraordinary nature loved his fellow-men.
This love for his fellow-men will be seen as no perfect and beautiful aspiration in the vague region of impossibility; it will be seen, indeed, shot with the faults of his character and tinged with the hues of his human nature —
never becoming the romantic love which sent Damien to the lepers, still less the exquisite love which made the very elements brethren of St. Francis; but when men contemplate the love of William Booth, steadily and dispassionately, remembering that this love manifested itself in the wretchedest and most hateful places of life, and at a time when rationalism was pouring its scorn upon emotion -"that great and precious part of our natures," as John Morley calls it, "that lies out of the immediate domain of the logical understanding "— and that it ever groped its way into the black shadows where misery hides its tears, and into the outer darkness where sin deserts its victims, they will become conscious, in the greatness and strength of that dogged, unyielding, most stubborn and intensely practical love, of a beauty which at least consumes the faults of a day, and of a glory which at least does away with the shortcomings of a temperament. If he failed to avert Armageddon, more than any man in the latter part of the nineteenth century he helped to create the Social Conscience, without which there could be no hope of a League of Nations; and he helped to create that Social Conscience, not by a political formula or by any merely philanthropic invention, but by the force and energy of his boundless love.
Do we not come as close as is possible to the truth of this man when we say that had he been one of the Twelve, Simon Peter would not have been alone when he stepped out upon the Sea of Galilee?
Aberdeen, Earl and Countess of,
Abney Park Cemetery, ii. 105, 433
Aggressive Christianity, ii. 71
Aitken, Rev. Robert, i. 293
Albert Hall meeting, ii. 321, 327;
last appearance at, ii. 417-419
Alexandra. Queen, ii. 238; mes-
sage from, ii. 376: interview
with. ii. 388-391
Alnwick Circuit, i. 287, 289
America: General Booth's feeling
for, ii. 67, 68, 69, 71, 265-67,
413
visits to (1886), ii. 67-72, 122,
(1894) ii. 186
(1902-1903), ii. 239; welcome.
ii. 240-44, 242-44; cam-
paign, ii. 244-49, 252-66;
reception at Washington, ii.
253-258, 294; meets Roose-
velt, ii. 258-59; opens Sen-
ate with prayer, ii. 259-61.
in Atlanta, ii. 261-62
(1907) ii. 347-48, 402
Salvation Army in, i. 437, ii.
67-70, 240-44, 245-47, 249,
254, 257, 414, 433
Amsterdam, ii. 211, 235
Anglican Church: the question of
the Sacraments and the, i.
428-429, ii. 24, 29-31, 32-34;
suggested alliance with Sal-
vation Army, ii. 9-10, 13-14,
18, 23-24, 29-36, 315-16; its
lost opportunities, ii. 410-411
Anti-Suicide Bureau, ii. 414
Arbroath riots, ii. 4
Arch, Joseph, ii. 7
Argyll, Duke of, ii. 411
Armitstead Lord, ii. 339
Armstrong case, ii. 41-51
Armstrong, Eliza, ii. 41, 42, 46, 48
Arnold, Matthew, ii. 39, 110
Arnott, Miss, Girls'
School, ii. 308, 311
Ashton, Lord, ii. 281
Asquith, Mr. (Prime Minister),
ii. 366-67, 368, 372; Mrs., ii.
366, 367
Atlanta, General Booth visits, ii.
261-62
Atlay, Dr., Bishop of Hereford,
ii. 15, 17, 18-20
Australia: General Booth visits,
ii. 133, 136, 194-197; (1905)
ii. 307, 313-315; Salvation
Army in, i. 437, ii. 13, 191, 315;
schemes for emigration to, ii.
313, 315, 322, 329
Aylmer, General, ii. 303
Bailey, Mr., i. 229
Bailey, Sir Abe, ii. 373, 379-381
Balfour, Mr. A. J., ii. 367, 368-70,
372
Bancroft, Sir Squire, ii. 112, 129
Bannerjee, Mr., ii. 137.
Baptism, Booth on, i. 377-378,
425-6, 432
Barlinnie Prison visited, ii. 407-
408
Barrett, Wilson, ii. 278
Basingstoke riots, i. 445, ii. 6-8
Basle visited, ii. 233
Bates, Mr., i. 235, 243
Bath riots, ii. 4
Baxter, Michael, ii. 220
Bayertz, Mr., ii. 347
Beck, Adolf, ii. 302-303
Bedford, Bishop of, i. 429
Bedford, H. E. Sir Frederick, ii.
313-314
Bee-keeping, ii. 272
Begbie, Harold: visits General's
birthplace, i. 21-3; interviews
Miss Jane Short, i. 315-334;
interviews first London con-
vert, i. 335-41; visits Rook-
stone, ii. 268, 416-17; on 1904
motor campaign, ii. 299–300;
with George Herring, ii. 334
Beit, Mr. Otto, ii. 333
Belfast visited, ii. 206-207
Belgium visited, ii. 140
Bell-Taylor, Dr., ii. 375
Benares visited, ii. 139
Benckendorff, Count, ii. 393-394;
Countess, ii. 393
Bendigo, i. 33
Benson, Dr.: as Bishop of Truro,
on question of the Sacra-
ments, i. 428-431; as Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, nego-
tiations with Booth, ii. 13-14,
17-19, 23-24, 25-26, 31-32
Berlin visited, ii. 134, 218, 236-38
Bernadotte, Prince, ii. 386-87
Berne visited, ii. 233, 278
Besant, Mrs. Annie, ii. 140
Besom Jack," i. 9, 72
Bethlehem visited, ii. 312
Bhose, Mr., ii. 137
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Bible Society Centenary, ii. 327
Billups, Miss, i. 317
Billups, Mr. and Mrs., i. 295, 390;
letters from Booth to Mrs., i.
393-396
Binfield Hall, i. 114
Birmingham visited, ii. 358
Björnson, ii. 342
Bloemfontein visited, ii. 373
Boer War, ii. 215, 218-219, 235,
237, 296
Bolton riots, ii. 5
Bombay visited, ii. 139
Booth, Ann (sister), i. 17, 28, 36,
74, 89, 97
Booth, Ballington (son): birth, i.
282; baptism, i. 284; child-
hood, i. 297, 301, 321, 324;
describes a Holiness Meeting,
i. 382-383; a popular evangel-
ist, ii. 60, 72; in Canada, ii.
72; in United States, ii. 143
Booth, Mrs. Ballington, ii. 72
Booth, Bernard (grandson), ii.
407
Booth, Catherine (daughter):
birth, i. 285; childhood, i. 304;
in Christian Mission, i. 396,
397; in France and Switzer-
land, i. 285, ii. 38, 59, 143
Booth, Catherine (grand-daugh-
ter), ii. 245
Booth, Emma (daughter): birth,
i. 286; childhood, i. 320, 321,
332-333; as Little Mother, i.
398-399; sought as a recruit,
ii. 396-98; an evangelist, ii.
60; Booth's love for, ii. 86.
[Continued under Booth-
Tucker, Mrs.]
Booth, Emma (sister), i. 17, 74,
222, 227
Booth, Eva (daughter): birth, i.
315; childhood, ii. 60, 61-62;
Booth's love for, ii. 86, 274,
377, 410, 413-15, 423, 426; ill-
ness of, ii. 139; letters from
Toronto by, ii. 273-274; reply
to, ii. 274-275; at lunch with
Roosevelt, ii. 355, 356; in Chi-
Booth, Eva (daughter) (contd.)
cago, ii. 402; Commander in
America, ii. 409, 413-15; visits
England, ii. 418; the parting,
ii. 420; last letters to, ii. 424-
427; her last message, ii. 431
Booth, Henry (brother), i. 17
Booth, Herbert (son): birth, i.
294; musical powers, ii. 60,
66; alleged autocracy of, ii.
125; and New Zealand cam-
paign, ii. 212-213
Booth, Lawrence, Archbishop of
York, i. 16
Booth, Lucy (daughter): birth, i.
324; illness, i. 395, ii. 139, 140;
childhood, ii. 60. [Continued
under Booth-Hellberg, Mrs.]
Booth, Marian (daughter): birth,
i. 307
Booth, Mary (mother), i. 17:
Booth on, i. 27-8; Sarah But-
ler on, i. 29; her shop, i. 48,
49, 73, 89; converted, i. 74;
on Booth's engagement,
141; his visits to, 222, 225-
226, 227; Catherine Booth on,
i. 267-68; visits Hackney, i.
326-27
Booth, Mary (sister), i. 17, 222,
225, 226. See Newell, Mary
Booth, Miriam (grand-daughter),
ii. 215
Booth, Samuel (father): born at
Belper, i. 16; first marriage,
i. 16; second marriage, i. 17;
leaves Belper, i. 15, 17; ap-
pearance of, i. 23; character
of, i. 23-6, 39, 41, 355; ruined,
i. 40-41; sends William into
business, i. 41-2; death of, i. 43
Booth, William, Archbishop of
York, i. 16, 36
Booth, William, first son of Sam-
uel, i. 17
Booth, William, General of the
Salvation Army:
Ancestry, parentage, relations, i.
16-17, 23-30
1829: birth (April 10), i. 1,
17, 23; birthplace, i. 20-23,
30; baptism, 1, 5, 23
1829-1842: his own notes on
his childhood, i. 35-8, 46, 47,
62; early impressions,
25, 7, 30, 56-7; his father's
character i. 23-7, 39, 41,
355; his mother's character,
i. 27; no religious influ-
ences at home, i. 26, 27, 23,
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37; in Sneinton Road, i. 30-
33; Grandfather Page, i. 31,
33, at school in Southwell,
i. 16, 36; at Biddulph's
School, i. 36-7; religious
impressions, i. 38-40, 46-8;
introduction to Methodism,
i. 40, 82; games and leader-
ship as a boy, i. 31, 33-4,
39-40, 415; appearance, 1.
31; apprenticed to a pawn-
broker, i. 41-2; his father
dies, i. 43; religious stir-
rings, i. 46-8; Isaac Mars-
den's influence, i. 44-5
1842-1844: his mother's shop
in Goose Gate, i. 48, 49; at
Chartist meetings, i. 5, 49-
50; companions, i. 49, 52,
55, 59; appearance, i. 50;
sees children crying for
bread, i. 53; determines on
surrender to God, i. 51-3;
conversion, i. 53-7, ii. 177-
178; a clever assistant, i. 55
1845-1848: friendship with
William Sansom, i. 58-61,
62, 63-4; first social experi-
ment, i. 60; calf-love," i.
60-61; attack of fever, i. 58,
61, 62; influence of James
Caughey, i. 14, 61-2, 83;
joins Sansom in open-air
mission, i. 62-9; persuaded
by David Greenbury
preach, i. 9, 63; first ser-
mons and early missions,
i. 64-6, 71-3, 87, 90, ii. 184;
appearance, i. 66-7, ii. 232;
supposed affection for Miss
Butler, i. 30, 67, 68; takes
slum lads to Wesley Chapel,
i. 70-72, 81; poverty and
home troubles, i. 73-5; his
theology, i. 69-70, 75-79;
insistent on doctrine of
conversion, i. 75, 79, 83, 85,
ii. 181-184; as an orthodox
Methodist. i. 82-87; his
ambitions, i. 86-87, 90; Will
Sansom dies, i. 87; oppo-
sition by church leaders, i.
87; position in business, i.
88; urged to take up min-
istry, i. 89, 102, 112; his
sister marries, i. 89; ap-
prenticeship ends, i. 90;
twelve months out of work,
i. 90; goes to London, i. 90
Booth, William (contd.)—
1849: loneliness in London, i.
91, 96-98, ii. 78-79; his sis-
ter's fall. i. 97; with Wal-
worth pawnbroker, i. 99-
100; preaching in London,
i. 100-102, 108-10; resolu-
tions, i. 101; the call from
Heaven and humanity, i.
103
1850-1851 outside Methodist
disputes, i. 107-108; doubts
of fitness for ministry, i.
109-110; projects, i. 110
III; meeting with E. J.
Rabbits, i. 111-113; per-
suaded to work with Re-
formers, i. 112; meeting
with Catherine Mumford,
i. 115, 119, 123-124
1852: leaves business for min-
istry, i. 113-114, 124; falls in
love, i. 124-128; doubts and
difficulties, i. 124-130, 138-
144; betrothed, i. 127; dis-
agreement with Reformers,
i. 131, 145; approaches Con-
gregationalists, i. 131, 132-
135, 145; unable to accept
Calvinism, i. 133-35, 145, ii.
178-179
1852 1853 goes to Spalding,
i. 136, 146; success in min-
istry, i. 146-48, 186; deter-
mines on revivalism, i. 148-
150, 162; attracted by New
Connexion, i. 168, 169, 178,
186, 190, 192, 194; meets
with accident, 1. 172-73;
spiritual struggles, i. 183,
184-87, 206; ill-health, i.
185, 189, 191, 198; sermons,
i. 188-189, 190; plans to
join Connexion and marry,
1. 190, 191, 196; impressed
by Poole, i. 194, 195, 206
1854-1855: decides to return
to London, i. 199, 200, 201,
203; returns as a student, i.
201, 203, 206, 207; preach-
ing, i. 206-207; becomes as-
sistant superintendent, i.
207, 208; visits Lincolnshire,
i. 207; revivalist methods, i.
209-210, 212, 224; Bristol
and Guernsey, i. 211; self-
questioning, i. 212, 224-225;
Midland campaign, i. 212,
213, 215, 216-236; visits his
mother, i. 222; plans for
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