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 then leading on, a force of obedient and efficient servants of all men.

The journey was arranged, for economy of time, so as to include a visit to Canada, and its general course was as follows:  From New York he travelled to St. John’s, New Brunswick, where the Premier, in welcoming him, said the work of The Salvation Army had “placed General Booth in a position perhaps filled by no other religious reformer.”  From New Brunswick he passed on to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Montreal (where he was the guest of Earl Grey, the Governor-General), Ottawla, Kingston, Hamilton, London, and Toronto.  Thence he returned to the States, and held Meetings in Buffalo, Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, Des Moines, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland, Omaha, St. Joseph, St. Louis, Birmingham, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Worcester, in three of which cities he conducted Councils of Officers, in addition to public Meetings.

The impression invariably made wherever he went, was thus ably summed up by the Chicago Interocean:—­

“No other man is General of an Army of people that circles the globe.  No emperor commands soldiers serving openly under him in almost every nation of the earth.  No other man is called ‘commander’ by men and women of a hundred nationalities.

“Aside from his power over the great Organisation of which he is the head, General Booth is one of the world’s most remarkable figures.  His eloquence stirs and stings, soothes and wins; and this eloquence alone would make him famous, even if he had never undertaken the great work he has done with The Salvation Army.

“As he speaks, his face is radiant with the fervour that carries conviction.  His tall figure and long arms, used energetically in gestures that add force to what is said, his white hair and beard, and his speaking eyes, make him an orator whose speeches remain long in the minds of those who hear them.  The feeling of the members of The Army towards their Commander has in it both the love and reverence of a large flock of their pastor, and, added to this, the enthusiasm, loyalty, and energetic spirit of an Army.”

[Illustration:  General Bramwell Booth]