GENERAL BOOTH.
RECEPTION BY THE MINISTRY. Per. Press Association. Wellington, last night. Some hundreds of people attended at Parliament Buildings in response to in* vitations "issued by the Ministry for the purpose of meeting General Booth. * In introducing the General Mr Seddon said that their visitor was respeoted tlaionghout the oivilised world. People w&o were sceptical at the time the Salvation Army commenced its work must now ' realise that there was necessity for it. The difficulties which had been overcome mast have oast down stronger mon than ho to whom they now paid deference. General Booth, in replying, said the I Army was justified by the existence of certain circumstances and conditions amongst mankind. In India tbero were something • like forty millions of people who did not know what it was like to have a satisfactory meal, and in the very centres of civi- I lisation, of wealth and learning, there were [ masses of people who found living a misery. / r- The Army looked after the waste of man- | kind and endeavoured to reclaim it, I
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1442, 1 May 1905, Page 3
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