GENERAL BOOTH

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10410, 2 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL BOOTH

LECTURE BY COLONEL BIRKENSHAW.

A large crowd gathered at the Salvation Army Barraoks dn 1 Ma&terton last nigjhlt, to hoar am, addresis by Colonel Birfaanshaw on "General Booth ,and his work." Easiigtn Aveoveui, in tihe labsamoe of the Mayor, briefly introduced the ispeaker. Colonel Biirkemishaw, who was patiently listened to, said that William Booith might foe described as a man of larger stature tfhiam liis fe<!ows, w(hto bias .livied an intense and wider life, ,possessing a,Bpinations of a wihoOie epoch, and giving them 1 power ful expression. He was barn in 1839 alb Snutoro, Nottingham, and his parents: IbeJoiuged to the Church. of England. He became .an evangelist, for he had a passion rfcb reach the xniasisies outside the'cuhrdbas. William Booth wia s one who .made matchwood of inisaunmoumtab'le obsifcacdiets. Sixtyfive years ago, when black hunger was rampant, the General (heard Fergus O'Ctanaiior lecture in. tihe isitreets of Nottingham, and as a yioung man he dieclared ' 'The Ctaarists are .for (the plow; I will be for tihe poor." Ten years after thijs he found his, destiny on the Mile Eind wiajslte. iia London, and from that .smiail begdnlning the Salvation Army has spread rtfhwugh 56. countries and coHoiiies. Tlhie lecturer then .went on fto (trace thle history of tlhie Army to ithe present day, and his address proved itio be mostb interesting throughout. On. tihe motion/ of Mir E. Feist, seconded 'by Mir A. Hendry/ a hearty votej thlamks . was- aceorded -. the Colonel, and tlhie matting was closed with the singing o£ jtihb.