GENERAL BOOTH DEAD
THE CLOSINb SCENES
HIS lUST HP.Olvi X WORDS
((Received Last Night; 10.-10 o'clock.)
LONDON, August 21
General Booth, founder, and head of the Salvation Army,', after lying in a comatose condition'for 13 hours, died peacefully, not having regained coh.sciousncss.
Mr Bramvell Booth (eldest son of the General), Mrs Booth-Hell berg (a daughter), two grandchildren and Commissioner Howard were at the death-bed.
The deceased's last spoken words, referring to the promises of God, were, "They are sure! They are sure, if you will only believe them!"
The late General Booth's Secretory, in an interview, said ho believed that disappointment at the non-restoration ■of his sight had a greater effect on the General's health than the actual operation. The Times states that General Booth's death closes a strange career —one of the most remarkable of the age. It questions whether the xVrruy has sufficient vitality to proceed without General Booth's driving force. The newspapers generally deplore the loss of the greatest of the world':; missionaries.
■(Reference to the remark a bio career <of the late General, who was eighbytwo veara of age, will be found in our leading column.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10700, 22 August 1912, Page 5
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190GENERAL BOOTH DEAD Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10700, 22 August 1912, Page 5
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