THE NEW GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10712, 2 October 1912, Page 4

THE NEW GENERAL.

People in New Zealand are naturally curious to know what manner of man is Mr Rramwell Booth, the new "General" of the Salvation Army. The London Daily Mail says ho is a very remarkable man—remarkable, however, in different ways from the old General. Ho has the mind of a lawyer. He is a splendid organiser, and lie is a great financier. When he took real control of the daily details of the life of the Salvation Army that body was almost growing accustomed

to cons.tr..t Pvss.arA crises. Expenses . wore greatly increasing, and it seemed | impossible to raise sufficient money. ' Bramwell Booth set himself to create a system, which apart from externa! appeals, should regularly meet the cost of the work, and something over. He has done so, and in a few years ■. has built up property which is now I worth something like three-quarters of a million. He has been hampered in his public appearances by deafness. He is a man of the office rather than of the platform. He has yet to prow that he can arouse enthusiasm and stir multitudes to emotion, as his father could. He is a prudent, farseeing, judicially-minded organiser; the same type of man as that from which wo get our great judges and our financial kings.