GENERAL BOOTH’S place in the history of modern England, and, indeed, in the Christianity of the on-going centuries, is so well assured that little or nothing can be done by way of literary retrospect ...

General William Booth stood up in the carriage, beard flying and beak nose pointing to heaven, to direct his soldiers of the gospel and lead them, bedraggled and bloody, into Sheffield’s Albert Hall ...

Since 1878 the Salvation Army has been practicing street-corner soul-saving. On the theory of its founder, hot-eyed, white-bearded General William Booth, that you cannot save a man’s soul when his ...

A flame starting thin and blue at the corner of a sealed envelope, then spurting up yellow, crawling to the other corners, leaving a big curly cinder, transfixed the attention and curiosity of three ...