GENERAL BOOTH AT 82.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14072, 17 June 1911, Page 11

GENERAL BOOTH AT 82.

GREETINGS FROM EDITORS 'I havo ims and downs," said General Booth on his eighty-second birthday, "but on the whole I should think I am stronger and better than I hare been since the accident to my eye, and [ am full of hope- that 1 shall bo able to have the impediment .on my remaining eye removed. I am more than ever in love "with niy work." At the same time, in view of the fact that the eomins oneration for cataract may fail, the General is already preparing for total blindness by feeling his way about his house blindfolded. In this bravo spirit he-enters his eighty-third year. He intends it to be a full one, for in addition to the-.Social Congress next month, he intends to visit Scandinavia, Denmark, and probably FinJand and Russia. Later he.will go to Canada, returning via the {states, while in November he hopes to nay another visit to Germany. . His birthday brought the (Jeneral a shower of loving messages. The Queen sent ■■sincere congratulations" and a wish that he might'hare "health and strength to continue the work which you have so successfully -carried on.' , ■V number of London editors sent mes«;ws to -The War Cry" Mr A. «. Gardiner says. "He will take his place aivioiiu the most select group of those who have laboured for humanity. , ' Mr

Bhimenfeld (of the Express") says he is "ono of tho big men of the S of big men." -Ho has forced Christianity " says .Air James Douglas, to face the duty of rescuing its ow-n dregs from damnation. His career has been utterly soilless, utterly ascetic utterly single-minded," A great birthday celebration vas held on Monday in the Clapton Congress Hall. The General spoke for over an hour.