GENERAL BOOTH AND WOMEN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 26 October 1912, Page 10

GENERAL BOOTH AND WOMEN.

One aspect of the We of the late General Booth has received little notice (says the Gentlewoman),,and that was the remarkable way in which he made the women of the poorer classes participate in the active organisation oi: his great work of reformation and benevolence. It is true he gathered into his service women of all types, fired by the divine desire to uplift humanity

: ii^h-born women of ancient lineage cultured women of the highest colleges, level-headed and business-like women of the middle classes were found in his ranks, but the greatest wonder of ali was the manner in which he succeeded in enlisting the enthusiasm of

1 >e Magdalens of the slums and making them work out not only their own salvation, but the reclamation of thousands of others.