“ONE OF GREATEST MEN”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16923, 11 April 1929, Page 11

“ONE OF GREATEST MEN”

LATE WILLIAM BOOTH ' CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS ALBERT HALL PAGEANT. (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian Press Assn.--United Service.l (Received April 11, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Apni IC. Mr. Baldwin, accompanied by Ins wile, presided at the Albert Hall centenary celebration of the birth ol Wil.iam Booth. Thousands or Salvationists en timsiaslically cheered a pageant iilastiating the vise and progress "I the Salvation Army, from the moment whiteboarded survivors of General Booths original Christian mission, lounded in 18bo, stepped into the arena until vario.us phases ol slum works, social activity, emigration, and industrial colonisation were comprehensively reviewed. Mr. Baldwin said: ”1 lie V ictovinn age is unpopular to-day ho .anise, despite its faults, its numerous great men had faith that the goodness, moral earnestness, and sense of duly of their work in human souls would last to eternity, and that their critics would In* Torgoiten with their generation. William Booth was one of the greatest men. lie was both a conservative and a- reformer. He believed in tradition and novelty, which lie applied in Gospel teaching. \\ m. Booth realised that rdfigion was iunda-ineut-al, and faced the tact of the evil of which we were afraid to-day. liaviie 1 banished the word sin from the dictionary. Nevertheless the u-glj But remains.” . Mr. Baldwin added: "We have, to thunk God for William Booth, whom all Christendom recognises as one of the world’s great religious leaders." There were none of General Booths family on the platform. They received only‘ordinary tickets of admission to the hall. ■*