DEATH OF GENERAL BOOTH

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5972, 24 August 1912, Page 1

DEATH OF GENERAL BOOTH

LOMMJN. August ii. Central I'.ootli, Commander-ill Chief of the Salvation Army, and dir.vu-i: of its social institutions lor destitute, vicious, an<l criminal clus.-c-, i- uo.ul, m Ins Mlh u .|\r.

Till'. FINAL JllllliS,

LOSS Ob A'GREAT MISSIONARY. LONDON, Aueus t it, (leneiai booth was in a comatose stale for IS bourn, lie died peacefully i and. did not regain t'unseiinsin-s>, ALr and Mrs Bmmweli liootli, Mrs lloolii-Kllbcig, tu® grandchildren, anil Cunuiiissioner Howard were he-ido th.: oealli-bed

f.iimg lu the promises oi.liud, were

" Tliey are sure if you will „i)lv b> lieve,"

Cvllerui i'.oolh's .1-.111.u-, , i„ : ,ii interview, skill lu- IrH'Mil thai (be disappointment over (In.. non-restoration (ii hia siidit had had a irrnil,-,- ,-i'i'i>.a mi iln- (icni'ial'i hi tilth :kan Ji. „t----timl operation. The Times says that (Jencnil I'.omtli's d-ath closes a slntncrc i'iuvit-one. of I hi' most reuiarl»ah.c of tin- n_"\ It 'liii'slioiiH whetlii'r tin" Salvation ... ni,y will have sullicirnt vilaiitv u. ,n ...-.-ocj without (iencral Jiooth h ilriwn; iu:Tc. 'I hi' newspa]iers deplore t-lio In.-.:- of tlii' greatest world missionary.