Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — BOOTH ADDRESSES BIG THRONG. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOOTH ADDRESSES BIG THRONG.

Salvation Army Founder Speaks at Chicago Auditorium. Not since the last visit of Dwight L. Moody to Chicago has such an audience tilled every inch of space in the Auditorium Theater ns that which crowded the aisles to hear Gen. William Booth speak Monday night. When the venerable founder of the Salvation array stepped from the ranks of a half-lnindred honorary vice-presi-dents of the meeting, numbering more than forty of Chicago’s leading citizens who were present ns a tribute to the evangelist, he walked to the front of the rostrum and was cheered by the audience. The general told of his work, covering a period of thirty-seven years, of

launching and leading a movement which now numbers its adherents by the millions and is known throughout the whole world. “Eleven years 1 worked to get it well started In London, but to-day, ~ at the end of thirty-seven years, we have spread Into all the countries of the world,” said the general. "Why. I sometimes tell my geographical friends that if they -don’t watch out we will be first to get to the north pole. What is the mission of the Salvation army? It is, in the words of lan Maclaren, to ‘make religion where there was none before.’ That is what we have done and what we do. We do not poach on others’ preserves. We reach men and women that the church do not touch. Ours is the old-fashioned religion. Sin and salvation—we preach these truths us we find them in the word of God.”

GENERAL BOOTH.