Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1907 — QENERAL BOOTH RETIRES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

QENERAL BOOTH RETIRES.

A<eA .Founder of Salvation Assay Announce* that He Will Quit. Realizing his age General William Booth, octogenarian founder and leader of the Salvation Army, has announced his retirement His successor h,as been selected, but the announcement not yet made public. It Is probable hjs eldest son, Bramwell Booth, of London, will be chosen. The general, on his American farewell visit, while in Chicago, expounded some of the virtues of the army. "It

is not with the aristocracy but with the common people that I live and breathe and have my being,” he said. “I associate with the upper classes for their own benefit The army is not a passing breeze of excitement and emotion, but a permanent and mighty influence of good. Religion is not merely a possibility, a desirability, a privilege. It is a necessity. < I would rather be noticed with a brickbat than not be noticed at all. Go after the Individ- i ual,” is the practical way he sums up the problem of reclamation. “Appeal to the heart and the conscience of the man and the woman. What the world needs is more consecrated men and women to grapple with these problems. The Salvationist despises the idea that a man need not try to save a soul If he is not paid to do it.”

GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH.