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 *"p lias often appeared to us desirable to preserve in a per¬ 
 manent form the many warm expressions of appreciation 
 of our work which have fallen from persons occupying 
 public and leading positions, and who are enabled to 
 form an enlightened opinion with regard to the Army. 
 
 But in setting about the task our great difficulty has been that 
 of compressing into any readable bulk even a small selection from 
 such eulogies as have been passed upon us in writing, or have been 
 verbally reported when spoken. In issuing the following extracts 
 we must, therefore, disclaim any intention to slight any of the 
 friends who may not be mentioned, or to undervalue the eloquent 
 addresses from which the limits of space compel us to take only an 
 odd sentence or two. 
 
 We issue the pamphlet in the hope that it may gain for us the 
 attention of persons who have hitherto been hindered from regard¬ 
 ing our operations as worthy of their notice. Surely it cannot be 
 necessary for us to say that we neither labor for human applause, 
 nor desire to fill up a printed monument to our own glory. But 
 seeing so constantly around us multitudes who remain in wretch¬ 
 edness unlielped, and desiring that our opportunity to assist them 
 should be increased in some proportion to the vastness of their need, 
 we wish to use the kindly commendations of our past doings to gain 
 for us the means to accomplish very much more in the future. 
 
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 PRESIDENT McKINLEY, when Governor of the State of Ohio, wrote as follows: 
 
 Columbus, November 27, 1895. 
 
 Brigadier William J. Cozens, Cincinnati, O.: 
 
 My Dear Sir: Upon my return to Columbus I find yours of the 22d inst., 
 enclosing statement concerning the Salvation Army. 
 
 It is a pleasure for me to commend the work of this organization. My obser¬ 
 vation is that the Salvation Army has earned and enjoys the respect of all good 
 people without reference to creed. The work of the organization is one peculiar 
 to itself, and everybody interested in the elevation of the fallen must wish God¬ 
 speed to the Salvation Army. 
 
 Believe me with great respect, 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 W. McK inlev. 
 
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 QUEEN VICTORIA TO MRS. CATHERINE BOOTH. 
 
 “. . . Her Majesty learns with much satisfaction that you have, with other 
 
 members of your society, been successful in your effort to win thousands to the 
 ways of temperance, virtue and religion.” 
 
 M. RUCHONNET, late President of the Swiss Federation, 
 
 Said in the Swiss Chamber, after a speaker had poured forth a stream of false 
 accusations against the Army: “All of us, whatever be the shades of our religious 
 opinions, who honor the figure of Christ, must remember that the same accusa¬ 
 tions were launched against Him as against the Salvation Army, and the populace 
 
 was hounded on against Him by exactly the same process as M.-has just 
 
 adopted against the Salvationists.” 
 
 THE EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, P.C., G.M.S.I., G.M.I.E., Viceroy of India. 
 
 “The principles upon which the members of your Indian Salvation Army 
 base their efforts appear calculated to attain the ends you have in view.” 
 
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 THE EARL OF ABERDEEN, Governor-General of Canada, EARL COMPTON, M.P., and 
 the EARL OF DVSART. together with other leading gentlemen, issued 
 the following public appeal through the English newspapers : 
 
 “From personal witness or credible report of wliat General Booth has done 
 with the funds intrusted to him for the Social Scheme, which he laid before the 
 country eighteen months ago, we think that it would be a serious evil if the great 
 task which he has undertaken should be crippled by lack of help during the next 
 few years. We, therefore, venture to recommend his work to the generous 
 support of all who feel the necessity for some serious and concentrated effort to 
 grapple with the needs of the most wretched and destitute, who have so long 
 been the despair alike of our legislation and our philanthropy/’ 
 
 This letter is signed by the following ladies and gentlemen 
 
 The Earl of Aberdeen (Governor- 
 General of Canada). 
 
 Earl Compton, M.P. 
 
 The Earl of Dysart. 
 
 The Right Hon. Sir Henry H. 
 Fowler, M.P., late Secretary of 
 State for India). 
 
 H. Labouchere, Esq , M.P. 
 
 Samuel Smith, Esq., M.P. 
 
 Percy William Bunting, Esq. 
 
 Mrs. Josephine Butler. 
 
 The Very Rev. Dean Farrar. 
 
 The Rev. H. R. Haweis. 
 
 Tom Mann, Esq. (Secretary for the 
 Independent Labor Party). 
 
 The Rev. Joseph Parker, D.D. 
 Francis Peek, Esq. 
 
 Lady Henry Somerset. 
 
 W. T. Stead, Esq. (Editor of The 
 Review of Reviews). 
 
 The Rev. Alexander Whyte, D.D. 
 
 THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, late Prime Minister of England. 
 
 The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Ex-Prime Minister of England, writes from 
 Hawarden Castle, under date of January 2, 1897, referring to a recent interview 
 with General Booth as “the very remarkable and interesting circumstances which 
 you were good enough to lay before me. Apart from the formation of such 
 opinions, I had useful lessons to learn from the reception of such a communi¬ 
 cation. It helps me to look out upon the wide world and reflect with reverence 
 upon the singular diversity of the instruments which are in operation for 
 recovering mankind, according to the sense of those who use them, from their 
 condition of sin and misery; and encourages hearty good-will toward all that, 
 under whatever name, is done with a genuine purpose to promote the work of 
 God in the world.” 
 
 MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD, President of the World’s W.C.T.U. 
 
 “I am so much of a believer in the Salvation Army, and rejoice so greatly in 
 what you are doing, that I send these words out of a fervent heart. While 
 others are asleep on the brink of a great crisis, you are wide awake, alert and 
 helpful, While others speak about reaching the masses, you have actually taken 
 hold with warm, kind hands. While others propose an army, yours is in the 
 
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 field, and in full face of the enemy. It is time this great object lesson is set before 
 our eyes. It has come, like all of God’s wonderful ambassadors from Heaven, just 
 when we could in safety wait no longer.” 
 
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 DR. JOSEPH COOK, Boston, Mass. 
 
 . ‘"The Salvation Army is immensely needed as a remedy for the ‘Starvation 
 Army.’ More than a quarter of a century of continual spiritual, industrial, and 
 financial success prove the wisdom of General Booth’s plans for the poor. Whom 
 God crowns, let no man try to discrown, The Salvation Army is a divine drag¬ 
 net for the dregs of humanity. Among the sands drawn up from the bottom of 
 the sea have already been found many pearls of great price.” 
 
 THE HON. CHA' NCEY M. DEPEW, LL.D., President of the N.Y.C.R.R. 
 
 “Now, I long since passed the period where I criticized the means by which 
 people are influenced, their minds reached or their consciences stirred, so long as 
 no law, moral or otherwise, is violated. If the means accomplish the result, the 
 means are blessed by Almighty God. So I come back to my conclusion, that we 
 are to take human nature in its many phases, and there are certain phases 
 which had not been reached for eighteen hundred years until General Booth 
 pressed the button, and when he pressed the button 12,000 officers and millions 
 of followers did the rest. 
 
 “Far be it for me to say a word against the churches and their work, but you 
 know, and I know, that the churches do not reach the slums, that there are 
 large portions of humanity who have no guardian but the police, and no home 
 but the cell. 
 
 “It is because of the great mission work which you. General Booth, have 
 performed that I am here to-night. You have gone out into those waste places 
 and carried on a work as dangerous and more distressing than that of the mission¬ 
 ary in Central Africa. 
 
 “You have gone into the Central Africa of these great cities and placed them 
 upon a plane of civilization and good citizenship.” 
 
 THE EARL OF ONSLOW (then Governor of New Zealand, now Under Secretary of State 
 
 for India,) in addressing a public meeting, said: 
 
 “If any man deserves a vote of thanks, General Booth deserves it. . . . 
 
 General Booth, if his scheme should prove a success, will earn not only your 
 thanks, but the thanks of the three millions of unfortunate people in the country 
 from which we all are sprung; and he will earn, above all, that which he values 
 more than anything else—he will eapi the approval of his God.” 
 
 LORD CARRINGTON, G.C.M.G., late Lord Chamberlain. 
 
 “I feel sure that every one must wish you success in your efforts on behalf of 
 the poor and fallen, whose condition and circumstances are so pitiful.” 
 
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 PRINCE GALUZIN, of Russia. 
 
 “As to the Social branch of the work, I have only one tiling: to say to the 
 unbelieving; that is, come and see, and you will be conquered. You will be 
 conquered by being convinced that you ought to help the work; for to see it is to 
 love it, and to love it is to help it.” 
 
 THE LATE EARL CAIRNS. 
 
 “What I would impress upon you and those listening to the reports, which, 
 either from mistakes, or ignorance, or prejudice, are circulated about the pro¬ 
 ceedings of the Salvation Army, is, don’t believe them. Go and see for yourself 
 or inquire in any case, and ask for an explanation, and I feel sure you will get it. 
 Let us then, having got this great agency to do the work that is so much needed 
 to be done, not merely go and say, ‘Yes, it is all very interesting, and no doubt 
 much good is being done;’ but let us join to lend a helping hand to this great 
 movement. Let us, if we think it is doing God’s work, be firm and help it for¬ 
 ward; and let us honestly and consistently give it such assistance as we have it in 
 our power to give.” 
 
 THE EARL OF JERSEY, then Governor of New South Wales. 
 
 “. . . It is because I believe that a work like this—even though I may not 
 
 wear a red jersey—is doing a great deal of good in the world, that I have come 
 here to support it. . . . 
 
 “And I think I do not mistake, General Booth, your intentions and your 
 hopes when I say that you are not working alone for London, or England, or 
 Australia, but that you are working for the whole world.” 
 
 EARL FORTESCUE referred to the Salvation Army in the following terms in the House 
 
 of Lords: 
 
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 “The movement seems beyond all reasonable doubt to have a purifying effect 
 on many who were previously foul and helpless in their degradation.” 
 
 LORD BRASSEY, Governor of Victoria, Australia. 
 
 “I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of expressing, in a few 
 words, my sympathy with the work in which General Booth and those who are 
 with him, are engaged.” 
 
 THE MAR7HI0NESS OF RIPON. 
 
 “Your book revives the hopes of my youth, and I trust that those who know 
 from experience the terrible suffering in the middle of which they are living and 
 their inability to relieve it, and those who, perhaps, through reading your 
 book, for the first time realize it, will unite in helping you to carry on work which 
 has already borne such good fruit, and give you the means to make fresh experi¬ 
 ments on the same lines.” 
 
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 LADY HENRY SOMERSET. 
 
 “I am glad to say again, as I have often said, that no engine power in our 
 day seems to me to be pointed with more directness and effect against the bat¬ 
 teries of evil than the Salvation Army, led by its intrepid and devoted General, to 
 whom, on the occasion of his jubilee I desire to send the assurance of my highest 
 esteem, admiration and good-will in the name of Christ and humanity.” 
 
 THE RIGHT HON. SIR WILLIAM V. HARCOURT, M.P., late Chancellor of The 
 
 Exchequer. 
 
 “You are quite right in supposing that I should be glad to seize the oppcr 
 tunity of the celebration of the fiftieth year of General Booth’s service in the 
 cause of humanity to express my sympathy with and admiration of the noble and 
 successful work which he has done for the redemption of the poor and the miser 
 able from the burden of poverty and vice. . . . He has earned a high place 
 
 among the benefactors of his fellow men.” 
 
 SIR JOHN RIGBY, Q C., M.P., the Attorney-General, now Lord Justice of Appeal. 
 
 “I have had no small insight during some years into the weightier matters 
 connected with the government and policy of the Salvation Army and the Darkest 
 England Scheme. 
 
 “ . . . In all that I have seen of the conduct of the vast affairs under¬ 
 
 taken by them, they have, in my judgment, shown not only zeal, but also a sober 
 and steady determination to administer their funds in a strictly legal and business¬ 
 like manner.” 
 
 SIR B. WALTER FOSTER. 
 
 “I have always felt the greatest interest in the Darkest England Social 
 Scheme, and wrote one of the earliest articles on General Booth’s book. All I 
 have learned since about the scheme confirms the favorable opinion I then formed 
 of it.” 
 
 SIR HENRY H. FOWLER (late Secretary of State for India), speaking in the House 
 
 of Commons, said: 
 
 “Honorable members may not all agree with the machinery of the Salvation 
 Army, but no one will deny that it has done a good and noble work in con¬ 
 fronting vice and intemperance and crime in its most loathsome shape. . . . 
 
 These people are endeavoring to grapple with problems of the greatest gravity, 
 and they are doing this by means of an organization which no other religious 
 body possesses or makes use of.” 
 
 SIR EDWARD CLARKE (then the Solicitor-General), speaking in Parliament, said : 
 
 “I do not wish to disavow the sympathy which I feel with that great organ¬ 
 ization in the good work which it has been doing in this country. . . . It is no 
 
 sort of nuisance to anybody, and the Salvation Army is doing its work without 
 molestation in its own way.” 
 
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 In a Letter to General Booth, SIR EDWARD CLARKE also said: 
 
 “Your book, “In Darkest England,” has greatly interested me, and points 
 out, in my belief, the best means of dealing with the misery and crime which defile 
 and disgrace the civilization of oar land. I have entire confidence in your wise 
 and faithful stewardship of any fund which may be subscribed, and I inclose a 
 check for £50 as my contribution toward the good work.” 
 
 SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, late Secretary of State for War. 
 
 “I can assure you no one has a higher opinion than I of the forces brought 
 into play by the Salvation Army. ... I start, therefore, with a firm prejudice 
 in favor of Mr. Booth, his powers and his methods.” 
 
 SIR ROBERT THORBURN, ex-Premier of Newfoundland. 
 
 “I hope you have all learned to appreciate the good work done by the Army 
 all the world over.” 
 
 SIR JOHN GORST, Q.C., M.P., Vice-President of the Council of Education. 
 
 “I visited last week your institutions in London for dealing with the unem¬ 
 ployed, and your Farm Colony at Hadleigh. ... It seems to me that the 
 experiment you are trying has, so far as it has gone, yielded results of a most 
 encouraging character, and it would be a national misfortune if want of funds 
 should prevent it being carried out to the end.” 
 
 SIR SAMUEL GRIFFITHS, formerly Prime Minister of Queensland. 
 
 “I believe that the work General Booth and his associates in Great Britain 
 have undertaken, in regard to the class referred to, is the most beneficial which 
 has been undertaken in the history of the world.” 
 
 SIR THOMAS MclLWRAITH, late Prime Minister of Queensland. 
 
 “It would be impossible for anyone, however callous and unthinking, to 
 underestimate the value of the Social work which is being performed by the Sal¬ 
 vation Army through the medium of its Farm Colony. It is not by any means 
 the first time that the value of this work has come under my notice, for I have 
 had many years’ experienced it in Queensland and in other of the Australian 
 colonies.” 
 
 SIR JOHN MADDEN, Acting Governor, Australia. 
 
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 “No man and no office could lose dignity by lending a hand to help on such a 
 work and such a people. Far more than that no man and no office could be other 
 than increased in dignity by taking upon himself such a duty.” 
 
 SIR J GORDON SPRIGG, formerly Premier of Cape Colony. 
 
 “General Booth, the head of the most wonderful and powerful organization 
 the world has ever produced.” 
 
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 SIR MATTHEW DAVIS, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria. 
 
 “No one writing the history of the present could do so without giving to 
 General Booth a prominent place in its pages. His scheme for ameliorating the 
 poor was entitled to the best wishes of the whole world.” 
 
 SIR HENRY PARKES, late Premier of New South Wales. 
 
 “We are standing in the presence of a mighty builder in the moral world. 
 The Prussian statesman who built up the German empire, built it, to use his own 
 words, of ‘destructive iron and cruelly shed blood,’ but a mightier than he—a 
 mightier than the great Bismarck—has stirred our world from one end to the 
 other with no other weapon, with no other element of power than the simple 
 beauty of our common religion.” 
 
 THE LATE RIGHT HON. JOHN BRIGHT. M.P. 
 
 “I suspect that your good work will not suffer materially from the 
 ill-treatment you are meeting with. The people who mob you would doubtless 
 have mobbed the apostles.” 
 
 HENRY LABOUCHERF, Esq., M.P., and Editor of “Truth.” 
 
 “I lionestlv trust that General Booth will get his money and be enabled to try 
 his experiment. His Army is precisely the sort of material that can be used to 
 give the scheme a fair trial. . . . By all means let it be tried; I wish it success.” 
 
 THE RIGHT HON. HERBERT GLADSTONE, M.P., late Under-Secretary of State for the 
 
 Home Department. 
 
 “Surely everybody in the country must sympathize with, at any rate, much 
 of the work of the Salvation Army, and in particular there are none who can have 
 any doubt about the excellence of the work it does in connection with discharged 
 prisoners. ... I heartily wish you God-speed in your work. It has given 
 me great pleasure to come amongst you in this Home and see the practical side 
 of your work.” 
 
 W. S. CAINE, Esq., M.P. 
 
 “I have seen the Army at work in France, Switzerland, Canada, the United 
 States and India, as well as at home, and every fresh experience enhances the 
 deep respect, nay, reverence I feel for the heroic men and women. . . . 
 
 “Of your work amongst the peoples of our vast dependency, India, I have 
 often written and spoken. It is the best and most apostolic work now to be 
 found upon the face of the earth.” 
 
 SYDNEY BUXTON, Esq , M.P., late Under-Secretary for the Colonies. 
 
 Ail those who desire the alleviation of misery and desire to find openings and 
 opportunities for those who especially require befriending, have watched your 
 attempts and your experiments in those directions with interest and hope.” 
 
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 MILES MclNNES, Esq:, M.P. 
 
 “Everywhere Englishmen and the countrymen of other nations admire the 
 courage and independence, acknowledge the self-sacrifice, and appreciate the 
 self denial of those who really know what the work of the Army is.” 
 
 THE LATE SAMUEL MORLEY, Esq,, M.P. 
 
 “I read always with pleasure of your work, which I believe to be genuine 
 and true.” 
 
 W. T. STEAD, Esq., Editor of the Review of Reviews. 
 
 . . A journalistic career of twenty years has brought me into close 
 
 quarters with an immense number of the ablest men and women of our time, and 
 I have no hesitation whatever in saying that, in the whole sweep of my acquaint¬ 
 ance, I have not met more than half a dozen men—British, European or 
 American, crowned or uncrowned, prelates, statesmen, soldiers or workers—whom 
 I would rank as the superiors in force, capacity and initiative with General 
 Booth, Mrs. Booth and their eldest son. Whether or not General Booth be, as 
 Lord Wolseley declared, the greatest organizing genius of our time, he and his 
 family constitute the most remarkable group of men and women that I know.” 
 
 ARNOLD WHITE, Esq., (“Fortnightly Review.”) 
 
 “As an onlooker who has watched the Salvation Army for many years in 
 various parts of the world, I am proud to do what a sinner can—as a brother from 
 the outside, rather than as a pillar from within—to support the great edifice 
 which General Booth and his family have constructed.” 
 
 MR. JUSTICE HAWKINS, 
 
 “I will give the Salvation Army the credit of being most honest and sincere in 
 the conduct of their religious services. No incident to the contrary can be 
 adduced against them.” 
 
 THE HON. J. B. PATTERSON, formerly Premier of Victoria, Australia. 
 
 “As the head of the Government, and having been connected with many 
 Governments, I have frequently had occasion to recognize and acknowledge with 
 gratitude the support and the admirable assistance that the Salvation Army has 
 rendered to the distressed.” 
 
 CHIEF JUSTICE WAY, Lieut.-Governor of South Australia. 
 
 “The conviction which has come to my mind is, that no Parliament, no royal 
 commission, no judicial bench, no democratic club, no writer for the press and no 
 writer of books has ever presented to the world a finer scheme of social regenera¬ 
 tion than is contained in that noble book of General Booth’s. 
 
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 “I have conferred with my friend Mr. Boothby, the sheriff of South Australia, 
 who has had forty years’ experience in prison work, and who is the highest 
 authority on that subject on this side of the line, and he has told me that the 
 proud position the colony holds tohlay, of being freer from crime than any other 
 country on the face of the earth, was largely due to the work done by the officers 
 of the Salvation Army.” 
 
 THE HON. JOHN BALLANCE, Premier of New Zealand. 
 
 “I am prepared, not only to accept the Gfeneral’s scheme, but to use my influ¬ 
 ence in getting an experiment tested in New Zealand.” 
 
 THE HON. MR. JUSTICE BUCHANAN, Australia. 
 
 “Of the many distinguished visitors to our shores of late years, the most re¬ 
 markable, I venture to say, as well as the most philanthropic, is Mr. William 
 Booth, the General of the Salvation Army.” 
 
 THE HON. GRAHAM BERRY, The Speaker ot Victoria, Australia. 
 
 “. . .1 have come to the conclusion that the Army is exercising a great 
 
 influence for good. . . . All thinking men should support the movement, and, 
 
 for my part, I wish it God speed. The Army will, while working on the present 
 lines, always have my support.” 
 
 ALDERMAN MANNING, Mayor of Sydney. 
 
 “I feel from the bottom of my heart that he (the General) has given me a 
 great lesson, which will remain in my mind as long as life is in me.’ 
 
 HON. HORACE TOZER. 
 
 “There are many heroes of the nineteenth century, but none more distin¬ 
 guished than the one who is our 'guest to-night (General Booth). I hope I may 
 live to see the scheme the General has instituted accomplished in Australia. I 
 also welcome him who has come in the cause of philanthropy in the name of the 
 Government.” 
 
 THE MAYOR OF BRISBANE. 
 
 “Had it been the Queen instead of General Booth who was received the pre 
 vious night, she could not have been more loyally welcomed. I extend a most 
 hearty and cordial reception and wish that God may bless you and your Army.” 
 
 T. W. GOODWIN, Esq,, ex-Mayor of Kimberley, Africa. 
 
 He said General Booth’s name had become a household word throughout the 
 civilized world. . . * An idea which, if carried out successfully, would be¬ 
 come a scheme for the regeneration of mankind. . . . 
 
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 MR. BRICE SMITH, Colonial Treasurer, New South Wales. 
 
 “General Booth has taken for his church the blue sky and the world. . . . 
 
 I am heart and soul with General Booth in this great movement to resuscitate 
 from want and to pull from their despondency those who in the struggle for 
 existence have been cast ashore.” 
 
 THE HON. J. DONALDSON, M P., ex-Colonial Secretary, Australia. 
 
 “I can bear testimony to the very great work done during the last few years 
 in Australia. . . . The Army is on the right track and reaches classes of people 
 
 frequently left out or not seen by the churches.” 
 
 THE HON. JAMES CAMPBELL, Australia. 
 
 “I admire the Army for its courage and for manliness in all its ideas.” 
 
 THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, Melbourne. 
 
 “I am of the opinion that the Prison-Gate Brigade succeeds in reaching a 
 large class of unfortunates whose depravity defies the ordinary measures of the 
 charitably and humanely disposed.” 
 
 THE SECRETARY OF THE GOVERNMENT REFORMATION AND INDUSTRIAL 
 
 DEPARTMENT. 
 
 “I have much pleasure in stating, in reply to the Under Secretary’s inquiry, 
 that this Department has in many instances been materially assisted in its work 
 of protection and reclamation by the exertions of the several branches of the Sal¬ 
 vation Army organization. . . .” 
 
 MR. D. ARCHIBALD, Staff Inspector of Police, Toronto. 
 
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 “The usefulness of this institution has been officially recognized in Toronto by 
 
 being placed on the list of institutions to which aid has been granted by the City 
 Council. 
 
 “The Salvation Army could take a great share of the credit for the present 
 moral position of the city. . . . The Mayor had been enabled to reduce the 
 
 staff of the police force at the beginning of the year, which fact could be traced 
 largelyMo'the^beneficiaPresults of the operations of the Salvation Army. . . .” 
 
 THE HON. R. J. FLEMING, Mayor of Toronto. 
 
 “I am pleased to recognize that a good share of the present satisfactory con¬ 
 dition of things in the Empire City is due to the influence of the Salvation Army, 
 and I have always been ready to admit it. . . .” 
 
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 THE HON. J. E. ROSE-INNES, Attorney-General, South Africa. 
 
 “The Salvation Army occupied the ground alone, in being the only organiz¬ 
 ation in the Cape Colony which has ever attempted to grapple with the question. 
 
 . . . The Army has been granted permission to go into all the jails to hold 
 
 services. . . . The prison regulations have not been broken, the work of other 
 
 religious organizations has not been interfered with, and we have heard of many 
 cases where the Army has done great good. 
 
 “In support of this work Parliament voted £100—I am ashamed to mention 
 how small the amount is — but the Government is to be asked to make 
 it £150.” 
 
 LADY HAVELOCK, Ceylon. 
 
 “I have been much interested and pleased with what I have seen in the Home 
 end I think that the Rescue Work is a very good one.” 
 
 RIGHT REV. DR. M00RH0USE, Bishop of Manchester. (Late Bishop of Melbourne, 
 
 Australia.) 
 
 “Very few men could hope to carry it out successfully, but I think you may 
 for the following reasons: 1. You have proved that you can teach the waifs and 
 strays to work. 2. You can surround them with the authority, the sympathy and 
 help of men of their own class, of firm Christian principle. 3. You make a radical 
 change of their character an essential condition of your scheme, and have again 
 proved that in many cases religious means, which I confess I could not use myself, 
 are effective to that end. 4. You have the assistance of a large and enthusiastic 
 staff of officers stationed in various parts of the world, and working for 
 Christ's sake, with little more than bare subsistence provided from your 
 funds. 
 
 “Having this belief, I feel myself called upon to help you. May God bless you 
 for the wise and noble effort you are making, and spare you long enough to the 
 poor waifs whom, for Christ’s sake, you love to rescue—many, if not all of them— 
 from their terrible physical and spiritual destruction.” 
 
 THE VERY REV. DEAN FARRAR, London, England. 
 
 “For myself I can only say that all the babbling of idle censure which has 
 rebuked me (in taking a bold stand for the Army) is absolutely insignificant in 
 comparison with that voice of disapproval which would have filled my conscience 
 if I had shrunk from rendering my insignificant aid to an effort which (the Sal¬ 
 vation Army Social Work), if it fulfills our hopes, will inaugurate an epoch of 
 social amelioration hardly less important in its sphere than that religious awaken- 
 ment which is connected with the names of John Wesley and George White- 
 field.” 
 
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 BISHOP VINCENT, M. E. Church, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 “I have read with lively and profound interest ‘In Darkest England.’ I am 
 sure that your movement as a whole is doing a world .of good to the world. How 
 could.I do'otherwise .than wish it well? I never see a little band of the Army 
 marching with drum, songs and '.banners through the streets that I do not lift a 
 silent prayer to Heaven for them.” 
 
 REV. HENRY WILSON, D.D., Chairman of Board of Managers, International Missionary 
 
 Alliance, New York. 
 
 “The Salvation Army! What is it? God’s last and loudest call to a lost 
 world to repent and come to its Saviour. Saved through it myself, eleven years 
 ago; closely connected with it ever since; intimately acquainted with its workings 
 and its workers in nearly all parts of Canada, the United States and England; 
 having seen the vilest and most hopeless won to Jesus through it and kept by the 
 power of God to this hour; believing in it more thoroughly than ever, I praise 
 God daily for the dear Army, and pray Him to make it more than ever His own 
 instrument for saving souls, a praise in the earth, and in Heaven an everlasting 
 trophy of His love and power.” 
 
 REV. C. H. YATMAN, Ocean Grove, N. J. 
 
 “I have watched with eager delight the work of General Booth in all parts of 
 the world, and especially so in America. The love, loyalty, and devotion of the 
 officers to the work of saving folk from sin by the Saviour is one that sets two 
 worlds aglow with delight—Earth and Heaven. 
 
 “The way it sets at work its converts, singing, preaching (in the true sense 
 of the Netv Testament) and praying, is worth the study of the Christian church 
 philosopher. That object-lesson alone is worth the cost of your work, I am not 
 ignorant of your trials, but, sir, I believe them to be your greatest triumphs, 
 Great victories are Avon by great battles. 
 
 “I bid you God-speed in the war. Would that some men of great wealth 
 might arise and help you extend your plans ten fold!”