BOOTH

WILLIAM, >. at Nottingham, 1829, resigned his ministry in the Methodist New Connexion in 1961, in order that he might work as an evangelist among those who attended no place of worship. In 1865 he established a Christian mi ion in the East End of London, and out of this has grown the organisation known as the “Salvation Army.” An International Congre of the ‘“‘ Army,” held in the Strand in June, 1904, was presided over by “General” Booth, and was attended by delegates from China, Japan, India, Australia, “America, and most of the Buropean countries, His book, ‘* In Darkest England and the Way Out,” —_— 1890, has been widely read, and. Booth has vigorously prosecuted his scheme for the amelioration of the social condition of the ‘‘submerged tenth,” with great succe . [s. 77]