There is no sign of mourning, in the usual acceptation of the term, to be seen anywhere except in the faces of the thousands who loved William Booth; and even they have for the most part attuned themselves to the note that has been struck throughout, that of rejoicing with their leader on entering into his eternal heritage. The coffin, with its glazed lid through which the features are revealed in a blaze of electric light, lies under a canopy of white and fellow muslin, "It is almost" says one writer "as though the body lay beneath fanciful pavilion at a garden fete. And the Citadel itself, @ cold, has building with no pretentious to architectural beauty, has been converted into a mass of colour with the blue and scarlet banners of the Army and the flags of nearly all the nations into which it has penetrated.
The catafalque is low, the body being almost on the level of the floor, so that those who pass by may look down upon the face of the dead. Only the little children have any difficulty in seeing it and all day long officers are there to lift them in their arms. A Salvation flag drapes the foot of the coffin and on it rest the General's" cap and Bible and " Soldier's Guide."
Of the tributes which have poured in from monarchs and statesmen and leaders of men in all parts of the world I need not speak. The storm of ridicule and disapproval with which the Salvation Army had to contend in its early days has long since been overcome; and even those who still question some of its methods on both the religious and social sides of its work, are fain to acknowledge that no Christian or ganization hes succeeded in 80 large
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