Both men had flashing eyes, deeply-set and overhanging eyebrows, giving force and determination to the face.
"Both the late Canon and General Booth were equally sturdy specimens of Saxon descent, and both worked for the masses.

Canon Kingsley, as he would admit to-day, was before his time, and in aiding the Chartist movement made a fatal mistake.

Canon Kingsley, as shown in _Alton Locke_, endeavoured to raise the masses to heights attainable only by men of education and men of thought, and to-day the recoil of that pernicious doctrine is being felt.
"General Booth places a man in the position God intended him to occupy, and if the man can raise himself higher by strenuous effort then well and good.
"The Salvation of General Booth is the true Salvation--the Salvation of regeneration, and the world's thinkers are surely recognising the fact that The Salvation Army is a factor to be reckoned with.

General Booth and his people have succeeded when all others have failed." _The Rhodesia Herald_, of Salisbury, said:-- "General Booth has well been called the Grand Old Man of The Salvation Army, for undoubtedly it is his remarkable personality and fierce energy which has made The Army what it is to-day, and has enabled it to do a work which no other religious organisation has attempted to do on anything like the same scale, and to reach a section of the people who remained untouched by the more orthodox methods of other bodies.

It is not so very many years ago that branches of The Army in many towns in the United Kingdom were striving to make headway against most determined opposition--opposition employing methods of which the authors soon became heartily ashamed.