For a year or two he was a wild man of evangelicalism, leading attacks on evil, challenging public attention, seeking imprisonment, courting martyrdom.

It was from the flaming indignation of his soul that Mr.Stead took fire, and led a crusade against impurity which shocked the conscience of the eighties.

But so deep and eternal was this hatred of evil, that General Booth soon came to see that he must express it in some manner which would outlive the heady moments of a "lightning campaign." He settled down to express that profound abhorrence of iniquity in terms of organisation.

Tares might be torn suddenly from the human heart, but not the root of evil.

If he could not kill the devil, at least he could circumvent him.
Such intense hatred of evil as still consumes his being is not popular in these days, and may perhaps be regarded as irrational.