Catherine Booth

Catherine Booth

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CATHERINE BOOTH A SKETCH
_Reprinted from The Warriors' Library_
BY COLONEL MILDRED DUFF
WITH A PREFACE BY GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH

PREFACE

Colonel Duff has, at my request, written the following very interesting
and touching account of my dear Mother; and she has done so in the
hope that those who read it will be helped to follow in the footsteps of
that wonderful servant of God.
But how can they do so? Was not Mrs. Booth, you ask, an exceptional
woman? Had she not great gifts and very remarkable powers, and was
she not trained in a very special way to do the work to which God
called her? How, then, can ordinary people follow in her steps? Let me
tell you.
Mrs. Booth walked with God. When she was only a timid girl, helping
her mother in the household, she continually sought after Him; and
when, in later years, she became known by multitudes, and was written
of in the newspapers, and greatly beloved by the good in many lands,
there was no difference in her life in that matter. She was not content
with being Mrs. General Booth of The Salvation Army, and with being
looked upon as a great and good woman, giving her life to bless others.
No! she listened daily for God's voice in her own heart, sought after His
will, and leaned continually for strength and grace upon her Saviour.
You can be like her in that.
Mrs. Booth was a soul-winner. A little while before her spirit passed
into the presence of God, and when she knew that death was quite near

to her, she said: 'Tell the Soldiers that the great consolation for a
Salvationist on his dying bed is to feel that he has been a soul-winner.'
Wherever she went--in the houses of strangers as well as of friends, in
the Meetings, great and small, when she was welcomed and when she
was not, whether alone or with others--she laboured to lead souls to
Christ. I have known her at one time spend as much trouble to win one
as at another time to win fifty. You can follow her example in that.
Mrs. Booth always declared herself and took sides with right. Whatever
was happening around her, people always knew which side she was on.
She spoke out for the right, the good, and the true, even when doing so
involved very disagreeable experiences and the bearing of much
unkindness. She hated the spirit which can look on at what is wicked
and false or cruel, and say, 'Oh, that is not my affair!' You can follow
her example in this also.
Mrs. Booth laboured all her life to improve her gifts. She thought; she
prayed; she worked; she read--above all, she read her Bible. It was her
companion as a child, as a young follower of Christ, and then as a
Leader in The Army. Those miserable words which some of us hear so
often about some bad or unfinished work--'Oh, that will do'--were
seldom heard from her lips. She was always striving, striving, striving
to do better, and yet better, and again better still. All this also you can
do.
Mrs. Booth was full of sympathy. No one who was in need or in sorrow,
or who was suffering, could meet her without finding out that, she was
in sympathy with them. Her heart was tender with the love of Christ,
and so she