Mrs. Booth of the Salvation Army. By W. T. Stead.
(Nisbet and Co. 2s. 6d.)—We are accustomed to take a liberal discount off what Mr. Stead says, and the rate is not likely to be diminished when his subject is Mrs. Booth. "Some preach.
ritual; others dogma. She preached righteousness." And dogma too, "assurance," for instance, which Mr. Stead cannot accept. It is too " psychic " for him, though, he rejoices in Mrs. Booth's conversion, in her latter days, to the psychical belief in spiritualism. But we do not want to carp at Mr. Stead's appreciation of a, remarkable woman. Very likely she was one in a ; if there were many of her sort in the million the world would not be big enough for them.—Another type of the spiritual character may be found in the Life of Phinis Seymour, by H. C. N. (Marshall Brothers.)
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