General Booth was buried at Abney Park Cemetery on Thursday
amid touching manifestations of the affection of his family and followers. The funeral procession, which mustered on the Embankment, was more than a mile long, and included representatives of the Salvation Army from many parts of the world. On Wednesday night a great memorial service, attended by 25,000 people, was field at Olympia, and for several days pre- viously the body had lain in state in the Salvation Army's Hall at Clapton, where it is estimated that 100,000 persons passed by the coffin. But it was not the numbers of those who paid honour to the dead, or the tributes from the heads of States, or the dramatic features of the service, which rendered these ceremonies impressive so much as their perfect organiza- tion and the fact that the conventional signs of mourning were conspicuously absent. Indeed, the spirit of the assembled thousands was not so much one of grief as of disciplined exultation at the translation of a victorious leader.
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