H Rider Haggard

Regeneration H Rider Haggard

Book Excerpt: ....rue, he remarked, that leaders cannot be manufactured to order, and also that the Army had made, and would continue to make, mistakes up and down the world. But those mistakes showed them how to avoid similar errors, and how and where to improve. As regarded a change of headship, a fresh individuality always has charms, and a new force would always strike out in some new direction. The man needed was one who would do something. General Booth did not fear but that he would be always forthcoming, and said that for his part he was quite happy as to the future, in which he anticipated an enlargement of their work. The Organization existed, and with it the arrangements for filling every niche. The discipline of to-day would continue to-morrow, and that spirit would always be ready to burst into flame when it was needed. In his view it was inextinguishable. MEN'S SOCIAL WORK, LONDON THE MIDDLESEX STREET SHELTERThe first of the London Institutions of the Salvation Army which I visited wa...