Echoes And Memories

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This book is mainly a series of personal impressions of various people I have known, some of them very intimately, others but casually. I confess that certain of these people I have not at all understood, but many of them I have admired, and a number I have loved. There are some faintly sketched references to men of eminence in various walks of life, with whom, in one way or another, I came in contact up to the time when I became the General of The Salvation Army; these chapters are not concerned with the period subsequent to that date. Reference is made also to some whose names belong to the humble rank and file of The Army itself. These are men and women whose histories are not to be found in any book of contemporary biography,
but their names are written in heaven. Many of them had an influence on me and on multitudes of others out of all proportion to their worldly renown.
Here are also some memories of Salvation Army life and warfare as I recall them. I hesitate to obtrude myself in these pages, but I think it will be obvious that my appearance is necessary if only for the purpose of introduction.
Several of these chapters have already appeared in a Review circulating exclusively among our Staff, and I have found some advantage in their publication, since a Movement such as ours has much to learn in the present from its own past.
My life is a crowded one, and it may be that I have included here memories which I have found it easiest to recall when possibly I had better have laid hold of more important con- terns.
I have to thank Colonel Carpenter, of my Staff, and Mr. Harry Cooper, a Journalist of this City, for assisting me in preparing the matter for publication and passing it through the press,
Bramwell Booth The Salvation Army, London, E.C. 4. November, 1925