relations carried him up and down the country for change of air and
scene. All was done that could be done to save his life, but in
vain. The last change was to the Isle of Wight. In that lovely spot
the final hope fled. I remember their bringing him home to die. He
bade farewell to earth, and went triumphantly to Heaven singing--

And when to Jordan's flood I come,
Jehovah rules the tide,
And the waters He'll divide,
And the heavenly host will shout--
"Welcome Home!"

"What a trial that loss was to my young heart! It was rendered all
the greater from the fact that I had to go forward all alone in
face of an opposition which suddenly sprang up from the leading
functionaries of the church."

The consecration which William Booth made of himself to this work, with
all the zeal and novelty with which it was characterised, was due, no
doubt, to the teaching, influence, and example of James Caughey, a
remarkable American minister who visited the town. Largely free from
European opinions and customs in religious matters, and seeking only to
advance the cause of Jesus Christ with all possible speed, this man to a
very large extent liberated William Booth for life from any one set of
plans, and led him towards that perfect faith in God's guidance which
made him capable of new departures to any extent.

The old-fashioned representatives of officialdom grumbled in vain at
novelties which have now become accepted necessities of all mission
work.