PART II.—THE WAY OUT.
CHAPTER I.
THE ESSENTIALS TO SUCCESS.
GENERAL BOOTH prefaces his scheme for the deliverance of the submerged by laying down briefly the essentials to success. I cannot do better than quote from his own words.
(1) " You must change the man, when it is his character and conduct which constitute the reasons for his failure in .the battle of life. No change in circumstances, no revolution in social conditions, can possibly transform the nature of man. Some of the worst men and women in the world, whose names are chronicled by history with a shudder of horror, were whose who had all the advantages that wealth, education and station could confer, or ambition could obtain.
u The supreme test of any scheme for benefiting humanity lies in the answer to the question ; what does it make of the individual ? Does it quicken his conscience, does it soften his heart, does it enlighten his mind ? Does it, in short, make a true man of him. ? Because only by such influences can he be enabled to lead a human life. You may clothe the drunkard, fill his purse with gold, establish him in a well furnished house, and in three, six, or twelve months, he will once more be on the " Embankment," haunted by delirium tremens, dirty, squalid and ragged*