This summer the attention of the civilised world has been arrested by thestory which Mr. Stanley has told of Darkest Africa and his journeyingsacross the heart of the Lost Continent. In all that spirited narrative of heroicendeavour, nothing has so much impressed the imagination, as hisdescription of the immense forest, which offered an almost impenetrablebarrier to his advance. The intrepid explorer, in his own phrase, "marched, tore, ploughed, and cut his way for one hundred and sixty days through thisinner womb of the true tropical forest." The mind of man with difficulty...William Booth was an English Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General