We Sympathize by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1898

We Sympathize

By Editor

We sympathize with the many friends of Mrs. Ballington Booth over her illness, and the probability that her active life-work of rescuing the perishing is over. She is said to be suffering from aortic aneurism, a disease of the heart, incurable by medical science. Mrs. Booth’s life has been a noble one, and none could hear her plead for the poor without a deep conviction that she was in love with her work, and heavily burdened for the classes for whom she labored. Her sweet, powerful pleas won many a heart and opened many a purse hitherto closed to public appeals. In Mrs. Booth’s retirement the poor of the slums have lost an active, efficient friend. But God, who gave Mrs. Booth her loving heart, burdened for the fallen, who inspires every noble impulse in every heart, still lives and reigns to help every soul who longs for His help.