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Arthur Booth-Clibborn wrote an obituary of his father for the War Cry who he described as having a retiring disposition. Arthur wrote
"He was a good man, and a rather silent man, the great characteristic of whose life was his disinterestedness. When in the prime of life he used, in the North of Ireland, to have our drawing room cleared out every Sunday, as it could hold more than one hundred people, forms brought in, and then he would lead a meeting for the work-people. He used not to speak himself, for Quakers held that none but a very small number, who were considered to have received a special call, would do so. My dear mother would sometimes speak and pray, my father confining himself to the reading aloud of tracts and the Bible; the latter he read with much force.
Further on Arthur wrote:
....conversions of persecutors in our Swiss invasion would particularly please my father, and confirm him in the belief that the spirit and power of primitive Quakerism was burning in the Salvation Army. Ever since then he has been a regular reader of the "War Cry" and "All the World." and a modest subscriber to our funds. At an Army holiness meeting in Dublin, he was 'one of the row kneeling at the penitent form'. We had once the joy of a visit from him in Paris, where he was particularly impressed by the fight at the Rue Auber hall, and our audience of worldly sceptics.
Thanks to the Salvation Army Heritage Centre for the letting me have a copy of the obituary.
Celia