SALVATION ARMY SPLIT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 133, 1 March 1929, Page 13

SALVATION ARMY SPLIT

Sir, —In scanning the columns of your valuable paper, I see some comments by Colonel Gunn concerning the deposition of General Bramwell Booth. He says that for a long time he has known the General has been unable to sign legal documents. What would he say of General William Booth, who was blind for a considerable time before he died, but still remained at the head of affairs, and appointed his successor (General Bramwell Booth, “deposed”) according to the Foundation Deed? The High Council have used the word “retired” after the General’s name. I use the word “deposed,” because it conveys the truth. The colonel then uses such words as love, loyalty, devotion, and pays high tribute to the General, but he does so at the expense of his family, when he states the General was advised by them. Mrs. Booth would undoubtedly be one of his advisors, so she is one of the refractory family who disobeyed the injunction of the High Council, and took the matter to the law courts. What a demonstration of love, loyalty, and devotion the High Council has given us! Colonel Gunn has yet to tell us where the General failed.— I am, etc., “0 SAVUS.” Patea, February 25.