SALVATION ARMY HEAD

Evening Star, Issue 21709, 2 May 1934, Page 9

SALVATION ARMY HEAD

GENERAL HIGGINS TG RETIRE Prc« Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 1. (Received May 2, at 11.45 a.m.) General Higgins announces that Ims is retiring from the head of the Salvation Army on November 10. t The-High Council assembles to elect his successor about August 27. Writing in the ‘ War Cry,’ General Higgins recalls that he originally said he could not promise to continue office beyond his seventieth birthday. A large number of leaders throughout the world bad asked him to continue, but two physicians doubted whether his health would permit it. MESSAGE TO NEW ZEALAND HEADQUARTERS [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 2. A message has been received by Salvation Army headquarters from General Higgins, in" which he recalls' that when he was asked by the High Council in 1929 to assume the leadership he announced in accepting the high honour that he could not promise to continue in office beyond the period announced in his resignation.' He says that after consultation with two very eminent London physicians as to the likelihood of his health permitting an extension ho was compelled to accept the unfavourable verdict that they gave. He requests prayers that the Army may be kept on the paths of service on which it has been marching, and urged it to go forward and let the wbrld sec that its dependence is upon God and not on man. Ho said that Mrs Higgins joined him in greetings, and concluded : “ Our faith for the future is strong and unshaken.”