THE SALVATION ARMY

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 15 February 1929, Page 4

THE SALVATION ARMY

The great question lias been settled iit last —General Bramwell Booth lias been deposed on the almost unanimous vote of Iho commanding officers of the Army gathered very expensively from all the ends of the earth, and General Higgins has been elected to succeed him also on a solid majority vote of tlio High Council. Much hitter feeling was engendered by lliq action s of those leading the Booth party and a tremendous expense has been inflicted upon it at a time when it. needed money very badly to carry on its good work for tlio redemption of the submerged tenth of mankind. Neither General Booth nor Airs Booth can escape deserved censure for kicking against the pricks in a position that wa s so obvious. The General would have been idolised and revered more than ever imil lie sutymiLvu witn a. jroou grace in the first place. As it is, lie has been forcibly deposed because he and his advisers pushed the matter to the extreme issue of deposition. They challenged the High Council and actually went to law, instead of settling the matter by the sweet reasonableness of conciliation. On the face of it, lh e decision seems to imply a reflection that will injure and set back the work of file Army. We do not, think that effect will lie more than temporary. General Higgins does not, hear a name to conjure with. He will, have to four the world to make himself known. One important question is: How will Eva. Booth, the General’s sister,, but not his supporter, take her defeat as a candidate for the Generalship when she gets hack to America, where she is in supreme command of the Army? For. it may surprise our readers to learn, more than half the strength of the membership of the Army is contained in Eva Booth’s American command, yet, the States had only six out. of the 64 members comprising the High Council which deposed Bramwell Booth and clihse General Higgins to rule over them. Is the trouble all over yet?