SALVATION ARMY LEADER

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1934, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY LEADER

d EVA BOOTH ELECTED it i- "CHIP OF OLD BLOCK" y v (BY OABMJ—-PBESB ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.] I- ? (Reed. September 4, 1 p.m.) 1 LONDON, September 3. Five nominations were made at the . meeting of the Salvation Army High I Council for the leadership of the movement. Those nominated were:— : Commander Evangeline Booth. I Commissioner Catherine Booth, daughter of the late General Brami well Booth, and niece of Evangeline. Commissioner Hurren, Principal of the Army’s International TrainingCollege, once an office boy to the founder. Commissioner Mapp, Chief of Staff. Commissioner Lamb, of London. Evangeline Booth, elected General of the Salvation Army, said she was returning to England on November 10, after visiting America. Final ballot figures were: Evangeline Booth, 32. Mapp, nine. Catherine Booth, four. Hurren, two. Lamb, nil. Referring to a published statement that the salary tof the General, was £lO,OOO per annum, it is officially announced that the actual amount is one-twentieth of that sum. It is not paid by the Salvation Army, but from a Trust Fund created in the time of the late General William Booth. All the High Councillors signed a declaration, accepting the result of a revelation of God’s will, and pledging loyal support to Evangeline Booth, and determination to maintain the Army constitution. At the conclusion of Evangeline’s speech, Commissioner Mclntyre, of Chicago, shouted, “Speaking for America, she’s a winner!” Crowds clamoured to enter the courtyard. The gates were unlocked, and the people rushed in Sand cheered the departing Evangeline. “I am a chip* of the old block,” said Evangeline. “My heart is the .same as when I worked in the London streets, with the rank and file. I love working for the people, particularly the poor, being the child of a man whose name was written on every sky as the poor man’s friend. I was born on Christmas Eve, and think I was given an extra measure of charity, mercy and human kindness, which Christ’s love nursed and increased.”

General Higgins said he was perfectly satisfied that Salvationists everywhere will respond to the new leader because of her outstanding services, long experience and enthusiastic Salvationism.