SALVATION ARMY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10787, 7 January 1929, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY

GENERAL PLANS DRAMATIC APPEARANCE AT COUNCIL.

SIGHT MAY RECALL TENDER RECOLLECTIONS. '

United Pres« Assn, by El. Tel, Copyright (Australian Press (Received, Jan. 5, 5.5 p.m.) Jan. o. Surprises to occur iu tho Salvation Army crisis. The Daily Express, understands that General Booth is 7 planning a dramatic appearance in person at the High Council. ’Elis decision natural,y depends on his health. It is felt that the journey from Soutlnvold will be a, great strain, but Ins wife and daughter, at the lieau of the group supporting General Booth, nave arranged comfortable transport by motor. General Jkjotb is not a member of the High Council, and it i-s impossible for him to be present at- the conference hull. Nevertheless, be has a suite of rooms at Sun balm Court, where the council % being held. Hm presence would exert a. powerful influence on any decision. As one leader says, there can lie no denial cl' the force of the General's personality. ’Mail}' councillors have known him for long years, and the sight of him would recall tender recollections.

r RES H TRO ÜBL E . BREW IN G

SBLj'l A POSSIBILITY

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Meantime' a fresh crisis is brewing. Some overseas members express the opinion it is to be purely of an English character. An impediment is that of having to work thousands ot miles distant." Thus the possibility of a split in the British and the International sections must now be taken into reckoning. Should the Council decide to retain General Booth, or accept his nomination of a successor, it is understood certain overseas delegates will consider breaking away from the main body.

HIGH OFFICER IN ARMY ST7S-

PENDED

CRITICISED HIGH COUNCIL

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MELBOURNE, Jan. 5.

A sensational development! occurred in the. dispute among the senior officers of the Salvation Army, who have gathered to decide whether General Booth shall remain at the head of the army. Because in his address to his officers he made statements criticising members of the High Council iu Britain, Brigadier E. Slattery, divisional commander or the Melbourne Central Division, has been suspended.

PROPHECY COMES TRUE

WOMEN AT THE BACK OF THE

FIGHT

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.Australian Press Association.! (Received Jan. 6, 11 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 6. In view of tlie sitting of the High Council of the Salvation Army at Sunburv on Tuesday, it is recalled that Herbert Booth, one of the most brilliant sons of tlie first general, foresaw the present situation in 1902, when lie wrote a letter to liis father from Adelaide, asking:—

“After'Brainwell, who then? The council has not yet exercised its powers,” lie wrote, “but some day these will 15 asserted. It will probably be a day of -stress and storm. Then my prediction will bo remembered. The house will fall because it is nut founded on fact, but- on contradiction.”

The Sunday Express narrates an incident known to few. Bramwell Booth was in a state of great exultation as he drove off with his wife after his installation. She turned to him and said: “Whose name will you put in the envelope?” meaning the sealed envelope in which .the chief names his successor." Tli answer has never'been discjqsed, but the implication is unmistakeable that, after seventeen years, the fight has come not so much between parties as persons, and these persons are women.