GENERAL BOOTH.

Grey River Argus, 12 February 1929, Page 5

GENERAL BOOTH.

STRONGLY DENOUNCED. By Evangeline Booth. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) UOi\DU2\, February io. ComnUssAoncr Evangeline Booth,. L iauer of ‘.he Salvation Army in America, says i u a letter to she American Salvationists;— How heart breaking i» me spectacle presented by a comparison oi the unworthy actions of our General and his hitherto honoured career. I grieve for you even more for myself. He lias contravened the Army’s sacred principles, embodied in regulations the Founds gave us, which the General himself taught and enforced, during fialf a century. He has Violated the letter and spirit of the New Teshajaent by hailing bre-thfl-Vi into the Law courts. Would to God that I could have protected you and your fellow Salvationists throughout the world from the humiliation into which this dragging of Salvationists into the courts has involved us all. The General has done this despite the entreaties, tears and pray<ts o* his wisest responsible officers.”

SELFISHNESS ALLEGED. (United Service.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received Feb 11 at 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, February 10. Commissioner Booth, of America, in the course of her letter to American Salvationists, says: “We cannot see in his action any purpose other than to preserve to himself and his family the control of the h’njitagc which the Founder bequeathed to the world —not as the personal possession of any individual or family—but as an instrument for, the widest diffusion of sacrificial service to be rendervd the world by the Army as a whole, without which the skill and the devotion of the leaders would be fruitless. General Booth, by attacking tbe heartless blow at the foundations of the Army’s Constitution laid under Divine guidance by the Founder. The Constitution rested upon two wiselydevised d ieds, one of which the General seeks to destroy, because he dis covers that the 1904 Deed provides, in establishing the High Council, a single safeguard against an autocracy which might becomii a despotism, and eventually a tyranny. All of the General’s specious pleas in the “War Cry” do not excuse justifying the invoking of the law to enable him to destroy the Deed, under which he has acted for twenty-four years. It is most significant and most painful that a challenge to this Deed’s validity should, be given only wfit'tn its provisions react upon himself. Our duty is to go with our Calvary. The purpose of the Armj' is unchanged. Our love is unchanged. Let us continue to quit ourselves like men, as soldiers of Christ, in the witness of a good conscA'iice and the priceless peace of God.” .. !