SALVATION ARMY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY.

HIGH COU NCIL ADJ OUR N S

GENERAL’S DECISION EXPECTED ON TUESDAY.

(Australian Press Association —United Service.) LONDON, Jan. 12. “God is our refuge and strength” (Psalm 46) was the keynote of the proceedings as the High Council of the Salvation Army listened to the reports of the impressions of the officers who visited General Booth, says the official report of to-day’s assembly at Sunbury. It added that the interview was of a most intimate nature. The general fully understood the purport of the visit and promised a decision without delay. The council has adjourned until Tuesday morning, when the decision is expected. Dr. Herbert Hart, one of the oldest Salvationists, private secretary to the first general, drove up and asked to see the council, but was refused admittance. He told interviewers he wanted to suggest that instead' of being dismissed the general be made a field-marshal. . . The “Morning Post,” in an editorial, says: “General Booth may well feel that the continued efficacy of the army is of such supreme interest that the best and wisest course is to avert a break in the army’s hitherto wonderful solidarity. However distressing to his’ own feelings, he may find solace in the fact that to millions outside the army it would seem a sheer calamity if its beneficent work and influence were weakened.”

An official of the Salvation Army told the “Daily Chronicle” that a rough .canvass at Sunbury Court revealed that it is most unlikely the general had more than 10 to- 12 supporters out of 63. He requires only 16 A'otes to defeat the council’s resolution.