SALVATION ARMY'S FUTURE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1929, Page 8

SALVATION ARMY'S FUTURE.

Appeal to Booth Not to go to Law CONTRARY TO SCRIPTURES AND ARMY REGULATIONS. DISTASTEFUL PUBLICITY. Received Monday, 2.0 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 20. At the end of a momentous week in flic history of the Salvation Army, an attempt was made during the week-end to avoid to-morrow’s hearing in the Chancery Court. Colonel Cowham, with 40 years’ service who is stationed at Southampton, on Saturday telegraphed to Mrs Booth •'You, Commissiohcr Catherine and family will bo adjudged responsible n you go to the law courts, contrary"to the Scriptures( First Corinthians, swrth chapter) and also the Army regulations. The feelings of the country arc stiffening and sympathy and confidence arc disappearing. I beg you to think of the officers and soldiers of the Army and to stop these proceedings. Remember Jesus, who gave up His Grown and life for the sake of the Kingdom.” According to the Sunday News, Commissioners Laurie, Hitching, Cunningham and Smith, who joined the Booths in voting against the High Council’s motion adjudicating the General unfit to continue liis command, havci also intimated that they cannot support the Booth family further, seeing that Catherine, speaking for the family, had several times assured the Council that legal action was not contemplated. The Army regulations specifically forbid Salvationists to go to law to settle disputes among themselves.

The Sunday Nows also states tfiat the Council on Friday afternoon would have elected a successor but decided not to proceed immediately on Catherine’s assurance that legal action was not contemplated. There is little doubt it would have chosen Commander Eva Booth. »

It is suggested that the chief aim of the latest move is to avoid publicity in the Law Court.

The High Council’s proceedings would have been secret but the law courts cannot be kept secret.