Son Foresaw Present Crisis in 1902

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6804, 7 January 1929, Page 7

Son Foresaw Present Crisis in 1902

TIGHT BETWEEN .PERSONS, .NOT PARTIES. “WHOSE NAME WILL YOU PUT IN THE ENVELOPE?" Received Monday 1 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 6. In view of the sitting of the High Council of the Salvation Army at Sunbury on Tuesday, it is recalled that Mr Herbert Booth, one of tho most brilliant sons of the first General, foresaw tho present situation in 1902, when, on May 30 of that year, lie wrote a letter to his father from Adelaide, asking after his brother Bramwell. “Tho Council has not yet exercised its powers," he wrote, “but some day, these will be asserted. It will probably he a day of stress and storm, then mv prediction will be remembered. The house will fall because it i 3 not founded on fact, but on contradition.’’ The “Sunday Express’ narrates an incident to few. Bramwell was in a state of great exultation as he drove off with his wife after his installation. She turned to him and said “Whoso name will you put in r.ho envelope?" meaning the sealed envelope in which the chief names his successor. The answer has never been disclosed but the implication is unmistakable, that after 17 years the fight has come, not so much between parties, as persons and these persons arc women.