General Booth's Scheme.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4952, 20 April 1891, Page 4

General Booth's Scheme.

" Tcent-ratlVmSli. having rteoivid his LtOO.WO (the aetu>i amount siltucrilied when the wtii! jiist arrived left L"ii<toii on the »>tii Febr»u»ry wsw LIHS.W.)). has opened the first of his promised homes for di«<»;twkrge't prisoners. Hi* design (a Ijond'nv eo{i6envp«>rar> - state*) is to open hotnes of thU sort as near as ixwiblc t" thegaot". aftd t»» find discharged prisoners work within the building until they can be better provided for outside. On the same day that the home was ojcened the "• t feru-rd" signed the much ditejissed trttit of the new scheme, in the presence of nmvy hwiidteds of enthusiastic S!tpport«'ts assentbled in the St. James's Half. ThU document, as it is printed for general eirentation, is prefaced !>v an opinion of counsel Co the effect that the "fcenerttt " for the time being of the Satvatiocv Army wtU tie the trustee of the l!rinds swliserilie*! for the Darkest Kngland scheme, and Chat all the property received tn accordance with the provisions of the die yd wiW he distinctly "ear marked " as frtt»t property. ('hiuse! add that tiie deed preetades. the *" General " from apptying the Darkest England fund to the general! work of the Salvation Army, and that for any breach of its provisions he witt tie distinctly amenable t>> the law. Tire [[ulrwiient itself provides that the trwst may be modified, should it be found desirable, at the discretion of a committee, the e:>n»|H-itt{ti»>n of which, as it is laid down in the deed, seems to give every guarantee of faimes-s and of competency. The committee is to consist of persons nominated by the Attorney-General, by the Chairman of the London County Cottnet!, and by the heads of four of the greatest religion* bodies in the kingdom the Archbishop of Canterbury). These nominators are themselves to have the right of serving on the committee, if they are s<;> disposed.