SERVANT OF HUMANITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 9

SERVANT OF HUMANITY

GENERAL BOOTH'S PURE LEGACY EULOGY FROM FRANCE (Australian a,id N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 12.8 p.m. PARIS. Tuesday. Commissioner Peyron, head of the Salvation Army in France, who voted for General Bramwell Booth's deposition, states that there never has been any question that the General was lacking in tact in the management of Army finances, or that he accepted for himself and family gifts and emoluments which were not permitted iu the rules. There had been no attack ou the General's high moral probity or profound business sense, and liis disinterestedness leaves the Salvation Armv writh the legacy of a pure, fine life. “He was a great servant of God ar.d humanity,’’ the commissioner- concludes. “If I asked that he be relieved of his post on account of his age and failing health, I still count myself a friend and a disciple of General Booth.”

IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL

LATE COMMISSIONER HAINES (Australian and N.Z. Press Associationi Reed. 11.25 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. There was the most impressive gathering of the Salvation Army at the funeral of Lieutenant-Commissioner William Haines, w’ho died on Friday, following a seizure at Sunbury Court, since the burial of the founder. The Congress Hall at Clapton was crowded. The coffin was covered with a red flag, and at each corner a Salvationist, with bowed head, held the Army standard. All the commissioners were present, including Catherine and Mary Booth, who sat on Commissioner Higgins’s right. The procession to the Abney Park cemetery, where the first General was buried, was nearly two miles long, thousands of Salvationists participating.