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these passages, especially the last. Well, I turn 

 to other evidence which, at any rate, is not anony 

 mous. It is contained in a pamphlet entitled 

 &quot; General Booth, the Family, and the Salvation 

 Army, showing its Rise, Progress, and Moral and 

 Spiritual Decline,&quot; by S. H. Hodges, LL.B., late 

 Major in the Army, and formerly private secretary 

 to General Booth (Manchester, 1800). I recom 

 mend potential contributors to Mr. Booth s wealth 

 to study this little work also. I have learned a 

 great deal from it. Among other interesting 

 novelties, it tells me that Mr. Booth has dis 

 covered &quot; the necessity of a third step or blessing, 

 in the work of Salvation. He said to me one d-iy, 

 Hodges, you have only two barrels to your gun ; 

 I have three &quot; (p. 31). And if Mr. Hodges s de 

 scription of this third barrel is correct &quot; giving up 

 your conscience &quot; and, &quot; for God and the army, 

 stooping to do things which even honourable 

 worldly men would not consent to do &quot; (p. 32) it 

 is surely calculated to bring down a good many 

 things, the first principles of morality among 

 them. 



Mr. Hodges gives some remarkable examples of 

 the army practice with the &quot; General s &quot; new rifle. 

 But I must refer the curious to his instructive 

 pamphlet. The position I am about to take up is 

 a serious one ; and I prefer to fortify it by the help 

 of evidence which, though some of it may be 

 anonymous, cannot be sneered away. And I shall 



