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use of the weapons of the devil as Mr. Hodges 

 affirms that his was ? 



Therefore, in my third letter, I commenced my 

 illustrations of the practical working of Boothism 

 with the evidence of Mr. Redstone, fortified and 

 supplemented by that of a non-Salvationist, Dr. 

 Cunningham Geikie. That testimony has not 

 been challenged, and, until it is, I shall assume 

 that it cannot be. In my fourth letter, I cited a 

 definite statement by Mr. Hodges in evidence of 

 the Jesuitical principles of headquarters. What 

 sort of answer is it to tell us that Mr. Hodges 

 was dismissed the army ? A child might expect 

 that some such red herring would be drawn 

 across the trail ; and, in anticipation of the stale 

 trick, I added the strong primd facie evidence of 

 the trustworthiness of my witness, in this par 

 ticular, which is afforded by the &quot; Eagle &quot; case. 

 It was not until I wrote my fourth letter to you, 

 Sir until the exploitation of the &quot; captains &quot; and 

 the Jesuitry of headquarters could be proved up 

 to the hilt that I ventured to have recourse to 

 &quot; The New Papacy.&quot; So far as the pamphlet 

 itself goes, this is an anonymous work ; and, for 

 sufficient reasons, I did not choose to go beyond 

 what was to be found between its covers. To 

 any one accustomed to deal with the facts of 

 evolution, the Boothism of&quot; The New Papacy &quot; was 

 merely the natural and necessary development 

 of the Boothism of Mr. licdstmir s &amp;lt; -use and of the 



