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a great ruler said, surely the reign of clean living, 

 industry, and thrift is worth any quantity of 

 tambourines and eccentric doctrinal hypotheses. 

 All that I have hitherto said, and propose further 

 to say, is directed against Mr. Booth's extremely 

 clever, audacious, and hitherto successful attempt 

 to utilize the credit won by all this honest devo 

 tion and self-sacrifice for the purposes of his 

 socialistic autocracy. 



I now propose to bring forward a little more 

 evidence as to how things really stand where Mr. 

 Booth's system has had a fair trial. I obtain it, 

 mainly, from a curious pamphlet, the title of 

 which runs : " The New Papacy, Behind the 

 Scenes in the Salvation Army," by an ex-Staff 

 Officer. " Make not my Father's house a house of 

 merchandise " (John ii. 16). 1889. Published 

 at Toronto, by A. Britnell. On the cover it is 

 stated that " This is the book which was burned 

 by the authorities of the Salvation Army." I 

 remind the reader, once more, that the statements 

 which I shall cite must be regarded as ex parte ; 

 all I can vouch for is that, on grounds of internal 

 evidence and from other concurrent testimony 

 respecting the ways of the Booth hierarchy, I 

 feel justified in using them. 



This is the picture the writer draws of the army 

 in the early days of its invasion of the Dominion 

 of Canada : 



