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were collected, and the spirit of satisfaction and 

 confidence was mutual all around " (pp. 4, 5). 



Such was the army as the green tree. Now 

 for the dry : 



" Those who have been daily conversant with 

 the army's machinery are well aware how entirely 

 and radically the whole system has changed, and 

 how, from a band of devoted and disinterested 

 workers, united in the bonds of zeal and charity 

 for the good of their fellows, it has developed into 

 a colossal and aggressive agency for the building 

 up of a system and a sect, bound by rules and 

 regulations altogether subversive of religious 

 liberty and antagonistic to every (other ?) branch 

 of Christian endeavour, and bound hand and foot 

 to the will of one supreme head and ruler. . . . As 

 the work has spread through the country, and as 

 the area of its endeavours has enlarged, each 

 leading position has been filled, one after the 

 other, by individuals strangers to the country, 

 totally ignorant of the sentiments and idiosyn 

 crasies of the Canadian people, trained in one 

 school under the teachings and dominance of a 

 member of the Booth family, and out of whom 

 every idea has been crushed, except that of 

 unquestioning obedience to the General, and the 

 absolute necessity of going forward to his bidding 

 without hesitation or question " (p. 6). 



