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moreover, it contains many precise details and 

 figures, the ascertainment of which must have 

 taken much time and trouble. Yet, forsooth, it 

 was written in " a hot fit." 



I sincerely hope, for the sake of his own credit, 

 that Mr. " Commissioner " Booth-Clibborn does 

 not know as much about this melancholy business 

 as I do. My hands are unfortunately tied, and I 

 am not at liberty to use all the information in my 

 possession. I must content myself with quoting 

 the following passage from the preface to " The 

 New Papacy " : 



" It has not been without considerable thought 

 and a good deal of urging that the following pages 

 have been given to the public. But though we 

 would have shrunk from a labour so distasteful, 

 and have gladly avoided a notoriety anything but 

 pleasant to the feelings, or conducive to our 

 material welfare, we have felt that in the interests 

 of the benevolent public, in the interests of religion, 

 in the interests of a band of devoted men and women 

 whose personal ends are being defeated, and the fruit 

 of whose labour is being destroyed, and, above all, 

 in the interests of that future which lies before the 

 Salvation Army itself, if purged and purified in its 

 executive and returned to its original position in 

 the ranks of Canadian Christian effort, it is no 

 more than our duty to throw such light as we 

 are able upon its true inwardness, and with that 



