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the public must not be misled into supposing 

 that it has the least bearing upon the questions 

 to which neither I, nor anybody else, has yet been 

 able to obtain an intelligible answer, and that 

 is, where are the vast funds which have been 

 obtained, in one way or another, during the last 

 dozen years in the name of the Salvation Army ? 

 Where is the presumably amended Trust Deed of 

 1888 ? I ask once more : Will Mr. Booth submit 

 to competent and impartial legal scrutiny the 

 arrangements by which he and his successors are 

 prevented from dealing with the funds of the 

 so-called " army chest " exactly as he or they may 

 please ? 



II. With respect to the " Eagle " case, I am 

 advised that Dr. Greenwood, whose good faith I 

 do not question, has been misled into misrepre 

 senting it in the appendix to his pamphlet. And 

 certainly, the evidence of authoritative records 

 which I have had the opportunity of perusing, 

 appears to my non-legal mind to be utterly at 

 variance with the statement to which Dr. Green 

 wood stands committed. I may observe, further, 

 that the excuse alleged on behalf of Mr. Booth, 

 that he signed the affidavit set before him by his 

 solicitors without duly considering its contents, is 

 one which I should not like to have put forward 

 were the case my own. It may be, and often is, 

 necessary for a person to sign an affidavit without 



