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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 hand 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 ruj,gs^a^d 

 regulations altogether subversive of religious lib- \ 

 erty 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 un- 

 questioning obedience to the General, and the ab- 

 solute necessity of going forward to his bidding 

 without hesitation or question " (p. 6). 



