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use of the weapons of the devil as Mr. Hodges 

 affirms that his was? 



Therefore, in my third letter, I commenced my 

 illustrations of the practical working of Booth- 

 ism with the evidence of Mr. Bedstone, fortified 

 and supplemented by that of a non-Salvationist, 

 Dr. Cunningham Geikie. That testimony has not 

 been challenged, and, until it is, I shall assume 

 that it cannot be. In my fourth letter, I cited a 

 definite statement by Mr. Hodges in evidence of 

 the Jesuitical principles of headquarters. What 

 sort of answer is it to tell us that Mr. Hodges 

 was dismissed the army? A child might expect 

 that some such red herring would be drawn across 

 the trail; and, in anticipation of the stale trick, 

 I added the strong primd facie evidence of the 

 trustworthiness of my witness, in this particular, 

 which is afforded by the " Eagle " case. It was 

 not until I wrote my fourth letter to you, Sir 

 until the exploitation of the " captains " and the 

 Jesuitry of headquarters could be proved up to 

 the hilt that I ventured to have recourse to 

 " The New Papacy." So far as the pamphlet 

 itself goes, this is an anonymous work; and, for 

 sufficient reasons, I did not choose to go beyond 

 what was to be found between its covers. To 

 any one accustomed to deal with the facts of evo- 

 ultion, the Boothism of " The New Papacy " was 

 merely the natural and necessary development of 

 the Boothism of Mr. Bedstone's case and of the 



