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the preceding pages; and those who do will need 

 no help from me. 



I fear, however, that in justice to other people 

 I must put one of Dr. Greenwood's paragraphs in 

 the pillory. He says that I have " built up, on 

 the flimsy foundation of stories told by three or 

 four deserters from the Army " (p. 114), a sweep- 

 ing indictment against General Booth. This is 

 the sort of thing to which I am well accustomed at 

 the hands of anonymous newspaper writers. But 

 in view of the following easily verifiable state- 

 ments, I do not think that an educated and, I 

 have no doubt, highly respectable gentleman like 

 Dr. Greenwood can, in cold blood, contemplate 

 that assertion with satisfaction. 



The persons here alluded to as " three or four 

 deserters from the army " are: 



(1) Mr. Redstone, for whose character Dr. Cun- 

 ningham Geikie is guarantee, and whom it has 

 been left to Dr. Greenwood to attempt to be- 

 smirch. 



(2) Mr. Sumner, who is a gentleman quite as 

 worthy of respect as Dr. Greenwood, and whose 

 published evidence not one of the champions of 

 the Salvation Army has yet ventured to impugn. 



(3) Mr. Hodges, similarly libelled by that un- 

 happy meddler Mr. Trotter, who was compelled to 

 the prompt confession of his error (see p. 277). 



(4) Notwithstanding this evidence of Mr. Trot- 

 ter's claims to attention, Dr. Greenwood quotes a 



