X PREFACE 



pose of investigating the manner in which the 

 moneys, subscribed in response to the appeal made 

 in the book entitled ' In Darkest England and the 

 Way out,' have been expended." The members of 

 this body were gentlemen in whose competency 

 and equity every one must have complete con- 

 fidence ; and in December 1892 they published 

 a report in which they declare that, " with the 

 exception of the sums expended on the ' barracks ' 

 at Hadleigh," the moneys in question have been 

 " devoted only to the objects and expended in the 

 methods set out in that appeal, and to and in no 

 others." 



Nevertheless, their final conclusion runs as 

 follows : " (4) That whilst the invested property, 

 real and personal, resulting from such Appeal is 

 so vested and controlled by the Trust of the Deed 

 of January 30th, 1891, that any application of it 

 to purposes other than those declared in the deed 

 by any ' General ' of the Salvation Army would 

 amount to a breach of trust, and would subject him 

 to the proceedings of a civil and criminal character, 

 before mentioned in the Report, adequate legal 

 safeguards do not at present exist to prevent the 

 misapplication of such property." 



The passage I have italicised forms part of a 

 document dated December 19th, 1892. It follows, 

 that, even after the Deed of January 30th, 1891, 

 was executed, " adequate legal safeguards " " to 

 prevent the misapplication of the property " did 





