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the Army as agents for advertising and selling his 

 publications ; and some of them are so strongly 

 impressed with the belief that active pushing of 

 Mr. Booth's business is the best road to their 

 master's favour, that when the public obstinately 

 refuse to purchase his papers they buy them 

 themselves and send the proceeds to headquarters. 

 Mr. Booth is also a retail trader on a large scale, 

 and the Dean of Wells has, most seasonably, 

 drawn attention to the very notable banking pro- 

 ject which he is trying to float. Any one who 

 follows Dean Plumptre's clear exposition of the 

 principles of this financial operation can have 

 little doubt that, whether they are, or are not, 

 adequate to the attainment of the first and second 

 of Mr. Booth's ostensible objects, they may be 

 trusted to effect a wide extension of any kingdom 

 in which worldly possessions are of no value. We 

 are, in fact, in sight of a financial catastrophe like 

 that of Law a century ago. Only it is the poor 

 who will suffer. 



I have already occupied too much of your space, 

 and yet I have drawn upon only one of the 

 sources of information about the inner working 

 of the Salvation Ai-my at my disposition. Far 

 graver charges than any here dealt with are 

 publicly brought in the others. 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 



T. H. Huxley. 



