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P.S. — I have just read Mr. Buchanan's letter in 

 the Times of to-day. Mr. Buchanan is, I beheve, 

 an imaginative writer. I am not acquainted with 

 his works, but nothing in the way of fiction he 

 has yet achieved can well surpass his account of 

 my opinions and of the purport of my writings. 



IV 



The " Times;' Deccmler 20th, 1890 



Sir, — In discussing Mr. Booth's projects I have 

 hitherto left in the background a distinction 

 which must be kept well in sight by those who 

 wish to form a fair judgment of the influence, for 

 good or evil, of the Salvation Army. Salvationism, 

 the work of " saving souls " by revivalist methods, 

 is one thing ; Boothism, the utilization of the 

 workers for the furtherance of Mr. Booth's 

 peculiar projects, is another. Mr. Booth has 

 captured, and harnessed with sharp bits and 

 effectual blinkers, a multitude of ultra-Evange- 

 lical missionaries of the revivalist school who were 

 wandering at large. It is this skilfully, if some- 

 what mercilessly, driven team which has dragged 

 the " General's " coach-load of projects into their 

 present position. 



