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a great ruler said, surely the reign of clean living, 

 industry, and thrift is worth any quantity of 

 tambourines and eccentric doctrinal hypotheses. 

 All that I have hitherto said, and propose further 

 to say, is directed against Mr. Booth's extremely 

 clever, audacious, and hitherto successful attempt 

 to utilize the credit won by all this honest devo- 

 tion and self-sacrifice for the purposes of his 

 socialistic autocracy. 



I now propose to bring forward a little more 

 evidence as to how things really stand where Mr. 

 Booth's system has had a fair trial. I obtain it, 

 mainly, from a curious pamphlet, the title of 

 which runs : " The New Papacy. Behind the 

 Scenes in the Salvation Army," by an ex-Staff 

 Officer. " Make not my Father's house a house of 

 merchandise " (John ii. 16). 1889. Published 

 at Toronto, by A. Britnell. On the cover it is 

 stated that " This is the book which was burned 

 by the authorities of the Salvation Army." I 

 remind the reader, once more, that the statements 

 which I shall cite must be regarded as ex imrtc ; 

 all I can vouch for is that, on grounds of internal 

 evidence and from other concurrent testimony 

 respecting the ways of the Booth hierarchy, I 

 feel justified in using them. 



This is the picture the writer draws of the army 

 in the early days of its invasion of the Dominion 

 of Canada : — 



