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use of the weapons of the devil as Mr. Hodges 

 affirms that his was ? 



Therefore, in my third letter, I commenced my 

 illustrations of the practical working of Boothism 

 with the evidence of Mr. Redstone, fortified and 

 supplemented by that of a non-Salvationist, Dr. 

 Cunningham Geikie. That testimony has not 

 been challenged, and, until it is, I shall assume 

 that it cannot be. In my fourth letter, I cited a 

 definite statement by Mr. Hodges in evidence of 

 the Jesuitical principles of headquarters. What 

 sort of answer is it to tell us that Mr. Hodges 

 was dismissed the army ? A child might expect 

 that some such red herring would be drawn 

 across the trail ; and, in anticipation of the stale 

 trick, I added the strong primd facie evidence of 

 the trustworthiness of my witness, in this par- 

 ticular, which is afiforded by the " Eagle " case. 

 It was not until I wrote my fourth letter to you. 

 Sir — until the exploitation of the " captains " and 

 the Jesuitry of headquarters could be proved up 

 to the hilt — that I ventured to have recourse to 

 " The New Papacy." So far as the pamphlet 

 itself goes, this is an anonymous work ; and, for 

 sufficient reasons, I did not choose to go beyond 

 what was to be found between its covers. To 

 any one accustomed to deal with the facts of 

 evolution, the Boothism of" The New Papacy " was 

 merely the natural and necessary development 

 of the Boothism of Mr. Redstone's case and of the 



