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ruler said, surely the reign of clean living, indus- 

 try, and thrift is worth any quantity of tambour- 

 ines 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 util- 

 ise the credit won by all this honest devotion and 

 self-sacrifice for the purposes of his socialistic au- 

 tocracy. 



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 parte; 

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

 evidence and from other concurrent testimony re- 

 specting 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 Do- 

 minion of Canada: — 



