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ures, the ascertainment of which must have taken 

 much time and trouble. Yet, forsooth, it was 

 written in " a hot fit." 



I sincerely hope, for the sake of his own credit, 

 that Mr. " Commissioner " Booth-Clibborn does 

 not know as much about this melancholy business 

 as I do. My hands are unfortunately tied, and I 

 am not at liberty to use all the information in my 

 possession. I must content myself with quoting 

 the following passage from the preface to "The 

 New Papacy": — 



" It has not been without considerable thought 

 and a good deal of urging that the following pages 

 have been given to the public. But though we 

 would have shrunk from a labour so distasteful, 

 and have gladly avoided a notoriety anything but 

 pleasant to the feelings, or conducive to our ma- 

 terial welfare, we have felt that in the interests 

 of the benevolent public, in the interests of re- 

 ligion, in the interests of a band of devoted men 

 and women, whose personal ends are being de- 

 feated, and the fruit of whose labour is being de- 

 stroyed, and, above all, in the interests of that 

 future which lies before the Salvation Army, if 

 purged and purified in its executive and returned 

 to its original position in the ranks of Canadian 

 Christian effort, it is no more than our duty to 

 throw such light as we are able upon its true in- 

 wardness, and with that object and for the further- 



