GENERAL BOOTH'S NEW YEAR MESSAGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 716, 15 January 1910, Page 9

GENERAL BOOTH'S NEW YEAR MESSAGE.

"General --'Booth's New,Yeai/message;; it]", :.-/.:, his' followers, in, Australia, is'as' follows ; ;¥' i ''Comrades,'there, is. hot a: soul, anion j,"v\s you. that would not:like 1910,t0 bo.a!bet-'■//;;• ter year'tha'n: any. that.;have gone;before- J -/:: it,and:glory'to/God in the:Highest,thisi-.;':;, cah..bb ; so; ..'You-cah; hayo raoro;peace in ':•';: your: mind;,:more,.people;in.':ypur.,'meet- ;/•/; ings; more soldiers -on .'your '.rolls;" more • ''// souls at thb mercy seat.-moTe'honour for //:C Jesus,Christ; : and' : morb treasure'laid, up i'v" •in Heaven. Yes,., you pan havo.all-.these ;//; precious things and more. The;New."Year ~'.,'s is -in your own- hands.,; It is ,-tfae; thatr/./' thb? difficulties. that bar: your,-,way-;- a i»©, l .:.y great; tho,,devils' arc strong ;,itlie dark-;;;:..:,:; noss; is dense; the;,'hearts';are;hard,.and!:■:■■;.' the. sorrows,that often .weigh;you;dowh.:,f.',-'; : . /arenumerous, '.. and-left to/yourselves you, : .-.'/ will bo; defeated.,: -But Almighty power]//:, can. make.>l9lo -■ gloriously: The conditions.on whichUh6.:bestbwmcnt I/://: of; that power depend are': Earnest prayer,/-;':.,;' godly i living;. simplo: faith, \ and-desperatol ;.■:,','.r fighting.;/ 1 :;ain.willing/to ,join;you 'in'a;//'/; holy, .undertaking for the 'fulfilment .of/;/;'.', these i conditions, and in - token; thereof-.';. \; signimy n;une at the foot of, this ..column.; ;;/; If;,you will; join inb.in" this'sacred'. con-U-i tract- go down on your "knees before God: •};;';;; and sign your.: name opposite v to -that .of'..!': -// vour:, 'affectionate General,/;. William '&'.'; Booth.''. ;: ::::;.;.;.yW//;/;/:-' K/Vr/:'/ ::/v ■:^:^f;Ayi . Tho Abbe perfo'l-'med: tho ;:;.;;':'?' last ritos'at the'burial:of.l'athei''Tyrrell,' : :-''v!* : and'.pronounced-' a- eulogy, at' his grave- ;■:■;> side, lias' retracted,: according ;:,to;-..the , ',:-. ; : "Tablet."'; The Abbe ..has.been/under -j;:;/ censurp of .suspension a dmnis,: but, thb;: : V3;. censure/ has/been -.removed' in considerar' - ;/' Hon of a docdraent;ho,has signed.and'for-.- :-..;.■:■■ warded to Bonie, with the=statement that , -; ';'- . v hb;has done so quite'freely, and.without •';-. icpnstrnmt.' ..'-He .professes full and: sincere.:. ; :; submission';, to ecclesiastical :' authority; i;;"' :rind-expresses-his regret; and-;'condemna- ! - i-. ' Jon of.everything/that-ho/did: that. was-.:.;.,:; 'reprehensible;'at tho. funeral, of ..Father it.:;.., Tyrrell;;.'■•H'o , ''deelares-.liis'..unroservc'diad- ;://;,; herenco t0 !; all/ tho /doctrines/ of Church,'and notably, to" the. instrriotions/':..:;:,, contained in the decree LamcntTbili;--andi : .i : ; .the;[encyclical Piisccndi.: The.fiiial clause.;:; J; of ;ii;ho:rretraction, 'refers-. to'' the -'Pope V:-;.'.;,,-:;; prbhouncements against /Modernism. :,,-■','',<•: : The Bible is still much -moro' in'do'-:':!-',:; nuvh'd'than any other : book.;uThe Oxford-;; ;;.; Press,. the : "Sunday at Home" states;' ;:'::.-. turns out 20,000 Bibles in : a week.: More,";'; :; than-"40,000 sheets of: gold - aro used iri;.:.;,. lettering .the., volumes,:and:.loo,ooo skins.,'.;: : ;; go:. into Oxford Bible covers each .-year, .iv.; ; Tho British arid : Foreign SocietySprints-Vf,;-:;:.';. thb.'Biblo,in-400 languogos.:,:'Duririg:the.''':,,.:'•;: 'first:year"of- America's-rule in tho -Phil- !'ii}','-\ ippines ' 10,700.:'Bibles:.-;were;■:^^distributed:■"':■: .;;' there. ;The issue of Bibles for China:last,;;-'::: year, was 423,000 copies.; Tho; factis,-.th'e'.' ; .K;,: Bible to-day is tho.'inost'pb^ular;:..bbok;ia.;-:C;.';.:V-theiworid, and more copies are sold-tKan'VjV'" ; '. of ja'ny. other hundred books' combined;"; :--i;,;; :''The:Missioriary-Reviow'of.t.lio.:\Vorld,"v./;.;.,'.: on'jthe'authority of the, Key. Mr; Schiller;;''.';', : Guperintendent of the-. German. General-:.-Evangelical.i, Protestant;- Missionary,'; So-;-: : : -;; cioty at Kioto, says -that' ■'.'American .:<',,'; sioharios retain the leadership;inrJapan- :■;■:; .; oso. missions 't'o-duy,','aridv American'-.:ih-:; i'l:'.. fluencb in, Japau : means Protestant Chris-;,:;/-;;': tiari;influence." :"The Itoricw";adds that.;:!:-•-: ''the 1 . .Tapanoso: Pariiament, 6f : : 380 jhenir >,'::■; hers;contains 1-4 Christians, .or; i per'bent.; :;,-; : while tho.number ofiChristians;in Japan c:.':/ is'about 0.i5 pcr.ccnt.. .Ofi.t.hcso.llVmcm--' : ;''::::' bbrs ! of.Parliament:seven are l Presbyter-I:":;■,' ians,. two Methodists,. and' five - Kumialj',:: (native 'Congregationalists).".: :'.:;■';:::'; ■■.-,' .-i: