General Booth at Home
General Booth addressed a lar^e meeting 1 of his supporters in Kxeter Hall, ami dealt at considerable length with his own family's aud the Salvation Army's achievements He devotod a large part of his speech to confuting 1 the adverse critic S:ns made upon liimseif and the Army in the press and els< wh "re, characterisiiu these comments as beint>- bused upon complete and wilful ignorance. Tho wo v k of the legal department oi the Army was, he said, becoming enormous. They did net like licig'iitinn, hue had not yet seen their way to sitting' down and submitting t> injnstic when the law could »ivo them r-)rlress. The Salvation Army were great lawkeepers. hey were not the lawbreakers at Eastbourne: (Great cheering ) Last year they had about one hundred lawsuits, and now there were about sixty pending. i They already had two or three solicitors. They now wanted a clever barrister. Mr Booth spoke at great length upon his reception in foreign countries he had visited, and maintained that tie vast uncultivated areas in Auatraliaand Africa might be mo.de the salvation from misery of all the poor and wretched in the United Kingdom and thousand beside 1
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 126, 21 April 1892, Page 2
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202General Booth at Home Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 126, 21 April 1892, Page 2
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