SALVATION ARMY
EVANGELINE BOOTH’S APPEAL (United Press Association—B.v Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON. Feb. 25. “Although you refused my repeated requests to see BntmweU, now that a stretch of three thousand miles of sea. are Ivrfore me. with all the uncertainties which time brings. 1 cannot refrain from making another plea, which surely you will not deny.” wrote Evangeline Booth, addressing the General’s wife, in correspondence which was published on the eve of Evangeline going to America. She adds: “Whether he is worse or better, whether he is ennseioiis nr unconscious, whether he is willing or unwilling to see me. his serious condition of health, coupled wun flesh and blood relationship, and mv heart’s unflattering love, is my indisputable claim. If he recovers 1 am confident lie will be pleased f did not go home without a few words together. If he does not recover, how can In' met our father and mother in
Heaven, if he refused to see me it only to kiss goodbye and pray together. H von are not consulting Bramwell in the matter, I must, ask you to consider the gravity of the responsibility you are assuming.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1929, Page 5
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