Booth is Bitterly Assailed by Sister

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 586, 12 February 1929, Page 13

Booth is Bitterly Assailed by Sister

“UNWORTHY ACTIONS”

SALVATION ARMY CRISIS (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON, Sunday. Commander Evangeline Booth, sister of General Bramwell Booth, has written a letter to the American Salvationists: — "How heartbreaking is the spectacle presented by the unworthy actions of our General and his long hitherto honoured career. I grieve for you even more than for myself. He contravened the Army’s sacred principles, embodied in the regulations which its founder gave us, which the General himself has enforced during half a century. "He has violated the letter and the spirit of the New Testament by hailing his brethren into the law courts. Would to God I could have protected you and your fellow Salvationists throughout the world from the humiliation in which this dragging of Salvationists into the courts has involved us all. "The General has done this despite the entreaties, tears and prayers of his wisest and responsible officers.”

ATTACK ON THE DEED

A STRANGE POSITION British Official 'Wireless TtTJGBX, Sunday. Commissioner Edward Higgins, chief of the Salvation Army Staff, in a letter issued yesterday, refers to the question of the leadership, which will be discussed by counsel at a meeting of the High Council on Wednesday. It is understood that Mr. Jowitt, K.C., will represent General Booth. Commissioner Higgins says that if the General’s attack on the deed executed by the Army founder in 1904 succeeds, the position will revert to that existing'under the 1876 deed, whereby neither the present General nor any nominee of his could be removed from office for any cause whatever.