THE RIGHT THING

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 622, 26 March 1929, Page 9

THE RIGHT THING

SALVATION ARMY’S MOVE SPLIT IN RANKS IMPROBABLE “My opinion is that the High Council of the Army has done the right thing. General Bramwell Booth, at 73 years of age and in failing health could not possibly hope to take up his arduous duties again.” The speaker was Commissioner Charles Sowton, of Sydney, who is in charge of Salvation Army work in New South Wales and Queensland. He is a passenger on the Niagara and is returning to Sydney after attending the recent momentous deliberations of the Salvation Army High Council in London. He left Australia in November last and was in London for seven weeks.

“I think also that the right man has been chosen for the position at the head of the organisation,” he told a Sun man. “General Higgins has the fullest confidence of Salvation Army officials throughout the world. I am sure that any danger of a split being created in the ranks of th© Army Is now over. Th© rank and file, and our supporters, accept the present situation and feel that the problem has now been cleared up.” Commissioner Sowton is a Salvation Army officer of wide experience and was for 10 years in Canada and the United States. During the 45 years of his association with the Army as an officer he has had experience in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and India. He will remain in New Zealand visiting friends and relatives for about ten days.