SALVATION ARMY
NEW CHIEF DICTATES REFORMS BOOTH’S SECRET ENVELOPE Reed 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. The “Daily Mail” learns that the late General Bramwell Booth’s secret envelope, which was burned, contained the name of Miss Catherine Booth as his successor. A member of the Booth family says the fact that the solicitor revealed the date of General Booth’s signature removes any doubt regarding the identity of his successor, and also proves that the general changed his mind when he found that the nine commissioners who sent him the letter were attempting to alter the constitution of the Salvation Army. , General K. J- Higgins, head of the Salvation Army, in the course of a speech at Belfast, said the capital and assets of the organisation should no longer he held by a single individual, hut by trustees. In future the general would not have power to appoint hi _ successor. The choice would be vested hi * body, which would have thp sole power of selection. General Higgins said he proposed * oetnhlisli an age-linut for ofiicers Of the army. He hinted that the time would semn come for his own retirement. ___
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 882, 28 January 1930, Page 9
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187SALVATION ARMY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 882, 28 January 1930, Page 9
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