SALVATION ARMYS NEXT CHIEF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 28 September 1907, Page 4

SALVATION ARMYS NEXT CHIEF.

o ■— < : I..>EBAL BOOTH'S FORESIGHT. When General Booth stated at Blac bii'.'ii, as reported recently, that the sail cU-tric. Hash that carried the news li.s death would announce that a nc ijcu.'iv.l of the Salvation Army live he spoke with a precision to which fa th.r inquiries amply testify. ■>•'■ Bramuell Booth, the eldest s< <'f >..eiio,-,il Booth, will probably suctct hj- failiT as chief of tho Salvatii Army, the legal papers announcing tl appointment lie sealed up in the van! of -Messrs Hanger, Burton, and Fros solictors, 1-Y.i-lmrch street, London. 0 the death of t:,. general the cuvclor will be opened and the successor's nan: will be published to the world simu liinoously with the news of the general death.

Mr Bramwoll Booth is generally conceded to be his father's first choice, but the general has selected two others in case of the death of the first. The second and third in the list are stated on good authority to be Commissioner Henry H.ftyurd, of London, and Commissioner Booth Tucker, the general's son-in-law. ALL PIIEPARA'iTOXS .MADE. General Booth's own comment on the .■dtiution in the event of his death is a* 1,d10.,5: •-.Many people have said to I me, 'Y\ ell, .general, you can't expect to live for ever, you know. You must die j sonic lime. What is going to become of the Solvation Army when you are dead? -My answer to this is simple; I would bj luolish indeed if after building up a great organisation I did not take the necessary steps towards its perpetuation. 1 would he lacking good business sense if I had not already made all preparations that best legal skill could devise. All these preparations are made. '■But I want to say I am not dead yet; on the contrary, I have a lot of tight in me still."