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 CONTAINING A FULL ACCOUNT 
 
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 Wb can quite understand that the publication of the 
 following facts will prove more or less detrimental to the 
 organization in which we have labored during the past 
 seven and nine years, respectively. Perhaps no person 
 ieels this more than ourselves, especially when we con- 
 sider the many hard-working Field Officers who, if they 
 continue in their present position, will be compelled to 
 undergo greater hardships and privations than any 
 hithe]*to endured. However, with our duty before us, 
 unpleasant as it is, we feel it would be grossly unjust on 
 our part, were we to withhold from enquiring minds the 
 following informatidn regarding that which ^ we cannot 
 reeog3u?e to be any other than the ^result of the one-man 
 power, nQw existing in the Salvation Army. 
 
 We cannot but feel that, in pursuing the course we 
 have taken) we expose ourselves to more or less misun- 
 dewttoding; tiiis is only natural, nevertheless^ if we may 
 but live to flee these grievances remedied; if the leaders 
 of ^s gjn&t concern, wUl only bow before the ptjesty of 
 Him who rufeth over all and acknowledge the evils that 
 have crept in amiong them, and Beseech that God to 
 have mercy ; if the present system of gOyernifi^t in the 
 Aimy is done away with, and a new administration 
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 CHAPTER L 
 
 MR. PHILPOTT S OASB. 
 
 MY LOVE FOR THE ABBft— AUtOCBATIC POWBB- 
 
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 -WHY I AM 
 
 CANNOi? express my sorrow at having to send 
 this little work abroad, charged as it is with 
 truths uDgainsayable against an organization 
 upon whidi I have looked for nine years as the 
 grandest under Heaven. It l)ecomes painful in 
 the extreme when I consider the e^ect that this will 
 J*"* have upon the many devoted fifeld 0]flicers who toil 
 day and nieht in a work so difficult as theirs: However, 
 having had my eyes unmist^ably opened to nfany 
 things which, a short timie ago, 1 could not have believed 
 to exist, l;>ut which have recently stared me in the face as 
 facts, I feel it .is my duty as a mr-^ of Gbd to reveal and 
 dr lotmce that which, in the mildest light, can only be 
 looked upon as inconsistencies on the part of many of 
 the Army leaders. 
 
 The A»my, as an organization, is as d4ar tome as ever, 
 while my love for a number of the officei:s was never 
 deeper. It is for this reason that I now put forth an 
 humble Qfl^rt to make manifest that which is wrong, for 
 I have a faint hope that if the men at Uie h^, of this 
 movement can be made to acknowledge and 46pk»« tlie 
 sad state of affairs and t6 turn to Qod for grace and( 
 wisdom to al^r the present mode of govcinun^t^ thai 
 
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 new hope will spring up in the heart of many a warrior, 
 now almost discouraged, and that the glorious work 
 which broke out in the earlier days of the Army, may 
 rise again and bless our country. I will not say that 
 this is altogether impossible, but that one-man 'power 
 now in existence, is such a sweet morsel to those who 
 possess it, that it can hardly be expected they will for- 
 feit the same. 
 
 The story relating to my present position is a long and 
 sad one ; I can therefore deal with it only in part. 
 Sometimes it seems impossible to believe that so much 
 has transpired during the past few weeks. The fact that 
 in such a cruel and unexpected manner I have been 
 thrust from my people, from those with whom I have 
 toiled and prayed so many years, starts oft-times up 
 before me as an unwelcome dream. Yet I am compelled 
 to believe this is actually the case. 
 
 Up to a very short time ago, all my prospects and 
 hopes were centred in the Salvation Army. I informed 
 Mr. Herbert Booth, on the day he forced me to resign, 
 that I would rather he had carried my wife and me up 
 Yonge-street to the cemetery, than to have placed us in 
 such a position, for it did seem that our hopes in life 
 were blasted forever; but we have found a refuge in 
 God, and He has lifted us up. 
 
 When first I found myself severed from the Army, I 
 decided to refrain, as far as possible, from giving any 
 explanation to the general public, but when I saw every 
 effort being put forth by Mr. Booth and his aids to 
 damage my character and destroy my influence, I felt it, 
 under these circumstances, to be the will of God, that 1 
 should proceed to vindicate myself, not for the sake of 
 my character only, for I am persuaded that neither men 
 nor devils can demolish that as long as I live to the glory 
 of God, but for the sake of the men and women up and 
 down this country who have placed in me their con- 
 fidence, and who would naturally look for an explanation. 
 
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 I do not think that Mr. Booth ever anticipated such an 
 outbreak on the part of his people, nor did he expect 
 that the whole matter would reach such a serious climax 
 as it actually has. Officers have risen up in all quarters 
 demanding from Mr. Booth p full explanation in the 
 presence of the accused, but this, as will be seen later on, 
 has been emphatically refused. Not only did the officers 
 in and around Toronto rise up, but the city soldiery 
 became indignant at such high-handed work, and in the 
 form of a deputation waited upon the Array's leader at 
 midnight to see if they could not prevail upon him to 
 grant their reasonable "equest. The soldiers, however, 
 were treated in the same manner as the officers and were 
 given to understand that it was very wrong of them to 
 come to their leader, " the General's son," to ask for 
 explanations, for he declared that to give any explanations 
 to inferiors would be lowering the dignity of his position. 
 
 Mr. Booth expressed his determination to avoid meet- 
 ing me and giving me the benefit of a Christian Church 
 trial or an Army court-martial. It will appear reason- 
 able to all that however guilty I may have been, I had 
 at least a right to hear the charges brought against me, 
 and, like any ordinary criminal, to have the privilege of 
 clearing myself, if possible. Moreover the Bible is not 
 silent on such matters ; it contains directions so specific 
 that they must appeal at once to the consciousness of 
 every Christian man. I refer the reader m Matt, xviii. 
 15-17 : " Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against 
 thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him 
 alone ; if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy 
 brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with 
 thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three 
 witnesses every word may be established. And if he 
 shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the Church : but 
 if he neglect to hear the Church, let him be unto thee 
 as an heathen man and a publican." 
 
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 story of the accused Paul, on whose behalf Festus, the 
 Roman judge, thus delivered himself before the king : 
 " King Agrippa and all men which are here present with 
 us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the 
 Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem and also 
 here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. But 
 when I found he had committed nothing worthy of 
 death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, 
 I have determined to send him, of whom I have no cer- 
 tain thing to write, unto ray lord. Wherefore I have 
 brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, 
 O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might 
 have somewhat to write, for it seemeth to me unreason- 
 able to send a 'prisoner; and not withal to signify the 
 crimes laid against him.'' (Acts xxv. 24-27.) Then in 
 the first verse of the following chapter we observe that 
 Agrippa although making no profession whatever of 
 religion is ready to grant unto Paul the privilege which 
 Commandant Booth has denied me : ** Then Agrippa 
 said unto Paul : Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. 
 Then Paul stretched forth the hand and answered for 
 himself." 
 
 Now, had Mr. Booth in the first place brought my case 
 before the Church according to our Lord's directions in 
 Matthew's Gospel, or granted me the same privilege ten- 
 dered to Paul, I cannot but feel that all this trouble and 
 difliculty might have been saved. 
 
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 CHAPTER II. 
 
 THOSE PRIVATE MEETINGS — MR. BOOTH WILL NOT EXPLAIN 
 — THE LONDON PROPERTY. 
 
 AM anxious that you should know how Mr. 
 Booth dealt with this case from the first. 
 After calling his Toronto staff together, he 
 made plain to them his version of the affair, 
 after which they were asked to sign a declara- 
 tion of confidence in his actions. Some, however, 
 were not satisfied, and one individual who wrote 
 him to that effect was censured as a double-minded 
 
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 Mr. Booth next called together his field oflScers, and 
 proceeded to deal with them in his own convenient man- 
 ner. A number in this meeting were far from satisfied, 
 although they signed a paper declaring their perfect satis- 
 faction. Two, however, in this meeting refused to hold 
 up their hands to endorse Mr. Booth's actions, and it was 
 at once insinuated by him that they were wrong in their 
 souls, and they were invited " to the front," or in other 
 words to the penitent form. One of these officers, soon 
 after, left the meeting, yet next morning his name ap- 
 peared in the city papers as being perfectly satisfied, 
 when, be it known, ne had signed no declaration to that 
 effect. One or two officers and two or three cadets were 
 told to resign, simply because they persisted in demand- 
 ing an explanation in my presence. 
 
 Not stopping here, Mr. Booth convened a fourth meet- 
 ing on Saturday, August 20th, in which the officers, sol- 
 diers, and a few Army friends had the opportunity of lis- 
 tening to Mr. Booth's story. This meeting was held in 
 
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 the Lippincott-street barracks, at the door of which, I 
 understand, about 50 handbills were distributed, reading 
 as follows : " Remember you have not heard Bro. Phil- 
 pott's explanation." This little bill was handled very rough- 
 ly by my accuser, who went on to state that it proved how 
 unprincipled Mr. Philpott was to allow such action to be 
 taken, or words to that effect. Now, this is one of his 
 many charges, based on pure supposition, for I was not 
 aware that any such bills had been distributed until after 
 the meeting was held, and up to the time of writing I am 
 not in possession of the name of the individual who had 
 this matter in hand. 
 
 In this meeting, Mr. D , ex-treasurer of the L 
 
 street corps, asked permission to put a question, but he 
 was refused the privilege of making any audible remarks, 
 and was instructed to whisper into the CoinTYiandanfs 
 ear anything he had to say. This he did, and the ques- 
 tions were as follows : — (1) " Having heard all of your 
 explanations, and part of Brother Philpott's, may I ask 
 if you are willing to face him ? " Answer — " No." (2) 
 " The letters y«)u have read to us Mr. Philpott admits 
 writing, but will you explain under what circumstances 
 they were written? " Answer — " No." 
 
 Now, it is well to remember that not at one of these 
 meetings was I permitted to be present to say yea or nay 
 to Mr. Booth's charges. In addition to these private 
 meetings, the printing press was set to work, and in a 
 short time circular letters, which, to say the least, con- 
 tained verj^ misleading statements, were mailed to the 
 S. A. officers and friends, and to many of the clergy 
 throughout the Dominion. Mr. Booth also sent a letter 
 to his commanding officers, a copy of which I hold in my 
 possession, coupling my name with charges never heard of 
 by me, until this very letter acquainted me of them nine 
 days after my dismissal. 
 
 I desire to deal with these charges separately, in a 
 liberal and truthful manner ; by righteousness and truth 
 
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 I shall stand or fall. Before proceeding, however, I wish 
 it to be fully understood, that while I shall be pleased to 
 have each S. A. officer peruse these pages, yet I am too 
 well acquainted with the tactics of the Army " powers 
 that be " to expect any great amount of just reasoning 
 from that quarter. I know too well that cunning doc- 
 trine which stigmatises all who sever themselves from the 
 Army as veritable backsliders. In writing these pages, 
 therefore, I appeal rather to the unprejudiced public, and 
 leave all to arrive at their own conclusions. 
 
 Mr. Booth states that my conduct for twelve months 
 past has been very unsatisfactory. 1 feel like giving 
 Mr. Booth credit for the truth of this statement for, be it 
 remembered, when an officer in the Army persists in tak- 
 ing a stand for right and by so doing conflicts with the 
 higher powers, he naturally becomes obnoxious in the 
 sight of his superiors. ,^ Now, in reviewing the past, I 
 cannot but feel that my conduct became " unsatisfactory " 
 when I first took my stand in opposition to the general 
 headquarters. This was over twelve months ago. I then 
 ranked as Brigadier and was the Army's representative 
 for Western Ontario, with my headquarters at London. 
 Some time previous to my appointment to this position, 
 the Army had lost their London barracks by fire and ap- 
 peals were made through the War Cry and otherwise to 
 raise money for its restoration. The soldiers and friends 
 were naturally anxious to see a new building erected, and 
 upon my arrival in their midst I found everyone on the 
 tip-toe of expectation for the same. I was in communi- 
 cation with headquarters, having written one or two 
 letters to the then Commissioner about the matter, and 
 just when I was expecting to receive encouragement to 
 
 fo ahead with my plans to rebuild, to my great surprise 
 received orders from headquarters to have the land 
 valued as they had decided to sell it. Now, as will be 
 readily understood, this placed me in a very awkward 
 position. I knew the Army property was one of the best 
 
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 sites in the city and to sell it would cause universal dis- 
 appointment. I wrote to the Commissioner accordingly, 
 when a few days after, to my still further astonishment, 
 
 while I was absent from the city, one Captain W , 
 
 from Toronto, arrived in London as headquarters' repre- 
 sentative, and disposed of the property for $3,280.00, and 
 as this wws $760.00 less than a former offer we had re- 
 ceived for it, I could not but feel that a great injustice 
 had been done to the London people, and it shook my 
 confidence in the management of S.A. property, as the 
 following letter to Commissioner Rees will show. I had 
 received a letter from the Commissioner asking if I knew 
 of any suitable lots in London. This was while I was 
 resting : my reply will speak for itself : — 
 
 RoTUSAY, N.B., Nov. 5th, 1891. 
 
 Commissioner D. M. Rees, Toronto. 
 
 My Dear Commissioner, 
 
 Re London. — I must confess that I gave over all in- 
 terest in Army property when the London lot was sold 
 in the manner it was, and I had almost made up my 
 mind not to interest myself in that line again. If pro- 
 perty can be sold without any explanation as to the rea- 
 son, and for what purpose the money is to be used, etc., 
 especially to the Army representative in that part of the 
 country where the sale takes place, I think I am justified 
 in so doing. 
 
 Faithfully Yours, 
 
 P. W. Philpott. 
 
 This, I think, must have been the time that my con- 
 duct proved so displeasing to Commissioner Rees. While 
 I was in London, I received orders to try and sell the 
 Lucan, Moorefield and Alvinston properties. These 
 towns had, in the early days, been strongholds of the 
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 the corps were closed, and, headquarters needing money, 
 the properties were put up for sale. Other Divisional 
 Officers in different parts of the Dominion have informed 
 me that the same course was pursued by headquarters in 
 dealing with certain towns in their divisions. I wish 
 here to make it plain that in many of these places a 
 great amount of money for the purchase of property was 
 raised locally, and I know something of the sadness and 
 disappointment that have filled the hearts of the soldiers 
 and Army friends, when they have found themselves 
 robbed of their place of worship in such a manner. 
 Moreover, I awoke to the fact that there was nothing 
 whatever to hinder the Army representative in Canada 
 from selling any property in the country, or placing a 
 mortgage thereon at any time, for the purpose of realiz- 
 ing money for headquarters to be used by them in any 
 way they might choose, and this, whether I b') regarded 
 disloyal or not, I could not conscientiously endorse. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 THOSE AWFUL CHARGES — BLOOD SALVATIONISTS — THE 
 LUXURIES OF A PULLMAN CAR VeVSUS BREAD AND 
 BUTTER — THE ARMY CASTES — ^TO THE CHURCHES FOR 
 MONEY. 
 
 'N Mr. Booth's^ circular letter referred to in the 
 previous chapter, I am charged with having 
 said that there was " no God in the concern." 
 Now, although I do not remember using these 
 words, yet many times I really did feel that 
 God was separating Himself from us. Nor was I 
 the only officer who realised this awful truth. I 
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 from different divisional and staff officers, representing 
 this country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in corrobor- 
 ation of this fact, but for the sake of the writers I have 
 concluded to withhold them. 
 
 Nevertheless, these letters contain most emphatic 
 statements of bitter dissatisfaction and regret ; they 
 were written not in the heat of the battle but in the 
 quiet hours of reflection, when truth comes up to the 
 soul in its purest light. They contain the language of a 
 hope almost forlorn, of a hidden sorrow better felt than 
 told. 
 
 This state of dissatisfaction was universally felt all 
 over the field, and the work was falling into spiritual 
 decline. 
 
 The next charge against me is that of bringing cruel 
 accusations against some of the leading officers. I sup- 
 pose Mr. Booth refers to the trouble I had with Com- 
 missioner Kees in reference to the extravagance in con- 
 nection with La Mardchale Booth-Clibborn's tour through 
 Canada. I shall explain the case as it is : Mrs. Clibborn 
 visited Canada in the interests of the Army work in 
 France, and as I accompanied her in her travels through 
 the Dominion, I therefore know whereof I speak. We 
 visited London, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, and Mon- 
 'treal. Mrs. Clibborn's story of the great sacrifice on the 
 part of the French officers touched many hearts, and 
 brought forth from her hearers that practical sympathy 
 which was so much desired, one gentleman giving as 
 much as $500. 
 
 Everything went fairly well on this tour until our 
 leaving Toronto for Kingston on the morning before 
 Christmas. On boarding the train at North Toronto we 
 found the cars packed, and I suggested to Commissioner 
 Rees that Mrs. Clibborn should take the parlor car, but 
 finding this also filled, the conductor, out of kindness, 
 allowed the party, consisting of La Mar^qjiale Booth- 
 Clibborn, Commissioner Rees, Staff Captains Peyron and 
 
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 Luxuries of a Pullman Car vs. Bread and Butter. 15 
 
 Cox, to have the use of the section. The train had just 
 started off, when, to my surprise, refreshments were or- 
 dered for the whole party occupying the section, and 
 although the distance from Toronto to Kingston is not 
 very great, the refreshment order was repeated before we 
 
 reached the latter city, wliile Captain McM and I, 
 
 as we sat in the first-class car, satisfied our hunger with, 
 some buns kindly given us by a friend. 
 
 We spent Christmas in Kingston, and the next day at 
 12.45 we left for Montreal. On changing cars at Sharbot 
 Lake, I said to Commissioner Rees : " Praise God for lots 
 of room to-day ! " for I noticed that the first-class car 
 a most comfortably furnished one, was nearly empty. 
 But the Commissioner ordered me to convey the baggage 
 to the Pullman car, which I found to be occupied by only 
 one lady ; nevertheless, the Commissioner, at the wish of 
 La Marechale, ordered me to engage the section again. 
 The conductor, the same who was on our train two days 
 before, informed us that if we wanted the section on that 
 day we should have to pay extra for it, as on the previous 
 occasion he had granted it on account of the crowd. Mrs. 
 Clibborn, however, insisted upon having it, and Commis- 
 sioner Rees in turn instructed me to pay the money out 
 and secure it, which I did. After we were all seated, 
 another order for refreshments was sent in. This I 
 thought was a great shame, and altogether out of place, 
 for only about two and a half hours before, we had all 
 partaken of a good dinner at Kingston. After seeing 
 the order filled, I made my way to the first-class car, and 
 while passing through the sleeper I overheard one of the 
 train-men remark : " I tell you we have blood-Salvation- 
 ists on board to-day ; they want the best of everything." 
 This went to my heart like a knife. Nor did it end here. 
 Before our arrival in Montreal refreshments were again 
 served out to the whole party, this being the second time 
 between Kingston and Montreal. Now I was announced 
 to lead the meeting in Montreal, while Mrs. Clibborn and 
 
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 New Light ! 
 
 the others went to their billets, and as I had to go direct 
 from the train to the meeting, the Commissioner came in 
 from the section and told me to get some bread and but- 
 ter for Capt McM and myself. I ordered the bread 
 
 and butter, and Commissioner Kees remained and watched 
 us eat it. I want to say that while partaking of that 
 evening meal I almost choked ; my heart was full of 
 weeping, for I could not banish from my mind the ex- 
 travagance which I had been compelled to witness that 
 day. 
 
 On taking our departure from Montreal I was in- 
 structed to order a section for the three ladies and an or- 
 dinary Pullman sleeper for Commissioner Rees, Capt. Mc- 
 
 M and myself. I again ventured to say to the 
 
 Commissioner that the section would cost considerably 
 more than the ordinary sleeper, but he, replying very 
 sharply, ordered me to secure the section. I now felt that 
 I had either to keep quiet or suffer the consequences ; I 
 therefore acted in accordance with the instructions and 
 engaged the section, and sleeper for the other officers, 
 taking a seat myself in a first-class car. I was just about 
 asleep when the Commissioner put in an appearance and 
 questioned me as to why I was not in my berth. I de- 
 clared to him that my conscience would not permit me to 
 take a berth. This seemed to annoy him very much, 
 and I could but feel ever afterwards that he treated me 
 very coolly, which, I am now aware, was his only policy. 
 
 While journeying homeward on that memorable night, 
 I was informed by the brakesman that an officer had 
 boarded the train at Sharbot Lake and was riding in a 
 8€cond-c/a88 car. On hearing this I pr needed to the 
 second-class car, and to my astonishment I found Ensign 
 
 D , a Canadian officer, on his way to Toronto to attend 
 
 the funeral of his wife's brother. Now, sad as it is for 
 me to relate, and strange as it may appear to the public, 
 
 the following was the order of travel : Ensign D , 
 
 2nd class ; Philpott, 1st class ; Commissioner Bees and 
 
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 Capt. McM , in the Pullman sleeper, with La Mar^- 
 
 chale and her aides in the section. Never before that 
 night did I think there were so many castes in the Army, 
 as we have always preached so much self-sacrifice and 
 professed to the world to have all things in common. 
 What hurt me even worse, if possible, was the thought 
 that the money expended on these luxuries was solicited 
 from the public on the plea of so much Array self-denial. 
 More concerning this tour will appear later on. 
 
 I am also charged with negotiating for employment 
 with some mission society, on the plea that I could not 
 waste my time in the Army. This charge is deduced from 
 a conversation 1 once had with Brigadier Holland on the 
 following subject : An aunt of mine had extended to me 
 an invitation to conduct services in the little village 
 where she now resides, and where I was born. Taking 
 into consideration that the Army had no corps in this 
 vicinity, and that the holding of a few meetings would 
 possibly mean a number of conversions among my old 
 schoolmates, I placed the matter before Brigadier Holland, 
 informing him at the same time that my position at head- 
 quarters did not afford me sufficient work, and that I was, 
 practically speaking, wasting my time, and asking him if 
 I could not go for a few days and conduct meetings at this 
 village ; but he thought it would not be proper for an 
 Army officer to take up such work in connection with a 
 church. I then referred to Staff Captains Bolton and Cox 
 who were going through the country holding meetings in 
 the churches, not because the churches were in every case 
 more suitable for Army meetings, but because they were 
 after money. "You allow these people to go to the 
 churches for money," I continued, "but you will not per- 
 mit me to arrange for a few meetings in a church, in 
 which to get sinners to Jesus ! " This opened my eyes 
 unmistakably to the true position of the Army towards 
 the Churches. 
 
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 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 MORE INCONSISTENCIES — SICK OFFICERS UNCARED FOR — 
 SENT TO ROTHSAY AT A GREAT COST. 
 
 'R. BOOTH states that during all this time 
 referred to, Commissioner Rees bore with me 
 with the greatest of patience, and did his ut- 
 most to bring me into a better state of mind. 
 I have no doubt that the Commissioner felt 
 it a difficult task, for I could not easily be paci- 
 fied, realizing as I did, that I was surrounded on 
 all sides by inconsistencies and double-dealing that 
 would have stung the inner consciousness of any Christian 
 man. And as these inconsistencies were continually re- 
 peating themselves, and even my faintest hopes for better 
 things began to die away, I louiid myself, as a natural 
 consequence, repeatedly taking a stand in opposition 
 to the " higher powers that be." 
 
 I do not wish to deny that I had several interviews 
 with Commissioner Rees, but I desire it to be plainly 
 understood that he never dealt with me on the subject of 
 being either disloyal or dishonorable. 
 
 Brigadier M — is responsible for saying, that on two 
 diflferent occasions. Commissioner Rees dealt and prayed 
 with me seventeen hours. This is not only entirely mis- 
 leading but absolutely false, as Commissioner Rees never 
 talked to me at any one time longer than two hours, and 
 never prayed with me seventeen minutes. I had thi privi- 
 lege of meeting Brigadier M — a few days ago from time of 
 writing, and confronted him with this and other matters. 
 In endeavoring to clear himself, to my utter astonish- 
 ment, he referred me to an occasion when Commissioner 
 
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 Rees visited Hamilton to see me on p rsonal and divi- 
 sional matters. When I told the misinformed Brigadier 
 that the Commissioner's boat arrived in Hamilton at 
 2.00 p.m. and left again at 5.00, thus leaving the Com- 
 missioner only three hours in my presence, and when I 
 further stated that much of this time was taken up in 
 visiting a resting officer and inspecting the Prison Gate 
 Home, Brigadier M — went on to say he supposed that 
 the Commissioner had calculated the time going and re- 
 turning between Hamilton and Toronto, on the boat, and 
 also the time spent in writing letters ! The absurdity 
 of this calculation is too evident to need comment. Even 
 supposing Brigadier M's statement were true, it would 
 show the public what persausive methods the Army 
 leaders will adopt to smooth over such cases as mine. 
 
 Again, Mr. Booth states in his letter to the Field Offi- 
 cers that I nearly left the Army "on two occasions." 
 He is a little astray here, for, be it known, I was three 
 or four times on the eve of severing myself from the 
 Army, and I felt that my reasons justified me in so 
 doing. While in London I had some difficulty with a 
 Stafl Officer ; I could not approve of his manner of deal- 
 ing with the people, and as in more than one instance his 
 conduct had been anything but commendable, I con- 
 fronted him with the matterfi in question. It was very 
 evident to me that we could not get on together, and as 
 I was the Army representative for the Western Ontario 
 Brigade, I requested Commissioner Reas to remove this 
 officer. As he showed no willingness to do so, I again 
 wrote saying he must take either him or me from that 
 part of the country. This, no doubt, is one of the occas- 
 sious referred to when I was on the point of leaving the 
 Armv. 
 
 The next time was during my charge in Hamilton. 
 My health having broken down, I must confess I could 
 not see how any provision would be made for me in the 
 Army, should 1 become further incapacitated. In nearly 
 
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 every town I visited I could find sick officers living at 
 the expense of their parents, or on the charity of tneir 
 friends, and I felt, as I looked at my wife and two chil- 
 dren, that 1 was duty bound to protect them. At this 
 time, near Hamilton, was a married couple of officers 
 living on a poor widow ; I was told by these officers, 
 that for a long time Headquarters had been promising 
 them help, but up to that time no help had come. Con- 
 sidering all these things, and facing again the fact that 
 my health was gone, 1 felt that, before I became prac- 
 tically helpless, 1 had better look after some kind of 
 employment, in order to protect my family against want 
 and also to recuperate my health. I wrote to the Com- 
 missioner to this efiect but he would not hear of such a 
 thing and wished me to go for a rest. I expressed a 
 
 desire to go to D and stay a while with Brother 
 
 S ,and assist him on his farm, for J hoped that one 
 
 or two months of this kind of work would build me up. 
 Commissioner Rees, however, thought it would lower 
 my prestige as a Staff Officer to go to work, and insisted 
 that i should go to the Army Home of Rest at Rothsay, 
 N. B. According to report, Mr. Booth states that I was 
 sent to Rothsay at great expense, and infers that I was 
 sent at my own request. I desire my readers to under- 
 stand: (I) That I went to Rothsay at the entreaty of 
 the Commissioner, as already stated ; (2) That this was 
 the first rest that I had taken during a period of nearly 
 eight years hard work ; (3) That I paid my own travel- 
 ling to Montreal and there held special meetings as 
 announced, out of the proceeds of which I was allowed 
 sufficient money to pay our fares, second class, to Roth- 
 say. Although the journey lasted a day and night, we 
 did not mind this, as we were anxious to cut down ex- 
 penses; (4) Finally, that during my stay at Rothsay, 
 (although I will say to the credit of headquarters, I re- 
 ceived a little financial assistance on two occasions while 
 resting), I paid my board and that of my wife at the rate 
 of $4.00 per week. After these facts, the public may 
 
My Arrival at Ileathptaiirrs. 
 
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 judge of the truth of Mr. Booth's statement. We had 
 not been in the Home of Rest many days before Mrs. 
 Philpott began to feel that our cliildren were an annoy- 
 ance to the otlier sick officers, and as the house was des- 
 titute of the conveniences necessary to remedy this, we 
 naturally felt uncomfortable and out of place. 
 
 After a sojourn of seven weeks in the East, the 
 doctor assured me that I should not be able to use my 
 throat for a year at least, and perhaps, two years, and ad- 
 vised me to undertake a ditferent kind of occupation. 
 Having acquainted the Commissioner with these facts, I 
 received a reply to go on resting ; I wrote again stating 
 that I could not possibly remain inactive for a longer 
 time, asking him in the same letter if he could not find 
 something for me to do, in which I could save my voice, 
 telling him plainly that if he could not arrange this, I 
 should be compelled to do something of my own accord. 
 The foregoing is a simple statement of my reason for 
 entertaing thoughts on different occasions of leaving the 
 Army, referred to in such a misleading way by Mr. Booth 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 MY ARRIVAL AT HEADQUARTERS — WHAT COMMISSIONER 
 REES TERMED A RESPONSIBLE POSITION — A PLAN TO 
 HELP THE FIELD OFFICERS FRUSTRATED BY THli ARMY 
 LEADERS — MY ALLEGED DISHONORABLE ACTIONS, 
 
 S a result of my last communication, I was 
 ordered to head-quarters and received an office 
 appointment. The Commissioner made me 
 , ' what he called " Secretary for special ettorts, " 
 impressing upon me that it was a most " re- 
 sponsible position." This I must state was an 
 
 untruth, for almost any cadet in the field could 
 
 have filled my duties as efficiently as myself. For days to- 
 
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 gether, I did not know what it was to have any responsible 
 work whatever, and I could not help feeling then, that I 
 was under the " freezing-out " process ; now I am certain 
 that such was the case ; for while many inferior officers 
 such as Lieutanants anvl Captains, besides being vested 
 with important duties, were so busily occupied that they 
 often extended their labors far beyond the usual hours, 
 I, though holding a higher rank, was often tempted to 
 remain absent from my office because of the small amount 
 of work offered me by my so-called responsible position. 
 Moreover, in giving me this appointment the Army 
 placed me in a position that .was destined to wound my 
 feelings deeper than ever, for I was now forced to admit 
 as facts, many unpleasant things of which 1 had heard 
 and had been reluctant to believe; at headquarters I 
 came in contact with them continually, and from the 
 very day of my induction to this " responsible position " 
 I began to lose confidence in the S. A. government. 
 
 Th<^ first difficulty at headquarters which caused me to 
 be lof'iied upon as dishonorable was in reference to the 
 salaries of the headquarters' staff, for be it remembered 
 that no man or woman at the S. A. headquarters goes with- 
 out salary. There would be no objection to this if all the 
 officers enjoyed the same privilege, but when we consider 
 that many Field Officers cannot remember the time when 
 they drew their full salary ; that many others for a num- 
 ber of months have received as little as ten, fifteen or 
 twenty cents per week, going destitute of necessary food 
 and clothing, we are confronted with the fact that not- 
 withstanding all the talk about equality in the Army 
 ranks, there is really very little of it. Although the 
 Army professes to adhere to Bible principles, it will be 
 evident from the above that the exhortation as given in 
 Galatians vi., 2. " Bear ye one another's burdens, and so 
 fulfil the law of Christ," was utterly, unheeded. 
 
 Knowing of many officers who were in the most indi- 
 gent circumstance, with the dead cold of winter staring 
 
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 A Plan to Help the Field Officers Frustrated. 2:^ 
 
 them in the face, with nought to shield thorn but their 
 summer clothing and cotton underwear, and no prospect 
 of getting any winter garments, I felt that, if we Stafl 
 Officers were really the men and women of principle and 
 christian character, which we professed to be, it was high 
 time something was done to alleviate such dire distress. 
 Accordingly, on a certain Friday afternoon, when the 
 members of the headquarters' staff were assembled in one 
 of their meetings, I brought a few of these cases to light, 
 and in the course of my remarks suggested that we should 
 devote a tenth of our salaries to a fund to help poor 
 officers. I told them that when I remembered the suffer- 
 ings of so many of my comrades, the salary I was draw- 
 ing did actually seem like " blood money. " These state- 
 ments awakened quite an interest, and, as a result, some 
 $25 or $30 worth of clothing was despatched to the field. 
 This system of givingj was kept up for the few following 
 weeks, and was participated in by all the members of the 
 staff, with the exception of three or four of the leaders 
 who seemed to think I had gone too far. In an inter- 
 view with Brigadier H , I endeavored to obtain his 
 
 sanction to the appointing of a secretary and treasurer, 
 to become responsible for the collecting of these weekly 
 donations of the headquarters' staff, and also to see that 
 the moneys were properly despatched, and stated my con- 
 viction that, if this were allowed, it would cause such a 
 current of love to flow into headquarters from the field, 
 as had never before been known. At the time I refer to, the 
 tenth of the headquarters' salaries, would amount to about 
 
 $30 per week. Brigadier H thought that the scheme 
 
 was unadvisable, as it would cause the Field Officers to 
 think that the headquarters people received a great deal 
 of money. " Well, " I replied, " it is immaterial what they 
 think, we get the money at any rate." However, my further 
 efforts to help the Field Officers were quashed, and all I 
 had said on the subject was subsequently misconstrued 
 and turned directly against me. 
 
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 My next difficulty was over a little card, published by 
 headquarters for distribution among the Army friends 
 throughout the Dominion, as an appeal for contributions 
 to the work When I saw this card I must confess I was 
 horrified, for on it were printed statements which I knew 
 to be palpably false; these statements were given out as 
 reasons ivhy the friends should help the Army. In the 
 first place, the card showed a greater number of officers 
 in Canada than really existed ; it also stated how suc- 
 cessfully the Army was evangelising the French-Cana- 
 dians ! Nov/, as much as we all admire the devotion of 
 the officers engaged in this difficult work, I could not feel 
 that a false statement of results was the proper way to 
 appeal for further financial help. Then, again, it stated 
 that the Army was preaching Christ to the Red Indians 
 on every Indian reserve in Canada. This I knew was so 
 absolutely false that it could admit of no possible excuse. 
 Although occasional services have been conducted among 
 the Indians in the vicinity of Sutton West, no regular 
 preaching has been done by the Army on any Indian re- 
 serve in the whole Dominion for some considerable length 
 of time. On the contrary, the Army has withdrawn from 
 every Indian reserve where it was formerly in operation. 
 
 I told those who were about to mail the cards that they 
 must not be sent out bearing such false statements. The 
 Financial Secretary was informed of it, but seeing that he 
 treated the matter as of little consequence, and that he 
 made no effort to stop the despatch of the cards, I went 
 
 and laid the matter before Brigadier H . The latter 
 
 informed me that he was not aware that these cards were 
 going out. I was surprised at this, and felt that a man 
 like himself, filling the position of Chief Secretary, should 
 be responsible for, or at the very least should be aware 
 of, matters of such grave importance. I told him if he 
 allowed the cards to go out, the officers seeing them 
 would know that the statements were untrue, and would 
 lose all confidence in headquarters. The result was that 
 
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 the thousands of these cards, instead of going to the post, 
 were at once destroyed. Covers of a certain book, just 
 being published for the same purpose as the cards, were 
 likewise torn off, on account of the untruths they bore. 
 The fact that I objected to the circulation of these false 
 statements, constituted, in the eyes of my superiors, one 
 of my dishonorable actions. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
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 WHAT BECAME OF THE SELF-DENIAL MONEY — MORE UN- 
 TRUE STATEMENTS — THE ALLEGED " BLACK DIARY." 
 
 tt. ^f^>A QQ^ after my arrival at headquarters I 
 learned from the cashier that last year's 
 (1891) Self-Denial Fund had been placed in 
 the bank, tind was being used for the express 
 purpose of paying the salaries of the Head- 
 quarters' Staff, and when I remembered that this 
 fund had been raised on the strength of an appeal 
 to clear off the debt existing on the Canadian 
 corps ; when I further remembered that the Army officers, 
 soldiers, and friends had denied themselves and in man;' 
 cases suffered from privations in order to make the scheme 
 a success, I felt there was room and reason to complain. 
 As this matter will be treated more fully in a succeeding 
 chapter, it is quite unnecessary at this juncture to make 
 further references ; nevertheless I can but feel that this 
 system of raising money on false pretences is not only a 
 cruel injustice to the poor field officers but a violation of 
 the highest moral principle. I would fain dwell here on 
 the question of headquarters' salaries, but as this is dealt 
 with further on, in my correspondence to the press, I 
 will refrain. 
 
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 New Light 
 
 It has been stated by my accusers that Commissioner 
 Rees was reluctantly compelled to ask me either to 
 " withdraw " or mend my ways, and that I expressed re- 
 pentance and made some very serious confessions, and on 
 this ground I was allowed to retain my position as an 
 officer. This is untrue in the extreme. Neither before 
 nor since the time of his leaving this country did Com- 
 missioner Rees ever ask me to leave the Army. Mr. 
 Booth states that, not only was I twice on the eve of 
 resigning during the past twelve months, but that on 
 two different occasions I was on the point of being dis- 
 missed. The public will easily see the inconsistency of 
 these conflicting statements, and will wonder, as I do 
 myself, why they did not rid themselves of me when I 
 wanted to resign, especially if I was such a dishonorable 
 and abandoned character as Mr. Booth tries to make out. 
 To be brief, I will say (1) That no one ever asked me to 
 leave the Army ; and (2) that I never cried to any one 
 for mercy except Jesus Christ, when I knelt before Him 
 a broken-hearted sinner. 
 
 Mr. Booth has made great capital of two letters written 
 by me to Commissioner Rees: one of the said letters 
 which he has read to so many people misconstruing its 
 meaning into a confession, or a plea for pardon, was 
 written after a conversation I had with Commissioner 
 
 Rees on the train coming from G . He mentioned 
 
 my unsettled state on account of my health, and said he 
 was greatly troubled to think that I should consider 
 myself a burden to the S. A. ; even though my health 
 was gone, he assured me it would afford, him pleasure 
 to see that T was provided for. In this conversation 
 I ventured to refer to many of the grievances I could 
 not well overlook. About fifteen days previous to this, 
 I had jotted down in a book a few of these troubles for 
 the purpose of bringing them before the Commissioner. 
 During the conversation I produced my note-book and 
 began to ventilate matters as my notes suggested. The 
 
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The Alleged "Black Diary." 
 
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 Commissioner acknowledged that the evils I mentioned 
 did exist, but he thought that for us to worry over them 
 would not ameliorate them, and intimated that I had 
 better destroy my few notes and go in to help him put 
 matters right. This appeared very reasonable, and as I 
 had found the Commissioner already aware of the exist- 
 ing grievances, and relying on his warm assurances that 
 they would be remedied, I was cheered by a new hope, 
 and accordingly I destroyed my notes and wrote the 
 Commissioner next day to the effect that I was more 
 settled and felt we were now on the right lines; I also 
 expressed my regret that I had caused him any trouble 
 and said that 1 wished him to feel that I was in the 
 Army for life. Let my readers plainly understand that 
 I wrote this upon Commissioner Rees' straightforward 
 confession of the true state of affairs, with his fervent 
 promise of a speedy change. I certainly felt that these 
 were the " right lines." They were the " lines " I had 
 been seeking for a long time. Now, out of this conver- 
 sation springs the charge of the " black diary." How 
 Commissioner Rees could have distorted this simple 
 event into a charge against me of having kept a " black 
 diary," for two years, with the intention of publishing a 
 book, is beyond my comprehension. If I had done so, I 
 might have made the present work somewhat more 
 " spicy " than it is. I emphatically deny either having 
 kept a black diary, or having any such intention of 
 publishing a book. The only possible grounds upon 
 which this infamous accusation could be based is the 
 conversation referred to. 
 
 My last difference with Commissioner Rees is described 
 by Mr. Booth as a disgraceful affair. I take it for granted 
 he is now referring to what took place in the Staff" 
 Council held in Toronto last May. Before I touch on 
 this let me say that either by letter or by word of 
 mouth, nearly all the staff" officers had expressed them- 
 selves as being altogether dissatisfied with things in 
 
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 New Light ! 
 
 
 general, feeling that the Army was on a spiritual 
 decline. We were all looking forward to this Staff 
 Council as a time when we could speak out our 
 minds and do something to bring about a better state of 
 affairs. In this council the Commissioner had been 
 speaking about charges brought against officers. I 
 wanted to know if I brought a charge against a captain 
 in my division, and headquarters undertook to deal with 
 him, if I had a right to know whether or not head- 
 quarters substantiated my charge. The Commissioner 
 replied that I had a right to know. " Well," I said, 
 " why is this information not given ? " He replied, " It 
 is given." I told him it was not, and gave two instances 
 in which I had laid charges of the very worst type 
 against officers and without receiving that information 
 which I felt was due me, as to how my charges were 
 applied, I had found to my unwelcome astonishment 
 that these two officers were appointed to two of the best 
 corps in the divisions to which they were sent. On this 
 evidence I was forced to one of two conclusions : 
 either that the charges which I had laid against 
 these officers were utterly ignored, or that headquarters 
 were certainly not scrupulous as to the inner life 
 of officers sent out to be the spiritual leaders of the 
 people. My special reason for bringing this up in 
 council was this : In my command was a number of 
 officers and soldiers who were well acquainted with the 
 actions of the officers referred to above, and seeing that 
 headquarters had given them such responsible appoint- 
 ments, they were not slow to say that if a man wanted 
 to get a good corps in the S. A. he must simply act the 
 part of a hypocrite ! 
 
 I also questioned the Commissioner as to whether an 
 inferior officer, in bringing ^ serious charge against his 
 superior, had a right to know how his charge was treated. 
 The Commissioner said he did not think so, and con- 
 tended that the inferior officer should be content to leave 
 
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 New Disclosures in the Staff Council. 
 
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 the case in headquarters' hands. In this manner of pro- 
 cedure I could see neither Christian principle nor human 
 justice, and expressed myself to that effect. 
 
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 CHAPTER VII. 
 
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 NEW DISCLOSURES IN THE STAFF COUNCIL — A. SECOND 
 PROPOSAL TO HELP POOR FEELD OFFICERS KNOCKED 
 IN THE HEAD — A MAJOR SPEAKS OUT HIS CONVIC- 
 TIONS AND IS CENSURED— COL. MCKIE'S STATEMENTS, 
 
 HE next question brought up in the Staff 
 Council was that of providing for the poor 
 field officers. Commissioner Rees wished to 
 know why so many officers were taking pro- 
 longed rests and accepting situations outside 
 the Army work ; a number of the divisional officers 
 said it was on account of their being discouraged at 
 not receiving sufficient salary to provide them- 
 selves with clothing and other bare necessities. The 
 Commissioner then called for suggestions as to the best 
 plan of helping these poor officers. Col. McKic tLonorht 
 that the rich corps should send in so much cash each week 
 to help the needy. " Well," I said, " the officers in the very 
 best corps do not get enough salary to meet their own 
 demands ; I cannot see, therefore, how they could be ex- 
 pected to pay their rents, sustain headquarters by remit- 
 ting to the Sick and Wounded Fund, and to the Quarter- 
 ly Collection, according to regulations, and, at the same 
 time, be in a position to render financial assistance to the 
 poorer corps." As a matter of fact, I knew at that very 
 time that the officers in charge of the Temple, Lippincott 
 and Riverside corps in Toronto were in a state of practical 
 
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 New Light ! 
 
 bankruptcy, some of them actually going without neces- 
 sary food in order to meet their current expenses. It 
 will be opportune to state here that in a council held 
 
 about the same time by Brigadier M , the Toronto 
 
 oJficers, at least those who had charge of Garrison corps, 
 refused to co-operate with him in a special effort to 
 clear off a debt for rent of barracks, some of the said officers 
 opposing on the ground that there was so much extrava- 
 gance a'fnong the staff. 
 
 Taking all these things into consideration, I renewed 
 my former suggestion that the staff officers should give a 
 tenth of their salary towards a Poor Officers' Fund, for I 
 felt that this would not only prove a financial blessing to 
 the field officers, but would create among them a feeling 
 of love and sympathy for their superiors, which, at that 
 time, was very desirable indeed. Commissioner Rees ob- 
 jected, however, by saying that the staff had all they 
 could do to live as things were. " Then," said I, " if 
 those who receive $11.50 or $12 per week, with house 
 furnished and rent paid, have a hard time to live, how do 
 the poor field officers manage, who get next to nothing ? " 
 The Commissioner answered my question by saying that 
 he would not be talked to in that manner, and moreover 
 that the General would not allow them to create a fund 
 among the staff. I maintained that, as it was a personal 
 matter, the General had nothing to do with it, that we 
 had a right to donate a tenth of our income as we thought 
 proper. At this point the Commissioner became highly 
 indignant, and showed a spirit of vindictive authority, 
 which was entirelj' foreign to our Army leaders in the 
 " good old days of yore." I was more than ever alive to 
 the fact that both the old-time freedom and sweet humil- 
 ity were at a discount, and that a pharisaical selfishness 
 was gnawing out the very vitals of the Army's fountain- 
 head ! It is a sad day for any religious body when even 
 the chief trees of the garden bring forth other fruit than 
 that of the Spirit. 
 
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A Major S'peaks Out His Convictions. 
 
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 This session of the Council adjourned, entirely ignor- 
 ing any suggestions I had made. 
 
 Just when the evening session was closing, a major, 
 whom we all looked upon as a deeply spiritual man and 
 a decidedly loyal Salvationist, stood up and used words 
 to this effect : " Well, Commissioner, my officers are all 
 discouraged, and will be anxious to know what is going 
 to be done to warrant a better state of affairs, and I 
 want to know what I am to tell them when I return to 
 my division ? " The Commissioner, in a very unbecoming 
 manner, exclaimed : " God help you ! I have spent hours 
 with you on these matters." " Yes," replied the major, 
 " but not to my satisfaction. I tell you, Commissioner, 
 there are many others in this room who, if they were to 
 give a candid opinion, would bear me out in what I say, 
 and I think they should do so." Notwithstanding the 
 fact that there were in that council staff-officers who, a 
 few hours before, had expressed themselves as being 
 altogether dissatisfied, not one was heard to speak, but 
 all kept their seats. On seeing this, I arose and said I 
 hoped the Commissioner would not take what had been 
 said as a personal reflection, for I did not intend as such 
 any statement 1 had made, but I did feel that we were 
 rapidly losing ground, and that there was an atmosphere 
 of dissatisfaction resting upon the entire Canadian field, 
 such as we had never before experienced, and which if 
 not faced, acknowledged, and efficiently dealt with, 
 would bring forth far more serious and disastrous con- 
 sequences than were already realized. The Commis- 
 sioner met this statement by declaring very emphatic- 
 ally that he would not stay in the country, but would 
 have the General remove him ! This was certainly a 
 very bad example of that principle of submission and 
 obedience which the Army government endeavors to 
 inculcate into the ranks. The Commissioner further 
 declared that he would not listen to such talk, and was 
 going to close the meeting. But Col. McKie said, " No, 
 
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 let's have this matter out." The Commissioner then des- 
 ireG to know where we were going down. I said, " We 
 have not as many soldiers as we once had, and not near 
 as many officers." The Commissioner endeavored to 
 show that this was owing to the great number of officers 
 transferred to the United States, but when I disclosed 
 the fact that we had then nearly one hundred officers 
 less than the previous year, although only about fifteen 
 had been sent to the States, the insufficiency of the 
 Commissioner's explanation was at once evident. I could 
 have dropped some stubborn facts on this subject, but 
 was not permitted to do so. The candidates' roll at 
 headquarters showed that during the length of time the 
 Army has been in Canada, two thousand two hundred 
 and fifty candidates have been accepted in addition to a 
 great number of officers who have been sent out from 
 England, yet at the time referred to, the disposition of 
 Army forces in Canada showed about nine hundred and 
 eighty officers. After we compare the number of officers 
 Canada has sent to India and the United States with 
 those imported from England, the fact stares us in the 
 face that over one thousand two hm^dred officers have 
 severed theriselves from the Army in Canada. This 
 tremendous leakage is appalling, and confirms my state- 
 ment to the efi'ect that something is radically astray in 
 the Army government. 
 
 Moreover, I could not close my eyes to the fact that 
 scores of towns and villages, once held by the Army as 
 strongholds, in which they declared they would remain 
 until the Judgment Day, are now long since closed and 
 the Army work discontinued. Four and a half years 
 ago I had charge of what was then the Palmerston Div- 
 ision, consisting of twenty-two corps ; to-day thirteen of 
 these places are no longer known as Army stations. 
 Many other places have been closed in the various div- 
 isions during the last two years, and it seems to me that 
 a great number of the remaining small places will be 
 similarly dealt with* 
 
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 Being then aware of these facts, I could not see how 
 Commissioner Rees could maintain that the Army was 
 not on a rapid decline. 
 
 Col. McKie thought we must be blind or we would 
 readily see that the Army work in Canada was " suftering 
 from a rotten foundation put in by the first man!* This 
 statement was difficult to digest, for all the staff had a 
 very warm love for Commissioner Coombs, and felt that 
 the work he accomplished in Canada was, on the whole, 
 worthy of praise. Col. McKie also stated that if those 
 having any grievances would come to the proper source 
 for an explanation it would prove more satisfactory than 
 introducing the same in such a council as was then as- 
 sembled. I then made the Colonel admit that I had told 
 him two weeks before, many of the existing evils, and had 
 requested him, for the Kingdom's sake, to deal with them. 
 I was therefore at a loss to understand how Col. McKie 
 could talk in such a manner in the said council, after the 
 personal interviews which several of the Staff Officers, in- 
 cluding myself, had had with him, in which he deplored 
 the state of affairs, going so far on one occasion to say to 
 
 Staff Captain S that Commissioner Rees was not 
 
 the man for Canada. Thus the council ended in a manner 
 most unsatisfactory to all. 
 
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 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
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 A MAJOR ASKED TO RESIGN — MR. BOOTH FURNISH KS HIS 
 HOME AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER OFFICERS — MORE 
 ABOUT THE ALLEGED BLACK DIARY — WHAT ABOUT 
 ENGLAND ? — MRS. PHILPOTT SPEAKS. 
 
 N the day following the Staff Council, when 
 Commissioner Rees interviewed the Staff Offi- 
 cers individually, the Major referred to in the 
 preceding chapter was told that he had better 
 resign, but the Major refused, saying that he 
 was in the Army according to the will of God. On 
 hearing this I talked the matter over with my wife, 
 and as I felt that I had expressed my views quite as " 
 emphatically as the Major, I expected that I also would 
 be asked to resign, and I resolved to comply with the re- 
 quest should it be made. When the Commissioner sent 
 for me and I again stood in his presence, I said : " Sir, I 
 
 understand you have asked Major to resign and 
 
 that you are going to ask me to do likewise. Now, if 
 this is your intention, I wish to assure you that you have 
 only to express it and we shall part to-day." But to my 
 utter surprise the Commissioner took a stand in the op- 
 posite direction and would not hear of such a thing. Our 
 interview was concluded by the Commissioner assuring 
 me that there should be more equality in the administra- 
 tion and more consideration for the Field Officers. I at 
 once expressed my satisfaction at this proposal and de- 
 clared my hearty willingness to co-operate with him in 
 iiicasures of this kind. No sooner had I expressed my 
 good-will than the Commissioner wanted to know if I 
 would object to writing him a letter of confidence, he, at 
 
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 the same time, suggesting points to which he would like 
 me to allude. Under the sudden intluence of such an 
 unexpected reaction 1 wrote the letter, not, however, un- 
 aware of the possibility of its meaning being construed 
 and brought to bear against me. The letter had been 
 written only a few moments when he wanted to know 
 if he might not send a copy of it to the Staff Officers. 
 Mark you, after he had induced me to lurite it as a con- 
 fidential letter to himself. However, as his promises for 
 the amelioration of affairs were so warm and reassuring, 
 and feeling that if these promises were fulfilled, I was 
 ready to stand by all I had written, I assente*! to this 
 proposal that a copy should be sent to the Staff Officers. 
 Within a few hours the confidential letter asked for by 
 the Commissioner was transformed into a circular and 
 dispatched to all parts of the country. This letter has 
 been the ground-text of all Mr. Bojth's defence. Ho has 
 paraded it before the public at every opportunity and 
 sent it broadcast to his own [)eople as an evidence of my 
 duplicity, but any weight that the said letter may have 
 had on his side, is due to the fact that he has withheld 
 all the circumstances that surround the writing of it and 
 is himself entirely ignorant of its real significance. 
 
 Mr. Booth, I understand, lays at my feet the blame of 
 circulating reports regarding the furnishing of his house. 
 I desire to state that up to the present, I have been silent 
 on this question and would not introduce a matter so triv-" 
 ial, had not Mr. Booth already taken the trouble to explain 
 it away as one of my " false statements." I am afraid, 
 however, that even in connection with his home, a great 
 deal could be said that would show the true spirit of 
 Canada's present Army Leader. Mr. Booth complains 
 that fault should be found, l)ecause he has three or tour 
 rooms carpeted with the very cheapest carpets, yet I 
 was informed by an individual who handled the invoices 
 that they called for no less than $141.00. The house, 
 be it known, is one of the finest on Close-avenue, and 
 
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 one of his Toronto officers is responsible for saying that 
 it is most beautifully furnished. As to the s dtishness of 
 Mr. Booth (for I cannot give it any milder name), I leave 
 my readers to judge from the following : Shortly after 
 his arrival in Canada, Mr. Booth, with his wife, called at 
 my house and after talking to my wife about our expect- 
 ed transfer to England, he began to take an inventory of 
 various articles of furniture upon which he had set his 
 eyes ; at this time I was not at home and when my wife 
 informed me of the Commandant's vi i j and of the man- 
 ner in which he had inspected the furniture I said: "Ohl 
 I suppose they will break up this home when we go to 
 England and utilize the furniture to the best advantage." 
 This, however, was not the case, as will be seen. A few 
 days afterwards when I was away attending camp meet- 
 ings at Corbett's Point, Mr. Booth sent to our house for 
 a load of furniture. Among other things he had decided 
 upon taking were two of our beds, and as our little girl 
 was taken ill nigh unto death, which illness necessitated 
 her having a bed all to herself, my dear wife with a little 
 infant five weeks old were obliged to sleep on the floor. 
 When I returned and became acquainted of the case, I 
 could but feel that this action on the part of Mr. Booth 
 was not only decidedly unjust, but altogether void of 
 Christian love and sympathy. The neighbors on Ottawa- 
 street, North Toronto, can vouch for the truth of the 
 above occurrence and, mark you, many of those who 
 were loudest in their condemnation of Mr. Booth's sel- 
 fishness, some going so far as to say it was anything but 
 human for Mr. Booth thus to deprive others for his own 
 benefit, are Staff Officers in the Army to-day. He not 
 only took from our home the best and most needed fur- 
 niture, but other Staff Officers suffered in a like manner ; 
 one family being deprived of their cooking-stove, were 
 left for some time without any means .of cooking or 
 washing. 
 
 As these matters are most disagreeable and painful to 
 
More About the Alleged Black Diary. 
 
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 speak of, I shall refrain from saying any more than neces- 
 sity demands. 
 
 Mr. Booth had not been lonji^ in Toronto whtm, in an 
 interview, he charged me with keeping a " black diary." 
 At first I could not understand what he meant, but as he 
 went on to inform me that Commissioner Rees had re- 
 ported to the International Headquarters in London, 
 England, that I had been keeping this diary for over two 
 years, with the intention of publishing a book, then 
 dawned upon me the conversation I had had with Rees 
 
 on the train coming from G to Toronto. After I had 
 
 explained the matter fully to the Commandant, he as- 
 sured me of his satisfaction and confidence, and then ask- 
 ed me if I was willing to go to England. I said, " Yes, 
 but not if you think me unfit to remain in Canada ! " 
 But again assuring me of his confidence, he stated that 
 he only wished me to go because he knew my oppor- 
 tunities would be so much greater ; in fact, he wished me 
 to go as " Canada's man." Sotne days afterwards, in a 
 conversation with Colonel Mackenzie, I was told again 
 by him that I was to be transferred to England as an old 
 and faithful officer, yet in a circular letter recently sent 
 out from headquarters to the officers, it is stated that I 
 was to be transferred to England on account of my bad 
 conduct ! 
 
 My wife and I, being now fully prepared to say fare- 
 well to Canada, were making the necessar}'^ arrangements 
 for our departure to a new field of labor when, upon my 
 return from three days' special meetings at Simcoe, I 
 found that the programme so recently laid before me had 
 suddenly been changed. We had been summoned to 
 headquarters, and as my wife was present at my inter- 
 views with Commandant Booth and Colonel Mackenzie, 
 I shall leave her to relate this painful part of the story. 
 
 MRS. PHILPOTT SPEAKS. 
 
 According to orders, I visited headquarters on the Tues- 
 
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 day previous to the breaking up of the Wells' Hill Camp 
 Meeting, and after waiting three hours I was afforded the 
 opportunity of speaking to Colonel Mackenzie, who iii- 
 fornied nie that very important news had arrived from 
 England, but tliat he could not acquaint me of the par- 
 ticulars until the following morning, when it was hoped 
 my iiusband would return from Simcoe. On the Wed- 
 nesday morning my husband and I called at the Army 
 Temple, and were met by Colonel Mackenzie, who gave 
 us to understand that, owing to a communication just to 
 hand from England, he was afraid our way was ** blocked," 
 for the communication referred to was to the effect that 
 the International Headquarters had not confidence in my 
 husband, and could not, therefore, accept us for the work 
 in England. I sfdd, " Well, then, Colonel, if you have 
 no confidence in us for the English field, you have no 
 confidence in us for the Canadian field, therefore 1 wish 
 to see the Commandant as early as possible." Next after- 
 noon we received a telephone message to come at once to 
 headquarters, and accordingly I left my little baby with 
 friends, and mac'e my way to the Temple, wondering what 
 all this was goiug to mean. Upon my arrival my husband 
 and I were ushered into the presence of the Commandant, 
 who received us very kindly indeed, and after placing 
 chairs and inviting us to sit down, he began, " Well, Phi- 
 pott, you have no doubt heard from Colonel the contents 
 of the English mail ?" My husband replied, " Yes, sir." 
 " Well," continued the Commandant, " my hopes for you 
 were that you would be transferred to England and that 
 there you would be of greater use to God than ever, but 
 when the statement arrived in England declaring your 
 innocence respecting the black diary, Commissioner 
 Rees said, " It's a lie ! " and as Commissioner Rees has 
 been a faithful and loyal officer, and is higher in rank 
 than you, and as this matter lies only between you and 
 him, we must therefore take his word in preference to 
 yours." My husband replied, " Well, Commandant, I 
 
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Mrs. Philpott Speaks. 
 
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 cannot blame you for doing that ; you know him and 
 you don't know me, and you have not waited to know 
 me ; his (Com. Rees') word may be better in England 
 than mine, but perhaps mine may be as good as his in 
 Canada. Why not allow me to go on under your com- 
 mand and prove my loyalty to the S. A., and satisfy you 
 that I have not kept a black-diary with the intention of 
 writing a book against the Army." 
 
 The Commandant said, " No ! I feel that the confi- 
 dence that ought to exist between us could not exist 
 under the circumstances, and such a course would be out 
 of the question." My husband replied, " It seems very 
 hard, Commandant, that after my wife and I have toiled 
 nearly nine years in the service, until my health has 
 given way, that we should not have a chance to prove 
 our loyalty." Commandant said, " Don't minimise your 
 sin, Philpott, rather exaggerate it. Think of the poor 
 souls that have been wrecked through your influence ! I 
 cannot understand how people can take their bread and 
 butter from the S. A. and profess from its platform to 
 love it and yet go around undermining the officers. I 
 feel, Philpott, that you are not only handicapped for the 
 work of God in the Army in Canada, but you are handi- 
 capped for God's work a lywhere. You must feel, as 
 you walk across the street, that your influence is gone 
 through your being too free with the officers." One 
 Staff Officer has said that my husband's only influence 
 lay in his handshaking and freedom with the people. 
 The Commandant continued, "You see Philpott, this 
 is a very painful position for you to be placed in ; your 
 transfer to England is blocked and I cannot, under the 
 circumstances, allow you to go on in your present posi- 
 tion. What am I to "do ? " 
 
 Well," I said, " Commandant, do you not think that if 
 Commissioner Rees had any charges against us it would 
 have been the proper thing for him to have dealt with 
 them while he was in the country and not to have left 
 them for you to deal with ? " 
 
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 Commandant said, " He told me he had dealt with 
 them." 
 
 I then replied : " Before God this afternoon, Command- 
 ant, I tell you that until your arrived in this country I 
 never heard a black diary mentioned." 
 
 Commandant then asked, "Well, Philpott, what am I 
 to do ? " 
 
 I said, *' What do you want my husband to do ? Do 
 you want him to get out of the Salvation Army ? " 
 
 Col. Mackenzie, who was present, interposed, " I 
 think Mrs. Philpott misunderstands you. Commandant. 
 I shall make a suggestion and if I go too far you will 
 please check me sir." Commandant Booth bowed his 
 head. Then said the Colonel, " If I were you, Philpott, 
 I should say, " Seeing that I have done wrong, I am 
 willing to take.j my<place as a captain in the S. A." 
 
 My husband was silent and the silence was indeed very 
 painful to me, but again 1 took upon myself to speak and 
 said, " Colonel, we are perfectly willing to take a corps. 
 We came into the S. A. to work for God and not for pos- 
 ition, but when we go to a corps, will you tell me what 
 we are to say to the people ? " 
 
 Colonel replied, " We will not send you where you are 
 known, we will send you away off where you are not 
 known, but it must be voluntary : you must volunteer to 
 go." 
 
 Commandant added, "You had better do this than go 
 on showing the spirit you have of late. You have not 
 only received letters of a disloyal character, but you have 
 also written them." 
 
 My husband replied, " I deny, it, sir." Again address- 
 ing the Commandant I said, "Our idea of disloyalty 
 may be different from yours. What is your idea of dis- 
 loyalty, Commandant ? " 
 
 His reply was, " Sitting down and talking over the 
 grievances in the Army with the officers." " Well," I 
 s^id, " if you call that disloyalty, you had better deal 
 
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 with every one of your Staff Officers, as they are every 
 one guilty of it." 
 
 I felt I was getting quite nervous, and as I had left my 
 baby behind on Wells' Hill, 1 said, " Commandant, it is 
 useless for us to stay here any longer, and as we cannot 
 decide on anything to-night, please pray with us and let 
 us go. He arose to his feet while we knelt down, and in 
 his prayer he prayed God to forgive Philpott's awful sin, 
 and that He would direct us aright in the matter. We 
 shook hands and parted. When we came out of the 
 building, I said to my husband, " let us look into the 
 matter. I cannot feel they have lost confidence in us, 
 although you spoke out your mind very plainly in the 
 staff- council, but as we feel we have not done anything 
 wrong, we cannot go to a corps to acknowledge that we 
 have done wrong." On the following morning I sat 
 down and wrote the Commandant to this effect, saying 
 that we could not agree to his proposals, and that, as the 
 only alternative, we resigned our position in the Army, 
 and would vacate his house as soon as possible. 
 
 CHAPER IX. 
 
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 FINAL INTERVIEWS. 
 
 N the morning that Mrs. Philpott wrote our 
 last letter to the Commandant I proceeded 
 to the Temple and gathered my few personal 
 belongings into two or three parcels and left 
 them in my old office intending to call for 
 them at a future date. While I was thus employed, 
 Mackenzie sent for me. By this time Brigadiers 
 H. and M. had arrived at headquarters and in- 
 formed the Colonel of the feeling among the officers, 
 
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 soldiers and friends on Wells' Hill. On my arrival at 
 the Colonel's otHce I was questioned as to whether I did 
 not think I had taken the wrong course and misconstrued 
 what had been said to me on the previous day. I 
 replied, ** No sir, there was no possibility of that, you 
 wished me to take the rank of Captain and apply for a 
 corps, by so doing to acknowledge how very wrong and 
 sinfully 1 had been acting in the past and as 1 do not 
 consider myself guilty of being either * disloyal ' or 
 ' dishonorable ' I found it altogether out of the question 
 to act according to your proposal. How could I go on 
 working under you wherever I might be sent under the 
 feeling that I was being looked upon as a liar and a man 
 unworthy of your confidence ? " " Oh," said the Colonel, 
 " I want you to understand that both the Commandant 
 and myself believe your statement about the diary, and 
 we feel there must be some misunderstanding in connec- 
 tion with this matter." 
 
 " Well," I answered, " if you do not believe this charge 
 brought against me by Commissioner Rees, why did you 
 not say so in our interview yesterday, instead of treating 
 me in the manner you did ?" 
 
 The Colonel then manifested a desire that I should see 
 the Commandant, but I said I had nothing to see him 
 about, that another interview therefore was unnecessary. 
 As he pressed me, however, I did wait for fifteen minutes 
 and as the Commandant failed to appear I took my 
 departure. 
 
 On the evening of the same day Mr. Booth sent for 
 me. On reaching his office, I found him, his wife and 
 Col. Mackenzie awaiting me. Mr. Booth at once set to 
 work to try to make me believe that it was not necessary 
 for me to resign, and that he had not expected me to take 
 such a step but had hoped upon his next arrival at the 
 Temple to find me at his office door with my eyes full of 
 scalding tears and my heart full of humiliation. I 
 assured him that I had no reason to present myself in 
 
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Final Interviews. 
 
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 such a state. Mr. Booth also hinted that if I had only 
 complied with his i*eii[i iCst and had submitted my ivill to 
 him, wlijch was what he was after, that I should aot 
 have been sent to a corps after all, but would have gone 
 on with the same position. I could but feel, however, 
 that he was only talking in this way, owing to the great 
 and entirely unexpected disturbance among the otficers 
 and soldiers, caused by his dealings with me on the 
 previous day, for although I did not make it a point to 
 voice abroad what had occurred, yet, many anxious in- 
 quiries were made and it was not long before the reports 
 spread in all directions, arousing high indignation all 
 through the Toronto Camp. 
 
 In this my last interview with him, Mr. Booth inquired 
 very anxiously if I intended to publish anything of 
 what had happened but I informed him that, as I was 
 no longer an officer under him and therefore under no 
 obligation to him, it was not necessary for me to answer 
 any such question. Then in a very threatening manner 
 he remarked, " Don't you force me to publish anything !" 
 I assured him that he was at liberty to do as he pleased 
 in that respect and declared that if he would publish all, 
 giving the public both sides of the case I would remain 
 silent. Here let me say, that when I took my departure 
 from Mr. Booth's office I did not intend to publish the 
 particulars of this very sad and unlooked-for difficulty, 
 but when Mr. Booth proceeded to hold his private meet- 
 ings and send abroad his circular letters, I felt dnty-bound 
 to present to the public the truth which my accuser has 
 omitted to reveal. 
 
 . Now comes the grand finale. With ex- Cap tain. P , 
 
 as witness, I went to the Temple to collect the parcels 
 containing my personal property. I was confronted by 
 the Property Secretary who informed me that all the 
 property on the premises belonged to the S. A. " But I 
 said, these parcels are mine. I left them in my old office, 
 but Major S informs me that they have been re- 
 
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 moved to Col. MacKenzie's room ; I demand them." Col. 
 MacKenzie then appeared and questioned in a haughty 
 tone, " How do I know that these parcels are yours." I 
 said, " My name is written upon them." " What of that ?" 
 said he. " You might have written your name on any- 
 thing in the building. You cannot have these parcels un- 
 less you submit to an investigation of their contents." 
 " All right," I said. " I will submit the parcels for inves- 
 tigation by yourself and me, provided we go through the 
 note-book that belongs to one of the parcels." Whatever 
 may have been his reason, Col. MacKenzie refused to do 
 this, and also refused to give up the parcels. On leaving, 
 I simply I said, " You will not give me my parcels ! 
 Good day ! " Next morning I received a card, saying, 
 that if I would come down and give a receipt for the 
 parcels I might have them. My note-book has never 
 been returned, but lies safe within the vaulted chambers 
 of the Army Temple. 
 
 Now, dear readers, you will see that I have made no 
 attempt at a literary production, but have simply endea- 
 vored to touch upon the most salient points which bear 
 on the great subject at issue. Much more could be added 
 which I have left unsaid, yet I trust I have given suffi- 
 cent facts to enable the public to judge of the manner in 
 which I have been treated by Mr. Booth. 
 
 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 
 MR. ROPPE'S EXPLANATION 
 
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 SEVEN YEARS IN THE ARMY — WHERE ARE THE CONVERTS ? 
 — BRANDED AS DISLOYAL. 
 
 O take my stand as I now am compelled to do, 
 does not tend to place me in an enviable 
 position ; but the fact that one is stepping 
 out on the line of truth and justice affords 
 that confidence and assurance which other- 
 wise could not be possessed. The fact that I have 
 spent seven years in service for God under the flag 
 of the Salvation Army, and that my wife has toiled 
 in its ranks for the past eight years, will enable the 
 reader to realize to some extent the effort it has cost me 
 to even think of lifting the veil from the inner workings 
 of the organization to explain the why and wherefore of 
 my severance from it. Giving explanations of this kind 
 is entirely opposite to my nature. Were I to consult my 
 own feelings in the matter, I should prefer remaining 
 silent, even though it would mean a heavy cloud of mis- 
 understanding resting over me. But, realizing, as I 
 decidedly do, that the Army has of late, by the introduc- 
 tion of a system of works on the part of man, forfeited 
 the old-time fervor, power, influence, and simple, unadul- 
 terated child-like faith in God ; because this system of 
 human works has tended to rob the leaders of dependence 
 on Divine guidance, I cannot withhold a word of warning. 
 Moreover, the leaders of the Army have so permitted 
 their own notions, their own judgments and decisions, to 
 take the place of the wisdom that cometh from above, 
 that we find this organization, once destined by God to 
 
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 sweep the earth with power and blessing, to-day on a 
 rapid spiritual decline. Not that it will not continue to 
 exist; there will' always be an Army; the nature of its 
 present government assures this ; the fact that the Army 
 has accumulated such an immense amount of property in 
 Canada, insures that there will always be an Army in 
 our country. In the face of all this, however, sad as it is 
 to reflect upon, there can be no doubt as to the lamented 
 departure of that deeply spiritual life and power which 
 once characterized its operations. 
 
 Look at the extraordinary number of souls reported 
 weekly through the War Cry as being saved ! What 
 becomes of them ? Why do not the marches increase ? 
 Why do we not see a greater number on the platform ? 
 Why do the finances not increase instead of many of the 
 poor Field Officers finding themselves practically bank- 
 rupt ? And what about the *' big goes " ? May we not 
 reasonably inquire why it is that the old-time power 
 that used to make these united assemblies so notable is no 
 longer manifested to the same extent? Even though I do 
 no longer fight side by side with many a comrade who 
 through the fellowship of the past has become endeared 
 to my heart, yet I cannot refrain from offering up a 
 prayer to God that all concerned may be led sooner or 
 later to acknowledge the inconsistencies that have crept 
 into this organization; inconsistencies which are fast 
 sapping from the Army all that was formerly deemed 
 worth possessing. 
 
 My trouble with the Army is unlike that of Mr. Phil- 
 pott, insomuch that while, according to these recent de- 
 velopments, he has been branded by his superiors for some 
 time as a disloyal officer, I up to two or three months 
 prior to my resignation was looked upon as a loyal and 
 devoted comrade. Not that my eyes were not opened to 
 the existing evils, for, having held several different ap- 
 pointments at headquarters, I had an opportunity of 
 seeing a great deal, which I am sorry to say did not 
 
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 tend to help me either in my own spiritual life or in the 
 work set before me to accomplish. However, when one's 
 whole life is wrapt up in an organization it takes a great 
 deal to convince him that his confidence has been mis- 
 placed and his trust betrayed, and even when he is con- 
 vinced, it takes him in many cases some time to really 
 acknowledge his convictions. So intense was my love 
 for the Army that 1 felt I was actually part and parcel 
 of it. For many years this organization has proved more 
 than a home to me and latterly it had become dearer 
 than my very life. After being placed in several rather 
 responsible positions, however, I was forced to admit to 
 my own mind that a number of things which I had pre- 
 viously heard of but which I could not be made to believe, 
 were now actually staring me in the face as truths. For 
 a long time I tried to believe that the questionable ac- 
 tions of many of the superior officers in their dealings in 
 certain cases, were of an exceptional character and might 
 be excused on the law of expediency, but eventually / 
 was forced to a private opinion that such actions were the 
 general rule of conduct and not exceptions. Notwith- 
 standing all this, I endeavored to keep my own counsel, 
 and cherished in my heart fond hopes that in the near 
 future a remedy would be introduced that would banish 
 forever the many surrounding evils that weighed upon 
 me, a burden which, but for the grace of God, I certainly 
 could not have borne. Though i refrained from giving 
 general expression to my thoughts, yet it was evident to 
 me that my superiors had already discerned them and 
 therefore I felt that I was being looked upon with a cer- 
 tain amount of suspicion and that the stand I had taken* 
 from the point of principle and right, was proving dis- 
 astrous to me as an Army officer ; for in the Asmy, be it 
 known, when an officer raises his voice and takes action 
 in such a manner as to cause reflection to rest upon his 
 superiors, no matter how pure that man's motives may 
 be, he is at once branded as ** disloyal." Thus, you see, that 
 
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 New Light ! 
 
 a man has but one alternative, either to speak out the 
 whole truth and suffer the consequences, or strifle his 
 convictions, murder his conscience, sacrifice his freedom,, 
 renounce his free-will, forfeit his principle and become to 
 all intents and purposes, a machine, for an inferior in 
 the Army is, under all circumstances, expected to yield 
 unhesitating and unquestioning obedience to his su- 
 periors. 
 
 Instance after instance of exceedingly strange dealing 
 has come under ray notice. Time after time have I 
 wended my way home from the Army headquarters with 
 deep questionings in my mind and sorrow tilling my 
 heart, and independent of what has come under my per- 
 sonal observation, I have had officers, both of the Staff* 
 and of lower ranks, approach me repeatedly with their 
 sad grievances, who, with their hearts nigh unto breaking, 
 have informed me of deeds unjust and transactions unfair, 
 and in some instances they have put the question, " How 
 can we go on and expect God's blessing ? " Yet these 
 people remain to this hour officers in the Army. A few 
 discomfiting facts could be introduced at this point, but 
 not desiring to implicate those who are to-day recognized 
 as loyal and devoted Salvationists, I refrain. 
 
 N o doubt many of my readers will wonder at my con- 
 tinuing to be an officer so long when I knew of the evils 
 existing in the Army, and yet, when you consider that it 
 was in an Army meeting that the Holy Spirit wrought 
 mightily upon me, eventually leading me to take my 
 place as a sinner at Jesus' feet crying for mercy, and that 
 in my younger days the Armj'- provided for me a spirit- 
 ual home ; when you think of the many officers at whose 
 side I have fought and with whom I have held sweet com- 
 munion for the past seven years, and when you consider 
 the unenviable prospects of an officer leaving the Army 
 and facing the cold world alone, it will not be so much 
 wondered at after all, that I endeavored to remain with 
 the Army as long as possible. 
 
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 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 NEW HOPES SUDDENLY BLASTED — BOUND DOWN BY THE 
 HIGHER POWERS — A BREACH OF CONFIDENCE — MRS. 
 ROFFE'S STATEMENTS. 
 
 EVERAL very grievous charges have been 
 brought against me by Col. Mackenzie, charges 
 which came upon me in a most unexpected 
 manner. The first personal interview I ever 
 had with the Colonel was on the 15th of July. 
 Prior to this, I had been loooking forward with 
 great expectancy to the induction of Commandant 
 and Mrs. Booth to the charge of the Canadian field, 
 and was full of hope that I should have the joy of con- 
 tinuing the fight under their administration. To show 
 how suddenly my hopes were blasted, I quote the follow- 
 ing from my diary, dated July 15th, 1892 : " This has 
 been a memorable day in my experience. Still being 
 very weak, I called on Brigadier Holland to see if it 
 could not be arranged for me to spend a month at Roth- 
 say, N.B. After a talk with the Brigadier, I was usher- 
 ed into the presence of Col. Mackenzie, who in a few 
 moments informed me that the Commandant had decid- 
 ed to ask me to resign or withdraw. This to me proved 
 one of the most severe blows I have yet received ! Though 
 I had ears and could hear, eyes and could see, I had a 
 hard job to believe what was really the case. I at once 
 refused to tender my resignation, and informed the 
 Colonel that if they undertook to dismiss me, they would 
 have to bear the responsibility. I then went to my closet 
 and poured out my sorrow to a compassionate Saviour, to 
 a God who says, * All things work together for good to 
 them that love God.' " 
 
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 I left the Temple that day a broken-hearted man, only 
 to meet at my home a grief-stricken wife. Not only did 
 I feel overcome at the idea of resigning, but I felt it was 
 unjust on the part of my accuser to place me under such 
 restraint as T shall now describe. I was sent from the 
 Colonel's office with all my prospects for the future ap- 
 parently blighted, and was commanded by the Colonel to 
 retrain from mentioning anything that had been said. 
 This, as will readily be seen, was next to an impossibility. 
 Although I was anxious to ,write the particulars of the 
 case to a dear friend and comrade officer, and seek his ad- 
 vice, I found myself practically bound. I did, however, 
 venture to open my heart somewhat to two or three per- 
 sons, my parents and Mr. Philpott, and for this offence I 
 soon found myself again in Col. Mackenzie's office, and 
 was sharply questioned by him as to whether I had men- 
 tioned the matter to Mr. Philpott. Answering in the 
 affirmative, I was severely censured, and charged with a 
 breach of confidence. The Colonel, moreover, gave me to 
 understand that if I continued to repeat what had tran- 
 spired, I could not be looked upon as worthy of his confi- 
 dence. This kind of dealing was doubtless policy for my 
 accuser, but injustice to me, and I found myself enslaved 
 and bound by the " higher powers " of this abominable 
 one man government. My freedom as a human being 
 and as a child of God was trammelled and down-trodden 
 in the cunning devices of my aeicuser. Notwithstanding 
 my desire to acquaint my comrades and friends of what 
 had just taken place, I was expected by the present Army 
 government to let this hidden sorrow fester within my 
 own bosom, and to go ahead as if nothing had happened ! 
 Now if Col. Mackenzie's dealings with me were so straight- 
 forward as to cause no oiFence to my comrades, and to the 
 public m general, why should he put forth such strenu- 
 ous efforts to silence me in the matter ? I must say that 
 when Col Mackenzie sought to take away my liberty, by 
 robbing me of the privilege of expressing myself, my sus- 
 
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 picions of the Jesuitical principles in vogue were at once 
 aroused, and in my own mind I formed conclusions, 
 which afterwards proved only too true. 
 
 As in Mr. Philpott's case, so in mine, have the Army 
 authorities left no stone unturned to cast detrimental 
 reflections upon ray character. I understand that Col. 
 MacKenzie has made a number of insidious and most 
 unwarrantable statements about me, and that these state- 
 ments have been made in the presence of the Staff and 
 Field Officers and soldiers of Toronto and although a 
 number of meetings were called for the purpose of giving 
 "explanations," not in one instance was I invited to be 
 present, that I might have at least the privilege of any 
 common prisoner — to hear the charge preferred against 
 me. As no such opportunity was granted me I must de- 
 fend myself by the present means. 
 
 I have been informed by one of the deputation of 
 officers who waited upon the Colonel and Commandant 
 Booth when the trouble first broke out, that my accusers 
 stated that I was given a two months' holiday at Rothsay, 
 N. B., and that after returning to headquarters and 
 working for three months, I wanted to be sent down to 
 Rothsay again on the ground of ill-health at a cost of 
 $60,00. I meet this statement by saying that never in 
 my life have I been to this place, Rothsay ! Now, I do 
 not forget that Col. MacKenzie is only human, and am 
 willing to look upon what he has said in as charitable a 
 light as possible, and say perhaps it was purely a mistake 
 on his part, but I certainly think that when an individual 
 filling the position that this man does, stands before an 
 audience of anxious hearers to lay before them charges 
 against me which I had no opportunity of confuting, 
 should, by the grace of God, be extremely careful of his 
 statements. 
 
 I did go for a much needed rest last December, but not 
 until I could no longer sit at my desk, and after an 
 absence of eight weeks returned to my work, though 
 
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 New Light ! 
 
 little improved in health, and continued at my post, not 
 as my accusers say, for three months only, but for nearly 
 double that length of time. Here again you see the 
 necessity for a man like Col. MacKenzie knowing fully 
 what he is talking about. I am again willing to give 
 him credit for thinking he was advancing the truth, but 
 unfortunately people at the present day do not form con- 
 clusions from what may be meant, but from what is 
 actually said. 
 
 With regard to my physical condition and desire to 
 visit the Eastern Provinces for my health, I would prefer 
 my wife to speak. 
 
 MRS. ROFFE SPEAKS. 
 
 " With regard to my husband's health failing as it has 
 done, I may say that this was largely due to over- work. 
 One of the accusations against him is that he was selfish 
 and unwilling to work over time. Those who may have 
 said this must have forgotten that two or three years ago 
 for months together he was working till 12, 1 and 
 2 o'clock, night after night, and on two occasions he 
 worked the whole night through ; consequently his health 
 became so broken down that he could work no more, 
 and told them that unless it was really necessary he 
 objected to work overtime. 
 
 " I could see him failing every day, tilthough some of 
 the headquarters' officers insinuated that he was not so 
 bad as he made out ; but when I saw him come home day 
 after day and drop into a chair, scarcely able to speak 
 from weakness, I became much alarmed. I think you 
 will agree with me that his life was as precious to me 
 and to our little one as any other woman's husband 
 whether in the S. A. or not. 
 
 " Another charge is that he wan+^^ed to go down to 
 Roth say at a cost of $60.00. It was I who urged upon 
 him to apply for a rest at this place, for I felt that a 
 
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 month down there, where he could have the benefit of 
 the salt-water breezes, would do him more good than 
 anything else, and bring him back the sooner to his work. 
 Col. Mackenzie gave us to understand that, as such a rest 
 would cost headquarters $60.00, they could not see their 
 way clear to grant it ; adding, that even if they had it, 
 we should get no money for such a purpose. However 
 great the sum may have appeared in Col. Mackenzie's 
 eyes, I could not feel it should be placed against the 
 value of my husband's life, seeing that he had spent his 
 strength in the Army work." 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
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 "evidences" of my disloyalty — MY ALLEGED SELFISH- 
 NESS — TROUBLE OVER A BICYCLE — WHY I RESIGNED. 
 
 HAVE been charged by Col. Mackenzie with 
 being a decidedly selfish man, and a disloyal 
 Salvationist ; that I have lived in the S. A. 
 for some time simply for what I could get out 
 of it. To substantiate this it is stated that I in- 
 sisted upon occupying all by myself a house which 
 should have held two families. This charge is so 
 trivial that I am induced to think it was brought 
 up because they could find nothing more serious to bring 
 against me ; yet, perhaps it will be wise to mention that 
 in my interview with Col. Mackenzie, when I was first 
 charged with selfishness and disloyalty, I explained this 
 house aflfair in a manner which, according to his own 
 words, was perfectly satisfactory. Now my readers will 
 see how unjust it was on the Colonel's part repeatedly to 
 introduce this matter in accusing me behind my back 
 
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 New Light ! 
 
 after the interview just referred to. The Colonel, I un- 
 derstand, brought the matter up before the first deputa- 
 tion of officers that waited upon him for an explanation, 
 and he was then informed by two members of the said 
 deputation that another family had occupied the house 
 
 with us, and one officer present, Captain C , stated 
 
 that he himself had visited the house when the second 
 family occupied part of it ; yet, in the face of this direct 
 evidence, my accuser went on dealing with the matter as 
 if no light whatever had been thrown upon it. The cir- 
 cumstances relating to this house will be best explained 
 in the words of Mrs. Roffe : — 
 
 " The house referred to was rented during Commis- 
 sioner Adams' time for a boarding house for the single 
 officers employed at headquarters. Finding that they 
 were unable to maintain it as such, it was decided that 
 the married Staff Officers should occupy it. My husband 
 and I with two or three others volunteered to vacate the 
 houses we then occupied and move into this double one 
 and pay rent to headquarters. When the time came for 
 moving, we were the only ones who kept our word, the 
 other tenants failing to put in an appearance. As we 
 were anxious to help headquarters, we moved into the 
 house according to previous arrangements and received 
 Ensign and Mrs. W-^ — as co-tenants. These leaving 
 the city some months after, we heard that another family 
 were to be sent to occupy part of the house, although we 
 had not been consulted. My husband informed the 
 Commissioner that although we had nothing against the 
 family personally, we would like some other arrange- 
 ments to be made, and if this were impossible, we would 
 prefer to rent a little house of our own and left with the 
 Commissioner's warm assurances that all was entirely 
 
 satisfactory. Brigadier H then desired to know if 
 
 we retained the whole house would we take Ensign 
 
 W and Captian S to board. After consideration 
 
 we decided to do so, and Ensign W boarded with us 
 
 up to the time of this sad difficulty." 
 
My Alleged SelHshness. 
 
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 Now, I am at a loss to know how Col. Mackenzie 
 can repeatedly declare that we occupied the house alone ! 
 Whether he knew what he was talking about or not is 
 no longer a point for me to consider, I must be candid 
 and inform the public that this statement is absolutely 
 false. 
 
 It is also said of me that while other officers were ac- 
 cepting short pay I had asked for my allowance in full, 
 because I had my mother to keep, at the same time using 
 the money to purchase a bicycle on the instalment plan. 
 Were I to consult my feelings I should treat this charge 
 with silent contempt, but the nature of the case demands the 
 whole truth. Col. Mackenzie's knowledge or ignorance 
 of the facts loses all significance in the importance of the 
 questions at issue. In regard to his statements, taken as 
 a whole, they bear the stamp of recklessness and untruth 
 seldom excelled. 
 
 When I again remind the reader that, notwithstanding 
 the fact that in an interview with Colonel Mackenzie I 
 cleared myself of all the charges brought against me he 
 continues to repeat his statements, they must be taken 
 either as wilful and distorted falsehoods or mistakes 
 founded upon a hopeless ignorance as criminally wilful as 
 the falsehoods themselves. 
 
 jR* the salaries — At the time to which Col. Mackenzie 
 refers, Commissioner Rees had requested the headquarters' 
 Staff {i.e. all ranking as high as Staff Captains and 
 above), to reduce their salaries, which they did by the 
 amount of $1.50 or $2.00 per week. I holding the rank 
 of Adjutant tvas not asked to reduce mine, and in this 
 fact lies the answer to Col. Mackenzie's charge. It will 
 be wise to remind the reader that these Staff Captains 
 and Superior Officers who reduced their salaries, in addi- 
 tion to receiving their weekly allowances, had' their 
 house rent paid out of the Army funds, and could there- 
 fore stand a little reduction, while Adjutants and officers 
 below that rank had to pay their rents out of their sal- 
 
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 New Light 
 
 aries. Nevertheless, being anxious to cut down head- 
 quarters' expenses I volunteered for a. reduction oi $1.50 
 a week from my salary. This was not generally known ; 
 I did not even acquaint the Commissioner of my proposal 
 but quietly instructed the cashier to deduct the amount 
 from my allowance. I was perfectly satisfied, though 
 really denying myself, until I found that certain of my 
 superiors at headquarters while professing to deny them- 
 selves in one way, did not fail to make up for it in another. 
 For instance, if an article for their house was required, 
 though amounting, sometimes, to only a few cents, and at 
 other times demanding a greater outlay, instead of paying 
 for the same out of their own income, they invariably 
 passed in a requisition to the financial secretary, who was 
 responsible for seeing that the same was paid out of the 
 headquarters' funds. 
 
 At the time when I was more or less responsible for 
 property matters at headquarters, well do I remember 
 
 Brigadier H instructing me to see that a certain 
 
 Staff Officer was supplied with a shoe brush, etc., out of 
 the headquarters' funds. I objected very strongly to this 
 and informed the Brigadier that I personally could not 
 think of drawing my salary and expect to be supplied 
 with such little incidentals. In the course of my conver- 
 sation I pointed out to the Brigadier the utter unreason- 
 ableness of any business firm paying a man a salary and 
 becoming responsible for the supplying of his personal 
 wants. It was not the cost of the shoe brush that 
 troubled me but the principle involved, for these double 
 practices are carried on under the guise of self-sacrifice. 
 Taking into consideration all these things, I could but 
 feel that after all there was not that self-sacrifice that we 
 hear so much about; hence I concluded to draw my full 
 allowance and thus place myself in a better position to 
 afford a little financial assistance to a few deserving Field 
 Officers. Putting a, tenth of my income by each week 
 for this pprpose, I found it a greater Joy to give than to 
 withhold. 
 
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 There is one thing in connection with Colonel Mac- 
 kenzie's dealing with me about which I cannot help 
 feeling hurt. That is the introducing of my dear 
 mother's name, placing her before the public gaze in no 
 enviable light. When I remember that my mother has 
 never in any way been connected with the Army, except 
 as a friend and helper, I cannot refrain from stating that 
 it was very unprincipled of Col. Mackenzie to refer to 
 her as he did. He has said that I asked for a full salary 
 because I had my mother to keep. The Colonel here 
 again betraps his gross ignorance of facts, and I de?ire it 
 to be understood that thus far he has refrained from 
 making it known that my mother kindly took upon her- 
 self the responsibility of our home and the care of our 
 little child while my wife assisted me day after day for a 
 number of weeks in my office at headquarters. Now 
 when the details are known an entirely different light 
 is thrown upon the case. 
 
 The last charge, a very paltry one, is that of buying a 
 bicycle on the instalment plan while other officers were 
 going short of pay. I was not the only officer at head- 
 quarters who was guilty of the seemingly unpardonable 
 crime of purchasing a bicycle, and at the same time 
 receiving full allowance ; it seems to me therefore that 
 this charge was brought up not because of its criminality, 
 but simply because they could find nothing graver to 
 bring against me. When this charge was first made, I 
 explained to Col. Mackenzie that the bicycle was not 
 procured from any selfish motive, but seeing that my 
 health demanded attention, I concluded that, if I could 
 by some means save myself from an utter collapse it was 
 my duty first to God and then to my wife and child to do 
 so, and thinking it would be beneficial to indulge in some 
 outdoor exercise in the evenings, after being shut up in 
 the office all day, and thus relieve my mind from the 
 effects of work, I decided to get a bicycle by which I 
 could make my way into the suburbs of the city to enioy 
 
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 New Light! 
 
 the fresh air. When I spoke of this to the Colonel he 
 assured me of his entire satisfaction, and moreover, volun- 
 teered the information that he himself had used a bicycle 
 ill London, Eng., for the same purpose. I leave the 
 reader to see what puerile efforts were made to damage 
 my Christian character. 
 
 One point more and I shall have done. The question 
 in many minds now is : Why I resigned. It was not, as 
 Mr. Booth is reported to have said, entirely the result of 
 sympathy ivith Mr. PhiVpott. I, practically speaking, 
 was requested to resign by Col. Mackenzie before Mr. 
 Philpott's trouble broke out ! When first asked to do so 
 I blankly refused, and had agreed on his second sugges- 
 tion to accept a field appointment, but as time went on, 
 and we saw iu justice being dealt out to many others, my 
 wife and I concluded than wherever we might labor we 
 would be continually under a cloud of suspicion, and as 
 we felt that we could not conscientiously work for God 
 under such government and administration, I therefore 
 tendered my resignation as the only alternative. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 PRESS COMMUNICATIONS. 
 
 ^ HE following resolutions, passed in the mass 
 U^ meeting in the Auditorium, Toronto, in which 
 Mr. Philpott made his defence and to which 
 Mr. Booth was invited, appeared in the News 
 of August 26th. 
 " These resolutions were then carried amid ap- 
 plause and with unanimity : — 
 
 Having listened this evening to the defence 
 of Mr. Philpott against the charges and insinuations 
 
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 preferred by Commandant Booth, this assembly wishes 
 to place on record the expression of its entire approval 
 of the action taken by Mr. Philpott and his col- 
 leapfues in resigning their position in the Salvation Army, 
 and its admiration of their Christian conduct through- 
 out the whole proceedings. 
 
 It is the unanimous conclusion of this assembly that 
 the action of Commandant Booth in refusing to grant to 
 Mr. Philpott any opportunity for defence ; in branding 
 him before the public as dishonest and disloyal ; in mak- 
 ing wholesale accusations without producing evidence or 
 giving satisfactory explanations, is worthy of the sever- 
 est condemnation, being contrary to the spirit of Christ- 
 tiauity and to that of human justice. 
 
 Some one in the audience presented this resolution, 
 and it, too, was earned unanimously : — 
 
 In view of the recent developments as to the interior 
 working of the Salvation Army it is the voice of this 
 vast assembly that the Salvation Army has forfeited that 
 sympathy and support so long bestowed upon it by the 
 deluded public, and that the Christian people of Toronto 
 extend a helpinT^ hand to Mr. Philpott and his colleagues 
 who have taken such a noble stand for conscience and 
 truth." 
 
 Before inserting copies of letters received by the press 
 we reproduce a report of Mr. Booth's reception of the 
 deputation, which appeared in the Globe of August 19 : 
 
 " The trouble among the Salvationists is becoming, if 
 possible, more aggravated, and it is still an open question 
 which party will finally get the upper hand. One thing 
 seems certain, and that is that whatever may be the ter- 
 mination of the struggle the Army will have suffered to 
 such an extent that it will be some years before it fully 
 recovers. The fight until the present has been confined 
 to the officers. The rank and file has contented itself 
 
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 with expressions of sympathy with one side or the other. 
 Now, however, the privates and non-commissioned offi- 
 cers have decided to take a hand in the game. With 
 this purpose a deputation was appointed yesterday by 
 the soldiers, one delegate being sent from each corps, all 
 save two, and those outlying corps, being represented. 
 
 " The deputation met at headquarters at midnight and 
 asked for a consultation with Commandant Booth. Some 
 demur was made in granting this request, on the plea 
 that the Commandant had been working very hard all 
 day and was fagged out. It was finally arranged, how- 
 ever, in order that the interview might be got through 
 with expeditiously, that the deputation should submit a 
 spokesman, and that the consultation should be carried 
 on between this representative and the Commandant. 
 
 " Sergeant M. Fletcher was appointed to do the talking 
 for the men, and the deputation was then ushered into 
 the presence of the Commandant. Sergeant Fletcher 
 represented the injury that was being done to the Army 
 by the present trouble, and urged that the Commandant 
 should take a less decided stand than he had already 
 done and make the explanations necessary to bring the 
 affair to an amicable conclusion. 
 
 "The Commandant refused to be moved from the posi- 
 tion he had already taken, and censured the soldiers for 
 asking him to yield to demands that he considered 
 would be detrimental to good government and discipline 
 in the ranks. 
 
 "The deputation came away very much dissatisfied, and 
 pretty well convinced, according to the statements made 
 by several of the members, that Commandant Booth 
 was taking an altogether too determined, not to say 
 arbitrary, stand in the matter. The members of the 
 deputation gave a report last night to the corps which 
 they represented. 
 
 " Yesterday afternoon. Brigadier Philpott, speaking of 
 the declaration of confidence in Commandant Booth's 
 
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 administration which was signed by a r umber of Field 
 Officers, said, * In both his Field and StatF Officers' coun- 
 cils, in which he gave the explanation, he used personal 
 letters written by me to Commissioner Rees, and he so 
 construed their meaning as to make it detrimental to my 
 character. The Commandant has also let it be under- • 
 stood that he holds some very important documents con- 
 cerning me, which, if published, would condemn me at 
 once. I invite him to publish any letters or documents 
 he may have in all the Toronto papers. I wish him to 
 do this because as 1 have not had the opportunity of 
 defending my character before the councils he called, the 
 members of which I have laboured with during the past 
 five years, I feel that this would be the only way in 
 which I could obtain fair play. I wish, too, to state 
 that I understand from officers who were present at the 
 councils spoken of that Commandant Booth declared that 
 after I had been forced to my present position Brigadier 
 Marge tts begged me and my wife for the sake of Christ 
 and His kingdom to leave the camp grounds in order that 
 I might not cause trouble. This statement is a direct 
 falsehood, without the slightest foundation. Brigadier 
 Margetts came to my wife and said he supposed she 
 would be staying on the grounds, to which she replied, 
 * Yes, as our little one is sick, and this place is doing him 
 good.' He said, * By all means stay.' Col. Mackenzie, 
 too, asked me if I were going to stay on the grounds, 
 and said, * Be sure and come in and help me in our 
 meeting on Sunday.* I might say, too, that at my first 
 interview with Commandant Booth I asked him to pub- 
 lish the letters referred to.' 
 
 "The officers who have resigned have leased the church 
 on the corner of Denison-avenue and Queen-street, and 
 will hold services there every Sunday at 11 a.m., 3 and 
 7 p.m. It is evident from this that these officers consider 
 their separation from the Army final and complete." 
 
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 New Light. 
 
 LETTERS TO THE PRESS. 
 
 FROM A SOLDIER. 
 
 Editor News — The present troubles in our Army will 
 give food for thought to the members of our organiza- 
 tion. 
 
 Two general axioms have always been admitted in our 
 ranks — first, that the army is of God ; second, that its 
 leaders are of God. Although some of the more sceptical 
 have been rather loath to attribute all the acts of our 
 leaders to divine inspiration, the doctrine has been given 
 general credence. However, even the most faithful will 
 have to look at the matter now in a different light. 
 Admitting that the charges against Brigadier Philpott are 
 true, what kind of a place must headquarters be if its 
 head considers a man who keeps a record of events that 
 transpire there is worthy of expulsion and disgrace ? One 
 would certainly imagine that if God rules as supremely 
 as is generally supposed around the corner of Albert and 
 James-streets, ever}' act that transpires therein would 
 stand the light of day. Commandant Booth seems to 
 think otherwise. t 
 
 If these charges are not true, how great a wrong has 
 been perpetrated on a man who finds it impossible to even 
 defend himself. 
 
 The facts are these : We know Philpott, and in the 
 years he has lived and walked in our midst we have 
 proved him to be in every respect a man. Booth we do 
 not know except by reputation, and we are prepared to 
 give the word of the man we know the preference, and, 
 more than that, we are prepared to see that he receives 
 the fullest justice. 
 
 I notice in the World that Commissioner Booth states 
 there is no dissatisfaction in our ranks. Really, why 
 then these demands for explanations, and why is it that 
 
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 the rank and file, and to a great extent the otHcers, are 
 prepared to see that right is done to a man whom we 
 have every reason to believe has been wronged ? In 
 making such a statement Commissioner Booth either told 
 what he knew to be untrue or he was not ac(^uainted with 
 the facts, a thing that seems rather improbable consider- 
 ing the position he occupies. 
 
 And as for the Staff OfHcers being satisfied, let the 
 World publish a list of those who are contented with the 
 present state of affairs and it will be found that ahnost 
 without exception they are imported officers, who, to all 
 appearance, are prepared to accept Booth as theii* God, 
 but right will triumph, and then it will be discovered 
 how far the Canadian representative of Pope William 
 Booth has used his power to injure a defenceless man. 
 
 Toronto Neus, Aug. 17th. A Soldier. 
 
 Editor News — In view of the troubles that are at 
 present causing such turmoil in our ranks, it is not sur- 
 prising that we look to Commissioner Booth for a satis- 
 factory explanation of the causes that have led to this 
 difficulty, and from present appearances we may continue 
 to look till doomsday without being any wiser. 
 
 If, as Commissioner Booth asserts, he has satisfactory 
 reasons for forcing Brigadier Philpott to resign, why does 
 he so absolutely refuse to state these causes in the pre- 
 sence of the man who has been accused ? He dare not do 
 so, for he tiioroughly understands that under such circum- 
 stances the rottenness of his reasons would be brought to 
 light. As far as the declaration of the Staff' Officers and 
 the Field Officers who have not seceded goes, it is known 
 that some are not satisfied, and others do not understand 
 the true inwardness of the affair. 
 
 What the city soldiers demand is that justice shall be 
 dealt out to all concerned, and in order that the merits of 
 the case may be understood, it is only right that the 
 
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 accused shall stand before the accuser to speak for himself. 
 With a unanimous voice we demand this privilege for 
 Brigadier Philpott, and will Commissioner Booth refuse 
 it? 
 
 If so, he may prepare to paste on the doors of all the 
 city barracks the following notice : 
 
 For Sale or To Let. 
 Apply to William Booth & Sons, 
 Cor. James and Albert-streets. 
 Head Office, 
 
 101 Queen Victoria-street, 
 
 London, E.G. ^ 
 
 The above firm holds valuable property all over the 
 
 World. 
 
 The passing soldier will sigh when he thinks of his 
 years of confidence in the " God-sent leader," but he will 
 probably try to comfort himself with the thought that 
 while Booth & Sons have been smart enough to grab all 
 the property, the Lord got all the glory. 
 
 Toronto News, Aug. l^th. Soldier. 
 
 CHALLENGE TO BOOTH. 
 
 Editor News — Having seen in ihis morning's issue of 
 the Globe that as Mr. Philpott has not had any opportun- 
 ity of vindicating his character before the public in gen- 
 eral, and those who comprised the recent councils held by 
 Mr. Booth, where he undertook to render a,n explanation 
 of his actions, he (Mr. Philpott) now invites Mr. Booth to 
 publish in all the Toronto papers those important docu- 
 ments which he has hinted at as being in his possession, 
 and which he maintains would, if published, immediately 
 condemn Mr. Philpott and justify Mr. Booth in his seem- 
 ingly rash actions. Now, may I ask why does not Mr. 
 
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 Booth produce those statements, and as a man of principle 
 (apart from the question of religion altogether), give Mr. 
 Philpott a chance of defending his character, which is a very 
 important matter, in(lee<l. 1 think that the very least 
 Mr. Booth may do is to stop making insinuations as to 
 its being in his power to expose Mr. Philpott. which are, 
 of course, damaging to him, and now that the challenge 
 has been publicly given come, like a man shouhl do, and 
 give Mr.Philpott an op[)ortunity of clearing himself bo- 
 toie the woild, and proving to all tliat he is a man of 
 God, and determines in the future, as he always has in 
 the past, to denounce all wrongdoing, and uphold truth 
 and righteousness, showing to all 
 
 Toronto News, Aug. I9th. Fairplay. 
 
 AN OPEN LETTER. 
 
 To the OJicers and Soldiers of the Salvation Army : 
 
 Comrades — Brigadier Philpott, a man of unblemished 
 reputation, and for years a trusted leader in our midst, 
 has recently had charges of disloyalty laid against him in 
 such a manner that as an honorable man he was forced to 
 resign. Deprived of the opportunity of standing before 
 his accusers to defend himself, he is branded as a guilty 
 man. What is our course in this matter, for it deeply 
 concerns us all ? Are we to believe charges which have 
 not yet been proven ? Never. Are we to consent to the 
 condemnation of a man who has not received one chance 
 to defend himself ? Certainly not. To-night Commis- 
 sioner Booth will meet the local officers of Torouio, and 
 explain to them his side of the question. He will read a 
 let ter wh^ch Brigadier Philpott wr ote some time ago, off'er- 
 ii^g to resign, but will he tell the circumstances under 
 which it was written ? They are these: Brigadier Phil- 
 pott at the time the letter was written was broken down 
 in health, his voice was gone, and feeling he was only a 
 
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 burden on the Army, he offered to step down and out. 
 Recovering to a great extent from his sickness, he wrote 
 another letter to headquarters, saying that under his 
 altered circumstances he was prepared to stay in the 
 Army for life. This letter will not be read. 
 
 Commissioner Booth will also tell of the disloyal spirit 
 that Brigadier Philpott has shown on different occasions, 
 but he will not explain that this disloyalty consisted in 
 denouncing the rottenness with which, God knows, our 
 Army is filled. What is your course ? Simply this : 
 Demand of Commissioner Booth that he state his charges 
 in the presence of Brigadier Philpott, that he may have a 
 British citizen's right of defence, and until this right is 
 given refuse point blank to accept or ratify anything 
 that Commissioner Booth may say. 
 
 Remember you have not yet heard Brigadier Philpott's 
 defence, and this being the case, how can you form an 
 opinion ? Simple justice demands this course. A thief 
 or murderer is not condemned till he has an opportunity 
 of presenting evidence on his own behalf, no matter how 
 clear the case may be, and surely Brigadier Philpott is 
 entitled to equal treatment. It is our duty to see that 
 this right is accorded, and I call on every Salvationist 
 who values truth and justice to leave the Army until 
 Commissioner Booth yi ill state his case in the presence of 
 the accused. This is the only course for any man of 
 principle to take, for by remaining within the ranks we 
 only add our sanction to the injustice that is being done. 
 
 Some doubt, I believe, exists as to my being a soldier 
 in the S.A. In order to convince all that such is the case, 
 I will on Monday write another letter over my own 
 
 signature. 
 
 Toronto News, Aug. 20. 
 
 Soldi LR. 
 
 Editor News — Mr. Herbert Booth w as recently re- 
 ported as having said in reference to his appointment by 
 
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 his father to this country : " Here I am, comparatively 
 unknown and with a rauch smaller command ; and in 
 Great Britain I had the advantage of an influence that I 
 cannot possess here." 
 
 A yuore truthful statement could not have been mad*'!, 
 he being personally unknowji here, except by those im- 
 ported trom the College of Servitude, over which young 
 Herbert presided for a number of years, and, although a 
 young man, he has proved himself to be a genuine pro- 
 phet, for, like Shakespeare's " Othello," his occupation is 
 gone. Canadians are evidently more sensitive on relifji- 
 ous matters than they are on politics, and are already 
 asking what has become of the thousands of dollars col- 
 lected, and who owns, or under what conditions is the 
 accumulated property held, they having no voice in the 
 selection of either the general, his representative or their 
 officers. In short, the bleedir^g to death system will not 
 do, for Canadians evidentl}'^ refuse to be dispatched to the 
 ends of the earth according to precedent. 
 
 Now, Mr. Herbert, success has not followed your efforts 
 to conceal the truth. We have read your outcoming 
 circular. The inuendos and half-truths therein contained 
 will receive just the notice they deserve from the parties 
 themselves at the proper time. 
 
 The sympathies of the public are, after all, with those 
 who are prepared to sacrifice profit to principle, and face 
 the cold and heartless persecution which has invariably 
 followed those who have chosen to serve God rather than 
 follow the Booths into complete self-abnegation. A well- 
 known writer, who has been on the headquarters* staff, 
 has said : " Indeed the persecution that has been brought 
 to bear in many instances upon officers who have left the 
 work has amounted to the very refinement of cruelty. In 
 fact, they are never lost sight of, and means of the most 
 despicable description have been resorted to in order to 
 starve them back to the service." 
 
 The public need not be surprised to read of recanta- 
 
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 tions, humble apologies, etc., which will abound. Docu- 
 ments of this description are arranged and written out at 
 headquarters, and distracted officers, with threats on the 
 one hand, starvation on the other, have no other alterna- 
 tive but to affix their signatures. We could write columns 
 of our own bitter experience purchased at the expense of 
 years of faithful service. 
 
 We understand that the ex-officers and others intend 
 hoKling a mass meeting for a thorough discussion of 
 questions connected with the Army next week, to which 
 Mr. Booth will be invited. I enclose my card and sub- 
 scribe myself. 
 
 Toronto News, August 20th. 
 
 Sine Imvidia. 
 
 Editor News — Being greatly interested in the present 
 agitation of the Salvation Army, we beg leave for a small 
 space in your valuable paper, thanking you for the inter- 
 est you have taken in informing the public of the pro- 
 ceedings from day to day. We fail to see Commandant 
 Booth's reason for refusing to explain himself in the 
 presence of Brigadier Philpott, unless John iii., 20-21 
 touches a sore spot. 
 
 We, and the many who are so well personally acquainted 
 with the genuineness of Brigadier Philpott, and have 
 every connuence in him, know that if he chose to do so 
 he could exjiose something which the Booths would much 
 regret to have the public know. 
 
 As to the matter of sending hard-earned and much 
 needed money to England, it has always struck us as 
 being extremely unfair to Canadian officers, many of 
 whom have suffered much from lack of fire, food and 
 clothing, and after working hard to get up a jubilee to 
 raise money to pay their debts, some of the Boothites 
 would swoop down and pocket every cent of it, saying : 
 " We need this money badly ; God bless you, beg for 
 more." While Commissioner Adams was here there was 
 
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Cominandant Booth's Reply. 
 
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 peace and encouragement, but before and since there has 
 been more or less discontent, and if the present state of 
 affairs continues the chances are that some of the money 
 which the Booths have grabbed from Canada will have 
 to be refunded to carry on the remains of the work. 
 
 On Behalf of the Yorkville Soldiers. 
 Toronto News, August 20th. 
 
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 COMMANDANT BOOTH'S REPLY. 
 
 TO THE CHARGES MADE BY MR. PHILPOTT AT THE MASS 
 MEETING IN THE AUDITORIUM. 
 
 (The substance of Mr. Philpott's address will be found 
 embodied in the first nine chapters.) 
 
 (From the Toronto Glohe of August Slst.) 
 
 A CATEGORICAL DENIAL 
 
 OF THE MORE SERIOUS OF THE ACCUSATIONS. 
 
 Two more Important Letters from the Seceding Officer — 
 The alleged Testimonial of Loyalty. 
 
 The following letter has been received for publication 
 from Commandant Booth : — 
 
 Territorial Headquarters : 
 
 James and Albert- Streets, 
 
 Toronto, Aug. 29, 1892. 
 Editor Globe : 
 
 Sir, — With reference to the resignation of Mr. Philpott 
 and the circumstances which have since arisen, I feel it 
 due to the public that I should lay before your readera 
 the more important facts as briefly as possible. T do this 
 reluctantly, but the nature of some of the allegations 
 made by Mr. Philpott, which would appear to reflect upon 
 the public credit of the Army, leaves me no alternative. 
 
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 THE QUESTION OF SALARIES. 
 
 Mr. Philpotfc speaks of the extravagant salaries paid to 
 the headquarters' staft* and refers to his own salary, 
 when he handed it to his wife, as being " blood money." 
 
 This statement is absolutely unfounded ; the salaries 
 of the staff are not extravagant. The best proof of this 
 is the fact that there are working at headquarters 22 
 persons, 11 of whom are married. The total amount 
 drawn for salary, divided among these 22 persons, gives 
 an average of only $8.81 per head. Among the most 
 expensive men on headquarters' staff was Mr. Philpott 
 himself, who, when he left, was costing the Army, includ- 
 ing his house rent, as much as myself, my house rent not 
 being chargeable to the funds. 
 
 The staff' at headquarters have manifested a true spirit 
 of self-denial, many of them having very often worked 
 early and late. During three months of the past year 
 they have cheerfully gone short in their scanty allow- 
 ances in order that the work might not suffer ; and 
 although such a course entails great self-sacrifice on* their 
 part, they will be prepared to do so again should occasion 
 arise. 
 
 If Mr. Philpott felt his salary was " blood money," it 
 was a pity he consented to draw it so long. While, on 
 the one hand, Mr. Philpott wishes to make it understood 
 that he has protested against the payment of unneces- 
 sary officers at headquarters, yet he now takes the part 
 of men whose chief grievance against us is that we gave 
 them an opportunity to withdraw honorably instead of 
 burdening the Army's funds. 
 
 It is well known to the whole Army that since my 
 arrival the leading members of headquarters' staff have 
 cheerfully consented to work overtime, and thus to absorb 
 the work of a number of officers who have been trans- 
 ferred to the States and elsewhere where suitable positions 
 could be found for them, saving by this means a con- 
 
 
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 siderable sum. Even this has been given out by |Mr. 
 Philpott's followers as an evidence of my " tyranny," and 
 made to appear as if I were conniving at the removal of 
 " dangerous characters." 
 
 THE SELF-DENIAL FUND. 
 
 Mr. Philpott states that last year's self-denial fund 
 amounted to $12,000, and the bulk of this was placed in 
 the bank with the express purpose of meeting the salaries 
 of headquarters' staff. This statement is contrary to the 
 facts, which are as follows : — The amount realized after 
 the expenses were paid was not $12,000 but under $8,700. 
 This is shown in the printed balance sheet, which was 
 published in The War Cry, and Mr. Philpott should surely 
 have stated the fact ; $G,200 of the amount raised went 
 to pay debts which had been incurred by the general 
 spiritual work of the Army. The balance, which will be 
 seen was not by any means the " bulk " of the fund, was 
 banked and "drawn out in weekly instalments for the 
 general expenses of the work. But it is entirely false to 
 assert that it was placed there for the express purpose of 
 paying staff salaries. 
 
 It is understood throughout the whole world that the 
 salaries of the headquarters' staff are covered by the 
 profits of the Army's trading operations. Now, the actual 
 profits paid by the trade into the Toronto headquarters 
 were more than sufficient to meet the salaries for the 
 whole of the time of which Mr. Philpott speaks. 
 
 Quite apart from the self-denial grant, we have received 
 more than sufficient to pay the salaries of the staff twice 
 over. While, on the other hand, we have paid out as 
 grants to poor and sick and wounded officers since the 
 self-denial money was banked, $2,400 more than we have 
 received on that account. Why did Mr. Philpott conceal 
 this fact and wish to make his audience believe that we 
 have no means of meeting staff salaries but by appro- 
 priating the self-denial fund ? 
 
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 If, as he asserts, the self-denial fund was held as a 
 guaiantee for staff salaries, how does he account for the 
 fact that the staff have consented to go on short allowance 
 for a period of three months since the money in question 
 was raised ? 
 
 Lastly, if Mr. Philpott believed that the money was 
 being used for the purpose wliich gave him such oif.^nce, 
 why did he consent to take 1^875 of it for his own salary 
 and house rent ? The public will know that a large 
 organization cannot be carried on without a staff, and it 
 follows that the staff must be maintained. The fact that 
 Mr. Philpott raises this question, withholding, as he does, 
 the whole truth upon the subject, would seem to show 
 that, after all his professions of love to the Army, he 
 intends to do it harm. 
 
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 THE CHARGE OF SELLING PROPERTIES. 
 
 Mr. Philpott alleges that the transactions of head- 
 quarters as regards property matters are not straightfor- 
 ward, and gives it out that the Commissioner has power 
 to sell properties and use the money for salaries or any- 
 thing else he sees lit. He states this has been done in 
 twenty or thirty places during the last year, and he gives 
 as instances three places which came directly under his 
 notice, viz. , London, Lucan and Alvinston. 
 
 Now, as to the twenty or thirty places during the past 
 year, we dismiss this at once with an absolute and 
 positive denial. It is false to the worst degree, as can be 
 verified by the Army's solicitors and books. The total 
 number of properties sold during the eight years of the 
 Army's existence in the Dominion is considerably under 
 twenty. As to selling properties and using the money 
 for other purposes, that is conti^ary to an underlying 
 principle of the Army's administration, and is a breach of 
 the strictest regulation. No one knows better than Mr. 
 Philpott that where this has been done in the past it has 
 
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 been in opposition to the General's instructions, and that 
 such a breach of regulations has been dealt with by the 
 General in the most emphatic manner possible. The 
 system of bookkeeping at the Toronto headquarters is 
 similar to that upon which Mr. Arnold White has just 
 pronounced his judgment, when he described it as an 
 *' ironclad system " of accounts, and which he endorsed to 
 be equal to that in force t the " London Joint Stock 
 Bank." Property matters, books and payments are kept 
 entirely separate from the ordinary accounts of the Army, 
 and the moneys are deposited in a separate bank. 
 
 As to London, Mr. Philpott is entirely wrong in his 
 facts here. He is, to begin wuth, out in his figures by 
 nearly $1,000. This property was sold for reasons which 
 were fully stated to Mr. Philpott by the Commissioner 
 for the time being. He denies this ; yet a copy of the 
 letter addressed to him upon the subject is before us. The 
 price paid for the land was $3,280 ; $2,065 of this went 
 to pay off the mortgage and interest. There were other 
 liabilities on the properties which were also Tiet, and the 
 balance is still ref».ognized to the credit of ilie property 
 fund as being available to assist in purchasing property 
 in London, should such a course be decided upon. Since 
 my arrival in Canada I have had under consideration a 
 proposal to purchase property in this city. 
 
 As to Lucan, it is correct that this property has been 
 sold. The Army is not the only religious institution in 
 the Dominion which has found it impossible to support a 
 society in a village, and has in consequence withdrawn 
 and sold its property ; churches have been sold as well as 
 barracks. The Army withdrew from Lucan on the ex- 
 press wish of Mr. Philpott, as is shown by his own papers 
 now at headquarters. The property here was sold with 
 Mr. Philpott's concurrence, as the following extract from 
 one of his letters, written to headquarters at the time, 
 will show : 
 
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 " I have had several offers for the property at Lucan. 
 
 The best offer is from Mr. . I think this is the 
 
 best you can do, and would advise you to let it go for 
 that amount. 
 
 "P. W. Philpott." 
 
 As to Alvinston, the building is not yet sold, but the 
 Army's withdrawal from that village was the result of 
 Mr. Philpot's express wishes, as is conclusively proved 
 by the following extract from another letter written by 
 him at the time to headquarters : 
 
 " I will not take the responsibility of supporting officers 
 there. The railroad will, no doubt, run through the bar- 
 racks, and this will do away with our property, which is 
 a God-send. 
 
 "P. W. Philpott." 
 
 These are not the only two places in which Mr. Phil- 
 pott suggested that the Army property should be sold, 
 and urged headquarters to adopt that course. Here is 
 another extract from one of his letters received by head- 
 quarters : 
 
 " What about H property; can I sell it ? It is 
 
 no good to us. 
 
 " P. W. Philpott." 
 
 THE CHARGES AGAINST THE MAllECHALB. 
 
 Mr. Philpott alleges that the Mar^chale, when in Can- 
 ada, travelled in a section of the palace car, and that dur- 
 ing one day's journey, between Kingston and Montreal, 
 S10or$l2 were spent in refreshments. 
 
 Now, the facts are, the Mar^chale came to Canada after 
 a most exhaustive tour through the United States. As 
 Mr. Philpott knows perfectly well, she was in an ex- 
 tremely delicate state of health. Every one who saw her 
 
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Commandant Booth's Reply. 
 
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 will bear witness that she was really too ill to conduct 
 meetings at all. Any extra conveniences that were ob- 
 tained for her were absolutely necessary in order to enable 
 her to fulfil her engagements. After the very journey in 
 question, Mr. Philpott knows that she was carried from 
 the meeting at Montreal in a prostrate condition. At that 
 time he was loud in his professions of sympathy, although 
 it would now appear he was taking a note of tlie fact for 
 the yjurpose which he now discloses. The sacrifices of the 
 Mardchale in the cause of the work are too universally 
 known to need defence. As to the refreshments, Mr. 
 Philpott cannot, fortunately, contradict his own writing. 
 The total amount spent for refreshments on the journey 
 was not $10 or $12, but for the whole party of four per- 
 sons amounted to $3.75. These figures are taken from 
 Mr. Philpott's own statements, who was acting as treas- 
 urer ; were made at the time in his own handwriting, 
 and it is from these statements we find that the total 
 amount expended on refreshments, chargeable to the 
 funds, for the whole party during these journeys through- 
 out Canada was $6.65. The net proceeds to the work of 
 the Mardchale's meetings in Canada and the United 
 States amounted to over $11,000. 
 
 TWO SIGNIFICANT LETTERS. 
 
 It is not my intention to depart from the rule of the 
 Army and reply through the press to the many other 
 false accusations made in this meeting by Mr. Philpott 
 and his associates. I feel it, however, incumbent upon 
 me to introduce to the public two letters which he ad- 
 dressed to my predecessor. In doing so I wish to say : — 
 
 (1) That I am astounded that Mr. Philpott should 
 have allowed a resolution to be put to a meeting, ex- 
 pressing confidence in him and condemning me, without 
 having read those documents, which he knew were in 
 my possession, and which were the best possible answer 
 
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 to the charges brought against my prodecessor. This is 
 exactly what he did with the officers. 
 
 (2) These letters were written quite voluntarily on his 
 part. 
 
 (3) They are conclusive evidence, not only of Mr. 
 Philpott's dissatisfaction and disloyalty, but of my pre- 
 decessor's patience in dealing with him. 
 
 (4) They are emphatic in their expression of confidence 
 in Commissioner Rees, whom he now seeks to brand as a 
 dishonorable and untruthful man. They repeatedly al- 
 lege his confidence in his administration, and one of them 
 goes so far as to say, that he (Mr. Philpott) was never m( re 
 satisfied in his own mind that we were on the right lines, 
 and his belief was never more firm in the Army and its 
 principles. How this can be made to square with his 
 present denunciations of the Army is difiicult to conceive. 
 
 (5) I have seen a verbatim report of the attempt Mr. 
 Philpott made to explain away the last of these two 
 letters. But he must surely have forgotten that, in a 
 shorthand note book, which is the property of the Army, 
 and which was used by him for official purposes, he has 
 left, in his own handwriting, no less than five different 
 drafts of this letter. Some of the things he has written 
 in these drafts are stronger in condemning himself and 
 higher in the praises of Commissioner Rees than the 
 text now published. They leave no possible doubt that 
 in writing this letter he meant to say precisely what he 
 did say. 
 
 " S. A. Temple, Toronto, March 14th, 1892. Com- 
 missioner Rees : — My Dear Commisssoner, — I feel it my 
 duty to let you know in writing that I am fully settled 
 as to my future, have promised God that in the Salvation 
 Army I should fight to the end. My prospects, though 
 small, are sunk in the concern. If she sinks, then I 
 must go under with her ; if she shakes, then I am here 
 to do my best to steady her, but to desert her — Never ! 
 I cannot tell you how very differently things look and I 
 
ComwAindant Booth's Reply. 
 
 77 
 
 feel since I came to this decision. The only sadness I 
 feel is when looking back to see how foolish tor me to 
 harbor these feelings so long when a small act on my 
 part could have ended it long ago. 1 trace the beginning 
 of the dissatisfaction back to the break -down in my 
 health, when I found myself failing so rapidly in strength. 
 I could not get away from the idea that I was or would 
 be a burden on the Armv, and the more I looked at it 
 the more I resolved I never should be. Hence this 
 trouble. I cannot express my thankfulness for your 
 kindness and help, and I shall strive to prove this by 
 taking hold with all my might and being one with you 
 in every conflict. I feel I do not deserve your confidence, 
 but I know I shall enjoy it. I am entirely in your hands, 
 to go or to stay, or to be anything you see fit to make 
 me or keep me. The devil did not want me to put this 
 on paper, but I am prepared to stand by it, therefore I 
 am not afraid. Faithfully yours, P. W. Philpott." 
 
 THE SECOND LETTER. 
 
 " S. A. Temj)le, Toronto, May 10, 1892. Commissioner 
 Rees: — My Dear Commissioner, — Since seeing you yester- 
 day I feel it my duty to write you in reference to the 
 trouble that took place in the Staff Council last Thursday. 
 Had I seen things before this council, as I have seen 
 them since our interview, I should never have taken any 
 part whatever in the matter ; under the circumstances I 
 feel I must take to myself much blame. I beg also to 
 say that I am extremely sorry for being so foolish as to 
 express my views so very freely to those about me ; and 
 also for allowing them to do the same with me. This 
 lesson is a most bitter but profitable one, and shall follow 
 me through life. I must also state that I am sorry for 
 the way the affair hurt you as it was far from my in- 
 tentions to cast any reflections on you or your admin- 
 istration, ai^d I woul4 desire you to inform my comrade 
 
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 Staff Officers that I was never so settled in my own mind 
 that we are on the right lines. My belief was never 
 more Hrm in the Army and its principles, and I am one 
 with you for Canada's salvation. God bless you. I am, 
 yours, a sadder but wiser man. P. W. Phii.pott." 
 
 A TESTIMONIAL OF LOYALTY. 
 
 Mr. Philpott states that after all these troubles Com- 
 missioner Rees gave him a testimonial as to his loyalty. 
 It is astounding how Mr. Philpott could have stated 
 this. It is most misleading, and is a perverse wresting 
 of the facts. 
 
 Mr. Philpott was licensed to marry under the S. A. 
 Marriage Act, and the official legal document giving him 
 this license was commenced in the customary way with 
 the words which he quotes. This is very different from a 
 personal testimonial. To have read it out to an audience 
 as such is conduct of which we leave every honorable 
 person to be the judge. 
 
 No one could regret more than I the whole of this 
 unfortunate incident. It has been forced upon me by 
 Mr. Philpott's action. His assertion that he was com- 
 pelled to resign is absolutely unfounded, and is proved by 
 his own written resignation, in which he admits that I 
 was expecting another interview with him. 
 
 As to the cruel statements which have been circulated 
 concerning my wife and myself, and those associated with 
 me, I can only say that nothing would have been more 
 easy than to have avoided them if we had been prepared 
 to sacrifice the first principles of righteousness and truth. 
 They have come upon us as the result of our endeavoring 
 to stand by the right. We can afford to wait without 
 fear, knowing that God will vindicate our characters and 
 honor our integrity. 
 
 Apart altogether from the statements which Mr. Phil- 
 pott has made, it occurs to me that lie may seek to refer 
 
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 to a certain shorf period in the Army's history in Canada, 
 during? which time there were incidents which weie 
 deplored, but which are liable to happen on occasion in 
 every large organization. These incidents were dealt with 
 by Gen. Booth immediately they came to his knowledge 
 in the most prompt and effective manner. 
 
 I may say, in conclusion, that one of the Army's chief 
 sources of strength lies in its wonderful unity. God can- 
 not bless it as He would while there are in our ranks 
 those who foster feelings of disloyalty and spread dis- 
 contentment. I believe this difficulty will leave the Army 
 more united and in a better position than it has ever been 
 since its early days. 
 
 Herbert H. Booth. 
 
 Commandant, 
 
 Note. — It is to l)e regretted that Mr. Booth did not attend the meet- 
 ing in which I delivei-ed my aihlrcss. He was invited by legistercd 
 letter and was called upon by one of the members of the committee. 
 His reply is a subtle distortion of facts based upon an utter misunder- 
 standing and misconstruing of some of my leading statements. 
 
 PHILPOTT ANSWERS BOOTH. 
 
 HE- PRODUCES EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT HIS CHARGES. 
 
 How the Staf Went Short 
 
 MORE INFORMATION ON THE REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. 
 
 La Marechale's Tour ; Ginger Ale at 15c. a Glass — Why 
 Those Letters Were Written. 
 
 (Toronto Globe, Sept. 5). 
 
 The following letter of reply to Commandant Booth's 
 recent statement with regard to the Salvation Army 
 secession controversy has been written by ex-Brigadier 
 PhUpott; < . 
 
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 To the Editor of the Globe : 
 
 Sir, — With reference to Commandant Booth's letter in 
 \ your issue of the 31st ult. 
 
 Mr. Booth states that he " reluctantly " makes his 
 reply through the press. His reluctance might have 
 been saved had he in the first place afforded rae a 
 Christian church trial or a Salvation Army court-martial 
 instead of dealing with my case in the manner he did, 
 for be it remembered from the very first I have been 
 anxious; to meet Mr. Booth with his own people and 
 settle this sad difficulty in a quiet and satisfactory man- 
 ner, and many interested parties put forth every effort 
 possible to persuade him to meet me, but from the first 
 he emphatically refused to do so. When the mass meet- 
 ing was arranged for in the Auditorium Mr. Booth was 
 tendered the same invitation to be present as myself; he 
 failed, however, to put in an appearance. However, I 
 shall deal with the reply as it is. 
 
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 THE QUESTION OF SALARIES. 
 
 Mr. Booth declares that my statements on this point 
 are " absolutely unfounded," and as a proof states that 
 " there are only twenty-two (22) persons employed at 
 headquarters, eleven (11; of whom are married, and the 
 total salaries divided among them will give an average 
 of $8.81 each per week." This is horribly misleading, 
 for many of those employed at headquarters at the time 
 I refer to received from $2 to $5 per week, and nearly, 
 if not all. the married officers have iheir houses furnished 
 gratis, while all Staff Officers ranking above adjutant 
 have their house rent paid out of the headquarters funds. 
 Then over and above all this the salaries of the married 
 Staff Officers amounted to $11.50, $12, and in one or two 
 cases $13 each per week. Now, when Mr. Booth in 
 computing his average places the small boy who gets $2 
 
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 beside his $13 man, you will see how anxious he is to 
 keep this salary business in the dark. 
 
 Further, I wish to say that Mr. Booth is well aware 
 that my statements do not refer to the staff as it now is, 
 for we can easily understand how everything could be 
 changed to meet the present occasion. In dealing with 
 this salary question I refer to a few months ago, at which 
 time there were 41 persons working at headquarters, and 
 not 22. According to the information furnished by the 
 officer who was then the Salvation Army cashier, and 
 by the accountant, the salaries ranged as follows : — The 
 Commissioner received $15 per week, his house furnished 
 and rent paid, amounting to $22 per month. Next came 
 seven or eight Staff Officers who had their houses furnished, 
 their rent paid and received salaries ranging from $11.50 
 to $13 per week. The remainder of the 41 received from 
 $11.50 down to $2 per week and paid their own expenses. 
 
 HOW THE STAFF WENT SHORT. 
 
 Mr. Booth also adds that for three months during the 
 past year t he staff went short of their scanty allowance. 
 Now let it be plain that only those few referred to 
 above as receiving the large salaries were the individuals 
 affected by a reduction, and not one of them wont below 
 $10 per week, with their house rent still paid. I, being 
 included in the number, was asked by Commissioner 
 Rees if I was willing to reduce my salary. I replied, 
 " Yes, sir ; Mrs. Philpott and I are quite willing to be 
 reduced to $7 per week, as we can manage on that." But 
 he said, *' No, you must not go below $10, as none of the 
 others are." While this is quite true, I desire to state 
 that in one or two cases after the reductions were made, 
 the salary still remained $12. As to it entailing great 
 sacrifice, as Mr. Booth states, for a man to live en $10 
 per week, with his house furnished and rent paid, I will 
 leave the public to judge by referring to many of the 
 
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 Field Officers up and down the country who do not know 
 what it is to receive $1 per week, while the weekly al- 
 lowance of many more only amounts to lOc, 16c., and 
 25c. It is not my desire to refer to matters of this kind, 
 but I certainly think it a shame for Mr. Booth to speak 
 of the sacrifices of the headquarters' staff in face of these 
 facts. He also states that I was among the most expen- 
 sive men on the staff, and at the time of leaving was 
 costing the Army, including my house rent, as much as 
 himself, his house rent "not being chargeable to the 
 fund." After the facts I have given, this needs no ex- 
 planation. 
 
 He then desired to know, if I considered my salary 
 " blood money," why I continued to draw it so long. My 
 reason is simply this : I could not but feel it would be 
 better to draw my salary and send clothing and help up 
 and down the country to those oppressed souls week by 
 week, than to have the money remain in the bank for 
 some one else to draw who would not expend it in such 
 a manner. Several others on the statt" recognized the 
 needs of the poor Field Officers, and looking at it in the 
 same light, acted on the same principle, and there are 
 many to-day in the Salvation Army ranks who will, no 
 doubt, testify to the help received in this manner. I feel 
 in touching on this point that I should also give an il- 
 lustration of the staff's extravagance. Upon Commis- 
 sioner Rees' arrival in this country, he took up his abode 
 in Parkdale in a house which had been leased by his 
 predecessor. Not liking the locality, he expressed him- 
 self to me and several others that he would be glad to 
 vacate the house were it not that the same was leased. 
 However, his desire was intensified, until it ran away 
 with any thoughts of economy, and about January last 
 he moved to another part of the city, leaving his vacated 
 house untenanted, with a rent of $22 to be paid each 
 month, the lease not expiring until about October. With- 
 out making any further references I vrill leave it to the 
 
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 public to judge as to whether my remarks about the ex- 
 travagance of the staff are, as Mr. Booth declares, " ab- 
 solutely unfounded." 
 
 THE SELF-DENIAL FUND. 
 
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 Mr. Booth states that the amount raised was not 
 $12,000, but I \»ioli to say again that last year's self- 
 denial exceeded that of any previous year, and that over 
 $11,000 was realized. It may be quite true that only 
 $8,700 was left after expenses were paid. This I do not 
 deny. Mr. Booth also states that $G,200 went to pay 
 debts incurred by the general spiritual work of the Army. 
 Now it was a well-known fact that for some time towards 
 the close of Commissioner Adams' administration (though 
 I myself was not then attached to headquarters staff) 
 funds were somewhat low at headquarters, and in conse- 
 quence of this many of the headquarters' staff had for 
 weeks been without salary, and a dark, threatening 
 cloud overshadowed all concerned. Shortly after the 
 arrival of Commissioner Rees a loan was made, and, ac- 
 cording to Commissioner Rees' statements, the back 
 salaries of the headquarters* staff were at once forthcom- 
 ing. Now, when self-denial proved such a success, and 
 the money was all gathered in, I will not commit ray- 
 self by making a positive declaration, but I will say it 
 is quite possible that the amount just referred to, taken 
 from the loan, was refunded from the proceeds of the 
 self-denial scheme. However, be that as it may, I would 
 like to say that (with the grant from the trade each 
 week) sufficient of that self-denial money was banked to 
 insure the staff salaries, as was thought, for the remainder 
 of the year, and it did so up to eight or nine weeks ago. 
 Mr. Booth declares the money was not placed in the 
 bank for the express purpose of paying salaries. Well, 
 if these statements are not true he must lay the blam^ 
 on the officers who handled the cash and books, who have 
 
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 to others than myself volunteered information that brings 
 forth these facts to-day. To be as charitable as possible, 
 I think it is entirely wrong that poor officers should be 
 expected to push a scheme of this description, and in so 
 doing deny themselves in order to, as they thcaght, pay 
 off Canada's debt, while in reality, as I have just stated, 
 a great amount of the money was banked to pay the 
 salaries of the headquarters' staff. There are many offi- 
 cers in the Army to-day, as well as a number who have 
 had to step out, who could, if they were not fearful of 
 the consequences, substantiate all I have stated. I^o 
 later than one day last week a prominent Staff Officer 
 admitted that these evils did exist in the Salvation Army, 
 but he did not think it was wise to make it known. 
 
 LA MARECHALE S TOUR. 
 
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 Mr. Booth states that his sister " was in an extremely 
 delicate state of health," and that I, during her tour in 
 Canada, was " loud in my professions of sympathy." It 
 is quite true that she was not at all strong at that time, 
 but it would be well for Mr. Booth to consider that 
 others have sisters in the Salvation Army who are also 
 very delicate, who know nothing whatever of such luxur- 
 ies as were indulged in by La Mar^chale and company. 
 But I did not so much object to Mis. Clibborn having the 
 parlor car herself, but when the Commissioner insisted 
 on having the parlor section for the whole party travelling 
 from Toronto to Montreal, I must confess it destroyed 
 my confidence and robbed me of my sympathy. Mr. 
 Booth also states that S3.75 was the full amount spent 
 for refreshments on the journey in question, but I have 
 no doubt that this $3.75 is merely incidental outjay, not 
 referred to in my remarks. The only possible way for 
 Mr. Booth to afford satisfaction to the public in this 
 matter will be to publish in full my statement of the 
 income and expenditure on this trip. When we take 
 
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 into consideration (1) the exorbitant price of each article 
 ordered, one of the lady officers insistinfr upon having 
 " imported ginger ale " at the rate of fifteen cents a glass ; 
 (2) the fulness of these orders, not omitting the Uiost ex- 
 pensive meats, such as mutton chops, etc. ; (3) the number 
 of times these orders were repeated, it will be easily seen 
 that $3.75 is but a small factor of the real sum, and the 
 only way to get at the exact amount is to deduct the bare 
 travelling from the bill of expenditure. 
 
 THE PROPERTY QUESTION. 
 
 Mr. Booth does not attempt to deny that he has the 
 power to dispose of property as he sees fit, and no other 
 man in Canada has any voice in the matter, for he is the 
 sole owner of all Salvation Army properties in the Dom- 
 inion, and it is undeniable that Mr. Booth could to-morrow 
 sell every Canadian property, and although he might, 
 in accordances with what he terms his " iron-clad system 
 of accounts," place the amount realized to the property 
 account, yet I wish it to be particularly understood that 
 he could, if he so desired, transfer the whole amount to 
 another account, such as the " general spiritual fund." I 
 have now in my possession a private balance sheet that 
 was supplied to two or three leading officers in the Army 
 (at a time when it was deemed unwise to issue a public 
 one), which plainly shows that $29,221.03 was carried 
 from the property account to the general Salvation Army 
 fund. To prove that properties have been sold I quote 
 from the above-mentioned balance sheet the folio wins: 
 item : — " By amount of contributions and donations for 
 the purchase of buildings, for erection of such, and pro- 
 ceeds of properties sold, $9,698.97." It is very difficult 
 from such an item to say exactly the amount realized from 
 sale of property, but there can be no doubt that money is 
 realized in this way. 
 
 As tp the selling of the I^ondon property, Mr. Booth 
 
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 states that they received $3,200 instead of S4,000, as I 
 said in the Auditorium. Now, if this is so, it only makes 
 the matter worse, for I was informed by one of the oldest 
 soldiers that the Army had been offered $4,400 for it. 
 He also says that $2,000 went to pay off a mortgage that 
 was on the land. Now, the question is, Why was this 
 property mortgaged ? As to my getting a full explana- 
 tion respecting the sale of this London property, the fol- 
 lowing extract from one of my letters will speak for it- 
 self. The sale took place about six months before this 
 letter was written, and while I was resting. The Com- 
 missioner wrote inquiring if I knew of any suitable build- 
 ing lots in London. I cannot help believing that this 
 letter was only an attempt to heal my feelings, as that is 
 over a year ago, and there is no purchase made yet : — 
 
 RoTHSAY, N.B., Nov. 5, 1891. 
 
 Commissioner D. M. Rees, Toronto : 
 
 Dear Com., — Re London, I must confess that I gave 
 over all interest in property matters when the London lot 
 was sold in the manner it was, and I had almost made up 
 my mind never to interest myself in that line again. If 
 property can be sold without any explanation v/hatever 
 as to the reason, and for what purpose the money is to be 
 used, etc., especially to the Army's representative in that 
 part of the country where the sale takes place, I think I 
 am justified in so doing. 
 
 Faithfully your.s, 
 
 P. W. Philpott. 
 
 Moreover, Mr. Booth cannot deny the fact that many 
 properties in tins country, which had been paid for locally, 
 are at this moment mortgaged to the utmost amount. 
 
 OTHER PROPERTIES IN THE MARKET. 
 
 He furtlier states that the " total number of properties 
 ^gld during the eight years of the Army's existence iw the 
 
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 Dominion is considerably under twenty." If they have 
 not sold them, it is not because they have made no efforts 
 to do so. I append here a list of properties that have 
 actually been sold ; also a list of properties that have been 
 offered for sale : — 
 
 (1) Properties sold — Wellington, building only ; Lon- 
 don, land only ; Moorefisid, land and barracks ; Yorkville, 
 portion of land ; Lucan, land and barracks ; Wheatley, 
 land and barracks ; Harriston, land and barracks ; also 
 the New Glasgow, P.E.I., property. 
 
 (2) Properties offered for sale — Alvinston, Oshweken, 
 Burlington, Bradford, Orangeville, Newcastle, Glencoe, 
 Pickering, Sarnia, Waterdown, barracks, house and land ; 
 Barrie, portion of land ; Arthur-street, city, portion of 
 land ; Enniskillen, land. 
 
 If Mr. Booth will refer to his property books, he will 
 find that these lists might be considerably augmented. 
 
 Mr. Booth also quotes letters in which I advise the 
 Commissioner to accept certain offers for the Lucan and 
 Alvinston properties. This is correct, and I was only act- 
 ing as any other divisional officer would do upon receiv- 
 ing instructions from headquarters to sell the properties. 
 If I had refused to obey those instructions, it would have 
 been considered an act of insubordination. But the fact 
 that I negotiated for the sale of the properties according 
 to the said instructions does in no way prove that I was 
 satisfied with the manner in which properties are dealt 
 with, for I could but feel that all the smaller towns would 
 sooner or later be without corps and property. 
 
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 THOSE TWO LETTERS. 
 
 In reference to my letters to Commissioner Rees, pub- 
 lished in Mr. Booth's statement, I have admitted these 
 from the first. I simply wish to say that they were 
 written, the one at the request of and the other at the 
 suggestion of the Commissioner in times of physical de- 
 
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 pression, when every influence was brought to bear on 
 me to innke me believe that I had looked at things in the 
 wrong light. The last one was written on May 10, after 
 an interview with the Commissioner, in which he assur- 
 ed me that he saw the evils existing, and promised to do 
 all in his power to remedy them. In this I was prepared 
 to stand by him, and at his request put a declaration to 
 that effect in the form of a letter, and felt a new hope 
 that all would be well, until shortly after the arrival of 
 Commandant Booth I found that this letter was to be 
 used as a sword in future to hang over my head, to fall 
 should I ever again express myself in opposition to the 
 powers that be. 
 
 TESTIMONY OF LOYALTY. 
 
 Mr. Booth declares that it is " astounding " for me to 
 give out to the public that Commissioner Rees gave me a 
 personal testimony as +o my loyalty, as it was only an 
 " ofticial legal document empowering me to perform the 
 marriage ceremony." Now, in the flrst place, I made it 
 plain to the public that it was just exactly what Mr. 
 Booth states. I did not say it was a personal testimony. 
 Nevertheless the document declares that " P. W. Philpott 
 is a faithful and trusted staff ofiicer," which Mr. Booth 
 must certainly know implies that before I have a right 
 to hold it I must be a faithful and trusted Staff Officer, 
 and if I was not such, the public may judge what sort of 
 men D. M. Rees and Thos. Holland must be to have fixed 
 their signatures thereto. 
 
 Now, during the period of my alleged disloyalty, I was 
 promoted to the rank of brigadier, and have in my pos- 
 session two letters from William Bramwell Booth, chief of 
 staff, within these last fifteen months expressing the con- 
 fidence of the General in me, and commending the true 
 salvation spirit of my wife and myself. Yet Command- 
 ant Booth tries to make out that I have been both dis- 
 loyal and dishonorable for two years. Now, if he believes 
 
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 his to be the case, how could he send me as a captain to 
 a corps, and why should he now try to make out that he 
 did not desire me to resign ? Surely a man guilty of 
 charges as grave and blasting as those brought against me 
 is not fit to be the spiritual leader of any people. 
 
 Toronto, Sept. 3, 1892. 
 
 P. W. Philpott. 
 
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 THE COMMANDANT KEPLIES TO THE EX-BRIGADIER. 
 
 LA MARECHALE'S LUNCHES. 
 
 MR. BOOTH SATS HE WOULD HAVE DISMISSED MR. PHILPOTT. 
 
 The Self-Denial Fund was Well Administered — The 
 Law of Averages was Mr. Philpott' s Resort. 
 
 The following letter has been sent to the Globe by 
 Commandant Booth as a reply to ex-Brigadier Philpott 
 in the Salvation Army controversy : — 
 
 Sir, — I have read Mr. Philpott's letter which appeared 
 in your issue of yesterday, but do not propose to tryapass 
 upon your space to any great length. 
 
 My letter which appeared in the Globe a week ago will 
 be the best answer to the many suppositions which Mr. 
 Philpott on his own admission is now indulging in. 
 
 There are, however, one or two points to which a 
 reply may be looked for : — 
 
 Re Properties — It is satisfactory to find that Mr. 
 Philpott is coming a little nearer to the truth. The 
 twenty or thirty properties which he states had been sold 
 " during the past year " have now been reduced by him 
 to eight, and extended over a period of nine years ! As 
 to the thirteen alleged to be " on offer," I presume even 
 Mr, Philpott will not now repeat what he stated to hi^ 
 
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 audience that they have been sold and the proceeds used 
 to pay salaries, etc. 
 
 The list of sales which Mr. Philpott produces in sup- 
 port of his assertions that properties are sold in a recK- 
 less manner, does not, as will be seen by examination, 
 turn out to be a very formidable piece of evidence. Th* 
 following are the facts : — 
 
 (a) Wellin^jton ; this was a small \vrooden building on 
 a piece of land leased for five years. 
 
 (b) Moorefield ; the total cost of this property, includ- 
 ing land, was $105. 
 
 (c) Yorkville ; this was a small piece of spare land 
 attached to the barracks, but which was not required for 
 the building. 
 
 (d) Wheatley ; the building of this barracks was 
 undertaken, unknown to headquarters, by three local 
 soldiers. They were not able to complete it, and as the 
 soldiers were renting a suitable hall, Mr. Philpott urged 
 headquarters to hand the building over to the contractor 
 as compensation for the work already done. We have 
 this in Mr. Philpott's own handwriting. 
 
 (e) New Glasgow, P.E.I.; the total cost of the land 
 and building was $65. It was impossible for the Army 
 to support ofiicers in this village, the population being 
 under 200. 
 
 (f) Lucan, Alvinston and Harriston were offered for 
 sale, as already shown, the result of Mr. Philpott's own 
 proposal in writing. It is not true, as he now wishes to 
 infer, that he was in the first instance instructed to sell 
 them. 
 
 As to the list of properties alleged by Mr. Philpott to 
 be in the market, some of these have never been offered 
 for sale, and some are still in use as Army barracks. 
 
 It is rather late for Mr. Philpott to suggest, as he does, 
 that I should refer to the property rolls at headquarters 
 in support of his conjectures. He should have known 
 the facts before committing himself to the charges. 
 
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 Referring to London ; no such offer as S4,400 was ever 
 made to headquarters for this property. Mr. Philpott 
 asks how it came to be mort(jaL,'ed. We will tell him. 
 The property cost $5,000 ; S2,000 was paid in cash and a 
 mortgage was given for the balance. That was in 1882. 
 After the fire the mortgage was reduced by $ 1 ,00(\ The 
 remainder, with other liabilities, was paid out of the pro- 
 ceeds of the sale of the land as already stated. The 
 balance is still recognized as being available for a build- 
 ing scheme in London should it be thought advisable to 
 undertake one. 
 
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 As to the self-denial fund, I have nothing to add to my 
 former statement. From Mr. Philpott's letter it is clear, 
 beyond question, that when he brought his accusations 
 against me in this matter, he did so on the strength of 
 what others had told him, and not what he knew him- 
 self. He now asks me to lay the blame on them. This 
 I must decline to do. I repeat that his insinuations about 
 the self-denial funds are absolutely false. The money 
 was not banked to pay salaries. We have received suffi- 
 cient from other sources to meet these twice over, while 
 we have paid out on behalf of the poor officers of whom 
 Mr. Philpott speaks, after the money in question was 
 banked, no less than $2,400 more than we have received 
 on that account. 1 note that the array of facts is begin- 
 ning to make Mr. Philpott more guarded in his asser- 
 tions. " I will not commit myself to making a positive 
 declaration," he says, " but I will make it quite possible, 
 etc., etc." This surely is hardly the kind of evidence 
 which Mr. Philpott might be expected to produce in order 
 to make good his own words. 
 
 I note that Mr. Philpott's charges of extravagance do 
 not apply to headquarters " as it now is," but when he 
 goes on to say, " we can easily understand how every- 
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 is guilty of bringing against us an accusation which he 
 must know to be fiuse. The policy of reducing the staff 
 at headquarters on lines already explained, was in no 
 way associated with Mr. Fhilpott ; it was decided upon 
 by me before I had ever made his acquaintance. The 
 anomaly is that, so far as the ex-officers are concerned, 
 whose statements he quotes in his letter, the " occasion " 
 he refers to was the very outcome of the policy pursued ; 
 their chief grievance being that they were asked to take 
 a lower place, as under the new arrangement their ser- 
 vices were not required at headquarters. 
 
 THE STAFF SALARIES. 
 
 It is not difficult to understand that as the headquarters, 
 staff salaries comes out at so low a figure, li^r. rhilpott 
 should have to resort to an attack upon the law of aver- 
 agin^. Seeing, however, that there are only two persons 
 who draw less than $5 per week, and only five who draw 
 more than $11.50, the principle of averaging holds in this 
 CBiSe, notwithstanding Mr. Philpott objecting to it. 
 
 With reference to the grievances which existed, accord- 
 ing to Mr. Philpott, " a few months back," they are most 
 effectively dealt with by a quotation from his own letter, 
 dated May 10th, and which was written immediately after 
 a full discussion of this v^y subject, " and I would desire 
 you to inform my comrade Staff Officers that I was never 
 more settled in my own mind that we are on the right 
 lines. My belief Wt^ never more firm in the Army and 
 its principles," etc. 
 
 Keferrinff to his letters, Mr, Philpott says/i — " I have 
 admitted uiese from the first." It is well known that 
 these letters have never once been used in any of the 
 meetings held by him. Mr. Philpott states that the let- 
 terd were written one at the request and the other at the 
 suggestion of Commissioner Biees. It will be noticed, 
 howeyer, that both lettera commence by the assertion 
 tih«t he **tei% it his duty" to writa As to '' physical dQ- 
 
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 pression " and undue ** influence/' I can only repeat that 
 1 have in my possession abundant evidence that the more 
 important of the two confessions was written after mature 
 thought and careful examination. Has Mr. Philpott for- 
 gotten the^five drafts of the letter of May 10th, and the 
 statements they contain ? 
 
 LA MARECHALE S LUNCHES. 
 
 I note that Mr. Philpott abandons his charge of $12 
 lunches against the Marechale. He cannot, however, 
 deny that he has made that charge, and that publicly 
 before 2,000 witnesses. The method he adopts to get out 
 of the difiiculty is most ingenious. "I have no doubt/' 
 he says, " that this $3.75 is merely incidental outlay not 
 referred to in my remarks." Unfortunately for Mr. Phil- 
 pott his own writing is emphatic upon the subject. There 
 IS no mention in all his statements of incidental outlay ; 
 every item is marked down with the greatest precision. 
 The one in question stands " refreshments, $3.75." There 
 is no other expenditiire which could possibly include 
 sundries. 
 
 What can be thought of a man, who, after allowing 
 himself to be so unmanly as to make such unseemly re- 
 marks about a lady on a public platform, now admits his 
 ignorance of the facts and falls back upon the merest 
 conjecture by suggesting " that the onlj way to get at 
 the exact amount is to deduct the bare travelling from the 
 bill of expenditure ? " 
 
 Why does Mr. Philpott wish to make it appear that 
 we are not interested in the well-being of our Field Offi- 
 cers, when he knows that we have expended from the 
 funds of the Arm^ no less than $12,000 during the past 
 two years on their behalf, over and above what has been 
 granted by divisional officers ? 
 
 Mr. Philpott expresses surprise that if he was so dis- 
 loyal we should, nevertheless, have offered him a corps. 
 
 
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 I regret to say that had I then been in possession of the 
 &€ts and information which have reached me since he 
 resigned, it would have left me no alternative but the 
 painful duty of asking Mr. Philpott to retire from the 
 service of the Army altogether. 
 
 I beg to remain^ sir, 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 Herbert H. Booth. 
 Toronto, Sept. 6. 
 
 V. 
 
 THE accountant's DENIAL. 
 
 To the Editor of the Qlohe : 
 
 Sir, — I feel it incumbent upon me to write you with 
 reference to a letter which appeared in your paper on the 
 4th inst., in connection with the Salvation Army and 
 signed P. W. Philpott. I do this voluntarily, although I 
 have no wish whatever to be drawn into the controversy. 
 Mr. Philpott alleges that the accountant furnished him 
 with the information regarding the salaries about which 
 he writes, and as I hold that position, I wrifce to protest, 
 las I have no knowledge of giving him this information, 
 and besides, the figures which he quotes, compared with 
 the actual ones, prove clearly that he is writing more 
 from supposition than from what he knows to be fact, 
 both with reference to the past and present. 
 
 Mr. Philpott further states that some self-denial money 
 was banked for the express purpose of paying salaries, 
 and if his statement is true m this respect, the blame 
 must lay on the officers who handled the books and cash. 
 I wish it to be clearly understood that I know the facts 
 ^ are different from what he states, and if this information 
 has been volunteered to others than himself, it has been 
 volunteered by a person or persons who were not ac* 
 quainted with the lieicts. 
 
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 I have loved and respected Mr. Philpott during tbe 
 term of my acquaintanceship, but being fully acquainted 
 with the facts in connection with his resignation, also 
 the stand taken by him since leaving the Army, I cannot 
 coincide with him in his views, or endorse what he 
 says. 
 
 I am, dear sir, yours respectfully, 
 
 Toronto, Sept. 6. 
 
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 MR. PHILPOTT'S FINAL STATEMENT iO THE 
 
 PRESS. 
 
 To the Editor of the Globe ; * 
 
 Sib, — In reference to Commandant Booth's letter in 
 your issue of to-day, I simply wish to make the following 
 statements : — 
 
 (1) I am prepared to stand by every word of my letter 
 published in the Olobe last Monday. A comparison of my 
 letter with Mr. Booth's reply will show the public with 
 what futile attempts he has sought to evade the main 
 points at issue. 
 
 (2) It will be specially noticed that he says nothing of 
 the misappropriation of $29,221.03 This is surely a 
 serious charge against the " iron-clad system of accounts." 
 I state again that the above amount was transferred from 
 the property account to the general Salvation Army fuud. 
 Mr. Booth dare not deny this, with the minutest regard 
 for truth. 
 
 (3) In reference to La Mar^chale's tour, I have chal- 
 lenged him to publish the whole statement just as I gWe 
 it. This he has failed to do. The public will draw their 
 own conclusions. 
 
 (4) He speaks of $12,000 spent on behalf of the Field 
 Officers during the last two years, but it will be well for 
 
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 the public to know that by far the greater portion of this 
 sum was disbursed by Commissioner Adams during his 
 charge in Canada, and that the said Commissioner, after 
 years of faithful service, was most systematically " frozen 
 out" of the ranks for his liberality. 
 
 (5) It is again evident that Mr. Booth makes no at- 
 tempt to deny that properties have been sold. He tries 
 to minimise the matter by quoting the small sums realized 
 on some of the properties. He is very careful to with- 
 hold the amount received for such properties as Yorkville 
 land, which was somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,000. 
 His denial of my statements re Alvinston, London and 
 Lucan does not in the least alter their truth. 
 
 (6) He does not deny my charges of extravagance on 
 the part of the staff, but tries to evade the point by re- 
 ferring again to the sta^ as it is now. Mr. Booth knows 
 well that my remarks referred to the staff before his 
 arrival. He cannot gainsay my statement on this 
 point. 
 
 (7) The great trouble with Mr. Booth is that he is 
 writing at a great disadvantage. He was not in the 
 country when events transpired of which I have spoken. 
 He simply puts his own construction on what he hears 
 and on the papers put before him. 
 
 (8) In reference to Mr. Wyse's letter of denial in to- 
 day's Olohe, I can only say that this man's memory must 
 have failed him lately to a remarkable degree, and I fear 
 his conscience also. No one lamented tha state of affairs 
 at headquarters more than this same Mr. Wyde. ,1 can 
 produce absolute proof that he did voluntarily offer the 
 information that the self-denial fund was being used to 
 pay salaries. 
 
 (9) The n^anner in which Mr. Booth refers to my letters 
 is amusing. I assert again that I have admitted them 
 from the first and have explained them fully. Why does 
 he persist in quoting them ? 
 
 (10) In conclusion, I call upon Herbert Booth, in the 
 
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 name of justice, to produce through the press the condem- 
 natory information he claims to hold against me. Why 
 does he lower the " dignity of his position " by indulging 
 in base insinuations ? He has never made one specific 
 charge against me yet. I am branded with the general 
 terms " dishonest " and " disloyal" No entreaties have 
 yet wrested from Herbert Booth the " dark secrets of the 
 case." I have no desire to continue this controversy, but 
 in the interests of truth I demand from Herbert Booth an 
 explanation of my dismissal. 
 
 W. P. Philpott. 
 Toronto, Sept 8th. 
 
 NoTB. — (1) Up to the time of writing, Mr. Booth has o£fered no re- 
 ply to this statement and still remains silent as to the " condemnatory 
 mformation " he claims to hold against the writer. 
 
 (2) A few days after the appearance of his letter of denial, Mr. Wyse 
 removed from headquarters to the Maritime Provinces. It is to be re- 
 
 f retted that he did not remain and face the conclusive evidence we 
 old as to the falsehood of this letter. 
 
 PHILPOTT VERSUS BOOTH. 
 
 (Olohe, September 10th, 1892.) 
 To ^ Editor of the Globe: 
 
 Sir, — Mr. Herbert Booth in his letter, which appears 
 in this morning's Olobe, refers to the sale of properties 
 as mere trivial and unimportant matters, and says of the 
 sale of property at Yorkville : — " This was a small piece 
 of spare land attached to the barracks, but which was 
 not required for the building." Of some of the proper- 
 ties Mr. Booth gives the amount of the proceeds of the 
 sales. Why is the Yorkville property an exception to 
 this rule ? 
 
 The writer was a member of the army in Yorkville at 
 the time this property was sold, and asserts that the 
 amount realized on this property was about two thousand 
 dollars. I believe it was more. And, although this 
 
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 " small pf ece" was not needed then, the legal axrents of 
 Booth have since purchased property near by for pur- 
 poses for which this property was admirably adapted. 
 
 There are now ten houses built on this " small piece of 
 spare land," the aggregate rent of the same amounting 
 to nearly $100 per month. 
 
 If readers of the Olohe are to judee of the contents of 
 his entire letter from the policy of suppression in this 
 instance, they will have a very bad opinion of his whole 
 defence. 
 
 Mr. Philpott's contention is more than proved, that 
 those who originally subscribed the money to buy the 
 property have no voice in its disposal. He has also 
 proven that the Army's work is now a failure. In addi- 
 tion to the facts he has given, he might have instanced 
 the closing up of the Prison Gate Brigade in Eglinton, 
 Kingston, Hamilton, etc.; the closing up of nearly a 
 hundred corps within two or three years ; the empty and 
 forlorn barracks, with their deplorable appearance, the 
 country over. Indeed, what else can we expect when 
 they are mortgaged for more than their value. The 
 Apostle Paul says, " Owe no man anything," and these 
 people consider they are fulfilling the condition of the 
 Gospel by burying themselves in debt. 
 
 In reference to the London property, Mr. Booth says : 
 — " The balance is still recognised as being available for 
 a building in London, should it be thought advisable to 
 undertake one." I am delighted to hear this, as if money 
 subscribed by the London people for a building which 
 has not been erected is available, surely money subscribed 
 by Toronto people for a building which has not been 
 erected should also be available, and I would thank Mr. 
 Booth for his check for $65, the amount the writer sub- 
 scribed towards a building to be erected on their pro- 
 perty on Richmond- street some years ago, and which has 
 not yet been done. I could make good use of this money 
 at the present time in the cause of Christian missions in 
 
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 this city. It is not for me ii dictate to the subscribers, 
 who have ^ven about S5,000 towards the erection of the 
 same buildmg, but for my part I should be glad to have 
 returned my own contribution. Otherwise I shall con- 
 clude that the money was obtained under false pretences. 
 
 Albert Bbitnbll. 
 Toronto, Sept. 8th. 
 
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 AN EDITORIAL FROM THE "MAIL." 
 
 SALVATION ARMT TROUBLES. 
 
 In adopting some of the methods of military organiza- 
 tion, the originators of the Salvation Army showed that 
 they were men of the world, and had reckoned up with 
 tolerable acuteness the sort of action which would be most 
 effective in dealing vrith the material on which they pro- 
 posed to work. If any society or association is to deal 
 successfully with the mass of humanity and to enforce its 
 tenets upon them it must have su^rior and inferior 
 officers, and obedience to orders must be the rule and not 
 the exception. Whatever work the Salvation Army has 
 done is owing to the completeness with which this 
 method has been enforced. Qeneral Booth might take 
 the description the Roman centurion gave of himself as 
 an accurate setting forth of his own plan : '' I am a man 
 under authority having soldiers under me. I say to this 
 man go and *he ^oeth and to another come and he 
 cometn." The giving up of independence and the right 
 of private judgment is more or less enforced on all who 
 join the blood red banner. The implicit obedience ot 
 self-negation which Ignatius Loyola demanded of his 
 followers, and which has been demanded in turn by every 
 superior of the Jesuit ordej:, was scarcely more complete 
 than that demanded by the species of evangelical papacy 
 which exists in our midst as the Salvation Army. The/re 
 can be no question as to the amount of work, in many 
 respects good and healthy, which the employment of the 
 
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 despotic method has enabled the Salvation Anny to do. 
 The flag has been carried into all lands, and a very large 
 number of people have been brought under the influence 
 of the doctrines that the Salvation Army teaches. 
 Appealing to ignorant and sinful men with similar 
 doctrines to those taught by Bunyan in his " Pilgrim's 
 l^ogress/' they have exhorted them to " flee from the 
 wrath to come " in accents of terrible earnestness, and 
 they have painted salvation as a thing to be won in a 
 moment by a belief in certain fundamental truths. 
 Drunkards nave by these means been made sober, vicious 
 men and women have been reclaimed, and a large amount 
 of missionary work has been done that could probably 
 have been done in no other way. The work of the Army 
 in London is well known. Its special mission has been 
 prosecuted most successfully where people are down- 
 trodden and degraded. Where there are very large 
 populations and numbers of people living in dens of 
 misery this organization has no doubt done much good 
 work. Its comparative failure in Canada is perhaps due 
 to the fact that the conditions of life for the laboring 
 classes are on the whole better than elsewhere, and there 
 is a greater tendency on the part of the people to attend 
 the " regular " means of grace than to ally themselves 
 with an organization given somewhat to eccentric usages, 
 and the mission of which seems to be rather to rescue 
 " brands from the burning" than to edify. and build up in 
 the faith. The Army has, as a matter of course, not been 
 without its critics, soifnid of whom have ventured to cast 
 doubts on the way in which the finances of the institution 
 are administei^ed. But in a recent number of the Fort- 
 nightly Beview Mr. Arnold White, an English gentleman 
 who is held to 1m? a competent judge ot such matters, 
 declares that after making dn exhaustive examination of 
 the accounts and financial afiairs of the Army he finds 
 nothing amiss or that can reasonably be called in question 
 even by the people who have a high ideal of the admin- 
 istration of pnilanthropic resources. / 
 
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 Whether the methods of the Salvation Army are in 
 accordance with Scriptural doctrine and orthodox Chris- 
 tian teaching is of course quite another question. There 
 are no doubt, too, those who think, and think truly, that 
 it is out of harmony with those principles whereby the 
 freedom and liberty of society are secured. The idea of 
 despotism in a professedly Christian organization seems 
 a strange one, and one that is destined only for a tem- 
 porary sway. Troubles similar to those which are 
 reported to be agitating the contingent in this city are 
 sure to occur from time to time in almost any religious 
 organization in a free country. They are only the hoalthy 
 working of the forces of society that make for liberty. 
 At the same time it must be remembered that the Salva- 
 tion Army, has got hold of a number of people who can 
 scarcely be regarded as fit for liberty. 
 
 A MINISTER'S OPINION. 
 (Toronto Globe, Sept. l^th.) 
 
 DIVINE OR HUMAN AUTHOKITY ? 
 
 To the Editor of the Globe : 
 
 Sir, — I have no disposition to enter into the quarrel 
 between the Brigadier and the Commandant of the Salva- 
 tion Army in this city, and the different sections which 
 they severally represent in the fight. Indeed, I refer to 
 this matter in the Army simply because it affects a great 
 Christian principle which has more or less to do with 
 every denomination and Church in Christendom. To a 
 certain extent, what has recently occurred in the Army in 
 Toronto is a family matter, yet not one in which the 
 Christian public are altogether uninterested ; for the body 
 of Christ is one, and when one member suffers all the mem- 
 bers suffer with it. The question of the misappropriation 
 of funds is by no means an unimportant one, considering 
 
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 the wide constituency to which the Army is aooastomed to 
 appeal to say nothing of the nature or moral aspect of the 
 tmng itself. But there is another question involvedjin 
 whicn every one who owns allegiance to the Saviour and 
 Sovereign of mankind, must be deeply interested. I refer 
 to the relationship which Christians seem to bear to one 
 another in the Army, or to the power that one class has 
 over another. It has been said by a not unfriendly critic 
 that "the one secret of the Salvation Army is the re- 
 assertion of the principle of authority." If this means 
 anything, it means that those in authority must command 
 and those under authority must obey ; that the proper 
 correlative to authority is obedience, and vice versa. Those 
 belonging to the Salvation Army, be it observed, do not 
 call themselves '' Christians," " disciples," or even " believ- 
 ers," but soldiers ; which designation carries with it every- 
 where and always the idea of obedience to command. 
 There is nothing of the idea of the family, or of citizenship, 
 or of society in general. It is the one ?dea of yielding up 
 a man's own will to that of another. " A good soldier of 
 Jesus Christ" is an expression applied to Timothy by t^aul, 
 in which connection "enduring hardness" and "pleasing 
 Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier" are the prin- 
 ciple characteristics. And his warfare even is to please him 
 who hath chosen him. To say that Qeneral Booth or any 
 one man or number of men can sufficiently represent 
 Jesus Christ on earth, so that the will of that man or num- 
 ber of men shall be the veritable will of Christ, is to repeat 
 the Papacy, yea, even the very worst feature of it in the 
 Society of Ignatius Loyola. Paul said to the Corinthians, 
 "Ye are bought with a price, be ye not therefore the servants 
 of men." Apostles commended themselves " to every man's 
 conscience in the sight of God." And they exhorted el- 
 ders not to exercise oversight of the flock of Qod by con- 
 straint, neither by overruling them, but by being examples 
 to them (1 Peter, v. 1-3). This is quite in harmony with 
 what the Master taught when asked by His disciples, "Who 
 
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 ui greater in the kingdom of heaven ?" And the answer 
 was a little child placed in the midst of them, with the 
 simple comment upon that ohiect : " Except ye be con- 
 verted and become as little children, ye cannot enter into 
 the kingdom of heavea Whosoever, therefore, shall 
 humble himself as this little child, the same shall be 
 greater/' The disciples had already doubtless concluded 
 that He, the Christ, would ever be greatest, the one and 
 only Master, as He afterward declared himself, or claimed, 
 to be. Without, then, attempting to determine what kind 
 or what degree, of authority the officers of the Salvation 
 Army and General Booth in particular claim, I think I 
 may safely say that the teachings of the Master and His 
 apostles, as shown above, are a unit (1) that, in things 
 spiritual. Christians are to act and live solely under the 
 one Master or King in His kingdom, the one Head of His 
 church. " Qo, teach all things whatsoever I have com- 
 manded you." Then, He says, "Lo, I am with you." 
 Christ's mind, will, law, commandments, are of supreme 
 authority here. (2) In view of the claims of Christ and 
 the commandment of Paul, " Be ye not therefore the ser- 
 vants of men," two things follow. First, that the man or 
 woman who has given himself or herself unreservedly to 
 the Lord Jesus has not only no right or authority from 
 Christ to cive himself up to the service or advantage of 
 men over him, but that he violates Christ's express will 
 or law in doing so. Second, no man, or cla^s of men have 
 any authority from Christ to assume, or take a position 
 in relation to believers wherein they have a controlling 
 (or "over-ruling," as Peter calls it) advantage over them. 
 This, moreover, is a violation of the law of CSirist, and the 
 more so as the party or parties inay be gifted and power- 
 ful in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. The Bev. H. 
 Price Hughes says in his book on Christian Ethics, page 
 176 : — " It is time that human society should be recon- 
 structed on a Christian basis, that brotherliness should 
 take the place of selfishness; and that the kingdom of 
 
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 Jesus Christ should be established in eveiy land and in 
 e^ery heart Let us lay aside all forms of Satanic selfish- 
 ness. Let us put on the armour of God. Let us light 
 against the world with the utmost energy of our nature. 
 To cheer us in the conflict, the Son of God reminds us 
 that He, too, has fought and won upon the same glorious 
 field of strife." 
 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 OTHER OFFICERS IN TROUBLE — FURTHER DISMISSALS AND 
 RESIGNATIONS — MR. BOOTH'S DISLOYALTY. 
 
 HE result of the maladministration of the 
 Army authorities described in thesa pages 
 has been one continual line of dismissals and 
 resignations of officers holding both staff 
 and field appointments. This, certainly, is 
 not without its aignificance, especially as some of 
 these were among the oldest officers in the ser- 
 vice, and have established irreproachable reputa- 
 tions for godliness and devotion. 
 
 Ex-Captain Pink, who acted as spokesman for the 
 deputation which waited upon the Army leaders when 
 the insurrection broke out in the Toronto camp, saw 
 from the very first the absurdity of Mr. Booth's actions, 
 and desiring that a court-martial should be held for us, 
 according to Army regulations, wherein we might ofier 
 our defence, he put forth every possible efibrt to this end. 
 Seeing, however, that these efforts were utterly unheeded 
 and ignored, and that Mr. Booth emphatically declared 
 to the deputation that he would not grant their most 
 
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 reasonable request, Mr. Pink felt at once that a crisis had 
 been reached in his Army experience. One member of 
 the deputation asked Mr. Booth if the Army regulations 
 did not teach that matters of this description should be 
 settled by court-martial. " Quite so," replied the Com- 
 mandant, " but not in this case." Mr. Pink saw at once 
 the despotic power of the Commandant's "No," as it 
 evidently superseded all Army regulations and discipline. 
 He saw, moreover, the utter inconsistency of a man like 
 Herbert Booth, the Qeneral's son, openly disobeying the 
 General's explicit directions for granting court-martials to 
 accused officers. The Commandant had, to Mr. Pink's 
 mind, forfeited his respect as a leader, and as he, looking 
 forward, saw the possibility of the same injustice being 
 dealt out to him should he remain in the Army, he felt 
 he could no longer work for God under such a govern- 
 ment, and consequently he resigned. 
 
 The two following cases will confirm our statements 
 about the autocratic government in the Army : 
 
 Ex-Captain P had been an officer for a number of 
 
 years, and having placed his confidence in the authors of 
 these pages, he felt very sad to see us severed from the 
 Army in such a manner. When Mr. Booth convened his 
 private meetings in which he was to give his version of 
 
 the story, Capt. P decided not to attend as he felt 
 
 that Mr. Booth should make his explanations in the pre- 
 sence of the accused, and as he had not heard Mr. 
 Philpott's defence, he felt that to attend Mr. Booth's 
 meetings he would lay himself open to prejudice. He 
 preferred to retain neutral ground and go on as an officer 
 as if nothing had happened. But, strange to say, no such 
 freedom was allowed the Captain, for he was forthwith 
 summoned before Col. Mackenzie and questioned why he 
 did not attend the Commandant s explanatory meetings. 
 He gave his reasons, as above stated, and, without any 
 alternative, was immediately instructed to write out his 
 resignation. Mr. P expressed a desire to have a little 
 
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 time to consider the matter, but was told if he desired 
 to stay any longer in the Army he must write a humble 
 
 apology to Mr. Booth. As Mr. P had nothing to 
 
 apologize for, he tendered his resignation on the foUo^ing 
 day. 
 
 The public will note the cunning device the Army 
 leaders resort to in getting rid of an officer. They do not 
 diamiaa him hni force him to resign. This is the final 
 act in the " freezing-out process.'' 
 
 The next case before us is that pf ex-Captain Blight. 
 This was the officer who was invited to " seek mercy " 
 because he could not endorse Mr. Booth's actions, atW 
 hearing his explanations in an officers' meeting. It will 
 be remembered by those who watched this controversy in 
 the papers that ex-Captain Blight's name appeared in the 
 list of those who expressed themselves satisfied with Mr. 
 Booth's explanation, and yet this gentleman informs us 
 that he neither signed a declaration nor made any 
 statement to that effect. Wo submit this as an example 
 of the dishonorable machinations to which the Army 
 authorities will stoop in order to justify themselves. Ex- 
 Captain Blight decided to attend the mass-meeting in the 
 Auditorium to hear the other side of the question, and 
 found the defence so complete and convincing that on 
 the following day he sent to Col. Mackenzie his 
 resignation. 
 
 Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Blight's resigna- 
 tion was accepted, he was asked by the Army authorities 
 to remain another week. The reader will understand 
 that at the time of his resignation Mr. Blight was 
 acting as the Army's cashier and while it was conveni- 
 ent for them to insist on immediate action on the part of 
 other dismissed or " frozen-out " officers, in this case they 
 were totally unprepared ; the resignation came so unex- 
 pectedly. Mr. Blight agreed to help them through 
 the following week. Only two or three days had elapsed 
 when he was, in the Army phraseology, " on the carpet," 
 
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 i, B,, ordered to appear before the Commandant, and 
 every officer who has been in this interesting position, 
 knows the feeling of awe that comes over one when he 
 stands alone in the stem presence of his superior, closed 
 in by the double doors of that " inner chamber " ! Mr» 
 Booth questioned him as to whether he had told Philpott 
 tha the had been invited to the front in the officers' meet> 
 ing already referred to. Mr. Blight answered, " Yes sir, 
 that point did come up in our conversation." ** Well,'^ 
 replied the Commandant, " I deny it ! " But determined 
 to stand by his principles, Mr. Blight answered, " Ex- 
 cuse me, sir, you did say so ! " "I did not ! " was the 
 reply. Mr. Blight was so astounded at these denials 
 that he could scarcely believe his own ears, but not yield- 
 ing his point responded, "Sir, this is not hearsay, Twos in 
 the rrveeting and heard you say it ! " Again the Com- 
 mandant replied, " I emphatically deny it I " When the 
 Commandant saw that he could not prevail upon his 
 recent young officer to sacrifice the truth, he exclaimed, 
 " Well then, we have made up our minds have we ? " Mr^ 
 Blight answered, "I have made up mine." "Then," 
 said the Commandant, " you shall leave this building at 
 once ! " Mr. Blight informed the Commandant that he 
 had j.ust returned from the bank and that the money 
 was lying on the desk, asking if he had better attend to 
 the same before leaving ; but the now almost exasperated 
 Commandant ejaculated, " No ! you go at once, we can 
 attend to our own business !" The young ex-officer waa 
 compelled to put on his hat and coat and make a speedy 
 exit. We will not attempt to portray the feelings of this 
 young man as he went forth to face the world, but leave 
 our readers to imagine what it means to dare to oppose 
 these incorrigible despots who have lately created such 
 havoc in our country. 
 
 Mr. Booth evidently far overstepped the mark in deal- 
 ing with us as he did. We shall not trouble the reader 
 with the details of each case, but conclude this chapter 
 
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 with the following list of officers who have withdrawn 
 from the service on account of these recent troubles : — 
 
 Oeo. E. Fisher, ex- 
 
 ■Adjutant. 
 
 Mrs. Fisher. 
 
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 Wm. Garpen'^r, ei 
 
 :-Ensign. 
 
 Mrs. Carpenter. 
 
 
 Roderick Murray, 
 David Richmond, 
 
 ex-Captain. 
 
 
 Billiard Wismer, 
 
 
 M. Bliffht, 
 Nellie Mclntyre, 
 
 
 
 R. S. Bingham, 
 
 
 Bessie Woods, 
 
 
 Jas. Desson, 
 
 
 Mrs. Desson. 
 
 
 Benjamin Bromley, 
 
 
 Wm. Pepiper, 
 
 
 Rufus Brown, 
 
 
 Mary Smith, ex-Captain. 
 
 
 John Brokenshire, " 
 
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 Wm. Evoy, " 
 
 
 Emma Boneard, " 
 
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 Wm. Pink, " 
 
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 Ada Young, ex-Lieutenant. 
 
 
 John C. Campbell, " 
 
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 Bella McGngan, " 
 
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 Susannah Tonus, ex-Cadet. 
 
 
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 Hattie Smith, " 
 
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 David Wands* " 
 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 HE perusal of the preceding pages cannol but 
 stir the souls of all who hold in sweet me- 
 mory the early days of the Salvation Army in 
 Canada. Our country was fast being lulled 
 to sleep in ttie cradle of religious convention- 
 ality, when, some ten years ago, the first Army 
 representatives set foot in the land. Though at 
 first looked upon with a certain amount of sus- 
 picion and reserve, it soon became evident that they were 
 the heralds of the good tidings of God. They proclaimed 
 the Gospel as they found it, relying on the Holy Spirit 
 to give the increase. The result was that they aroused 
 the children of God ; wherever their services were held, 
 
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 souls were abundantly brought to Christ, and throughout 
 the Dominion there arose such an awakening to the 
 claims of Christianity as never had been known before. 
 The work spread from town to town and from province 
 to province, until, from the misty shores of Newfoundland 
 and Nova Scotia to the far West, where the calm waters 
 of the Pacific lave the feet of the Rockies, might be heard 
 the sound of the Army drum and the clarion- voice of the 
 grand old Gospel message. Soon these uniformed war- 
 riors with their conspicuous red and blue jerseys were 
 to be seen everywhere amid the busy throngs on the city 
 streets, and even the little hamlet in the backwoods was 
 not without its *' corps," its " officers," and its "barracks." 
 The churches were imbued with new energy, and revivals 
 broke out all over the country. The very air seemed 
 freighted with holy influences ; salvation songs resounded 
 through the streets ; even the little children caught up 
 the Army tunes and sang the praises of God. What 
 Christian or Salvation soldier can look back to those 
 halcyon days without emotion ? . They stole upon us, as 
 the rising sun steals over the gray hills in the dewy 
 mom, bringing his light and warmth. How we felt the 
 ^w of that Divine power which was behind it all! 
 What a glorious harvest of souls was garnered for the 
 Kingdom of God ! Though years have passed away, the 
 fervent prayers and the penitent confessions of that 
 host of sinners that sought the Lord, echo still in the 
 hearts of the humble toilers who taught them salvation's 
 way. Can the memory of those sublime old meetings 
 ever be obliterated ? The spirit of God hovered over 
 them as a dove, and we could say with the poet — 
 
 ** Closer He is than breathing, 
 Nearer than hands and feet." 
 
 Among the officers existed that apostolic fellowship, 
 equality and unity which are the basis of all Christian 
 power and enterprise. The councils were times of 
 
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 refreshing, where the officers met singing and exhorting 
 one another in psalms and spiritual songs. Let those 
 happy days forever live on in memory, as a proof that 
 €k)d does manifest His power through all who humbly and 
 sincerely seek His glory ! 
 
 But it is the painful duty of the writers to show the 
 other side of the mcture, and declare that those old Army 
 days are gone ! Those officers of grateful memory, who 
 laid the foundation of the work in Canada, have nearly 
 all withdrawn from the service. Many towns and vil- 
 lages, which once lay literally at the Army's feet» are long 
 since deserted. The zeal for souls, which once cJiaracter- 
 ized the leaders, has departed in a most lamentable de- 
 gree. While many honest and sincere souls still remain, 
 toiling in the ranks, yet the Army as an or^^ization is 
 undeniably robbed of its spiritual power. Witness the 
 fact that real conversions are comparatively few and far 
 between, and those who do get converted in the meetings 
 fail to find sufficient spiritual impulsion to draw them 
 into the ranks. Consider, moreover, the fact that thous- 
 ands of soldiers have severed themselves from the differ- 
 ent corps and gone to the churches, and that in the neigh- 
 - borhood of twelve hundred officers have resided during 
 the short period of the Army's operations in Canada. In 
 a word, the Army is like a desolate and forsaken home, 
 now destitute of all that once made it attractive and 
 beautiful. 
 
 The natural question arises : What is the cause of this 
 sad state of affairs ? The answer is found in two self- 
 evident facts : (1) The introduction and exercise of a sys- 
 tem of government more despotic than the Papacy itself. 
 (2) The converting of the Army as a meoma of saving 
 souls into an end, and seeking to attain this end by prin- 
 ciples which find their parallel in Jesuitism. 
 
 With the progress of civilization has grown the free- 
 dom of man's conscience. In these modem days, religious 
 opinion is no longer under the full domain of ecclesiasti- 
 
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 cism ; as was truly remarked in a recent editorial in one of 
 Canada's leading religious organs, the time has passed 
 for despotic rule in the church. The Army has sought to 
 stem this strong modem tide, by instituting a system in 
 which the superior officers demand from their inferiors a 
 blind obedience, which savours of the dark ages. This 
 principle of obedience has been the one theme drilled in- 
 to the cadets in the Training Homes, until hundreds of 
 them have so far renounced their own thinking powers as 
 to believe that all the actions of headquarters comes from 
 divine inspiration, and that the will of the General is the 
 will of GTod. These recent troubles in the Canadian 
 branch of the work are the direct outcome of this abom- 
 inable autocratic power which the Army leaders have 
 tried to exercise over those under their command. 
 
 That the Army has been converted by its leaders from 
 a means to an end is evident from the fact that all the 
 administration for some yeai*s past has been enacted for 
 the building up of a separate organization. The Army no 
 longer professes to be the friend and auxiliary of the 
 churches, but has declared its open antiagonism to them 
 by forbidding its soldiers to attend church services with- 
 out special permission, while its officers are strictly pro- 
 hibited from taking part in church revivals. To give an 
 idea of what now constitutes a Salvationist, we quote the 
 following from a little work published by S. H. Hodges, 
 LL.B., late Major and Private Secretary to General 
 Booth : — 
 
 '* By making the Army a distinct and separate people, 
 the General hopes, by and by that the world will be div- 
 ided into two distinct classes, viz : Those who wear Sal- 
 vation Army uniform and those who do not All wear- 
 ing it belonging to the army and God, and all not wearing 
 it belonging to the world and the devil. To hold this 
 view goes a long way to make a man or woman a 'true 
 Salvationist.' And if you add to this a blind and unques- 
 tioning adherence to, and respect and love for, 'the family/ 
 
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 and a determination to back up the Army and headquar- 
 ters in everything right or wrong, and to obey every order 
 given, in the same unquestioning temper, you nave a pretty 
 good idea of what is meant by l^ing a 'true Salvationist.' " 
 
 Military discipline has now taken the place of Christ- 
 ian fellowship and brotherhood. The Qeneral's orders 
 and regulations fill a prodigious volume of some 750 
 pages, which every officer is supposed to read and carry 
 out to the minutest detail. The grace of humility has 
 given way to the dignity of position and a rampant big- 
 otry has gradually driven out all Christian liberality. 
 
 No doubt the unprecedented success that accompanied 
 the Army's first operations, has in one sense, been a bane 
 to them and has tended, indirectly, to produce the sad 
 state of afiairs that now exists ; for the moment that the 
 leaders began to attribute the result to the Army methods, 
 that moment the spirit of God began to withdraw His 
 power. It will be admitted by all that the success 
 achieved through the Army was not due to its methods, for 
 many of these are obnoxious to modem taste, but it was 
 due to the fact that they preached the pure and simple 
 gospel and sou^iht to glorify God, who declares in His 
 word that He will not give His glory unto another. The 
 whole point may be summed up in one sentence : The 
 glorification of the Army has produced a spvritual de- 
 cline in the work. 
 
 We hear a great deal of talk about the " Army spirit" 
 Our readers will get a conception of what this means 
 from reading the preceding chapters. It is synonymous 
 with " Army machine." It is this spirit which Mr. Her- 
 bert Booth and his stafi have tried to inculcate into the 
 Canadian officers with such poor success. The " Army 
 spirit " is the Army's test to godliness, whereas the Bible 
 declares that " if any man have not the spirit of Christ 
 he is none of His." 
 
 We can make great allowance for Mr. Booth. Accus- 
 
 
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 tomed to almost anlir ited authority in the old coumtry 
 since early boyhood, and Aaturaliy possessed of a deter- 
 mined will and desire to rule, it is not to bo wondered at 
 that these human weaknesses have come out in his ad- 
 ministration in Canada. Col. Mackenzie, his chief secre- 
 tary, in a cii'oular sent out to the Field Officers, justifies (?) 
 Mr. Booth's actions in the cases discussed in this pamphlet 
 on the grounds that he, (Mr. Booth), was hound to up- 
 hold the authority of his jyredeoesaor. He does not even 
 give us reason to infer that Mr. Booth regarded it as 
 a matter of right or wrong. When the deputation waited 
 upon Mr. Booth for an explanation he refused their re- 
 quest on the ground that it would be lowering the dignity 
 ofhia position to give an explanation to inferiors, and 
 severely censured the deputation for their unwarrantable 
 presumption in making any such request from him, the 
 Ueneral's son ! We are at a loss to know how Mr. Booth 
 can reconcile this principle to the Bible teaching: "He 
 that exalteth himself shall be abased." " Let brotherly 
 love continue/' etc., etc 
 
 Wlien asked why he would not give an explanation in 
 the presence of the accused, Mr. Booth replied that it 
 was unmilitary4ike. This evidently shows that Mr. 
 Booth* s rule of conduct is found in military regulations 
 and not in, the Scri2mtres, and he is the first man who 
 has ever y»t ventured to pretend that milita/ry rule is 
 Christian rule. All history goes to show that as men 
 have become christianized and enlightened, military rule 
 has lost its prestige. The only place where it is tolerated 
 in this age, as far as we are aware, is in the Salvation 
 Army and in some portions of the wild Soudan. Did 
 not Christ come as the messenger of peace to the world, 
 promising that after Him should come a time when all 
 wars should cease and all His children be free ? To 
 show that in the S. A., exists some of the worst features 
 of this military rule, wd make two extracts from an 
 article by Rev. Cunningham Qeikie D. D. : — 
 
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 ** So unmitigftted an autooraoy doM not, aotu tml know, exist. 
 The Pope U a constitutional monarch compared with Mr. Booth. 
 He and hie family jointly are immeasurably more despotic than 
 Leo XIII and his cardinals. As to the Queen's Arm^. . . . ' deceit 
 Hod hypocrisy ' oani^t get up a report against any soldier or officer, 
 and cause his dismissal ; but woe be to the underling in Mr. Booth's 
 host who dares whisper a word not permitted or tell inconvenient 
 truth!" 
 
 '*I never saw such abject terror of superiors as seems to be 
 a characteristic of the officers of the Salvation Army. They are in 
 dread of dismissal, without any but the vaguest cause being assign- 
 ed. Even in the Queen's Army, no soldier or officer can be turned 
 out without fair and open trial on specific charges. Why should 
 not Mr. Booth or his son give their men at least as much justice ? " 
 
 Mr. Herbert Booth's cruel and unjust treatment of 
 Canadian officers is but a fresh outbreak of his estab- 
 lished reputation in England. He is famous there for 
 , his overbearing conduct, and many a man, once a useful 
 officer in the Army, now finds himself out of the work 
 through having come into collision with this youn? scion 
 of the house of Booth. We learn from Mr. Hodges, a 
 man of unimpeachable authority, that this " firing out " 
 business seems to have been one of Mr. Herbert's special 
 delights. 
 
 «* When a man is to be ' sacked,' says Mr. Hodges, " or in other 
 words, as it is more commonly expressed, * hung,' jokes are often 
 made about * the gallows ' being erected for him, and this kind 
 of language is indulged in by the Ohief>of-Staff and Herbert, as 
 well as other chief officers." 
 
 We cannot understand such conduct as this unless we 
 refer it to the time when Mr. Herbert was a backslider, 
 for he isb reported to have admitted in one of the meetings 
 he held on his tour through Canada dome four years ago 
 that he had been a backslider, and was nearly on the 
 point of leaving the Army, but had got the victory in an 
 all-night of prayer. He gught therefore to know 
 through what trying times his officers are obliged to pass, 
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 of mercilessly pushing them out into the world as he has 
 done. God who sees and knows all, on the last great day 
 of reckoning shall require from us with usury all that lie 
 has committed to our charge. If He has placed us in 
 positions of authority and trust how disastrous it will 
 eternally be, if we abuse our privileges and act unkindly 
 to our fellow men. 
 
 The Army leaders are men of passions, like unto 
 others : Qod remembereth their frames that they are dust 
 and is ready to grant unto them that wisdom which they 
 now require, to set the Army on a new spiritual basis 
 and usher in a new era of power and blessing, the bright- 
 ness of which may eclipse the outburst of her pristine 
 glory. Canada stands ready to welcome back the sweet 
 old days. In the words of the' poet : 
 
 " Come ; not in the watches of the night, 
 But where the sunbeam broodeth warm, 
 Come beatUetums in thine after form, 
 And like a finer light in light." 
 
 The arm of flesh is weak and can neither support, man 
 nor organization in the struggle against error aud the 
 search for truth. How truly experience has taught us 
 that: 
 
 " Our little systems have their day. 
 They have their day and cease to be ; . 
 They are but broken lights of Thee, 
 And Thou, Lord, art more than they ! "