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ARA^Y

AD 1950

oi=>E booth:.

His Motto: >' Do as yet are toh!, and Jont ars^.fy."

PROLOGUE.
T was a strange procession of men
and Wfimen going by— the like
of which I had never seen be-
fore. The scene : the Thames
Embanltment. The month :
October of the year of grace, one
thousand eight hundred and
ninety, and rather a feggy day.

The men were mostly attired
in a uniform, a compound of the
water-side character, the fire-
man, and the hotel messenger. The women wore bonnets

like half-closed, semi- circular sun-blinds, such as we see
.-\broad, and dresses of dark material, sack-shaped and
drawn in a little at the waist. Many wore white
sashes, a welcome relief to their sombre attire. A fair
proportion carried tambourines, which they rattled and
flourished with energy and glee.

Anon, as the vast procession glided by, came a weird,
grey-headed man, seated in a carriage, who bowed in
response to a mixture of cheering, hooting, and laughter
—the cheering, let me hasten to declare, predominating.

" Who is he ?" I asked of a stranger at my elbow.

"The General," he replied; "he buries his wife to-
day, and — "

I heard no more, thanks to the rush of a gang of
ruffians on pocket -picking bent. When the wave of
confusion arising from this cause had in a measure
subsided, a coffin covered with flowers on a simple
carriage was borne along, and I judged that it contained
all that was left of the General's wife.

Coming from a far-ofT, lone land, I could not under-
stand this seen.'. Honour is shown to dead warriors;
bat their wives die and are borne quietly to the grave.
And why should the General bow and smile? Why
should he seem to rejoice at /wr death ? Why—

And 30 I speculated, wandering away until I reached
the railway-station, and there I bought a magazine which
reviews the reviewers, doubtless little to the taste of
those who at one time sat undisputed judges of all things
literary. Within it was the story of the " General " and
his departed wife.

An amazing story. A great and good work being done

by great and good people. Alone in my cliamlc. I re ul it
closely, seeing naught but brave work in what had been
done until I came to the General's motto, •' Baas you
are told and doiCt argufy," and then I paused to think.

No harm, but much good, might come of it now ; but,
anon, when some ruler, less wise and just than he, shoul<l
be at the head of this vast and growing body— what then ?

And I thought and thought of the possibilities arising in
the future, and I was thinking of them still when the sun
went down.

CHAPTER I.

THE ARMY PREVAILS.

" This is the day appointed for the King to pay homage
to Pope Booth the Third."

I heard these words as I stood in a wide street of a
great city. Near me stood two white-haired men in seedy,
threadbare black atiire. One, methought, looked like a
bishop on whom parlous times had fallen.

It was he who spoke, as I could tell by the answer
given by the other.

" Yes ; it is so," he said. " Albert Victor the Second
can hold out no longer. He must yield to the arrogant
demands of the head of the all-pervading Army. My
brother, we must not whisper a word .-igainst it lest we
be hanged or burned as heretics."

" We are the last of the bishops," returned the other,
bitterly. "All the others are dead, or have recanted
and become officers in the Army. Hark t the roll of
drums and the rattling of tambourines. The red-
jerseyed men and the Hallelujah lasses are escorting the
King to his humiliation."
" Will they pass this way ?"
"They must do so."

" Then let us, my brother, choose a convenient door-
step from whence we may safely view the saddeninji
sight." '^

But the other demurred, and, pleading an engagement
elsewhere, disappeared.

The remaining man, looking about him, soon found a
suitable place for espying the coming procession in
the doorway of a closed shop, which I judged by the sign
overhead had once been occupied by a tobacconist
It was now in a state of semi-ruin.

POPE BOOTH.

There was ample room for two, and, urged by curiosity,
I joined the old man in the doorway. He looked at me
suspiciously, but, apparently relieved by my appearance,
gave vent to a soft sigh and said—

" Vpu are not one of them ?"

"No," I replied, " nor do I know whom you mean."

"The Salvation Army," he replied, shortly, "under
command of Pope Booth the Third. Surely you have
heard of ,4/w.?"

Booth's time, but those who came after him have grown
like unto the old Popes of Rome. The lust of temporal
I>ower has laid hold of them."

" But how came it," I asked, " that the people allowed
themselves to be thus enslaved ?"

" The creed of the Salvationists swept over the land like
a huge tidal wave," replied my companion ; " it carried
all things before it. The strong and weak were borne
away on the foam-crested sea. No man, no body,

Tn . ,.«„f.,„-i r , . I ' luaui-ticsicu sca. «o man, no body,

.f the namrir Vr: °n"" "■"' knowledge no sect was prepared to resist the compact force thi

" H is ^on^^^^^^^ '"^ ^°"'^^"'"" ^^"' °"- ' '''''-'' '° » ^'-'- ^^ ^'^ -- o^ -^^ '-istible

All nations will soon be
under the hoofs of his fol-
lowers, who joyfully give
him blind obedience or pro-
fess to do so. Some, I fear,
are pliant for their private
ends. Three generations
ago the Army was started
to regenerate the people.
It is now employed to keep
them in captivity. "
"How?" I asked.
"By the compact voting

power of the Army. It

votes to a man as its Head

dictates. The Parliament

and its offices, all places of

importance and power, are

filled by its followers.

Prisons, places of refuge,

schools, all municipal gov-
ernments are in their

bands."
" What of the army and

navy ?"

" Both are employed in
fighting nations, who have been branded by the Pope as
heretical."

"And the church— ><7«r church ?"

"Shattered twenty years ago, now only existing
here and there in fragments and in secret. So with
all forms of faith but that originated by the Prophet
Booth."

" The Prophet Booth ?"

" Yes ; so he is now calle4, although he laid no claim to
the title. Stead, sixty years ago, declared him to be on a
level with the Prophets, and pronounced his Army to be
the greatest movement in the religious world since the
time of the Apostles, So it was, perhaps, in the first

SoxM qf the men carried bannert.

power.

" And implicit obcdjijnce
still exists?"

My companion opened
his lips to reply, but was
checked by a sudden influx
of a motley crowd into the
street. They poured into it
from every avenue— men and
women and children. The
red jersey and the hideous
sun-shade bonnets were
everywhere. There was no
beauty, save the beauty of a
ragged variety among the
people.

On the face of one and all
was a set smile, the Army's
sign of happiness, which my
companioa told me in a
whisper Pope Booth the
Third had commanded
them to wear whenever
they walked abroad.

Some of tl e men carried
banners with legends in-
scribed thereon, such as

" The Devil is dead," " When the Pope speaks let no dog
bark," "The World is under the heel of the Army,"
and so on.

At least four-fifths of the women had tambourines, and
methought that the jingling they made would not have
been unpleasant if one could have been far aloft-in a
balloon, let us say. But, being in their immediate neigh-
bourhood, the sound was far from musical.

A roar and a parting of the people, caused by a number
of Marshals of the Army riding by on horseback. Be-
hind them a host of men and women mingled, walking
six abreast, shouting, laughing, singing.

Brass bands, withcheekswollen men pouring out deafen-

POPE BOOTH.

ing strains-tunes mingled-a jumbling of melody-wild
cnes of "Halleluj-ah "-frenzy ev.rywhere-a torrent of
half, maddened people, and then-the King.

1 saw him. a man in his early prime, standing i„ a
common waggon, and I judged that it was one part of the
creed of Pope Booth to teach Kings humility.

Around the Monarch, proud but sad. stood a ring of
women-Hallelujab lasses-rattling their tambourines •
plam creafires to be sure, and well chosen to keep the
^yal heart sound and strong. No man or woman
Old the Monarch reverence.

And so he went by-to do homage to the quicJJly.
grown great social, political,

and religious power. Behind

him, a torrent of people

closing in upon the cortege

as it passed. All went with

it— the street was emptied,

and I was left alone with

my companion.
" Whither are they

going?" I asked. " To St,

Paul's ?"

"No— that is now the

Chief Clothing Emporium

for the Army," he said.

"The Pope holds his court

in Olympia. It is the creed

of the Army to despise the

beautiful and encourage the

hideous. Would you go

thither }"

"Ay 1 readily." I re-
plied.

"Come, then." he said,
as he took my hand. " We
must hasten if we would be
in time."

Around the monarch stood a ring qf nalklujah lateu,
II

without attempt at anything like harmonious arrange-
mcnt. ■

Stretched above his head was a canopy, on which
was cmUazoned the motto of the Prophet Booth-
" Do asj'ou art told, and don't aigu/y."
Indeed, as I glanced around from an elevated position
my companion had obtained for mc-how I know not-I
saw this motto everywhere.

In frames and hung upon the walls, written in chalk,
pamted m red upon the iron columns and girders. It was
clear to me that this motto was esteemed of much impor-
tance by the Pope, and no pains were spared to fully im-

press it on the people.

A rattle of tambourines,
and all rose but the Pope,
lie sat with twinkling eyes,
and one hand resting on a
velvet-covered pedestal be-
fore him.

I now observed that that
hand was covered with a
glove of golden thread, save
for the thumb, which was
bare, and extended so as to
be easily seen.

Another flourish of tarn-
bourines, and enter the King
— alone.

No court, no attendants
behind— nothing to show
that he was aught more
than any other servant of
his Holiness.

A dead silence fell upon
the vast concourse. The
King, with humbled mien,
advanced to the pedestal
and, bending down, iissed
the bare thumb.

CHAPTER

■SHB king's humiliation.

In a moment, as it seemed to me, I found myself in
Olympia. a huge, plain building of iron and glass
endowed with space, but with little else to recommend it'
From end to end it was crowded with the hosts I had seen
mthestreet-an unlovely mass of hideously-clad women
and red-jerseyed men.

Araund Um. u the back, stood .n ill.fo™ed ^i-cM^ .f with „™, -t . ...

Then he sank upon one knee, and the Pope, rising
removed h.s glove and extended his arms as if to bleS
him. I could look upon the scene no more, and touch-
>ng my companion on the arm, wc hurried out.

"And It has come to this-in sixty years ?" I said.
Man ,s but man all the world over." replied my com-
panion. " Power is an intoxicating thing, and under its
influence strange pranks are played. A heavy yoke is

!!r t'!!.!'-!°^'!' """. "•? .'''" "°' ^" •' '""k- how.

""" "' ' ' Wfaithf

POPE BOOTH.

" I have to meet souiv; friends— private friends," he
muttered ; "and yet, methinks, I can trust you."

He looked at mc wistfully.

I assured him he would find no enemy in me, and the
lookof mistrust melted away.

"Come," he said.

We walked to^jjther through many streets, all silent
.'>nd deserted. My companion told me th;it the people
had gathered in or near Olympia ip obedience to the com-
r.iand of the rope.

"Some are inhiding," he added, with a shy glance in my
flirection. "And it i said that many thousands, who in
their hearts deny thii man allegiance, are skulking hero
and thereto-day."

By this time I was athirst ; and as it had been my
i:ibi'. to drink a glass of mild ale when I needed it, I
.ooked around me for some inn or respectable public-
(louse. But I saw none.

Remarking on this to my companion, ho told me that
there were no o/ai drinking places for the sale of intoxica-
ting liquors in the country. I was ama?ad there.at, and
maryelled why I had not heard of this before.

" \Vhat has become of the great .biewers ?" I asked.

" Dead^ or in prison, and their estates confiscated for
the benefit of the children of deceased JjriHffeards. " I

"They might be put to a worse :us6'''ltan thai,
marked. • "' '■' ' v ■■ i

"There are whispers," said my companloftj ' cfitfetly,
"of the funds being misappropriated. . Heavy salaries
arc paid to the ofHcers who are high in fafcur with the
Pope. They say, too, that fourth-fiftlis of 'the -children
receiving the benefit of the charity are hot'tW phildren of
deceased drunkards, but the offspring oE livFng members
of the Army." ^- ,:■ '''::■

" The charities of the last century suRe^re^Trorri abilse,"
I said, " But what of the publicans ?" '■''^V- |

" AH banished to the recently -discovered North Pole,
there to expiate their sins as purveyors of destruction to
the people," replied my companion. "And, again, it is
said that many a man goes thither who is not a publican,
but simply obnoxious to the Pope."

"As like as not," I said. " Well, as no drink is to be
had I will fall back upon an old. friend — a cigar. There
may be a tobaccorist handy."

"Xay," interposed the old man; "the tobacconists
went with the publicans. One great manufacturer of
tobacco has been publicly whipped for ignoring the Papal
edict against the manufacture and sale of tobacco in any
forni. It scared the rest. You see, no man can enter the
Army if he drinks or smokes, and as all are commanded
to enter the Army the tabooed trades. had to give
way."

a publican

" And if a man not a tobacconist or
refuses to enter the Army— what then ?"

" He is either imprisoned or banished, and there is
talk of a few heretics being burned as a check against
growing signs of rebellion against his Holiness. But here
we are. Follow me, and do not speak unless you are
addressed by one of the members of the Band of the New
Reformation."

CHAPTER HI.

A MEETINT, OF DISSSNTERS.

Mv companion tapped lightly upon the door three times.
After a short delay it was opened a few inches, and
somebody within said —

" The word ?"

To which, in response, my companion whispered—

"Reformation!"

Immediately the door was thrown open and we entered.

In the passage stood a tall young fellow, whose appear-
ance suggested an athlete of one of the Universities as I
had known them in my youth, and this, notwithstanding
the fact that he was wearing a red jersey, on which
was embossed the familiar but, to me, always terrible
i^otto, "Bl6od and Fire."

" I beg your pardon, my lord," he said ; "we did not
expect you to-day."

"I have brought a friend with me," my companion
answered.

The young athlete, who by this time had closed and
barred the door, led the way to the back of the house,
where he opened another door, showing the way to a
cellar.

Descending about a dozen steps, I found myself in an
underground place, about fifteen feet long and twelve
wide, from which all daylight had been carefully excluded.

In the centre was a table, around which about a dozen
men were seated, svith one at the head, who acted as
president or chairman.

A small lamp was hanging from the ceiling, and by its
weird, imperfect glare I was able to see the faces of those
assembled.

They were a ml.xed body, as I judged— bankrupts in
purse, if thread-bare clothing i.s any guide to that condi-
tion, and clericals of various denominations.

I could have gone round and laid a finger on each,
saying to one, "You are a Bishop," to another, "You
are a Dean," to a third, "You are a shining light among
the Baptists," to a fourth, " The Congregationalists own
you for a mainstay," and so on.

Church and Dissent were pretty evenly represented

drawn together, as it seemed to me, into close brother-
hood by the bonds of oppression.

POPE BOOTH.

My guidu motioned for mo to lake a seat at the lower
end of the table, at the same time suggesting the need of
iilencc on my part.

Unheeded, but heeding all that passed, I sat still and
wLnt, listening to an earnest debate on the condition ol the
country.

The president arose und thus addressed those around
him —

" Brethren, we have this day witnessed a scene that
his made my heart burn within me-the humiliation of
our beloved young King. What Rome was in the
middle ages, England, this empire, is to-day. It is
enslaved, held fast in the grip temporal under the guise
of tha grip spiritual. It is no marvel that it should be so,
for m-in is but man, and we are not here to condemn
him who rules us with a rod of iron, but to find out what
road will lead us again to freedom of conscience. Fr,»e.
dom of th'j body is in the hands of other men. Mark the
evolution of the Head of the Army.

" Booth the I-irst, an honest, self-denying man, pos-
sessed of great administrative power, absolute, wise and just,
daing good, raising thousands from the slough of misery
and vice, in error made the law of his people, • Do as you
are told and don't argufy.' Booth the Second, earnest
and well-meaning, desirous of followinc; in the footsteps
of his father, but like him resolved on being absolute. The
Army growing in numbers, and drawing all sorts of men
into its vortex, and all streams of charity bearing into the
one channel which flows into the coffers of the organisa-
tion. The motto of the family strengthened by time-no
dissent, no argument allowed in the ranks, obedience in all
things spiritual and temporal enforced. The Army a
politka! po-va; ruling as one man, guided by one man-
filling the House of Parliament with Salvationists-the
Lords aboliilied, the Chur V 'iscstablished, all other
denominations with a sense -r R.owing absorption chilling
them. India, Europe— the whole world permeated with
the New Religion, swelling like some huge bubble blown
by irresistible force out of the mouth of a volcano.

"Booth the Third," here the president lowered his
voice to little above a whisper, "lacking many of the
qualities of his predecessors, not made of the stern stun-
without which ambition may lead to chaos, inflated with
pf^de, has been borne away on the shoulders of p
quickly-grown supremacy into the dark region of tyranny.
All things in th- grasp of the Salvation Army, luhuh no
longer saves. Home, dress, food, all chosen for the people.
A crusade against all things I.->natifuL To e.it sufficient,
and to sleep with a roof over one's head, the highest'
worldly thoughts encouraged. All others declared b>
Cooth the Third to be r.-ink heresy. Salvation books,
Salvation papers. Salvation clothes, Salvation boots, linen

-all things to be of the Salvation type-and those who will
have none of them to go hungry and barefoot. Sixty years
ago the wise men, such as Stead, foresaw great possibilities
forthegeueral's offspring -and see how their visions have
been falsified ! A monster, octopus-like, throws out huge
tentacles on every ride-grasping .ill things-holding all
things but our inmost thoughts. Brethren, how lor-
shall these things be?"

The passion of the man was fearful. He was moved to
the very centre. He quivered like the leaves of an aspen
tree as he concluded und resumed his seat. Half-a-
dozen speakers arose and a confusion of tongues ensued.

While endeavouring to unravel their mingled utter-
ances, I felt a finger laid upon my arm, and turning,
saw the young athletic doorkeeper t)ehind me.

"Vouare to come with me," he said, and rising, I
followed him from the house.

CHAPTER IV.

A SA\EI) CITV.

" It is cool and quiet here," he said, as wc reached the
street, " very different to the heated atmosphere below."

"Heated more by the words of the speaker than aught
else," I replied. " But tell me. was not his statement ar.
exaggeration ?"

"It is a question I expected you would ask," h-
returned. "and I will answer it by showing you some
things in this changed city. "

I asked him what name he bore and, smiling, he
said —

" Call me Baliol, for I was educated in the college oF
that name, and would fain do honour to its memory."

" Is it a departed thing?" I asked.

"Ay !" he said, " the two great Universities are now
gi«;n over to the use of the invalids of the Army-men
and women who have fallen out of the ranks fainting by
the way. All such who have their weakness thus marked
are treated as lunatics. It is part of the creed of Booth,
that those who have not the strength to be good are
insane."

"Then verily," I said, "a huge proportion of the
population is in need of confinement."

"But a vast number of the lunatics," said Baliol.
' ' are cunning enough to conceal their malady. Vou miy-
know them by their furious beating of drums, wild rattle
of tambourines, and loud proclamations of having no
thought of aught save the Army. Like the Queen in the
play, they do protest too much. She did it to hide her
'railty ; they do it to conceal their weakness." -

Talking thus, we came to a spot which I recognised as
I'iccadilly, but changed-as all things were that I had as yet
beheld. The fashionable hosiers exhibited red jerseys.

POPi: BOOTH.

_^As. and other garments, all with the Army brand in
«he most prominent places Th^ v . "^,, ''^"^ '"
become a barracl<s NoT" • ^^'^ '" "'" ^""^

horses ..ST ""^'' '■'^^' °f "'^nibus.o,

horses ^u>re .n the streets, and none could have told bv

west ot the great metropolis.

>• ratt L"!;'T"''""-"^""°""^'^^ byhalf-a.score women
.; dreadful allu.ons to his sinful life, and declaring he was

Scarce had he gone when another turmoil in an opposite
^■rection attracted my attention. ^^ ^

• -'R to make the best of her beauty

Denuded of ,„h „„.„„„ ,, „ „„„

:* "T •■■■"■ '■»>™ ""ins on Jp J, It
St. p m and be saved ■'^

Entrrrt^^^^'"^"-^^''^^"'^^'''-°^^^eHomeof

I motioned to Baliol, and we hurried on. and my heart
was s,ck wu in me, for on all sides was viden Lf X

!;r:L:r'''^°~-^-"^^---o;d^:

At every street-corncr there were printed directions to
gu.de the people into the paths of righteousness. „d the
first lesson taught to one and al, was obed.>n.» t. P
Sootli the Third. ^'1^=

Especially were the people commanded to eschew ,].

th.ngMending to vanity, and as rtu.r„edrmrrdi:g

calldTm"' "''"/ '' ' """ '" ^ S°'2-- "-^°- that
xt 1:;:^;: JJ-'- ^'^•^^ once seen of Murat.

no^nc^.rr:;:--:r^^^^^^

and are the livin. ^ V J ^' ''''™ "^''" '^' '^"''.
ance." ^ ^'"^od.ment of the Spirit of In.toler-

CHAPTER V.

THE CITY AT NIGHT.

iT Will soon be nieht "snirl r^i:„i
Oxford -.,.«► u °'' '^^ "'^ strolled down

uxlord-.treet an hour later, •« Whit wiM ,-. ^ • ,
hours of darkness ?" vv .1! j ou do m th.

" I am wearj' of serious things," I replied ".r^^
^-h^.someplacewhithere^l.:r:^

heard that d.'.. "'" " ""'"^= ^">'"^-^' ^ ^-i

" By my life." he said. «' you will have to wander far to
find what Yoa would cali amusement."
The theatres," I hinted.

io.:f.i;i;::nrs;:^"->-"»-^"='«-.o

"A concert-room, then."
theI^^'"°^'"^'"^^^P'^>''"°-P"^''^.3a;ethatof.

this life rT d'"''"' ': ''■"' ''' ^'^ ^^^^'^- --^'-y of

cms iiie ? I desperately asked

•'Nothing that is open to the eye," returned Baliol.
. f"'>°"'"='y''^"3tmetosho.-you something that u^
interest .f it does not amuse you. " ^ '

usld'tr'^'f''""''''''"^'' '° '^"-•^ ^"''''enly upon
us, and the n.ght was there. With it was hearr? , •

orbells.om various quarters, and B::::^::::ZI

was done for the good of the peop.e-a signal r' re

" Only the patrols are supposed to be abroad," he said
and they are commanded to arrest all stragglJr^ Th -
there :s some rare sport for them chasing Se unc'uO^Vl
soldiers of the Army and heretics "

There was no lighting up, as I had known it in mv

youth, but fro. ihe summit of high public buildin "a^'

monuments the glare of the electric light spran^ ou^

Vejrd tndeed were the s.reets-so brilliant in the gh'e'

so deep in the shadow. ^ '

The people melted away like ir.ects who shun the

POPE BOOTH.

called my atten-
beating of many

JUS uniform thai
: seen of Murat.
nt creature, and
ien.

Marshals," sail
^bout the land,
pirit of latoler-

strolled down
you do in the

d, " and long
amusement of

.'hich sounded
>-!hinij I had

wander far to

!io refused to

save that o!

lonotony of

ned Baliol,
Z tfaat will

lenly upon
d a ringing
me that it
I to retire
es as soon

" he said,
rs. Ah :

undutiful

it in my .
lings and
ang out.
>e glare,

hun the

light, and in a little while Baliol and I were alone,
standing in a deep shadow by Tottenhini-court-road.

We remained there for awhile until the beating of a
drum announced the coming of a patrol —some fifty men,
who carried staves wherewith to beat the unfaithful, and
these they thrust into shcJy corners as they passed to
asccitain if any defiant citizen were skulking there.

But somehow they passed us by, and crossing the road,
w c hastened down a broad way, and presently paused by
ihe door of a house, wherein all seemed still and dark.
" We will enter here," said Baliol.
The door opened with a touch and we went in, and
passed down a passage to a room at the back. The door
was locked, but Baliol had a key with which he opened
it.

A dozsn men were there, engaged in gambling, and
we stood aside to watch them. They paid no heed
to us, at which, as I had done more than once that
<lay, I marvelled.

At intervals one of their number went <■••' of the room
and returned in a little while with some dri larudekind
of loving-cup, which was hastily passed round and emptied.
Suddenly there was an alarm of a patrol going by,
and the cards and dice were hastily gathered together and
thrust into a cupboard in a corner of the room. Then all
began to sing at their loudest an Army song.

" It is death or banishment," said Baliol, "to partake
of strong drink or gamble, but the prohibition has simply
driven open vice and folly into secret corners. Nay more,
it has made votaries of both of men who cared little for
such things before."

" But these are few," I urged. " What are they among
so many ?"

"Within the heart of this great city alone," said
Baliol, "there are ten thousand such dens as this. The
good that the fust Booth did by persuasion has more than
been undone by force. Come, let us go on."

He led me from place to place, and showed me many
strange and painful things. Without, in the streets, all
was quiet — behind the walls was a vast mass of corruption.
It was hideous, horrible, to see the many secret ways of
vice, and among the most earnest votaries of it were men
who trebled their sin by wearing the garb of sanctity, the
uniform of the Pope.

No class, it seemed, was exempt — among the highest
and the lowest unspeakable things were done.

Secret stills, distilling liquor, were in every street ; the
forbidden tobacco was indulged in places not easy of
access by the patrol ; women flaunted in meek attire— the
same old story of man and woman's sin, intensified by a
tyrant legislation.

In my earlier days, when the blood ran hotly in my

\ veins, I had seen much of the seamy side of life, but never
; aught like this. So pure and white without, so dark

within, were these abodes of men— miles and miles of
' whited sepulchres with a sprinkling of houses where the

truly faithful dwelt.
For, mark you, .\i,r. were not given over to the w.iys of
j Evil. Among the hosts were many of the faithful

believers in the Spirit which governed the first ruler of
■ the Army, and true to him who now governed them

because they hoped that Spirit was in him too.
I grew v,-eary of these scenes, and would have fain
, retired, but Baliol said he had one more place to show me,
' which on no accDunt could be passed by. He took ms

; by the hand, and in a moment we were there.

CIIAl'TER VI,

THE I-ArrHKI.-[. UEIiELLIOfS.

A ROOM in one of the outbuildings of Olympia. In it
some half-dozen m^n were assembled, all attired as
Marshals of the great Army.

Grave, earnest men these, with sorrowful eyes, sitting
in solemn council together.

One was speaking as we glided into their presence and
stood aside to listen.

"Brother soldiers," he was saying, "dark times have
fallen upon us. The world is again triumphant. Our
Head thinks more of tempsral power than of the
spiritual welfare of the people. Marked you him to-day
as our King bent the knee before him? How his eyes
glistened and his body swelled with pride ! 0!i ! pitiful
sight. And he is not content. "

"What asks he for now ?" enquired another, a white-
bearded, venerable old man, who had been a boy-soldier,
so Baliol told me, under the first Booth.

" He meditates calling on all the Kings of the earth to
do him homage," was the sorrowful reply, "and now
he is preparing edicts to command them to recognise his
Infallibility, and to fill his coffers by taxing their people.
Even as this land is now well within his hand, so he
would have ALL. He seeks to be the Temporal Ruler of
he world."

" He has the misses with him," said a third, " for they
have been taught to look to him for all things, lie
governs Parliament, commerce, and the social life. What
he says is to be— must be, and that which he says shall
not be is put aside. And who dare say aught to the
contrarj- ? Have we not ALL to do as we are told, and
not argufy ? We have naught of our own— our lives, out
consciences are in his keeping. And how long, I ask,
shall these things be?"

The speaker paused, and, raising his hand, brought it
down heavily upon the table and resumed —

POPE BOOTH,

" Liberty of mind and body is (feaJ/ The Army was
an eddy at first— it is now a whirlpoor, drawing all men
and things into its centre. And what are now the chief
agents of its power ? Ambitious men, who Jiave made this
new Christian body a stepping-stone to high positions.
Who are its supporters ? A few that are zealous, and
hosfs of those dependent on its bounty."

" Aye ! there's (he rub," interposed another of the
Marshals. "When Booth theFirst conceived his great plan
ofproviding homes for all that would work, he did not
see that the end would be to destroy the energy ami ^elf-
reliance of the people. Look at the great workshops
throughout the land— off-
spring of the first the General
endowed with money sub-
scribed by a charitable
public. Lcok at them, I

say — filled with men and

women who Aa//-viot\i, who

dribblt through the labour

of the day, just earning

their bre.id and no more ;

lazily content'.d with their

lot, without any great

earthly hope ; void of am-
bition, seeking neither to

raise themselves nor their

offspring; sufificient for the

day suffices for them; the

New State must take care of

them on the morrow."
A rapid debate ensued,

from which I learnt that the

country was growing poorer.

There was more evenness

in the social st<ite ; but the

level was a low one, save

with a few— leaders of the

Army and men in high

places, who were favourites of the Pope.
Then, in a whisper, they talked of a New Reform.iion,

of a rebellion against the absolute power of the man who

was the real Head of the State, and in the midst of a quiet,

earnest discussion I left them. .y

\ -^

CHAPTER VII,

DRUMMED OUT.

It was day again, and it seemed to me that some time
had elapsed since I walked with Baliol and saw the Holy
City under the cover of darkness. But what had hap-
pened in the time I could not tell.

Anon 1 saw the offenders pass in a vmggon.

Let it suffice that it was high noon and I was in Cheap-
side, strolling along.

A great multitude were abroad— hurrying to and fro—
with eager faces, some stopping here and there to exchange
a word or two with other wayfarers.

The windows were filled with sight-seers, mostly women
—some pretty enough, perchance, in face and form, but all
hideous to the eye, thanks to the orthodox bonnet and
sombre, sack-like dress.

I marvelled at the scene, wondering if the King were
again about to visit his Holiness the Pope, and, to satisfy
myself, I stopped a passer by and questioned him.

" What 1" he exclain ed,
"know you not that the
seven Marshals who' dis-
sented to the Infallibility of
the Pope are this day to be
drummed out of the Army?"
I was fain to express my
ignorance of the impending
humiliation of those who had
dared to dissent from the
Church of Booth.

"They have done so,"
continued my informant,
"and you will see them
carried by on their way to
the big pillory for heretics
in Smithfield."

I stood aside, and anon I
saw the offenders pass in a
waggon, with their hands
fastened behind them, and
the buttons and facings re-
moved from their uniforms.
Behind the waggon were a
score or so of drummers, who
beat their instruments furious-
ly without time or tune, and a
flood of rabble followed, hooting and howling as rabbles
are wont to do when opportunity offers for the offensive
exercise of their lungs.

Every indignity that tongue c-'ild pour out w.-vS heaped
upon these men. The males hissed or roared, the women
at the windows shrieked and rattled tambourines. " Death
to the Heretics 1" was cried on every side.

And the seven men bore it all unmoved. If they
looked at the seething crowd it was with pity ; when struck
with a stone, or some other popular streel missile, they
smiled.

On their faces rested a light such as historians record
has been s.en on the faces of martyrs. I knew these

POFE BOOTH.

men. They were pari of the body, who in secret

council had demurred to the growing arrogance of the

Pope.
The fruit of that meeting was open dissent, and here

was their reward.
I followed these men, and beheld them placed side by

side in a huge pillory for every thoughtless fool or vicious

ruffian to pelt with refuse and abuse.
And freely was the right of the public exercised. It

was high holiday for all the rabble of the town— a carnival

for hot-blooded, unthinking fanatics. Sickened, I turned

f/om the scene and strode away.
And as I walked I

marked that there were

many gloomy faces in the

street.
Men looked ashamed at

each other, and some started

and trembled if only the

hind of a friend was laid

upon them.
I noted also two or three

men with faces stern,

wandering about, occasion"

ally stopping a passer-by to

speak one word to him and

pass on.
Whoever was thus spoken

to turned from his course

and hurried west.

I, too, went that way
until I came to the Marble-
arch, through which from
every direction streams of
men were pouring.

They all bore in the direc-
tion of the Reformers'-tree,
under whose branches sedi-
tion had been spouted before

against rulers who were not tyrants, but served the people
well. A vast multitude had already assembled, and I,
urged by my curiosity, was about to join them when the
rattle of drums fell upon my ears, and I saw a great body
of the Army — picked men, as it seemed to me — who fell
upon the crowd with sword and bayonet and rifle, slaying
right and left, and driving the terrified people like chaft
before the wind. ^

Some stood stubbornly against the onslaught, and were
cut down, dying with the ••ji.' "Heretic 1" or
" Unbeliever !" hissed in their eav , It was a fearsome,
bloody scene, and, overcome by the sight, I swooned
away.

CHAPTER VIII.

A DAY IN THE COUNTRY.

In the country now (how transported thither I know not),
seated by the window of a cottage upon a hill com-
manding a view of one of the fairest spoU in southera
England.

Just by the window an old man was digging in the
garden, and I saw branded on the handle of the tool the
words " Salvation Spade." There were also some words
too small for me to read, which I judged then to be a text.
This was no cause for surprise, for I knew that the
word of much import to us all was on all things. It was

the trade-mark of the Pope,
and without it nothing was
genuine. To trade in that
which was not approved of
was heresy, and punishable
by the aw of the Army.

The law of the land was
dead.

With one stroke of the
pen his Holiness had abro-
gated all laws but such as
he made, and given one
simple guide to the people —
" Do as you are told and
don't argufy."

I could not call to mind

who told me of these things,

but as I sal by the window 1

knew that they had been

done. Nay, more. I knew

also that the great word of

need on which the Army had

been founded had lost its

power among the people.

Familiarity had at least bred

indifference. With Salvation

hats, boots, shoes, clothe?,

liveries, and everything in common use, what could be

expected ? Musing on the knowledge of these things, I

watched the old man until he was aroused from his labour,

by a youth in the uniform of a private of the Army.

"Friend Michael," he said, sternly, "you have not
your jersey on. "

The old man pleaded the heat of the day, at which the
young man laughed.

" Heat and cold, light and darkness," he said, "are
nothing to us, for they are of this world. It is the com-
mand of his Holiness that all men shall have some outward
and written sign of belonging to the faithful. Do as you
' are tolJ, and don't—"

\ ,, ,

-^^^fe""*^

t-vsga^M

i0i&

i'^,

^tjgo^

i. —

H't

An old man was digging in the garden.

FOPE BOOTH.

The old man cast down his spade, and picking up a red
jersey from the ground, struggled .iito it, muttering
something, of which I heard fragments, and judged they
were not loving messages to the Pope.

The young man, with a warning word for Michael not
to be caught again without his jersey, on pain of being
reported to the Vigilance Committee, passed on, and then
the old man turned to me and said— .

" You see the life we lead. There is no hole or corner
safe from the prying of these people. They pester us
abroad, they invade our homes, they haunt us everywhere ;
but mark ye, sir, not for loiio. We shall not wait centuries
this time for a Reformation, for these old eyes of mine will
see it."

I did not make a verbal reply, but there must have
been something in my look that suf4ccd for it, and he i
went on.

" It will not this time be the work of a King to serve
his lustful turn, for our monarch, albeit not a great man, is
a good one. The blow will come from the people, who
wait in hosts for a Cromwell— for a leader."

"Surely you mean a Garibaldi?" I said, "for he it
was who destroyed the temporal power of the Pope of
Rome."

" Well, cal' him what you will," said the old man, "so
that he be the leader of the people to freedom. There
never was such a tyranny as this born of a promise to set
the people free. The first Booth-when I was but a
young man -gained the ear of one Stead. Mayhap you
have heard of him ?"
I nodded assent.

" He was a leader of the ; eople, and had a vast follow-
ing. Booth the Righteous, as you may kniw, the first
was called, gained his ear, and filled it with schemes for
the salvation of the bodies and souls of men. He asked
for power-money— and by the aid of Stead and others he
obtained it. So he set about and laboured, and there was
much blossom and a great promise of fruit.

" Mark ye," said the old man, leaning on his spade and
gazing fixedly at me, "in the hands of a man like the
General the fruit would have been good; but he did not
live to see it gathered in. The Army grew in riches and
in power, but Us rules weakened. Their heads would
not stand the intoxicaiing power they inherited. The
strong, guiding hand has become the clenched fist
of th, tyrant. Instead of being lei we .-—Heaven
help us ! — driven."

So it was everywhere, this tyrant power. A young
church grown rapidly corrupt ; its mission perverted ; its
strength used for the aggrandisement of a few leaders, and
not for the people. The history of Rome repeated.
And while the old man was falkint' I heard shouting

afar off, and I saw a body of men marching along the high
road.

They were rudely armed with scythes, sledge-hammers,
and old-fashioned guns, and at the head of thcm.walked a
man bearing a red cap fixed upon the top of a pole.

" Did I not tell you so ?" cried the old man, exultingly.
" The hour has come ! The signal has been given t
From every quarter of this Booth-ridden land bands of
brave men are bearing down upon Olympia. They go to
fight and win freedom or— a grave !"

He tore off his red jersey and trampled it under foot.

Then, seizing his spade, he hurried after the retiring band.

I lingered for awhile, debating within my mind whether

I would go or remain there, and was disturbed in my

meditations by the entrance of a fair young girl.

She was engaged in tearing one of the hideous Army
bonnets to pieces.

" Why do you, a man, linger here?" she said. " Go
and do your share of releasing us from the iron rule of the
Hideous. Fight to restore Beauty to the land. Bring
back to us sweet music and away with the deafening drum
and the childish tambourine. Bring back the quiet faith
of ou. forefathers, and banish hysteria. Give us again
attire becoming to the form with which we are endowed.
Put an end to the enforced scarecrow apparel for sweet-
hearts, wives, and daughters—"

I staved no longer, but, rising hurriedly, left the house
and ran after the band of men, who were now mere specks
in the distance.

CHAPTER IX.

THE FALL OF THE POPE.

I COULD not overtake those who had gone before. Making
all the speed in my power did not lessen the specks, but
I could see that they were gathering fast.

I passed by many loneiy houses which were closed, but
anon I came to a village where there were a few women
and children standing by the doors.

The street was strewn with torn uniforms and other
insignia of the Army. The women and children clapped
their hands as I went by.

"Down with the Pope 1" shrilly cried an urchin of five,,
and the women shrieked with laughter.

Fixed ipon a wall on the outskirts of the village was a
huge placard, on which was inscribed the one law of his
Holiness— " Do as you are told and don't argufy." It
was torn here and there and defaced in many places— such
a thing I had not seen before, for no sacrilegious hand
had ever been laid upon anything that emanated from
Olympia.

I travelled miles, and reached at last oce of the suburbs
of the great city. I knew not which it was, nor did I

• i

POPE BOOTH.

stay to enriuire, for that, too, was deserted by men, and
only women and children were to be seen. No convey-
ance was in sight, but I cared not for that, feeling no
sense of fatigue.

The sign of renouncement of the Army and its works
was everywhere. Fierce denunciations of the Pope were
chalked upon the walls. From afar the sound of many
thousand voices floated towards me.

I grew eager to reach Olyr ia, fearing the work would
be done ere I reached the spot. From the spectator I
had suddenly been transformed to the partisan. I burned
to be one among the assailants of the tyrant's stronghold.

I bounded along, like one endowed with unearthly
j.ctivity. I tlew on, with my mind in a whirl and a chaos
cf strange cries in my ears.

And then in a moment all was clear .igain, and I was
T the midst of a surging throng. Ahead of me was a
young man held aloft upon the shou'ders of the people.

It was Baliol, with a sword in his hand. I heard his
voice urging the people to be free— or die.

And what a motley assemblage there was around him 1

It was no ordinary street mob, but a gathering of
men of the middle and upper classes — merchants, trades-
men, bishops, clergy and curates, ministers of every de-
nomination, who had been despoiled and were now seek-
ing the downfall of the despoiler.

About a hundred yards down the street I saw Olympia,
surrounded by a mass of red-jerseyed men, with a fringe of
women wearing the Army bonnet.

They were leaping up, shrieking " Hallelujah!" rattling
tambourines, beating drums, and waving weapons in the
air. A wall of fanatics intervened between the people
and the home of the Pope.

As yet there was no fighting, for the besieging hosts
were loth to make these innocent men and women the
victims of their wrath.

The foremost urged upon them to give way, promising
them, that nothing worse than banishment should befall
their Head.

But the women only shrielc^d " Hallelujah !" and the
•II ^n got ready to fight.

A shot was fired.

I saw the smoke of it from an opening on the level of
the galleries of Olympia, and Baliol clapped his hand to
his left arm.

The 3hot had been fired at him. lie was hit.

A mighty roar rose up from the besieging people, and
with irresistible force they bore down upon the devoted
few, who, men and women alike, fought nobly, and when
they fell died with V Hallelujah 1" on their lips.

They were the children of the Army of the first Booth,
who fought against the sin and darkness of their time,

winning great battles, ignoring persecution, and earning
the good will of many wise and thoughtful men.

But their numbers were few, and they could not resist
the mighty force brought against them. The greater part
of the army had fled. Corrupt Marshals, venial Officers,
half-hearted men of the ranks had fled by their tens, hun-
dreds, and thousands. Only a devoted few, blind to
the errors of their Head, fought and died for a lost cause.

The defenders were scattered, the doors broken in,
and the victims poured through into the h\:ge hall. And
then came chaos.

I know not how to describe it, for it seemed to me
that my vision took in many things at once. A proud
man in pontifical robes, fleeing to a strong, small fort
just without Olympia, attended by a few of his surviving
followers — a treasury broken into and a general scramble
for its contents, in which even good men joined— blows
exchanged— bloodshed, turmoil, and concision on every
side.

Some cried aloud for the life of the Pope, but there
were strong men in the crowd, who, though they loved
him not, stood between him and his foes. The majority of
the latter but yesterday were outwardly his friends.

" Let him see to the spiritual welfare of those who
believe in his teaching," the strong men cried, '• but the
temporal power we take from hiva— for good and all."

The angry mob still demanded that he should not only
be deposed, but crushed, destroyed, and fighting was
resumed. But the strong men prevailed.

From the interior of Olympia to the street was an easy
transition for me, and then I saw that reaction had set in.

The insignia of the Army were disappearing. Men
were tearing off their uniforms and rending them to
shreds. Busy hands tore down or defaced the edicts of
the Pope. The numerous barracks were invaded by
howling mobs, who destroyed all things within their reach.
There was drinking everywhere. Every man, as it
seemed to me, had his pipe ready for the hour of freedom.
There was shouting and laughter on every side.

It was not a pretty sight, but it h.as been ever thus in.
this world. The straight-laced Puritans' dictatorship gave
way to the lewd monarchy. Humanity, like a pendulunv
pushed aside, when let go will swing far in the opposite
direction, and many a movement to and fro takes place
ers it is quiet again.

There was much drinking, open vice on every side,
leavened, be it said, with a fair sprinkling of good men
and women, who went about beseeching the mad people
to b«, still.

At eve, y street-corner there was an orator, who, for
good or ill, utilised the hour of freedom to give vent to
the thoughts which had been stifling within him foi

POPE BOOTH.

years. But few lUtened. The first hour of freedom was
given up to pleasure. There was dancing in the streets-
music and mitth everywhere. As I listened my brain
became confused-all things grew misty before my eyes-
they faded out-and I awoke, to find 'twas but a dream I

A dream ! No more ! But some dreams come true.
Wealth U pouring into the coffers of General Booth, and
be cnes yet for more. Give him the million he asks for,
and anon he will want more-then more and more.

Let the wise, the thoughtful, .■ n \ f le benevolent pause
ere they put too much power into the hands of those who
•re welding together a mass of humanity, mostly of the
lowest type, to be shaped this way and that as the Head
directs. The rule of the Army is autocratic. They have to
obey, or are virtually crushed. No member of it is a free
agent. The fears of the ignorant are played upon, and
the masses are bribed with promises of temporal advan-
ta(ges to come out of following the tea<;hing of the English
Madhi. Think of the rapid formation of this body, and
what It will be in another generation, unless its rising is
checked.

All other religious denominations will be driven to
the wall, all other channels of charity dried up, and the
freedom of society at large imperilled. There is no ruling
power so severe, so relentless, as the iron hand of fana-
ticism, and it has never shown its head more clearly than
It does to-day in this strange hysterical organisation.

Given a continual increase in the strength of this body
and the very heart of this nation will be taken away. It
IS Socialism in its most daiigerous form that is now about
to be attempted if the public will only find the funds.

Give any man a small certainty and he will in nine
hundred and ninety cases out of a thousand drift on
without ambition. " The poor we have always with us,"
and too much cannot be done to raise the unfortunates from
a low level ; but do not let the power to do so remain in
one body, which, working honestly now, may in the

future have other aims than finding food for one's body
and salvation for his soul.

The Roman Church was not autocratic at its birth, but
with increasing power it became so. We haveonly to
read the history of the Middle Ages to understand what it
did and what it attempted to do. Man is but man in
whatever age he moves. Booth the First, we will grant.
IS a self-denying, conscientious man, but he cannot hand
down these qualities to his successors. Ambition of the
worldly sort will sooner or later step in, and a trammelled
people, bound down by iron laws temporal and spiritual,
will then look back upon the past and ask themselves
what manner of men we were to allow the tentacles of a
One Man Power to lay hold of all things

Let the "General" stick to his first idea-teaching
men sobriety and the need of purity ; but when he enters
into the arena of Socialism and coolly asks for millions
wherewith to work out his aims, it is time for all men to
pause and think. Darkest England is dark enough now.
but It may become darker by-and-bye.

The times were changing for the better before the
A-rmy reared its head of " Blood and Fire." The regene
ration of man cannot be effected in a day. Hysteria is an
ephemeral thing. The blowing of brass instruments pleases
the ears of the multitnides. unifo.ms charm the eyes of the
masses, but when we see behind all this there is a spread-
ing afo./«/, power it is time for those who have higher
ways and thoughts to take the field in self-defence.

There is no time to be lost. The work of Charity-
true Charity, that will be a lasting benefit to the poor
without being injurious to the general community-can
and must, go on, but it ought not to be in one man's hands
If the day should come-and as things are it seems to
l>e fast approaching, when all the hopes of the needy are
placed on one ^.«;r*-then that source will be the rulinc
power of the country. You may, at first, smile at this
idea, but less probable suggestions have been laughed at.
! derided, and in th,i end come true.