The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-13
GEN. BOOTHS MANIFESTO.

1t Is Read TO Officers OF tho Salvation
Booth Claims That No Attention Was
Paid to Ills Messages.
New York, March 12.-The manifesto
cabled by General William Booth from
London to the officers and soldiers ot
the Salvation army in America is being
widely discussed today by the friends
Of BallingtOn Booth, as well as those
favorable to the Salvation army.
The manifesto was read to the officers
at Il meeting last night by Commissions
er Eva Booth, until she broke down at
q reference To her fathers love for his
son, and Commissioner Carleton con-
cuded the readinE. The manifesto in
full Is as follows.
Comrades;-l iini it impossible to de-
scribe the sense of sorrow with which |
am overwhelmed today. ON receiving do
tails of the great loss which has fallen
upon us in the action of my son, your late
commander, every high anticipation Of
my heart FOR him Tor nearly forty years
seems TO havr been swept away, and
every tender association of his life with
my own ana with his beloved mothers =
seems likely to be trampled under foot in
this hour of his sore temptation.
The melancholy course of action upon
which he has embarked has been taken
in the face of the eXpostulations of the
chief of staff, in spite of the aifectionas q
cntreaties of his brother and one sister.
and one of my most trusted officers, sent
expressly To New York to reason with
him, without any communication with me
OF any kind. ana in utter disregard of
three telegraphiC messages from myself
urging him to meet me in London on my
return from India, to which cables | have
not even received a reply.
But, though Sorely wounded by this
nlVt II,
In the strength of Cod, TO direct the gov
ernment of this army upon the principles
OF equal justice between man and man.
| have never permitted the close rela-
tionshpS of family love which have sub
sisted between me and my children to se-
cure for them any preference in the af-
fairs in the Kingdom of God over their
comrades who. though not blood relations,
have ever been dear to me for their
works sake. | will not do 80!
Your welcome to my daughter. Comms. d.
sioner Eva. in her Temporary command, ,
has much gratiiied me.
How every sensible man must recognize
that If ! had been willing TO retain the
loyalty of my son by sacrificing the prin- :
ciples of the army, | should at the same
moment have lost, and deservcdly so, the
confidence ana esteem of all honest hear =
ed men. as well as the approval of my own
conscience.
The suggestion that | had sought to
AnglciZe the army in the United States
y.
You. who have heard me plead the claims
of the lost world, know il is. You have
stood with me near the cross. and you
know that under the shadow OF that tree
j have pledged you to devote your lives
to no less purpose than that for which
your bleeding Victim died-the salvation
of every nation.
The Salvation Army is as much Ameri-
can as 1t is English. 1t is of the kindred
of the poor. and belong to every land.
Comrades, | rely upon you ! have done
so since the first mutterings of this storm
reached me in India. You have acted
just as ! should have expected YOU to acl
by your toll and self-sacrlicc and devo-
ton YOU made the army what it Is In
America, and you have not been willing
to stand by and see it destroyed
You will show no want of patience with
those who have fallen beneath an almost
unparalleled weight of temptation and
fiattery. You will pray for them without
ceasing. You will by daily faithfulness
compel even your most bitter critics TO see
that we are seeking only the good of all
men. You will allow no difficulty to check
your advance. You will not fail your
General. You will not fail your Lord. Let
us remember the millions without God
and devote ourselves anew to their salvl-
ton, and He will grant US our hearts
desire and fulfill all our counsel. Your
General, full of love for all.