Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06

to bring the aged general to this country
in view of all the circumstances of the
case
Commander Booth is accompanied by
Major Addie McFadden, of Chicago, whom
he will install at Topeka tonight as com
nander of the Missouri and Kansas battal-
ion; and Captain f. c. Grass, assistant
secretary and staff artist on the official
organ of the Volunteers.
Though the First Congregational church
was nearly filled with an appreciative au-
dieTce, there were comparatively few Vol
mtoers themselves in attendance. A short
devotional meeting was held. conducted
by the officers of the local post and then
Commander Booth was introduced The
audience beheld a tall and arrowy man
in the prime of life, with a keen and strik-
ing countenance. He was dressed in the
blue uniform of the American Volunteers.
He began his address with an extended
history of the rise and growth of the
Salvation Army in this country during the
eleven years of his stay.
Commander Booth related at length the
events connected with his removal by his
father. General Booth, head of the Saliva
ton Army of the world.
Mrs. Booth and himself, he said. were
ordered to give up their command, not
withstanding General Booth had said he
would give six months notice of transfer
and would consult with them as to their
successors and the methods of governing
the army after they left. He referred to
the complaints as TO the Americanizing of
the Salvation Army. Mrs. Booth and he
were American citizens. by adoption and
by affection; they saw that to accept an
other command would simply keep up the
unpleasant friction which had gone on for
months. They believed to succeed there
must be an American army and not one
governed by foreign officers and imprcg-
mated with foreign ideas. They saw the
operation of the three great Civilizing in
strumentalities-the press, steam and
Christianity. They saw that the press had
made this great country one vast audi
torium. where what was done in the farth
est East was known in a few hours in the
remotcst West: they saw that steam had
lessened the distance between the great
centcrs of population and civilization. They
saw that Christianity had bound into one
great brotherhood all the cosmopolitan
peoples OF the republic. They believed that
any country which had made such enor-
nous StriGcS as these was capable of train
ing up its own missionaries. without send
ing to London for them; the people of this
country We're able TO manage their own af
fairs.
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con,iI.ced maj the .r,ny sbould he removed
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