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A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o f His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t June 4, 1870.
V o l . 77. No. 2644. L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 10, 1891.
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[R eg is t e r ed a t th e G en e r a l Post Offic e a s a N ew spaper.
•C hronicle of th e Week :
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Commissioner Smith and General Booth—Anglicanism and the Salvation Army — The Pope as Mediator. — The Behring Sea Fisheries—The Scottish Railway Strike—Death of Mr. Kinglake— Death of Mr. Charles Keene— The Tanganyika Mission—The Newfoundland Fisheries — The National Indian Congress—Elections to the F rench Senate—Catastrophe at Leeds—The Vacancy at Hartlepool—Sir Wilfrid Lawson on the Situation—The Irish Distress Fund — The Post Office Troubles—The Deputation to Mr. Raikes .......................................4 1 L ead ers :
The Position of the French Catho
lics .......................... # - •• 45 General Booth as a Financier . . 46
CONTENTS.
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L ead ers (Continued) :
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A Prussian Problem in Education 47 The Guelph Exhibition . . . . 48 A Land of Difficulties . . . . 48 A Pilgrimage of Youth to Rome.. 49
N o t e s .......................................................5°
R ev iew s :
The Book of Ecclesiastes . . 51 Grandfather and Grandson . . 5? The Magazines . . . ■ • • 52 Tom in a Tangle, and other Tales 54 The Seven Golden Keys .. .. 54 Reggie Abbott : or, The Adven
tures of a Swedish Officer . . 54 An Anglican Dean among Carthu
sians j . . . . • • • •
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Correspondence (Continued) :
Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . ...........................58 L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :
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Distress in Ireland.. . . . . 61 Cardinal Newman’s Memorial . . 61 ~ The Wine of the Condemned . . 61
Blue Vestments . . . . . . 6t The Worcester Catholic Chaplaincy 61 The Pope and the Holy Family . . 62 Aspects o f Anglicanism . . . . 62 The Peace Society and the Cardinal
Archbishop . . . . .. . . 64 The Traducers of Father Damien.. 65
Correspondence :
Rome (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . •• .*57 The Bollandists and their Work .. 65 Interesting to Hunting Men . . 66
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S ocial and Po l it ic a l . y ..67 A ppeal to th e C h a r it a b l e . . 67 F rom E v e r yw h e r e ............................ 67 Obitu a r y ..........................................68
SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from th e S chools :
A Debate on Technical Education 73 About E d u c a t io n .......................... 73 N ews from th e D io ceses :
Southwark . . . . . . . . . 7 5 baltord . . . . . . • • 75 Shrewsbury .. .. . . . . 76 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 76 The Colour Question in America . . 76 Catholics and General Booth . . 77 Cardinal Gibbons and the Jews . . 78
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
AND GENERAL BOOTH. T
COMMISSIONER SMITH
H E deep difference which divides the two sections of those who, in the name of General Booth, have put forward the great scheme for dealing with the poverty of the country which has commanded so much support from people of all classes and creeds, is very clearly laid bare by the letter in which Mr. Frank Smith gives his reasons for his resignation. The difference is that between men who care primarily for men’s souls and those who are concerned chiefly for their bodies. General Booth ¡himself stands for the first class, and Mr. Smith for the ■ second. General Booth clearly regards the peculiar methods •of the Salvation Army as the essence of his scheme of social regeneration ; while Mr. Smith, while quite willing to use the great organisation of the Army, in his inmost heart seems to look upon all the “ soul-saving ” apparatus as something of a hindrance. He is convinced of the impracticability of other Salvation Army departments dealing with social affairs. He says, in a letter to The Tim es, that with the clamouring of starving and destitute crowds in his ears, ihe felt it was nothing short of criminality to let the working o f the social scheme be handicapped by allowing it to be merged in the other departments of the Salvation Army.
I f that is permitted, he says, the scheme, which promised to be a glorious effort for the temporal as well as spiritual salvation of the people, will become a mere sectarian agency, doing duty in the interests of the Salvation Armyinsteadof the Salvation Army using its influence and organisation in the interest of the destitute classes. He declares that he has no wish to ignore the Army, but insists that there is a difference between running side by side with it and being swallowed up by it. Coming to details, he urges that moneys subscribed for the social scheme ought to be kept apart from “ the general fund ” of the Army, and that there should be a separate property department, because it is part of the function of the property department of the Salvation Army to finance at a profit for the benefit of the general fund. It is not right, he contends, that the social scheme should be assisting to finance the Salvation Army. But Mr. Bramwell Booth has declared that a separate finance is impossi
General Booth indeed says that the finances of the social reform wing “ will be rigidly kept apart ” and “ lodged in a separate account in the City Bank.” Mr. Smith treats this pledge as wholly insufficient, and says the separation of the funds can be made effective only by having a separate finance department in a separate building with distinct functions, not merely to receive subscriptions for the social work but to keep all records of its expenditure, “ under the direction of the General, of course.” Finally, Mr. Smith maintains, as a further reason for his resignation, that up till the present the social reform wing has been starved. In proof of this he points to the fact that in several instances they could not get enough money to pay their ordinary accounts, and in several instances were actually summoned for the local rates.
ANGLICANISM
AND THE SALVATION ARMY.
To suppose that General Booth wouid now go back upon all his past, and sacrifice that “ one man power,” which, whether it is liked or not, has enabled him to play that considerable part in the world which he has done, was surely a curious illusion ; but it is one which was shared by a considerable number of estimable people of whom a typical representative is the Rev. H. Webb-Peploe. This gentleman was under the impression not only that the General would associate others with him as trustees of the fund now being raised for social work, but also that that work would be divorced from the usual spiritual methods of the Army, and that revivalism would be sacrificed in the name of religious liberty. Mr. Webb-Peploe, after persevering attempts to get what he could consider satisfactory assurances, has received a categorical answer, and an answer, which, though from the very nature of the case was inevitable from the first, has made him very unhappy. General Booth, after saying that he has carefully considered and also taken counsel with others as to whether anything could be done in the way of appointing co-trustees, answers definitely that he cannot depart “ from the stand I have taken for so many years.” As for the “ religious liberty” question, General Booth says, with much honourable and straightforward explicitness : “ I f this means that you think the work of physical and moral renovation should be carried forward without the introduction of salvation as a means to this end, all I can say is that this is an impossibility, and was never dreamed of.” He adds that the enormous preponderance of feeling and judgment on the part of his friends is that salvation is the most important part of the whole plan. Even Agnostics “ look upon the scheme as being impracticable without our ‘ ieligious enthusiasm,’ as they are pleased
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