Religion: Death & Salvation

In peaceful Sunbury Court at Sunbury on the Thames, England, 63 uniformed officers of the Salvation Army High Council squatted in the meeting-room, listening with silent approval—a few with speechless scorn—to the impassioned oratory of the vice president of the Council, Lieutenant Commissioner William Haines. His glumly ascetic countenance became vitalized as he denounced one-man control of the Salvation Army, justifying his part and that of his colleagues in deposing Gen. Bramwell Booth, which they had done but two days before this meeting of the Council (TIME, Jan. 14 & 21)....

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