A flame starting thin and blue at the corner of a sealed envelope, then spurting up yellow, crawling to the other corners, leaving a big curly cinder, transfixed the attention and curiosity of three high officials of the Salvation Army in a London barrister's office last week. The envelope was the one in which, last year, the late General William Bramwell Booth enclosed the name of the person whom he had chosen to succeed him as worldwide commander of the Army. None dared open the envelope for the dissension it might cause. Some think...
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