iming that it can do its work along
its own lines and get along without any alliance with the Society, and
the latter claiming that much economy would result if the Army would
unite its efforts along social lines with the Charity Organization
Society. The controversy cannot be discussed here, but it seems a pity
that some sort of union cannot be entered into in which both
organizations would be represented in a manner satisfactory to both. One
great difficulty, evidently, is the religious element in the social work
of the Army, which tends to prejudice the Charity Organization Society
in some degree against the Army, and tends to keep the Army aloof from
any organization considered secular. However, we find many leading
officers in both organizations with friendly feeling, and there is hope
that the time will come, when the controversy will be at an end.

Coming to the second objection, that the highly centralized military
form of government of the Army is likely to lead to disastrous
consequences, we think that, if continued, this form of government must
indeed lead to disaster. It is evident that this might happen in
different ways. In an organization held together by one man or by one
idea, disintegration would tend to take place in the one case by the
failure or death of the leader, and in the other case by the expansion
of the idea. The Army is held together by both the man and the idea, and
we need not turn away from its own history to get examples of this
disintegration in both ways. Take the first bond of union, the man of
striking, hypnotic personality. Since the very inception of the
movement, time after time, men who have gained influence in the Army,
have separated from its ranks and started a movement of their own of
more or less formidable dimensions. The instance most applicable here is
that of the division which took place a few years ago in the United
States. At that time the Army in this country had been very successful
under the leadership of one of General Booth's sons, Ballington Booth
and his wife, Maud, the latter especially being a most attractive and
talented personality and gifted, persuasive speaker. Mr. and Mrs.
Ballington Booth were flattered by attention from all sides, and by the
worship of the soldiers and officers under them. Orders came from
General William Booth, commanding them to give up their leadership in
the United States and take control of some other country. But they had
no ide