The Salvation Army.—Recently we called attention to a cheap reprint of the Salvation Army and the Public. It is a most damaging exposure of the financial methods of the so-called Salvation Army. The book throws sidelights on the doctrinal position of this great organisation. It is thoroughly Armenian in its teaching. The Wesleyan doctrine of perfectionism is taught as also the possibility of “those who have been truly converted to fall away and be eternally lost.” The persistent begging methods of the Army sometimes make people to give a mite who have not a grain of sympathy with their doctrinal position. To all those who are afflicted with this false charity the above book should prove a useful and timely antidote. The book is published by George Routledge & Sons: price sixpence.
Millennial Dawn.—This is an importation from America. Its advocates have a zeal that would put the Pharisees to blush in their proselytizing efforts, and the result is alike in both cases. One of the worst features of this wicked system is that it trades with the recognised terms of evangelical theology and under guise of the “Old Theology” plays on the credulity of the unwary. It is not easy in a narrow compass to specify its leading doctrines, but a few of these may be mentioned as given by a writer dealing with the subject in the Vanguard. The doctrine of the Trinity is not only denied, but ridiculed; Christ’s essential deity and dual nature are denied; the personality of the Holy Spirit is denied; it teaches the doctrines of the larger hope and the complete annihilation of the incorrigibly wicked. Such is the “Old Theology” of the Millennial Dawn publications.