Excerpt from The Salvation Army and the Public: A Religious, Social, and Financial Study This work does not question the right of a religious body to mortgage or pledge its property for religious purposes provided it is its own members who pay the interest on its loans. It does question the right of the Salvation Army, whose members do not and cannot pay such interest, to turn the property given to it by the public into a gigantic investment busi ness, necefiitating a payment - mainly at the public expense - oi over a year in interest for the satisfaction of the Army's shareholders in Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.