Archbishop of Canterbury for investing "his modest fiver in the Booth Bank." The prophecy in which he indulged in that year in an article headed, "Bootheration to 'Em," is worth quoting. _Punch_ regretted the conversion of the Grecian Theatre--"a place of generally harmless recreation for the East End"--into a temple of Salvationism:-- Yet we feel certain that the Army, once possessed of a great permanent meeting-place, will speedily convert it into some sort of Conventicle, the excitement of "drums and excursions" will gradually cease, conservatism will increase, Respectability and recognition by Respectability will be the object of the majority, reformers will arise and "camp out," regiments will desert, and some twenty new Sects will be added to the list of the country which possesses "any number of religions and only one sauce." Part of the prophecy has been fulfilled; the concluding part, in which the wish was father to the thought, has been falsified. For _Punch_ in these days only saw hysteria and vulgarity in what he considered an unhealthy mania. He seized on the repellent features of the crusade, e.g. the song, "On Board of the 'Allelujah," issued by "Admiral Tug" of the Salvation Navy--and overlooked the sincere and devoted efforts at social reclamation which underlay these exuberances. Mr. Justice Field's decision in June, 1882, allowing Salvationists to hold processions and parades was deplored as likely to encourage all the strange sects enumerated in _Whitaker's Almanack_--Jumpers, Shakers, Mormons and Recreative Religionists--to go and do likewise. The verses printed in November, 1883, are a bitter and violent tirade against the movement in general and the Booth family in particular, with offensive references to "dear Catherine ... blushing so feminine" who had been arrested by a Swiss magistrate:-- All the world knows we're so blessedly 'umble-- (How like the Master we follow so well!)-- That for a Booth there's no chance of a tumble, Though e'en the Temple of Solomon fell. [Sidenote: _Hostility to General Booth_] "Atlas" of the _World_ denounced the "Salvation Army nuisance" in the autumn of 1884. It had spoilt a season at Worthing and might do so at Brighton. _Punch_, welcoming the pious Mr. Edmund Yates as an ally, proposed as a remedy the prohibition of _all_ processions, excepting only those of State requirements, as a relic of barbarism and an anachronism:--