Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1880-02-26

The Salvation Army" queer rs it is in
it's makeup and methods, is now recog-
nized In England as an evangelical agency
of considerable power. It's leader is
named Booth. He has been rs work for
fourteen years, although in comparatively
Obscure way until two or three years
ago. He is tall, dark, spare and angular,
with shaggy and gristly beard, piercing
little eyes and enormous Roman nose. He
Is nervous, earnest and bold. He has
none of the gifts or graces of the style of
oratory which is admired in refined cir
cles; but is a powerful speaker in his
rough way when he has an audience of
working people in sympathy with him.
His followers are managed in military
fashion. There are one hundred and
twenty-five corps, with station for each,
and one hundred and eighty officers. They
endeavor to preach the Christianity of the
Bible, and to be In harmony with all Cos
pei Christians, while they make no or
ganic union with any. Booth respects
all sects. He issues his orders to his
officers, and expects implicit obedience,
which he generally gets. His book of or
ders and regulations is volume of more
than one undred pages, going into detail
rs to everything the officers and members
Of the Salvation Army are expected to do.
The "Hallelujah Lasses" are considered
fully the equal of any of the male forces
in efficiency. Among the factory people
aud golfers in the coal mining districts
the labors Of the 'Army" have been most
successfully put forth. An official ga
zette called the Var Cry is issued more OF
less regularly. 1t bristles with martial
expressions, and is full Of the notion OF
marching on the devil and annihilating his
forces. With all that is queer and odd in
Booth and his co-wOrkers, he seems to be
honest in regard to the conversion Of the
poor, for whose good he labors.
It will be remembered that the repOr-
ter Ofa Chicago newspaper recently OBJ
tained from leading clergymen there al
answer to the question: "What must |
do to be saved?" Canon Knowles, of the
Episcopal Church, emphasizes baptism as
an essential condition of salvation. Pro.
fessor Patton gave as his answer "Be.
lief in Christ as a Divine Savior and Sac.
rifice." DR.. Thomas (Methodist EpiSco.
pal), whom the Interior declares to he q
law unto himself, summed up his remarks
with "The condition of salvation is the
turning away fIom evil and the turning
toward good" DR.. Noble (COngrega
tionlist) believed faith, regeneration ant
good works to be essential DR.. Ryder
(Universalist) said Salvation is deli.
yerence from the sins and limitations o.
this life, and union with the spiritual
perfection of God" Professor Swings
views arc expressed in the words, 'Obey
God faithfully and thou shalt find eterna
life" The Christian Instructor, organ o.
the United Presbyterian Church, charac
terizes DIR. Thomas's utterances on this
subject as "strange teaching" and says
that in his stress on sincerity he ''pre
sents broader charity than Christ ever
taught" But the greatest difficulty of the
Christian Instructor is DIR. Thomas's dec
laration that ''it is faith in some system
involving the Trinity, and penal substi
tutional atonement and imputed righteous
ness" 1t afflrms that such talk is fit only
for "a Deist or Unitarian, and calls on the
Methodists "whO certify to the purity o
DIR. ThOmas's doctrine TO rise and ex