, 1880-02-22
With officers who failed during the French
YQlutiOn=thnN f,tlillnfinnd than

Something being said about female officers,
asked if Women were allowed to hold rank
in the army. Oh, yes" replied the GEN
eral, g they make the best officers. If a town
a man. The mere announcement that
Woman was coming was sure to draw atten-
tion, and that was half the battle" The ma
]or1ty OF his $50 officers were women. He di-
rected my attention to clause in the "or-
ders and Regulations for the Salvation
Army'-a. book, by the way, Of some 120
pages-which runs as follows:
As the army refuses to make any difference
between men and women as to rank, authority,
women as well rs to men, the words :" woman"
Sge adys %ysa IN 91asr 1Saz
stood mean person e of either sex Unless uness
when it Is evidently impossible.
The half dozen concluding words" unless
when it is evidently impossible ,'-struck me
as, being exceedingly quaint His .":Hal1e-
er' and lie could Hardly DO With6nt them. benz
They. drew the people: He did not like the
term at first; it was given to them by some
one one 6 connected n with the movement He OBJ
d 50 t. he It i en- e9 S6ar bnset be it eok
draw SOULS, and so long as they did that the
means did not matter, SO long as there was
nothing. wrong. These lasses, when they
Joined the army, threw away every vanity
The movement depended d great deal on
singing, and so they could not do without the
female element, with their telling voices:
:. I must not omit to say a few words about
the songs sung by Salvationists. Mr.; Booth
is evidently of opinion that the devil ought
not to have all the stirring tunes, and so he
adapts appropriate words to any popular tune
that is likely to take the common ear. Hear his
reasoning on the subject: "Will the angels,'
and perchance the dawnings of repentance IN
the poor wanderers heart, be any less pleased
if the repetition Of those great words was
occasioncd BY the use of the tune Of Aud
Lang Syne'? Should we be thought irrey-
erent if we ventured to doubt, whether angels
thoughts to notice whether the tune be the
Old Hundred Ring the Bell, Wntchman,'
or Wait for the Wagon supposing them to
@d te + no S pftMee1 me
attempt to determine the proportion of demi-
semiquavers to nlinlms in the songs Of the
better land? (They are always called
tsongs.o But without troubling the angels,
if they could see and hear the happy people
who used to be SO dark and wretched not
long since, would cavil at their joy because
it is expressed in the lnerriest Of melodies"
I quote this from Mr.. Booths Is Heather Ell
giand,'' work which tells of his labors in
the cause since the commencement. Many
Of the salvation songs, however, are Moody
and Sankey's, with fresh words. So for
"Shall We Gather at the River?" we have:
Shall We rally round the banner
For our Savior and our God?
AS to organization, Mr.. Booth said their
system was by no means perfect; it was be-
ing gradually worked out, Each corps had
its Captain, and each country. would have its
General. SO tnat taeIe Wouid haxe ;ta 10 pG a
we4e reg9aTy enroiled and their ma names and
addresses taken down. They were then never
lost sight Of. If they fell sick they we're vis-
lted; II tney neeaeu aSslstsInce ~ MAs gNT4
them; put very little c1a1lty was glVen:: II
in which al looked a1ter an1 iook care ot
one another. Ihey were dr1ueo TO 1orget
themselves IN tne general "orh- ~ gats 10
the support OF me cause, ana conLli9ulQns
services at the annual rate Of over Ell o1; n
addition 10 th1s large sums @ Wefg Ited Iecelted
from persons Of means VINO were 1nterested
II the cause. Inc statement OF accounts lof of
tne past @ year snoweo mmy ~ uothtlon ~ ,laed "
OF the cause otlll, 1ne statement t 4 says tnaS
"Were 1t not LOT me oHerlngs OF tne poor
the movement could not go on IL was won
derful, sad me general, now me poor PEG.
pie, when they Joined the ranks, gave up
drinking and smoking along with their swear,
ing and other pad haolts. becoming teetolai
and forsWearlng tobacco was not compulsory @
but they hau teMpela4ee pieu9e ~ GtitneG y te's
e6oicsl e5o3 wl'n Inc army anu nan, '0'A Al0'A
mot only" SAD fne General, n Ieply 10 ad
question, !" had the LORD enabled them TO ada
upward OF tltty more d1stTlcts TO InqsG Pr
vlousiy occupiea' put nio gset ~ sa1,n,e7
districts in various parts OF the country hao
been accomplished haa maue am ii.,a au'a1lce ~ u
something more than the mere addltlon Of M so
many units to the previous total: vaney 111 aite5
ya1e{ ~ 29It hat @ tie cbaTacter @ Of the
whole population had been changcd; the