National Republican., 1883-05-25
SALVATION LITERATuRE.

New York correspondent OF the Troy
Times has fallen upon copy Of The War Cry,
the official organ of the Salvation army. This
weekly paper is sold by the members OF the
Salvation army in their peregrinations
throughout the country. IL contains series
of reports from the cities where branches OF
the army are located. These reports are made
weekly, and are published in full.
On the first page are tho following stanza |
in a poem entitled, "The Salvation Army, |
or How We Fight"
The army always conquers,
No matter in what land:
King Jesus Is their captain,
Oh come and Join the band.
There's Noses Noah. and Abraham.
And all the prophets too,
Our friends in Christ are on before,
Oil what heavenly crew.
The beauty Of the verse is apparent.
Further along there occurs the following
in a communication from the First New
York corps--the Invincibles :"
lie fell to the ground with n crash, and his skull
was fractured He was unconscious rom that
moment until he died. His daughter lCapt; Glo-
ver) knelt by his side he lay there and suffered,
but the only cry she could utter through her
broken heart was that God might restore him 70
qI hs Sc, ssSea BS he Ss
twixt time and eternity
And in the same communication, express
sive Of the expedition with which souls can
be saved" occurs these remarks:
One night we noticed one father and mother
bringing their whole family TO the mercy seat 10
be saved. They began to scream out one after
the other until the people seemed thunder struck.
S were fhd S hpH9 On
on the double quick. Sunday wound up with
Ave or six at the mercy scat, seemingly good cases.
In the report of tho 9Th New York corps
comes this complaint:
AT night the devil was Just as noisy as he could
be in the house Of God. He tried To- upset US by
making some of his agents mako sillys Of them.
selves. The devil is q cripple, he cannot do
thing straight forward, but got some OF the poor
soldiers OF hs to squeak out behind the posts or to
cover up their mouth with Var Cryor book, and
then he set them to call out names I'll one got into
the policeman's hands, one got nights lodging,
and after that he thought he would spoil our
prayer meeting
Next comes the following:
TRENTON, FOURTH N. j., FORT yIcToRy.-This
have ever seen. The devil has ragged In earnest
and we have foughtin earnest. Last Sunday while
| the old fellow was spreading damnation in the
| form of q circus we were out with our War Cry
spreading salvation We marched 10 the circus
grounds and held three open-air meetings; and
| while we were singing 1--WE are bound for the land
| OF the pure and the holy" the manager came TO
us and told US we must get off the grounds, but we
kept right on singing, and God was with us and
fight more in the future. Capt Collier was with
| us Saturday night and all day Sunday, and we
| had grand smash.
Another half column Of so.called poetry is
entitled, ave Are Marching On" and beneath
the title are the words, "Tune-Mulligan
Guards"
This from Baltimore, 1st Maryland pioneers:
On Saturday night while detachment of our
| Var Cry brigade were out bombarding The market,
four ofthe enemy were shot down aud brought 10
the feet of our King, at the penitent form.
From the 7th New York, Syracuse, comes
this delicate sllusion to the rite of baptism
AT II o'clock meeting God was with us, and al
in I'M the fountain. and so, their sins ali washed
away. Hallelujahi nHH0doY c'v br9@
In this paper baptism is rarely spoken OF
except as "two in the fountain" "tumbled
in the fountain" &c. One short article Il
headed Salvation Slugs." A communica
Harlem is signed "Irish Annie, Yanke,
Preston, the Hallelujah Devil Dodgers"
And fight in brooklyn against the use o
liquor is described as being held in a "Salva
tion Brewery"
From the 1st West Virginia, Wheeling
Fort Faithful, comes among other words
this:
there are lot in pickle, and we are believing TO
mighty smash.
From the 1st Canadian corps, Toronto
comes this:
Many proud hearts were smashed up and stub
born wills broken down, aud nine precious soul
came tumbling into the fountain.
! In the telegraphic column we are startle,
by this:
LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAM |! FROM THE FRONT.
SYRACUSE. N. r., April 90.--Glorious day; thou
sands In open air. Barracks packed hundred
turned away. Protected by police. sixtee
killed, many wounded. Victory Hallelplah
CAPT. HALL.
Next, this:
KISG's OWN, April 80, $50 War C,y-2d Ney
York firing away; grand day; grand smash
} seven in fountain; major leading attack at nigh
, HALsEY AND BROWN
And several other communications equal,
entertaining to-say quiet Christian lady o
fine sensibilities and of real respect and rev
erence for all that is holy in name or nature
, In a column Of brevities entitled Rock
ets," appear short warnings and admonition
to those as yet "unsaved," and suddenly tn
mon otony of appeal is broken by this irrele
, want statement:
A bogus army is in operation at Yonkers.
A bogus salvation won't do TO meet judgmen
with
From the first Ohio comes this appreciativ
estimate of Gods power:
But, glory to God, our King 1, too smart for him
He puts us up to have torchlight march aroun
the streets. You should have seen the devil, Ii
was never hurt worse in his life.
"The whole paper" says the correspondent
"is composed of this sort Of stuff, and copie
are sent broadcast throughout the land, will
{ the end in view of reclaiming the lost
What is its efiicacy2 What can be the effec
of such pernicious sentiments as make tn
, sacred name of religion of Christianity
word merely expressed of a vile conceit bori
in the brain of an uncaged fanaticP