The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-27

through the streets ana trN-IO IRA
a crowd to hear street or hall preacl
ing and singing. They hold meetings
very much like old-fashioned revivs
meetings, in the open air, in hall:
houses, barns, or wherever they car
Their object is to reach the masses
and they adopt the means they con
slider best adapted to that end. Tn
soldiers wear distinctive uniform o
badge, which is often great cross t.
them, but which, they claim, aids then
very much in more than one way.
tends to keep the soldiers steady il
their,sprofession. 1t draws attention
and is often the means of leading PEG
pie to ask for information and direc
ton. 1t helps the esprit du corps
binds the soldiers more closely to
gether in comradeship.
Salvation army soldiers do not drink
nor use any narcotics or stimulants
Their aim, as it is set forth in theii
publications and speeches, is to lead
holy lives. They are perfectionists,
and SO far as can be gathered from
their utterances their doctrine, though
not formulated. does not differ much
from the orthodox faith as held by the
leading Protestant churches.
The growth of the work on their
hands has compelled the leaders to
organize various auxiliary societies
and institutions. A ''Rescue home"
cares for fallen women. A discharg-
ed prisoners home, an orphanage,
and, perhaps most important of all, a
training home, are carried on under
army supervision. At the training
home cadets are received and instruct
ed, by precept and practice, until they
are considered competent for promo
ton. All officers must 90 through
this preliminary training.
1t will have been noticed, in the list
of corps in different parts of the world,
that the results are greatest in Eng.
land and English colonies. In addi-
ton to the figures already given as in
of the army's growth it may
be mentioned that the cornerstone of
a large and handsome barracks, was
laid last year at Melbourne, Australia,
by the chief secretary of the colony of
Victoria, Mr.. Graham Berry: that the
work of the army in Australia has re-
ceived the hearty approval of such
men as Sir Henry Parkes that during
The year grand celebration in the
Melbourne exhibition building was at
tended by ten thousand people, and a
great congress in New Zealand called
,ogether six thousand more. In Can
ida, the Salvation headquarters at
Toronto is one of the show buildings
he city. In Stockholm, Sweden, a
containing two halls, one of
which seats 1900 and the other 5, 900
people, was erected by Swedish gen.
leman and given to the army outright
So much for the material prosperity
# the army. AS to its spiritual work,
'erhaps no better description can be
.iven than that of one who has closely |
the work in England:
Might after night l saw in that lit
le hall the people who avowedly
ever go to any church or chapel, and
alking with some of the most ruffianly
l the after-meeting, found that they
anne at first for a row or lark
nd came again because that fellow
alked sense or because they liked
ne singing. saw some. of them in
he first meetings dirty and ragged and
oisy, and in the last ones with clean
ices and hands, mended coats, and
uiet, orderly behavior. The Saliva
on army does civilize these men a
tile in cases where it fails to convert
lem. In the open-air meetings, | saw
atternly evil-looking women with
are arms and heads, and heard vile
aths from their lips mingle with the
y of babes in their arms. Poor soulsl
hey hated the little ring of singers
,cause they could look happy IN their
,tter life, and cursed them out of the
,pth of a misery such as | had never I
oked upon before. i saw embodied s
ere all the evil and vice of which / :
I'd ever heard. l learned how hate
Id malice can express itself in look,
ord, and deed. l understood how
tolerant shame and wickedness are
any manifestations of goodness, and P
th it all l learned slowly the secret
the salvation look 1t meant a
arity; and it could only come from !,
entire surrender of the soul to the y
rvice of God In saving other souls. .
understood now that the unconscious =
luence of a moral life, and the look .,
: after ones own soul in the seclu- q
N of a refined circle of cultivated :,
is but a very small part of n
9 service of God. l heard and saw n
: myself that these dull and brutal q,
asses would not come in to hear
, gospel, except as we went where W
~ were, in streets, alleys, attics, or la
Bishops, and compelled them, by the p,
ce of an overmastering love for a
'ir perishing souls; and saw the di
walton army do this, and not occa- m
nally during a revival season or in
ssion period, but every day in the tn
ok, and al. day long on Sunday" ce
Whenever the Salvation army, or nc
7 other organization, works like ne
t there is place for them in this -
Intry. especially in our large cities. sa
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