Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-13

llCCle DOyS anu SlTlS. w HOcVer Ille UluCeE
of the day calls on to pray or make talk'
is obedient to his commands: The music,
in harmony with the other features Of the
organization is marshal, in that it is accom-
panied with the drum and fife and such
other instruments as are used in the military
field bands. The hymns used have also a
marshal air. In the whole thing there is a
strange commingling of the sedate and SOL
emn with the stir and hustle Of a drill
camp.
The time at which the Salvation Army
makes the greatest display is the Sabbath
afternoon, when no services are in the other
churches. At some favorable point in the
city or town, the drum is beat, and in a
short time the company begins to form.
Soon the company, or battalion, or regl-,
ment, or corps, begins to march to the sound
of the drum and fife through the streets and
around the public squares. A crowd of fol-
lowers is soon attracted. After parading the
forces are marched to the soldiers quarters.
The exercises in the quarters consist in sing
ing, praying and the delivering of short adj
dresses. In addition to the above, the Off
Ger of the day sends out missionaries into
those regions of the city which are brim-full
of moral filth to conduct what l may call
and appropriately, religious services. These
missiOnarie are sometimes reclaimed drunk
ards, sometimes young boys who have
scarcely reached their teens, sometimes they
are ladies whose cheeks are wrinkled with
age and furrowed with care and grief, and
sometimes they are sweet faced little girls
who have not yet reached Womanhood.
These recruiting officers or street misslona-
ries select point where the ragged multi
tude are accustomed to assemble on the
Sabbath. On the side of the pavement, in
the middle of the street, or at apublic we'll
single person, the missionary begins to sing.
This attracts one after another and soon a
respectable company is collected, to whom
the missionary delivers short address and
having invited all to join him he kneels
down on the street and prays.
In all the exercises connected with the
services of the Salvation Army there is
much that is irregular and some things that
may will be set down as boisterous. But
in the operations of the Salvation Army
there is displayed an amount of prudence,
tact and perseverance which merits the
highest commendation. This is specially
true of those recruiting officers or street mis-
sionaries. In the regions of third class
grog shops or in the dark alleys lined with
Wretched novels inhabited by abandoned
human DelnSS, DedTuleSS DOyS dlIu oWeel-
faced little girls are pointing old and hard
ened and neglected sinners to the Lamb of
God which takes away the sin of the world.
The most touching appeal to sinners l ever
heard was made on the corner of st. Georges
Square in the City of Glasgow by little
boy of not more than twelve years old.
1 saw the big bright tears running down
the cheeks of what suppose were old topers,
and I saw running down the cheeks of men
who had worn themselves out in pleading
for Christs and more than this my own heart
was moved. I dare not approve OF the op-
peration of the Sdludtion A1ny as whole.
The organization has very little that re-
sembles the church of God as described in
the Scripture. Still there is something
about the ,Salration Arnay which I do ap-
prove of. AS an organization it is intense
ly in earnest in the great work Of human
salvation. The lifeless formality of all
branches of the Protestant Church and the
fact that those who dwell in the sinks of
pollution have been largely neglected by
the Church have called into existence the
iSolration Army. It is doing a work that the
Church has heretofore largely neglected.
That the Salvation Army is doing this
work in the proper way is not clear.