The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-12
AT WAR WITH SATAN.
DARLINGTON BOOTH OUTLINES HIS
ARIY PLASa

Booths , w Plan 10 he Tried liz :hs
United States-The Growth OF the
Army.
(CODVriGhil
NEW York, Dec. 6.-Gen. Booths great
scheme propounded in the volume "In
Darkest England and the Way OUT will
uuduestionably place the army before the
world in a new light The national head
quarters in New York has instructed
the divisional officers in several Of our
largest cities TO obtain facts and statistics
respecting those cities, for the purpose of
discovering how far the plan proposed for
Great Britain can be adopted in the United
States. 1t is expected. however, that
several weeks wall elapss before anything
definite will be- decided upon in this direc-
ton.
The Salvation Army is fact in the
United STATES. and there is little room for
doubt that it is destined to exercise an i'm
portant influence for good or evil upon q
large Tart of our population.
Ii is nine years since the frat officers
landed here, and the work that we SEQ to-day
has been achieved principally during the last
six wears, and in the teeth CT many anG great
the army holds the fort in AS corps and out
posts. aud 1, 125 officers are lsboring exclu-
siVely to promote the objects that the leaders
have in view. There are corps in New
York city, 6 in Brooklyn, in Jersey City,
2 in Philadelphia, l in Cincinnati, In De-
troit in Buffalo, 10 In Chicago, 4 in Kan
sas City, in Minneapolis, 2 in ST. Paul.
in Nashville and in San Francisco. Seattle,
Portland Ore, Salt Lake City, Helena,
Mont, Denver, ST. Louis, Des Moines, To-
peka and Austin. Tex, are among the more
prominent cities in which the army is estAb-
iished.
If it be inquired in what the work done
bv the army consists, the reply is the spread
Of the salvation of God among the masses
of the people. The army claims that the
cause of all the ills that afilict mankind is
sin. 1t says that God is both able and will
ing to deliver every human being from its
power as well as its guilt; also that this
salvation can be realized here on earth.
IL proclaims to all who are willing to
forsake sin complete rescue from
it, and, Of course, salvation from
the cause involves salvation from the effect.
When q drunkard gets converted, therefore,
his poverty and temporal wretchedness are
speedily things of the past, and the man
who was recently not only miserable in his
life himself but burden to his fellow
citizens, becomes q sober and contented
member of the community, a taxpayer,
and, usually, in addition to these, an earnest
and self-denying laborer for the good of
others.
Gases of this kind can be found at almost
any corps to which an inquirer may choose
to make his way. Wives and children bear
joyful testimony to the change in their lives
since the head of the household was at
tracted out of the saloon by the bass drum,
and, for the first time in years, perchance,
ray Of hope when he heard saved inebri-
ates say that what God had done for them,
he could and would do for anybody else
who would give up sin and accept
ignorant persons to ridicule the
uniform worn by salvationists, to find fault
with their musical efforts, and TO sheer ut
them because, like the early apostles, they
may be unlearned and Ignorant men so far
as the wisdom and knowledge of this world
go. Bat the army can afford TO regard this
treatment with Indifference while the Wis
ible ana tangible results are to he found in
such abundance in all parts of the world.
No outcast is SO low, no human beng so
degraded, as to be beyond the sympathy
and effort OF the Salvation Army. Yet are
they not fools in dealing with those who
seek their aid? A person who thought he
could, by working on their feelings, obtain
living out Of them. would find out that a
very important article of the army's relig-
ious belief IS that if man will not work he
has no right to eat
The ways in which the army places its
message before those with whom it has to
deal are endless, but they are all Of them
eminently successful The proof Of this is
to be found in the army's success
in every country it occupies It's
ranks are recruited from French atheists
and German freethinkers; Belgian an
,baxr or,li NJ
under the same .c0lor5 as Australians,
Zulus, Scandinavians and Canadians- All
ranks and conditions of men and women
are enrolled as its officers, from those who
have had university advantages and high
social position to those who have been, in
army parlance, picked up out of the
gutter" Furthermore, all thesa people do
all their work without earthly reward.
There is not one who has any salary gueran-
teed, nor is there one who receives sufficient
remuneration to enable him or her to make
any provision for the future. Yet the num-
ber of these officers daily increase at an as
Ionishing rate.
Ihelatest official figures give the number
Of corps and outposts for the whole world
as3,795; offered by {, 475 persons wholly en-
gagged III the work. In different parGs of
the world there are thirty three rescue
MONIES for fallen women, thirty-three slum-
army publishes, in fifteen languages,
twenty-seven weekly and fifteen monthly
journals, having circulation per annum
OF 81, 100000 copies.
Inc number Of countries and colonies
occupied is thirty-four. and the number of
languages spoken by the officers is twenty
nine he number of weekday religious
meetings per week is 49, 500
IN The United States the army has 445
corps aud outposts. and already l, 125 COM
nlandlng officers. There are rescue homes
" Grand Rapids and San Francisco; train
ing garrisons in New York, Brooklyn, Bos-
9n, Cleveland, Englewood, Des Moines,
Gna9a, San Francisco and Oakland. The
gGrculations of the New York and San
francisco Var Crfs amount to over 10000
copies weekly.
CHlcago is the city where the army has
fae greatest number Of corps, although
D.ooklyn and Boston are probably good
ttconds. The paucity of large buildings,
iine nigh rentals, the lack of open air privi-
a,sS and other circumstances beyond the
;%niys control, have proved great obstacles
Ia' nole large centers. But the army be-
nr ives IN no retreat, and continues plodding
IN M ~ ITS characteristic way, and in the
i tear future will, doubtless, much improve
30 ~ PoSl6on in the cities
me national headquarters are at Ill
ingTaue street, New York city Here the
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