Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-12
SALVATION SOLDIERS

SAL ' a IION SOLDlEhS
Archdeacon Farrar in late num-
Der Of Harper's Magazine says of the
Salvation Army: whether we ad-
mire or dispise it, whether we detest
or sympathize with it, the Salvation
Army represents one Of the most re-
markable religious movements of this
generation"
There is one unfortunate thing
about the methods OF the Salvation
Army and one that brings down upon
it more abuse than all else. In fact
it is the only excuse for berating that
aggregation. We refer to the in
judicious manner in which its parades
are made. The enthusiasm of the
Army together with that vanity that
fosters the desire to parade in nearly
all men, causes the Armyto go whoop-
ing, horn-blowing, tambourine rat
Ting, drum-beating and flag Haunting
| through the main thoroughfares OF
cities where there are nervous horses
hitched to vehicles containing ladies
and children, and these, with other
! frightened horses that dash other
vehicles against them have caused the
loss of life and limb to perhaps as
many people as belong to the entire
Salvation Army. Then we have known
them, hundreds of times, to go bowling
by a church on Sunday during services,
as if in very scorn Of their more
elevated brethren and sisters in the
army of the Lord.
If the army would cOntine its pa
rades to the slums where it pretends
to do its effective work and its preach
ing, singing and praying to the bar
racks, il would do more good and
would escape all abuse, besides ii
would be upheld and strengthened by
the assistance, encouragement and
good wishes of all Christian people.
ArchdeacOn Farrar, in the article
referred to above, continuing, com
pares the Salvation Army to those
early, ragged, wandering, much ma
igned preachers, whom the religion
Of that day denounced, yet who, in the
end shook the world to its very
foundation. He also shows that while
the Salvation Army leaders may be
guilty Of bad taste, their work GER
tainly has a closer affinity to that of
the early Christians than the comfort
able miserable sinners in cushioned
pews. The fact that in every large
, city there is a class which cannot be
induced to enter the churches, show:
how badly the world needs just such {
religious upheaval. Booths mode o
work is unique. AS fast as he make
o converts he sets them to making con
n verts in turn.
o In 1878 the new organization wa
q stirring in fifty English towns. !
took the name of Salvation Army.
, adopted the semi-miltary form whic
4 has given it unparalleled cohesion an
+, discipline. 1t put earnest wome
> side by side with men at the front {
the warfare" As result today ii
> work of the army is literally wor
~ wide. 1t has 2,S64 corps in thirty-tv
countries. 1t has nearly 10000 reg
~ lar officers and 1900 volunteer of
NJ GERS. 1t has thirty training school
a where cadets are taught the princip
90 Of its warfare. It's history is SUNNI
in up in Archdeacon Farrar's eloque
r.. statement that sit began in an Ea
ON End rookery, and in less than TWEEN
60 years it has gone from New Zealal
nj right round to San Francisco, al
bo from Cape Town TO Nordkoping.'
as has shelters, refugees, penitentiarit
N. food depots, sisterhoods and brothe
an hoods already established in the stun
,d 1t has elevated thousands Of degrad
nd lives. 1t has given hope and help
n. myriads Of hopeless and helpless OF
70 casts"