Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-25
MORE ABOUT SALVATION ARMY.

- AA1O v = DA AA V = = AOts \ Member, General Booth's Daugh- ter-in-Law, Addresses a Crowded Audience In United Church-Pur- pose of the Salvatio nists-Is Their
 Existence JusttRablea-What We Must Do to be Saved. I
 Mrs. Booth, 8 daughter-in-law of General Booth and a member of the Salvation army, addressed 8 crowded church in place of DI Munger at the United church last evening. The latter, however, gave an introduction calling the vigorous attention of the audi ence to the subject in hand, and then Mrs. Booth, fair young lady with a sweet voice, spoke as follows:
 t1 have seen so much in my short expe- rience of poverty and degradation, so much the need of Christianity People sometimes look at the Salvation army uni form and say, What is it, any waya' Well we are seekers; our work is to go out into the darkness and seek his jewels. You have to go down into the soil and pick up the precious metal from the dirt. The pearl does not float on the surface; it lies in the slush and slime at the, sea-bottom- Christ's eye looks differently from the eye of the world. God has made jewels as bright and beautiful and shining as those set and polished in the best of the worlds fashion. They are not very high up, but we believe that some day they will be jewels of his diadem, and that will be to us a crown. Men who have been before magistrates, sentenced and rearrested as soon as they have been let out, who have lived in jail, the offscouring of the people whom nothing else could touch, these have been taken hold of by the spirit of God and changed and transformed into good hus- bands, loved and we'll spoken of. am a salvationist of nine years standing and love my work better now than ever before. "Now in the Salvation army there are 10000 in this country who have sworn themselves to work. In churches the ministers do all the work and when he breaks down the congregation cannot take it up. But in the Salvation army he has to be a singer or player and keep the door from the rowdies breaking it, with much danger of breaking him-he must give up swearing and drinking and tobacco and wear the Salvation army uniform. I wish that for one week some of you could wear that uniform, and at the end of it l believe you would love it or at least re- spect it.
 ssIs the Salvation army doing enough to justify it's existence? If not it would long since have proved failure. We believe in leaving the ninety and nine and going after the one that is lost, or the ninety and nine in this case. We see and feel in our lieve that the reason there has been SC | many failures is because people have tried | to unravel the snarl themselves. We be- | lieve that the solution is not to sit and dis cuss, but to go out into the darkness and say T will do thy way Heart to heart feeling-that is the message to-day. We believe in going where sinners are to spread | the light. I was telling reporter the other | day, who I think was prejudiced against us, about our work in the saloons, how we | go in and raise our war cry. But you don't preach temperance sermons there,
 he said, 'and go alone and unprotected!
 An, yes, we are unprotected, humanly speaking, but we believe that around us is
 the everlasting arm and that Jesus Chris l is present, personal Savior. l myself have visited saloons in the Bowery an6
 Water street. I have stepped in among { dozen men and seen the tears we'll up il | their eyes. But there are some classei
 even the Salvation army failed to reach l There are many who come to the sound O. l the corpet because we are cranks, and gt
 away mentally and spiritually benefited But there is class beneath this, who liv,
 huddled together like rats, and never conn
 out in the light of day. My uniform i
 altogether too fashionable for them. It i
 this class who commit suicide-we try t,
 wake in their hearts the dormant flame O
 hope. We must wear the dress they wear
 though not dirt, but rags; and we fnt
 them very endurable. I have been ther
 for two years and know them better nov
 than then. I could tell you of storie
 you would not believe-and4 naturally
 for you would think me exaggerating
 How the little ones in the slums are mur
 dered-poisoned. How their fathers vii
 take the drink and pour it down thei
 throats and we find them in drunke
 ssVpos Of aeg %othig wbo had
 sleep with her baby in entrie
 and wash it in the highways. Only one
 only one of the stories might tell! If tn
 papers would only stop theorizing about i
 and make people feel that if they want t
 embrace the feet of Christ they must em
 brace the cross too! The life of the Chris
 tian must not be an easy one, but one c
 cross-bearing. And so I would say to-da
 that the love of the salvationists is tn
 real source of their success. For thoug I speak with the tongues of men and al l Sels auu uaVe Aob cHailGy i1 PiouCo1u LII
 nothing"
 Mrs. Booth said great deal more we
 worth recording, beside Q number of strih
 ing anecdotes which will be long remem
 bered by her hearers.
 Prohibition Club.
 At Adelphi hall, $50 Chapel street, te
 night, the Prohibition club will hold it l annual meeting to elect officers and hea
 reports.
 At Yale Law School.
 Mr. George M. Sharp of the Baltimo1
 bar has just finished his admirable cours