The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-31

There nre any reserved in tho meeting
houses, they are for tho drunkards.
Tho Salvation army thinks that q ro-
formed drunkad talks better to drunk
ards, than the man who has not had tho
d%runkard's experience; n who has
been In prison aud has become convert.
cd, talks in n way more easily under.
stood by other criminals, than docs the
maj who Is FREQ from crime.
Tho methods adopted by tho army, OF
beating drums and tambourincs, and
singing songs on the streets, were best
adapted TO the work tho army was try
ing to do, Mrs. Booth asserted; the
very fact that these methods bore very
little aspect Of religion caused many OF
the people tho army was seeking to
come TO the meetings; when once there,
tho soldiers OF tho army would try to
hold them. They had learned to be in
dependent OF public opinion, and there
in lay their power.
Tho measures objected TO not have
boon rushed into in n haphazard way.
Tho army is regularly organized, and
all its divisions do not do rs they
please, but according to q certain plan.
At headquarters n record is kept Of
what is going on in 500 different cities,
II Is known how many soldiers there
are, how many have protested CONVEX
sion, how many have boon stricken of.
Mrs. Booth was particular in wanting
her hearers 10 understand, that the
Salvation Army was not seeking to
INTERVENE WITH OTHER CHURCHES,
but was trying to do what these failed
to do. She said that tho arlny's march
ing Wa objected to, but she failed to
see why the Odd Fellows, for instance,
could march with banners and music,
and the Salvation Army not. The drum
was ut one time used by the Pilgrim
fathers, when they had no bells, and
sho thought the army was only follow
Ing illustrious example. She denied
Indignantly the charges going through
the newspapers that blasphemous words
were sung in the Salvation Army tunes,
or that the name OF Jesus Christ was
used with blasphemy. She character
lied the story as Il lie forged against the
salvationists by those who knew it to
DO 4 lie when they uttered it. The
songs. wore simple, she admitted. but
they had sung their way into many n
poor heart that had never been touched
by prayer OF preaching.
The uniform thatso many objected to,
Mrs. Booth farther explained, WINS worn
for q purpose. Wherever a soldier of
the Salvation is, people know him by
his uniform, Her uniform enabled her
to cross the city OF New York at any
time OF the night, without molcstation.
III she went into n saloon without her
uniform, in ordinary dress. she would
be exposed to all manner OF insults,
whereas her uniform protected her.
Then again, n reformed drunkard might
be tempted to 20 into a saloon for q
drink, but would scarcely dare to do SO
while in uniform.
The risks that the Army girls run are
not SO great IS supposed; they 20 into
saloons and dens OF iniQutty, because,
WHERE VIC Is TnIcKEsr,
their purity and virtue is needed most.
Strangers from other tiles have been
thrown out OF the saloons vi New York
for insulting 4 Salvation sister. "No
Salvation Army girl" Mrs. Booth said,
"ever came to harm by going into
saloons"
Mrs. Booth will speak this evening at
the First Presbyterian church, and her
subject will be "Thc Sums OF New
York" She has had the opportunity to
observe much OF this dark side OF
American lie, and her talk will be re-
plete with interest.