The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-27
discomfort. and shall probably, in the end.
have to chronicle q disastrous split

discomfort. and shall probably. in the end.
have to chronicle q disastrous split
BOOTH AND HIS ARMY.
General Booth remarked recently that
twenty-seven years ago there was only one
member of the Salvation Army. and that
one was himself. Since this remark his
enemies have been predicting that, before
long. bis own individual self. with y heavy
burden of debt about his neck. will be all
that Is left of his unique body. But this.
of course. is only the wild talk of fools.
Speaking generally, those who have trusted
the General with subscriptions are salts
fed with the use he has made OF
them. and still have faith that his new
departure in the social line will yield
gratifying results. For the most part
those who are coming d0wn upon him so
heavily In bis present embarrassments are
those who have honored him with their
disfavor from the first. and from ell your
correspondent can find out the public COM
mittee which has been sitting upon his
financial affairs was demanded, not at all
by those who wanted to find out where
their own money had gone. but by those
supremely %virtu0us souls who are always
so anxious, out of an overlooking public
spirit. to see what has become of other peo-
pies money.
That he is in debt, the General himself
" " Guy 4 uCCtS VcII uIkCutly
about S250. 600. He boldly says so, and be
confesses. moreover, that failing to get this
amount at an early day, some Of his grand
enterprises will be crippled. But this, he
assures us, will not affect the army in
its distinctly religious work. The shadow
OF embarrassment rests only upon his
numerous social schemes, and the ex-
PLANTATION he gives of the present crisis
Is that the magnl tude or the work he I'M
dertook two years ago. and the generous
re9DOna he m0t Qt frat in the form
of contributions, hav operated jointly to
drive him forward In his plans a little
ahead OF his supply-waRon. In other words,
he has ventured something-has presumed
q little upon the confidence n liberality
OF a great nation. This is what we have
heard from his own lips. and surely, when
1T Is remembered that the work he is trying
to do is one which is urgently demanded
one which, in its effects. must be q
credit and an unquestionable benefit to
the whole of Great Britain, such an excuse
is q very good one. 1t may reflect a little
upon the Generals prudence as a %tinancier.
but 1T shows him to have one of the big
gest of hearts. n it sheds q glory upon
him which. from the phiianthropic point of
view. is far more desirable than the credit
lie might have won by counting every
penny and stopping sulienly when the last
had been paid OUT.
WORK THAT IS WELL DONE.
An oO4ooaatohCO WAbA oOCI0A
conditions and with public charities in
England. and particularly in London,
enables rs to affirm confidently that
the sort of work which General Booth
has undertaken In his farm colony and
kindred enterprises is o work which
no one in England can do 90 well as
the head of the Salvation Army, and which
no ono heretoforeh has seriously undertaken.
There Is a large amount OF charity in this
big city, as heaven knows there needs to
be. But for the most part London's great
charities reach out their helping hand only
to the worthy among the poor and suffer-
ing. For the unworthy-those whose lives
society has voted to be q hopeless wreck
hope out OF their own boSoms-there are
but three openings in England, and those
are the work-hOuse. the goal and the
grave. But this class, whom hardly any
so far into the depths that they can no
longer see the least chance of any more
taking care of themselves-the inter drcgs
of England's population. of whom. by the
way, England has q larger proportion than
any other enlighted nation on earth-these
are General Booths special desire. and the
class in whose interest his o W scheme are
being operated. Truly, like q Grester One,
he has come to seek and save that which is
lost, and all over this grooming land he Is
showing in the most practical way that he
knows both how to find these lost ones and
how to start them on q new career of hope
u opportunity.
because his work 10 so good. and because
We do not think that the English nation
can he so cruel to the hopeless as to leave
them with no helper when one has offered
himself for such work. we cannot help be.
lieving that General Booth will emerge
from his present diff cuities stronger than
ever. and with more popular favor and q
tighter grip than ever upon the popular
purse. OF this result the General himself
is sublimely confident. 1.-THE rioh people
of this country" he says, ''ere not going to
see me go down." This is his faith, and
notwithstanding pressing embarrassment
and merciless criticism, he sho VS. his faith
by his works. A new home for one thou
sand of the unemploye ed is to be opened i'm
mediately. The three hundred who are
being raised from the dead at his farm col
ony are daily receiving fresh recruits from
the cutters of London. His seventy-two
sum. posts and forty-three reecue-homes,
his fifteen prison-gate homes, and thirty
six food and shelter depots. his twenty
seven i b0r bureaus. and his twenty-five
homes of rest-all of these are not only 60
ing on as usual, but are extending their Op-
era tions. and are preparing for o work of
mercy during the comlng winter such az
London. though il is a city of charities,
has never before witnessed.
HENRY TUCKLEY.