The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-11
sALVATLUNLST SONGS.
Martial Music OF Booths Devil
Fighting Host.
-sYmed With Slang and Explosive Poetry
They Are TO Doubt KnAWG Many OF
GODS .Foss-Rzcsflont Masio by
Commandment uer6ert EOoSs.
IcoYvR1exu. 1897

ope OF the least noticeable phases Of
CITY life to city~lored person, Is band
s5F men and women marching to the
rolling beat Of the drum, and singing,
% the r-ade tinklinS OF shaking tam
BOURNE, songs whose swinging. ringing
melodies force the assser-by into ryth-
mic motion.
The words, when carried from the
uneven, 1nuffed roer of BASES and ten
.Ors TO staccato erunciation by some
shriIl soprano are generally found to be
something ike these:
We've something BETTER fer toap tin,
las Pg}ngc o. Glory dEolls within
We walk before l;u1 w5thoEtsia.
Sir, this Is the Salvation Army
Or t may be that n some familiar
chorus the voices viii sweep on to-
gethcr:
Besscdly kept keeps by tho blood;
Ble5scdly Kept b. the blood Of the Lamb;
HaDpy and free, Jesus with me;
Blossedly sacred alesseiiy kept yes, an
II is not unusual. when IN the midst
lof spch confident and peocefully-sUng
sentiment as this, for the Salvationists
to abruptly change their tune" to
welcome the secular guardians Of or
der who may be bearing down upon
them.
As a soldier proudly said: THE cops
get this welcome" and to the tune of:
"Here;s to good old whisky" he sang:
See the brazen hosts Of he'll
Art and power employing;
More than human tongue can toll,
Blood bought souls destroying.
FarII from Ruins ghastly road,
Victims rroGn beneath their load.
Forward Q. re sons Of Cod,
And dare or die for jesus
There is, perhaps, nothing more
characteristic OF n religion than its
songs A nine Thousand dollar soprano
sings "Age Mari2s" to fashionable con-
gTegations who shEdder at the popular
tunes and street varnacplSr of the Sal
walton Amy songs; but if the soprano
,yere TO siz,C her ave Maria in q
downtown alley the loungers would
think she wanted pennies for stuff
whicIn hadn't any "chune'' to il.
Bnt when q score Of Salvationists
march thEOlgh the alley singing slang
lily aNTut spiritual Affairs TO the band
1u1isfc of Marguerite" or KNOCK Him
Down. McC1osIfy," the loungers know
pennies aren't expected, and struggle
Alongto the BARRACKS" 10 End out what
the ncise IS ali Rbout. The songs of the
people have reached the people, and ths
lnaster of muJic himself could not
make music do mora. Many Of these
street marching songs have been
written by the converts who have come
from the streets and have worked out
their own peculiar daring and warlike
f'salvation."
Here Is one written by Londcne-,
who wss known as the Mayor Of the
Sands1elds, a title eSnferred upon the
worst character snd the hardest drinker
an the Beighborhootl. The Mayor en-
Joyod the distinction of being elected TO
ride upon plank three successive
yesss before his COW ezsion. His favorite
song when 5inging on = spree was
There's No One Like Mother Can
Cheer Ne To-day" and 20 It he set
those words
Tvs trzvssod DO rough D@th-of ffs 10 my day,
BuL gesus, He met nse upon ste broad way,
He psTdOned my sins, my solzl lie sssl tree.
and jRe broadgay TO death ID new vacant for
me-
And here is one which is, in the esti-
nation OF TIE class for whom 1t Is writ
ten, Geservediy popular. 1t returns to
the lrst principles Of religion when the
devil wore red silk tights ard carried
pitchforh aud could sustain polite
conversation:
Now the devil wGats me back again. 70 what
have been,
But telS ftIn hGve,eound better friend, and
I'm DOT quite so green
when tel him Jesus saved me, no answers,
what stu5g-'
Then I tel him OF 2is service tavo had quite
enough:
And tell him I've deserted him, and that soon
makes hALn fIUEu.
And tell him that he Blood row cie1uses me,
and that Eoqn knocks him down
So don't yGa sex, when you're properly con
verted, and your beart Is quite clean.
You ua3 snap your fingers ~ Beslzebuh. Won
know who ] E1eas2-
The song which hes gone round the
world from the African welt to the
Indian bungalow. was written By Com
maUder Herbert Booth TO Capt. Pear
sons words.
They call il the army war song. be.
cause It was used more than any other
one All the Torqsay and Eastbourne
riots in England The melody is at
once plsiDtivs and marital:
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