The morning call., 1894-01-05
TO REST AWHILE.
Noted Salvation Army
Workers Weary.
Captain PAUL. and Lieutenant Bing-
ham to Say Farewell in Few
Days-Their Work.
"Yes. we are going 10 have a resl.n

Yes, we are going TO have a rest"
That was Captain Rosina PaulpS way OF tell
ing CALL reporter last night at the Salvation
Army headquarters. on Market street. that she
and Lieutenant Lou L. Bingham would sus-
pend their labOrs for a short period. And The
little woman remarked, as her pale face be-
meath the broad poke Of her hallelujah bonnet
Lighted up:
The Lord has been very good TO u.s."
Captain PAUL. aud Lieutenant Bingham have
been working together in this city for about
seventeen months, starting in at the Kearny-
street olive" on the corner of hearny and
Sacramento streets. 1t was about nine months
ago That they began the work at the Market
street headquarters, where they have been en-
gagged night after night ever since.
The penitent-form sergeant tells me that
43O souls have Ueen saved" said the captain,
speaking of the results OF the latter place. land
out of these from twenty-five TO thirty have
been taken into the Salvation Army"
Lieutenant Bingham will make her farewell
tomorrow night, and Captain PAUL hers on
Sunday night. Captain PAUL. Will go to LyttOn
Springs, where Major Kyle is, starting next
Tuesday, but Lieutenant Bingham has not
quite mad up her nina yet where she VIII 20.
She may stop with her sister in this city for
awhile.
It was on March 5, 1868. that little girl
baby afleiward known as Roslna Paul., came
into this strange world at Berue Switzerland.
her father was farmer, and the family were
brought up In The Lutheran church Miss
Paul. came TO America in 1881, having an
uncle and a cousin here, but her father diving
she returned home. Home did not possess the
same attractions for her, however, I'D she
came back TO this country, eventually taking
up a timber claim IN humboldt County as
plucky little woman who was seeking wealth.
Miss PaulPs mind had religious bent but
Lulheransm did not satisfy her. AS she eX.
plains she felt hat a religion which was active
Tor one day III tile week only was not sufficient,
and she wanted one That was an eVeTV-day-in.
the-Week religion. This, she saws, she found
when she Joined the Salvation Army il. Eureka
in 1889.
Her first work was done al san Jose, where
Cadet PAUL. spent four months. She was then
promoted TO lieutenancy and sent to Oak land,
whore she was with the mems training gaui-
son uodtT captain McAdOO Tor while, and
subsequently, WIKI tile wOmen's training class.
She was next SEM To Santa Ana, where she SUI
fered severe hardship.
The first three days we lived on cold pota-
toes" she observed, as she recalled that time,
and we had 10 beg our rent in the Streets"
After Passing three months there she went TO
San Diego, where she remained nine months
subsequently she was at The Commercial
corps IN This city, ana then she opened the
WatsoDvl!le corps where some notorious
drunkards were reclaimed. After that she
went TO Fresno, and from Fresno she came
here, remaining in this city since.
Lieutenant Bingham became a oalvatlonist
in Pomona four years ago under Captain Bells
power. She had always been ''moral," as she
describes Il, and first b. came a Christian in
| 1888 al Los Angeles. Her father. Wither-
ford Baker Comfy, TeX.) farmer, was an H.
| idel, she says but very strict as to morals
Her mother, d Christian, died when Miss Bling.
nam was quite young. Miss Bingham was born
in 1868
She began Salvation Army work in san
Diego as cadet, OF course, remaining there
eight months She was at Pasadena next, and
then at sacramento. From the latter place
Captain Bell and herself-sbe beiug promoted
! Northumberland corps al Visalia, and sub
sequently she came TO this city, going 10 No. 2
on kearny and Sacramento streets, first.