The record-union., 1895-10-29
mrs. MAUD B. BOOTH LAST NIGHT.
An Excellent Address to a Large
Audience.
What the Work of the Salvation Army
Is and How Its Methods Reach
the People.

gent audience, the occasion DelnR tne Az
dress of Mrs. Maud b. Booth, wife OF
Darlington Booth, Commander for the
United States of the Salvation Army, on
''The Progress and Prospects OF the Sal
walton Army in America"
The Charioteer Band, which Is well
known from one end of the State to the
other, and takes part in all the proml-
nent gatherings and exercises OF the
army in the various cities of the State,
and which numbers twelve pieces and
plays in excellent style, WAS present.
Brigadier Keppel conducted the serv-
ices, which opened with song and prayer
by Captain Mcintyre.
Rev. Henry NJ. Hoyt introduced Mrs.
Booth, saying that it was allowable for
even a private to introduce the greatest
General. In the early part of the century
there were two great movements, the
Sunday-school being one of them, and
the missionary movement the other. In
the last quarter there were also two great
movements, the Christian Endeavor and
the Salvation Army, which were TO make
deep impression on the world.
Mrs. Booth was received with applause
and spoke of her pleasure in coming to
this city and meeting the assembly. She
was heart and soul with the Salvation
Army, for through it she had been
brought to happiness and a life work.
She spoke of the progress of the army
from its small beginning here through
opposition and encouragement.
Wherever the Salvation Army flag has
been planted it has brought joy and peace
to tens of thousands. 1t does not exist
to give pleasure and employment to a
number of people, but to meet an awful
need for some instrument TO lift fallen
humanity up. Its work is not to meet
theory, but TO meet an awful fact. No
matter what you may do for the mans
body or intellect unless you can reach
his heart it is OF no avail. You must
reach bis heart and turn him away from
his evil ways in order to DO him real
good.
Many can Sboast oil better churches,
more mem bers, more wealth, bat none
can boast like the Salvation Army, that
il is so near the suffering. sin-cursed, de-
spairing humanity, and so able, through
Gods grace, TO turn them to their Savior.
It is 1.-THE church of The black sheep"
with power at its back that helps it to
turn them into white sheep-yes, whittier
than some of the little white sheep in the
folds that have soiled their white coats,
even in the shelter of the fold. Charity
is often cold, hard thing. The army be-
lieves that true charity is warm, is feel
ing and reaches out TO the hearts of those
who most need IL, 10 draw them into the
warmth of loving sympathy.
The cry OF many is going up to God,
but they cannot tell what they want
crying to have their tears wiped away
for sympathy and love, and that is Just
what the Salvation Army is doing Tor
them and giving. " hen it meets Ialleu
women longing to leave their surround
ings, 1t opens its Rescue Homes and
takes them in, and shows them that il
does not shrink from them on account of
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and sin together and bring those who
have gone astray TO the refuge of God.
So il is with the children of the slums,
whose surroundings from birth have
been those of sin and shame. She had
cutie enough to talk about in regard to
the army, without going TO England.
She wished that she had more time 10
speak of it TO her audience. When she
first began TO speak OF the army she
had to speak OF what it was about to do
and become, but it is not so now.
" hen sea wall is building, for long
time there is nothing to show. Stone
after stone is put into its place in The
foundation beneath the surface of the
ocean aud no sign of il appears. But,
by-and-by they begin TO appear above
the surface, and alter q while q solid
wall rises high and bids defiance to the
storm-driven waves, and gives safely TO
those whom it defends. SO il is with
the army. 1t has built up its wall high
aud strong through the sacrifices OF the
self-denyiug lives of the comrades. The
day Is nearly past when prejudice was
strong against The army.
People did not at first understand the
methods OF the army. They saw only
the grotesque, the unusual and the noisy
ways OF the srmy, and did not realize
that its methods were best adapted 10 its
ends, and that il the best way of
reaching those who were the hardest 10
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and they were frightened and ran away;
but it was after the black sheep, and
thank God it had reached them aud
gathered them in.
The hallelujah bonnets and peculiar
dress was TO the Salvation Army what the
Divers helmet and armor is to him. 1t is
adapted to its needs. 1t enables the
wesrer 10 go into The saloon without
question or comment; to go into the
house Of shame and lead the inmates out
by the hand. 1t invites the poor drunk
ard 10 come for sympathy and help.
People who at first feared and disliked
the army are coming TO ike first one
branch and then another of its work,
until they come TO like the whole. They
are even coming 10 sing its songs, and
even to form little armies OF their own,
although they do not call them so, and
they will perhaps soon adopt its doctrines.
The army reaches the people in the
highways and byways that the church
people cannot reach. Some object to the
big drum. The army has a right 10 use
it-R better right than they 10 use il. The
Pilgrim Fathers called their mem bers 10
church by the sound Of the drum, and 1t
Is an American institution. The bells
have walked as many babies and dis
turbed as many people as ever the big
drum did, but the Salvation Army has
never protested against them, but wishes
there were more OF them.
There are =, 300 officers in the army and
many thousands OF privates The paper
of the army has weekly circulation of
100, 600. II is read IN saloons, aud paid for
cheerfully by people who never enter the
churches. The barkeepers pay for 1t and
read it. It finds il wey behind prison
bars, and in one prison the Government
pays tor fifty copies weekly for the pris-
oners, Who read it eagerly. At San Quen-
tin hundred copies are sought for by the
prisoners, and read atientively.
she would not attempt TO 60 into sta
tistics. but the army has its legal depart
lnent, its sluin department, its rescue de-
Partment, its auxiliary and publishing
departments and others. People can
easily see that this not disorganiZed
body, without any system, but body
with brains and heart, that is doing a
great work.
She gave graphic description OF the
work and privations endured by the
young girls who have consecrated them
serves To the work III the Sums, who do
everything they possibly can to bring
them into the hearts and the confidence
OF those who could not possibly be
reached IN any other way. Not with
tracts or Bibles, but with tact and love,
DO they go into the midst of squalor and
wretchedness that is almost impossible to
describe, and win their way by unob-