The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-09
WORK IN A NEW FIELD
Why the Catholic Church
Should Organize a SAL
walton nm
LRNTEN SERVICES AT THE CHURCHES
st. Lucy's Forty Hours Devotion
to Begin Tomorrow-Drama
in Greeuyille.

The work of the Salvation Army is
a matter to which the Catholic Church
in general has given little attention IN
the past. bpt Mary Josephine onahan, m
the Catholic Citizen,.' calls the atten-
ton of the Catholic Church. to the me-
cessity of organizing a Catholic Salp
walton Army. Among other things, Miss
Onahan says
ITO the Catholic the Salvation Army
presents a curious anomaly; it presents
religion entirely apart from a church.,
Catholic doctrine taken out from the
Catholic autonomy Indeed, it is Won
derfuls how much unconscious Catholic
tty there is in the world. often a more
live and earnest Catholic5ty t,N is to De
found in those who have inherited the
faith, and who meander to church as
they do to market, and from much the
same reason-habit. People appreciate
what they have to struggle for.
What is Christian Science with its
faith cure but the old Catholic doctrine
pushed to an Illogical extreme-a doc
trine that We hear preached every Sum
day when prayers are asked for the sick
dying? In the same way Catholic
ity is being preached through many a
Salvation bonnet, and preached to those
whom the Church does not always reach.
STREET PREACHING. 2
This country now has a street popu-
lation of great size. These souls can be
effectively reached only where they spend
their leisure, in the streets and squares
of the. cities. If a bishop and one or
preaching, assisted, IL might be, by men
and women of the faity, the results would
be marvellous. Some of US little dream
ALo n - A. . q ~ 6f@finN+ RlQSS OF street
people, grown in later years into many
thousands 5hs'un %Sa y sy ys N gf tsa s feeets as as p maeh
as he Climate allows; they read the
penny papers on the streets; they are
taught by their petty leaders on the
f freer place, SAND and Just as Clean a place
as where they are supposed to live, put
where they only sleep; When the Catno-
Representatives, high and low. it will
All bad. many are fairly good CATHOLICS,
hearing-but that is certain anyway
And meantime our highly educated and
jealous priesthood wv Woa Mbic gey af nresene
is often a menace to public order, and
is addressed on religious topics by men
and women who play soldier n peat
TT is. indeed, the problem Of the the
hour. how to reach the people, All tIe
gsGPls as net ths s0m rssp Ss shssm, Citizens sRs sasHP those Sc
Who don't go to church as well as the
tolerably pious who do, and the Church
willing to take hints in this matter from
the most allen s~ects-even from the Sal
walton brigade. Christ did not say mere,
". Preach the Gospel but D Who Go a wifl
not come to the church. the church must
80 !" WOMEN NECESSARY.
picture a great barn-Hke place can
ex-skating rinky. its walls decorated with
such notices as Jesus wants you u
] should die tonight The wages of sin
is death Gain said, am ! N my sr 6rat1 Wafs :
eaTaest=faeed men and women IN MI
tary uniform, and a brass band whose
cavortfng fills the air, and you nave me
a given signal one of the captains "a
Young woman), leads in prayer, ana one
cannot help blu be moved as that shrlL
but piercing1y earnest and sweet voice
rings out in it's appeal for help. Indeed.
Without the women, the Salvation Army
world be nowhere. 1t is they VINO put
heart and fibre OF real emotion INTO rhe
ssRareiy does one hear as effective a
sermon on the power of prayer as the
simple little homily from MIS- I e. b poo 1. az
with face aglow with love and nthusi-
asm she leads the multitude IN a new
song of the Generals, and with arms eS-
tended begs them to come up anu oo
converted to Jesus -
1.-THE sweetness of that ringing young
voice, the fibre of heart of that melody
haunt s,ITns the hgtI msm Of sa iUngi soldiers may
be pretty queer, and some OF the specl,
mems may be most emphaslcaHy l93n. t
but that does not after t meat 1ac deaI nat Of
Gods truth and are doing a great deal
Of Gods work. All honor to the Saiva-
ton Army! May we soon nave a Catnoe
lie Salvation Army, and may we all De
-ood1, m heat rha ruins"