The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
WOMEN WARRIORS NIGHT
ROUSING WELCOME ACCORDED
MRS. DARLINGTON BOOTH
BY THE ARMY.
NEED OF A ROW-TOO MUCH THAT
Is DULL AND FLAT IN THE
CHURCHES.
"Fire a yollev. comrades !"


Brigadier Keppel's face was aglow with
pride and enthusiasm as he gave the
order, and the expression was intensified
tenfold when it was obeyed Justify. 1t was
a little army of $50 souls that passed in re-
view on Market street last evening, put ii
is doubtful whether any commander ever
regarded his troops more lovingly and
proudly than did Mrs. Ballington Booth,
the youthful and petite commander of the
Salvation Army of America.
The California division, strong in zeal
and loyalty if not in numbers, accorded
its fair chief a rousing welcome. AT I
o'clock in the evening the forces assembled
at the ferry, and when Mrs. Booth, at
tended by Brigadier and Mrs. Keppel.
Captain Edith Marshall and other officers
arrived the little army was drawn up in
line, and greeted them with shout after
shout In which treble dominated basso,
for 1t was the Woman Warriors night.
The gentler element of the army was
prominent, not only in the procession but
in the programme that followed at Metro
politan Temple.
Fire volley, comradesl" And they
did-not discharge of shot and shell, but
rouslng and heartfelt "Halleluiah
Amen which are the "Hip, nip,
hurrahr' of these soldiers engaged in
bloodless fray. Handkerchiefs were waved
when voices grew weary, then the army
marched up the street, led by the pictur-
esque band of charioteers that has done
valiant service in the mining camps.
AS the carriage in which Mrs. Booth sat
passed slowly between the piles she re-
turned the salutations with a graceful
little modification of the prescribed mill
tary greeting. The procession passed up
Market street to Sixth, then counter
marched to the Metropolitan Temple on
Fifth street.
The hall, which was crowded to the
doors long before the hour set for the
meeting, was brave in martial trappings.
The army colors were festooned before the
organ in long flowing lines
Behind the chairs arranged for the
"lassie" officers was a flag draped into a
brlght-hued background for the earnest
faces framed in their poke bonnets. "The
World for God," the armys slogan stood
in great Illuminated letters above the plat
form. Outlining the gallery railing were
bunting and flags. All these formed the
frame for striking picture of the mimic
army, the central figure OF which was the
sweet-faced woman whose beauty was not
wholly hidden by the garb of her martial
order, and who seemed exalted to the
height of religious fervor by her welcome.
The characters sat in the gallery and
played martial music, to which the words
of salvation hymns had been adapted.
The music was always given with vim and
spirit.
Mrs. Booth sat among the fair field Off
GERS, captains and lieutenants. Brigadler
Keppel, Staff Captain Mcintyre and Major
Halpin were the only representatives OF
their sex on the platform.
Mrs. Booth did not give formal lecture
as was expected She deferred her ad-
dress on women Warriors till to-mor-
row evening at the Metropolitan Temple.
She spoke briefly but with great earnest
hess of the work and progress of the army.
She is eloquent upon the theme which, as
she put it, is "a movement near and dear
to our soldiers. near and dear to its friends,
but nearer and dearer yet to the great and
loving heart of God"
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