The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
TELLS OF TIE GREAT WORK
Mrs. Maud BaIlington Booth
Talks to Thousands
SALVATION ARMY'S LABORS
How the Gospel Is Carried to Those
In the Sums
Suceer divon to the Degraded, the Misera-
Ole, the Wretciied, by the Soldiers
With Black Bonnets
SALVATION ARMY'S LABORS

Mrs. Maud Balling,on Booth has closed
her meetings in Los Angeles. The final
one was held last evening at Simpson
tabernacle. Owing to the inclemency of
the weather the audience was not large
one, but what it lacked in mum bers it
more than made up in enthusiasm. Mrs.
Booth is certainly an eloquent, earnest
platform speaker. She has q magnetism
about her that draws one to her. Her
hearers know that she believes what she
tells them. and this fact goes far to con-
vince many who would otherwise e
doubters.
Mrs. Booth held three meetings yester-
day: One in the morning at Simpson
tabernacle; enc in the afternoon at the
First Congregational church. and one in
the evening, again at the tabernacle.
Tho meetings at the tabernacle were
not as largely attended as they might
have been. This was owing to the fact
that it was necessary to charge a small
admission fee, as the expense of renting
the church was 500, $45 for each meeting
Those who could not .and did not feel
that they were able to pay we're admitted
free. Still the $50 was raised and will be
paid by the Salvationists for the use OF
the tabernacle.
Mrs. Booth will leave at 8 o'clock this
morning for San Diego. There she will
hold snort series of meetings and then
she will return to San Francisco.
II have had most delightful time in
Los Angeles" said Mrs. Booth TO a rep
resehtative of the Herald yesterday. II
find that the work of the army here is IN
good hands and that great progress is
being made. The results of the special
meetings we have held here have been
satisfactory in every way. and } shall
leave here feeling that something has
been accomplished as result. of my
visit.
''All over the world the army is march
ing on to victory. Places where but a
few short years ago our soldiers were per-
secuted and made to bear neavy burdens
they are now either received kindly or
permitted to carry on their labors with
ont interruption and interference.
The meetings in Los Angeles have,
some of them, been the best we have thus
far had in any city OIL the Pacific coast.
L shall be most happy to some day return
10 Los Angeles and renew the many
pleasant acquaintance that have formed
on this trip"
After every meeting Mrs. Booth is liter
ally besieged by hundreds OF men and
women who are anxious to shake by the
hand the lady who has done and is doing
such great and grano work in the
world. This of itself is severe task and
a heavy strain upon her strength. But
she meets all who come and gives them a
hearty grasp aud one Of those beautiful
smiles that so light up her striking coun-
tenance. When one sees and converses
with Maud Ballington Boots for few
moments he or she leaves her with this
impression: IF the Salvation Army il
Differed by sucn ladies as she is the great
results it has accomplished are not to be
wondered att
THE TABERNACLE MEETING.
Mrs. Booth addressed about 1000 people
in Simpson tabernacle yesterday morn
ing. There were many Salvationists pres
ent, hut the percentage of those who
came to hear and receive benefit who had
not taken the army VOWS was quite large.
After the usual preliminaries Mrs.
Booth came forward attired in the army
uniform, as usual. She talked for forty
minutes on the subject of conservation.
Briefly she said:
MY friends. ! am not going to preach
you a sermon this morning, for that is
what never DO. l am going to talk to
you out OF my heart. And before COM
mcncc want you TO throw your heads
back aud sing With life and spirit "Oh,
What a Redeemer l Have in Jesus
My i.tle baby girl lisps that song as only
a child can sing it into this mother heart.
But she sings it with great energy. God
made The birds to sing. but when they
open their little Threats they throw their
heads back and look into heaven. They
do not look down into the earth. Now
let us do as they do"
And the audience did as Mrs. Booth
requested them. At the conclusion of
the hymn she resumed her talk.
II have come to talk to you of the re-
ligon of the heart. my friends, the relig-
ion which, if we live up &c it, we can 60
out into the world and force others to be-
lieve that after all there IS perhaps some
thing in Christianity. We can force sim
ners to say that there is "a practical re-
ligion and we can take into their lives
the true Christian life. We can show to
the unlikely, worldly. ambitious, selfish
human heart what that true life ls.
II was mere child when joined the
army, between 16 and II years of age.
Creed ard theory had been instilled into
me. but not the practical work. But !
soon saw light. Every protesting Chris
save his fellow men az well as himself.
Christ did not only come to save You but
20 save others.
with the true Christianity th.re are
no two standards. In His holy word it
is laid down that all who consecrate
themselves to Him must bear his cross.
This is.what the Salvation Army does.
1.-THE great underlying principle of the
army is love of our fellows. 1t is love-
true love- that brings forth the fruit.
But a spurious love, pretended affec-
ton, is worth nothing, not even talking
about. Christ MIST come into every life
and we who are Christians must come en-
to every life and we who are Christians
must snow by our lives what it means
to have Him with us everywhere. The
religion OF the world must be religion
of sincerity. Sincerity is from tho Latin
sine cere-meaning without wax. To
be sincere we must be able to live and go
before others as we know He wants us to
live, to do and go.
God is love. This must he shown in
your every day life if you are a aincere