The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04

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beautiful thing. mothers love is I'M
selhshly beautiful. A wifes love is
grand example of devotion. l have seen
wives stano and plead for the DRUNKEN
husbands who have beaten them into in :
sensihility. The husbands love for the
wife in sickness and in health is inspir-
ing. as is the. love of the child fer the
father and the mother. But all OF these
directions are but foretastes of the divine
love.
The Lord commands us to love the
unioveiy, the poor cutcast. the drunken
sol, the hidden enemy. We OF the Saliva
ton Army hate not the sinner but only
the sins they have committed. This is
the love of God, the Christianity OF
Christ.
i'Some think because we labor in the
Sums among the poor basotted wretches,
amid the squalor, poverty and the
wretchedness OF the world, that we have
a prediction for all these conditions.
FRIENDS, God is no respecter OF persons.
lie has commanded us to go forth and
save all His creatures. IL you want to
be Cod you must live Godlike lives and
know the Christianity OF sacrifice.
Remember that all the things that are
true in the material world are doubly
true in the spiritual world above. That
Christianity where love is all talk and
where the profession of faith does not
come to suffering and sacrifice is, in the
cyes Oh Uou, mocKery. IL IS TO his
heart bitterness"
The meeting closed with the singing of
the hymn, II Ever 1 Loved Thee, Dear
Jesus, IT'S Now, AID the bsnediction.
SLUM AND RESCUE WORK.
In the afternoon the First Congrega-
tional church was packed with an audi
encs that came to hear the great Saliva
ton Army leader tell of the work OF the
in bo ci,
| and novels of the grea; cities. Over 1000
people were unable to gain admittance.
Those who were fortunate enough to OBJ
tain seats listened to most interesting
talk OF about an hours duration, which
was interspersed with numerous touching
anecdotes of the results of the rescue
work. Hundreds OF men and women
were brought to tears by the relation.
Handkerchiefs were placed to the eyes of
those VINO had not known what it was to
weep for many long day. In substance
Mrs. Booth said:
'We who go among the lowly, the
miserable and the poor realize fully that
after all there is great deal in this life
that is good ana encouraging for human
great cities. We live in she Sums. We
come into contact with all that is bad,
with people with whom all desire for
| good has been by them abandoned. We
know the people who live in the hell
| holes of sin.
Many pity US. They say: You must
be discouraged after you see all this
crime, misery and wretchedness. There
's M good to come in doing anything for
| those people.
my friends, this is not the Salvation
Army's idea. We go among the black
sheep and tell them that We love them,
for we see the possibility of making black
white. We. of the army. beieve'in going
| among the lowly and preaching the gos-
pei OF peace to the heart that has known
no peace. We take to them the sympa
thetic touch of Christ. With us in the
Salvation Army there is hope for all. We
believe that there is something left in
bring forth the fruit.
Therefore, when we enter the slums
we 70 with Joy in our hearts instead of
sorrow. We go with faith and hope,
claiming the victory even the before first
blow is struck.
MANY a good, pure, true woman IS
engaged in our rescue work. l call h Jr
woman instead OF lady. Woman is a far
holier name than that of lady. Lady is
a name given by society. Woman is the
name given by God.
"We send these noble women among
our people in the slums. They in the
slums are our people, all of them. We
expect to find nothing among them ex-
! cept thistles and thorns. What we loos
| for is sin. We redeem the man or wo-
man and fight the sin. That is what our
war is against.
THE Salvation Army has become SO
| great that it divides its work with the
object in view of reaching every phase OF
humanity. We carry the blessed message
of salvation to all the world
We find in the great cities the people
living in the slums and the novels. We
send our soldiers to them to work-pure
young girls and women. With the pure
the condition of a mans body is if his
soul is unsaved. If we can better the
condition of the body and save the soul
we DO so. We have in San Francisco a
shelter home where 200 men, who would
be without a place to lay their tired
breakfast and redhot Salvation Army
meeting all for cents. We take the poor
man IN, try to change his h ,urt and
bring him back in touch with God. The
channel of many mans life is changed,
he becomes new creature and takes up
rev lite work.
"Of our rescue work / shall speak
briefly. We have rescue home in New
York city directly opposite mlllionaires'
club, within a stone throw of Wander
bilt mansion. You would not think that
We would find misery and wretchedness
there amid wealth and plenty, but we do.
''We make our rescue nome a true
home. 1t is not reformatory nor a
house of correction. Everything about
the home is white and clean. We save 10
per cent of thuse whom we succor, tor
they go out into the world again not
with our strength nor their own, but
with the strength of the great God of
heaven TO aid them in their struggle
with sin. OF those who remain with us
their past is buried. 1t Is by us never
revealed or referred to.
"rhe Salvation Army works IN corps.
corps is the same as q church. Our
officers are as pastors. bishops. arch
bishops or priests. We have 1900 saIarisd
commanding officers. The army is as
we'll organized as any military body that
ever entered a battle to win great vic
tory. There is no schism among us. We
are on the field engaged in conflict and
snlaiers of our army are supported IN
idlenes, is mistake. The soldiers sup
o 1rt the army. Some of them have been
bar-tenders. saloon keepers, burglars and
thieves. But they are all brothers now.
Our meeting place is called the bar
racks. We are about to change that name
to the armory. Some say that we live to-
gether at the barracks. the men and wo-
men being herd d like cattle in pen.
This is not true. Every Salvation Army
soldier has his home and it is as sacred
as any earthly home oan be, for Christ is
there. Our corps workers have brought
many son to q weeping mother, many
drunken HUSBAND to "a grief-stricsen
wife, many an eriing dauqht to a heart
hrnkpn father In fact we ALI strive to