The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-23
STUDENTS ENLIGHTENED AS TO THE
MISSION AND SCOPE OF
HER FOLLOWERS.
NO NEED OF MORE CHURCHES.
A SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE NECESSARY
FOR THE UPLIFTING OF
HUMANITY.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAL, Oct.
%. = Stanford students were this after
noon addressed by Mrs. Ballington
Booth. The chapel was crowded to its
fullest capacity and scores of students
were turned away. After a compliment
paid to her student audience and COM
ment on the cordial receptions extended to
her in California, Mrs. Booth in substance
said:
"The Salvation Army means a great
deal to me. 1t came into my life when l
had no special desire for the future. 1t
brought to me not mere faith or creed or
notion, but a real, personal Savior.
Gas I have travelled from country to
country and have gone down among all
those in direst need, have felt that there
was no movement so real as the Salvation
Army. There is no movement to-day that
has gone through more misunderstanding
than has the Salvation Army. 1t is i'm.
possible for me to explain the many things
that make this movement unique. | can
not stand here and fight the apparently
peculiar things, but 1 can say this, that
there is nothing in the Salvation Army
which I would wish changed.
"The spirit of the Salvation Army is
such as will do more good than all the
movements toward lifting up the people
and bringing them nearer to God. am
aware OF the criticisms existing, but a good
answer can be made to everything that the
Salvation Army does. A broad-minded
view must be taken of the army's acts. 1t
saw the need of a people who would be
willing to go out and do anything and
suffer anything for the Masters sake, he
who has taken US with all our sins and has
filled our hearts and our lives with peace.
Il often feel when talking to a fashiona-
bic audience, disinterested in helping the
world, that 1 should like to take it and
plant it down in a red-ho Salvation Army
meeting in the slums. We take our work
wherever it is needed. Our church and
our work is to go to the black sheep; our
church is the church of the black sheep
for under the black wool is ever found a
good warm heart.
1--WE have different phases of work.
First, there is our corps work. which you
would call mission work. Our officers go
into city or town and there open up a
hall and begin work. One thing for which
we are thankful is that we speak to
crowds. We go out into the streets to get
an audience, and we nearly always get
| Just the audience we want. We often get
! in men who are drunk, but we do not mind
| that. They may disturb US, but we can
manage them, and they often 60 away
| sober.
"Our second field is relief work. With
Gods help we succeed in this also.
Unless the spirit of God is in the work
the internal man is not touched.
1.-THE third and perhaps the most i'm
| Gal6 ic that Gnnwn cli1po
| Young girls leave their homes and go
down in the slums to toll for the good of
| humanity. 1t is not a temporary service.
| for they give their whole lives to this
| work. We are often asked why we send
young girls into saloons. 1t is because
| they reach q class that could never be in
| duced to buy our papers in any other way.
| "In the Salvation Army it is not talent
that counts; but we say to those who offer
| themselves: If you are sincere, and if
your heart belongs to God, we will give
| you chance know of young woman
who had no education at all, who came to
us Door, ignorant girl. To-day sheis not
| only gifted, but can secure larger audiences
than many OF the brightest church digni-
tarieS.
Looking out upon the world it does not
seem to us that more churches are needed,
but rather that spirit of real sacrifice which
| makes people rise up and overcome SELF"
In conclusion Mrs. Booth explained the
work of the Auxiliary League, and invited
| those who felt inclined TO join at the ter
| mination of the meeting. d.. Jordan and
Professor Mary Robert Smith as we'll as a
large number of students and other men,
bers of the faculty joined the league. The
rules of the league are:
First-Speak good word for the army and
fight the battles for them.
Secondary for the Salvation Army.
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