Evening star., 1896-10-16
WORK WITH. N ERcY
Special Meetings to Pru.ste The salvatioa
Army Om.
Interesting and Chauncteristic Fea-
lures to Explain snd Exemplify
New Methods - Charity.

As part Of it's forward movement in
this city. the Salvation Army has planned
series OF interesting special meetings, to
begin this evening and aast q week.
The meetings Friday, Saturday and Sun
day are to be at Salvation Army Hall, $50
Pennsylvania avenue, and the meetings
next week are to be in Georgetown, Capt.
tol Hill and Mt. Pleasant, 30 as to cover all
sections of the city (besides one in Rock
ville). beginning with one in the West
Street Presbyterian Church, 81st and p,
Monday evening. Tuesday evening the
army will meet in the Eastern Presby-
terrain Church, 9th and Maryland avenue
northeast, and on Thursday evening in the
Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church,
while on Wednesday evening it will hold a
meeting in the town hull at Rockville.
The Washington members Of the Aux
iliary League and of the Mercy Box
League, as well as Of the churches in
which the meetings are to be held. are
especially interested in them. Brigadie1
William Evans. who has charge Of the Sal
walton Army division of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware. Maryland, Virginia and
the District of Columbia, is coming from
Philadelphia with his staff to take part
in the meetings Sunday. but will not be
able to remain through the week. Staff
iEgton, Captain Bertha Hill, Captain Fryer
and other officers will be in charge, but
the great feature Of all the meetings Will
be what is called the singing brigade" q
voices, who have made deep impression
in all the cities in which they have ap-
peared. At the large meetings which Com
rander and Mrs. Booth-Tucker conducted
In Philadelphia Sunday and Monday the
singing brigade" attracted much atten-
tion. Mrs. Ensign Flynn. who is at the
head of 1t, speaks as well as she sings. and
the other members of the brigade are
Lieut.. May Storrs. has number of friends
in Washington, whom she met at Ocean
Grove, New Jersey, where for several sea.
sons she has sung in Mr.. Yatman's daily
meetings in the large Tabernacle.
At all these meetings different features
of the Salvation Army work will be pre-
sented. but especial emphasis will be laid
on the Mercy Box League, through whose
Booth-Tucker hopes to provide for part of
the expenses Of the slum work, the rescue
homes, the nurseries, the police court and
prison gate work, labor bureaus and shell
1t Is hoped by friends of the army that the
description Of the army projects for dealing
with the destitute. which have proved so
successful In many countries in uplifting
men and women and caring for children,
will remove any misunderstanding which
may have arisen respecting them among
those who were ill-informed about them.
They have received the commendation of
practical and experienced philanthropists
all over the world, and Commander Booth
tucker Is not experimenting in extending
them here. The army is making good cit
izens out of bad material, and not making
vagrants or paupers. Its aim is to give
work. not aims, to the needy, although 1t
never hesitates to relieve actual suffering,
taking the Christian Wow that the desti-
tute are not outcasts or criminals, fit only
for the workhouse or the jail But 1t has
the work test" at its Shelters and requires
work In exchange for What 1T gives
wherever it is possible, and tries to OBJ
tain permanent work for the "out-of-
works" and promises to put those who
can't be provided for in cities on its farm
colonies which have now been started in
New Jersey and California