Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-06-04
ANNALS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SEA.
XIII.
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XIII.
Tho Salvation Army.
BY Anne Marie Prescott.

little sermon if you like]. We
have been interested all along in
the doings of the salvation
Army" and more particularly
since meeting two of its captains
English women]. We know that
the work of that army of Chris
tian men and women Is unqunli
fedly power for good - We be-
lieve it. But we also believe, as a
certain writer says, chat there is
only one stable foundation on
which the one church can stand,
viz, the apostles and prophets,
with Jesus Christ as the corner
stone.' GAIL other ground is
shifting sand" And so it proves
with this "Army." And the writer
goes on to say: "The split in the
Salvation Army is the repetition
of the history of all religious sects
formed by man. They are sects
formed by cutting up Christianity
into parts and destined themselves
to be cut up. Sectarianism
has in itself the essential element
of dissolution, that permanency
can only belong to unity. But the
chief merit of the Salvation Army
is, in the message and admonition
it has brought to the church"
Yes, as a humanitarian institu-
ton too much cannot be said in
its praise. But with all its great
good parts and the good parts of
sects in general and in particular,
those special religious bodies
everywhere-bodies of Christians
without church, without the
divinely-appointed sacraments-
the divinely-appointed ministry
the eucharist and the priest
without an Aaron aMelchisedek
an altar7-a holy of holies-
into them all, we say, enters world
ly pride, conceit, self-love, de-
sire for power and i'll the end
rupture-snd one more sect
We see all about us even in the
church we love those who in
their zeal, mistaken land now we
would speak with all reverence),
really think, if we can judge from
actions and sometimes words,
that they know, two to one, more
about managing the affairs of the
Church militant here on earth"
than did the blessed Saviour, its
Founder. And while we may
smile at their undue folly and
presumption, let me tell you that
it is too often that one, of compa-
ratively weak intellect, can do
much harm by his earnest
ness in wrong and uncounseled
direction. We have seen this
unripe, unsound fruit more than
once.
The Darlington Booths today
are pulled up with vanity and con-
ceit and are doing a great in
jury to "a good work" In part
of San Francisco called "Barbary
Coast one of the women
of the Salvation Army
who had been reclaimed by il
and who for fouryears had been one
of it's active and efficient workers
was found drunk on the sidewalk
She had gone there on her work
had in a tempted moment fallen
in with old time companions, and
fallen down, striking the stones g
heavy blow with her poor head
A captain came along just then
but he did not pass by on the
other side. "Here, Boss, pick uI
your man; she belongs to you
you know" said the seller of poi
son. cay" said the brave lady
I'VE will pick her up, and if yor
throw her down ninety and min,
times we'll come around; for yor
represent the devil only, while W.
represent God and we'll try t.
show you which is stronger" Thu
man had listened, unwittingly, t.
deep theology and sound Sun
day sermon and he skunk into his
den.
For a few months before com
ing to the islands we were en-
gagged With another worker in go
ing from house to house in yer!
poor part and wretched of Sal
Francisco. A report was writer
out each night on coming in from
the Emission Work of the Goo
Shepherd" and for considerable
in solid gold, would we not sci
that sad and often heart sickenin
experience. Those miserabl