The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-26
A LASSIE ROUGHING IT.
AMONG TIE MoBs OF FRANCE AND
SWITZERLAND.

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Ksecked Dewn. Trarupled On. aua spit Upon.
Vet Stiii Perscverina-H1afor Faith Mar
shal's story OF Cennict and Reward IN
the Salvation Army ON Two Contnents.
Major Edith Marshall, Salvation Army, has
had experiences that would age the average
man long before his time. She has been spit
upon and knocked Town and kicked and had
her big poke bonnet and her tight little army
jacket torn Off her by a bowling mob. She
talks about it as tho average girl would dis.
ouss q summer Irritation, though 1t all hap
pened to her when she was a mere alp of q girl.
Major Marshall was seated in her little Office
at headquarters the other morning when a Sun
reporter called TO learn something OF her work
as a National Special. That's what abe is, n
special, and If ever a woman deserved such a
significant title she is the one. After listening
to her for a while the reporter asked:
How did you join the Salvation Army7"
'If you knew what l have been through since
l Joined the Army" she answered. you would
not ask how did you ever get into itf' but how
did you ever stay therel' You American poo
pie don't know what mobs are. 1t amuses mo
when the people and the papers talk about
bowling mobs. You don't have them here In
America. But that comes later in my story.
You ask me how 1 came to join the Army.
My doing SO was not an impulse, but.the result
of years Of thought. True, it was child's
thought, but II was serious, nevertheless. or
course, you know l am an English girl.
Every one knows that as soon as / speak, even
II | have been q true-blue American in thought,
word, and decd for over seven years now.
well, it all. came-about in this way: My
father knew Gen. Booth when he fret started
out with a Christian mission. They were
warm personal friends, for my father was an
nn ~ nrsfvn Thrlat,an tnn SN,, tIn Eap
erals mission became the Salvation Army. and
when l was about 10 or IL years old my father
began TO take me to the annual meetings held
IN Exeter Hall, London. Before that l had at.
tended several meetings conducted by the
Generals wife, and when IL l went forward TO
the penitent form In one Of these meetings.
AS far as l could understand the matter, as a
child, l was really converted. This meeting
happen cd to be Miss Catherine Booths fare
" oil. She WAS just starting for Paris to in
lroauce the Salvation Army work there. She
was q most beautiful woman. she had u won.
d,rful influence over me, and i was attached
10 her. She is now Mrs. Booth-Clibborn.
After that l communicate attend the annual
meetings al Exeter Hal, but outside Of that
saw nothing OF the Army. The very next year.
Ls four chiidren-my mother had died when
We were very youns-to the south of France
we stopped Tor the month OF May in Paris, anu
there l saw the Army continuously Tor the lirst
time. l went to the meetings w.th Miss Booth
and visited her in her plain little rooms. but
me only thing that impressed me very deeply
was '1 sns .n Gas Mat PerssSutod me Artny 9iii,
nope some day that you will come ana help
me- The hrst thought of entering the Arm!
came into my mind ut that minute.
The next winter we didn't 20 abroad, but
went instead to Worthing, in the south OF Eng.
and, Thinking that the mild home climate
fashionable high school, where al of the girls
were opposed to the Army. l still loved the or
viewpoint and to wonder if l really could give
ny lte to its WORK. While we were there the
Army. a regular organized opposition to the
3alvatonists, read the riot act We were
Known as friends Of the Army, and our house
usa TO be put under police protection. Finally
The militia we're called ont ana the riot sup
pressea. but not until after blood was shed.
The climate did hot relp my rather, and N
christmas he died. Then We went to Clapton,
only q Quarter OF an hours walk rom Con.
salvation Army training schco.; it h.d been
open only four years then.
Il entered a high school and began to at
lend the sunday morning holiness meetings
sesuiariy. lherc was no necessity Of my work
nlng TO do IN lie. that | would not be content
to spend my %girlhooi in id:eness as 50 many
Iris do. L felt u desire 10 enter the Army, buI
l was very young and not strong. and | Lidn't
] 4nite see my way clear to take this step. Jns,
catherine Booth called on my aunt, who was
$50 my guardian, and asked her il | could go 10
iaris 10 help her in her work. as l knew the
french language well. she said that ste
would be esponsible for me. My, guardiau
poke to me about 1t, and l WAS anxious to 20.
ne decided to let me try it FOR six months.
and then / was to come home again. SO 1
went. At first l attended only two meetings
Yards. and visited tbs poor. did the rosular
YORK OF a cadet, except l was not allowed 10
While there / filed out n candidates. form.
because the more | saw OF the real spirit OF the
Ariny behind tho scenes the more l wanted Il"
months duty in field work before returninA
aome, 80 she arranged for me 10 go TO the
opening OF a corps in Calais. | went there with
three other young women. and she was TO can
nd take me back to England when my time
The hall that we engaged in Calais had
pcen a very low dance hail, and the rooms that
We rented to live in had been occupied by
very questionable characters. When we tirol
opened, the people who had been accustomed To
iatronizing the dance nall thought that w.
found mat wasn't OIL the programme there was
= riot. This kept up night after night, but
., |nS a state ms Of l0o urte f.fiI Be anS,1 t6e t aGaia mont thi hS5
passed an epidemic of smallpox broke out, and
he Captain of our corps took It. Miss Booth
at once to friends OF my family in Calais. But
IT was, too late, | was sleeping Ia the room
IN the ' lcas ta sPrsid, AND AND n I aidn!i l aSf; .nS T1sn
tlther; Why, vaccination wouldn't take Oh
@ 9sn,e Th men to sI rsSnr .Is or h siES, 1@SDt FsaFEa nt
was so anxious to get back to the work that
"ould hardly content myself to pass the prom
iScd three there.
Il returned TO Paris and went to work as a
regular cadet. We were terribly prosecuted
there. and one night q maj was killed befor,
my eyes at the very door OF our hall. Al III,
end Of six weeks ] was publicly commissions
With two other girls TO go to switzerland. This
work had been begun in switzerland three %
four years earlier and the Army had been much
prosecuted. Miss Booth was expelled from
Inc country and ofhcers were Imprisoned for
mere triies, such as writing Are You Saved
on the snow. 1t WAS necessary to hold the
meetings in all sorts of out OF, he way place
such as kitchens, stables. and the woods.
w were sent to open II corps in The noun
tains near Geneva. Even tho ministers spoke
against us. We couldn't get police protection
and the roughs stoned Ms and our converts and
followers numerically. After two months ",
saw that It would take male officers to conduc
a corps successfully up there In tho mountains,
and 80 we were transferred and stationed aboul
six miles from Seuch ttel. There we had Ave
large villages to work., with our hall in tn,
centre. We had great deal of trouble there,
TOO, but we did a fine work and saved many
souls. While at this place all of the officers Ii
the surrounding cantOns wore ordered to Neu
cnetel TO attend a two days meeting and coun