The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-20
HEAD Of An ARMY
DARLINGTON BOOTH ADDRESSES
LARGE AUDIENCES IN THE
MILL CITY.
GROWTH OF THE VOLUNTEERS
AND THEIR GREAT WORK THE
THEME OF HIS AFTERNOON
TALK.
TOLERANCE FOR ALL oREEDs
Volunteers Working in Harmon!
With the Churches for Good of
Christianity.

BalIington Booth addressed two i'm
mense public meetings yesterday.
speaking to 5000 people, and creating
the greatest enthusiasm. They were
by far the greatest meetings of the
kind ever held in Minneapolis.
In the afternoon the commander ad-
dressed an assemblage at First Bap-
fist church, which completely filled the
large auditorium. The meeting was
swept by a great. wave of enthusiasm
and throughout his discourse the
church was shaken again and again
with tremendous cheers. Mayor Pratt
introduced the comma der of the great
Volunteer army. The mayor said that
he was proud to welcome Ballington
Booth to Minneapolis, where the Vol
unteers had already performed such
good work He assured the Volunteers
that the citizens were in sympathy with
their efforts, and that he both person
ally and officially would always be most
glad to assist them in any way he
could. He paid an eloquent and glow
ing tribute to the good being done by
the Volunteers. Commander Booth
said in part:
l feel grateful for the warm reception ac-
corded me by the citizens of Minneapolis. l
am glad to be able to speak to them OF our
new movement, for | feel sure that this great
movement, when once understood and appre-
ciated, will be most heartily supported by
Americans everywhere. The Volunteer move
ment is a. concerted, aggressive movement to
reach the unchurched and ungospeled. The
Volunteers are very closely affiliated with the
churches of this country, and are working
church and into religious organizations. |
want to say at the beginning of my talk that
l shall disappoint such as hope to hear me
say harsh things of the Salvation Army. /
shall say no Clkind words of the old army.
| wish it only prosperity and peace. There
is ample room for us ali in the great field
that needs attention. This movement OF
ours began seventeen months ago under God $
guidance and by the kindness, encouragement
and generosity of the American people, is a
great movement. | will not go into details
concerning my separation from the old army,
you know all about it long ago. You re-
member that | wished to put into the Saliva
ton Army certain American characteristics,
which | believed would be approved by the
American people, and indeed make work
more acceptable to Americans everywhere.
My wife and | saw the needs of this country,
the need of aggressive work along lines
wholly different from those pursued elsewhere
in the world This great country differs SO
from otter countries, it is so rapid and does
things so quickly We understand the condi-
our chosen work, and we believed that a peo-
pie that had advanced as the American peo-
pie had done, Intellectually, socially, CONNER
clally, 1ndustrially, municipality and c1vlliy
and morally was quite capable of governing
itself in spiritual way as well as in tenn
poral way. Great applauseD We. therefore,
decided that the army should not go to
England and the Thames for its government,
but should be governed in this country, and
that the principles of our army should be in
keeping with the principles of this republic,
W American DeODlo
and with the spirit of American institutions.
l am an American citizen by affection and by
adoption. / have given myself TO the Ameri-
can people. 1 believed that not only the men
who fought and fell in bloody war for the
American flag saved this country, but as we'll
that every citizen who is a consecrated man
and stands for what that flag stands for is a
good soldier. If l were an Englishman, and
l am not you know We are completely new
every seven years, and l have been here
eleven years., | should have the English flag
march at the head of our army. But, being
an American, l insist that the glorious flag,
the stars and stripes, the red white and blue,
shall float in the lead of our army, mingled
with the banner that stands for our alleg-
lance to the cross. (Applause.) We are dis
tinctly an American institution, imbued with
an American spirit, and we belong to the
American people.
Commander Booth then went on to
tell how encouraged the Volunteers
were every day by the kind words and
assurances of helpfulnesS from every
where He spoke of the work among
the criminal classes. He said that the
Volunteers made it special work to
care for prisoners just out of jail, for
they realized how hard it was for q
man of that kind to get anything like
a show He told several incidents of
the influence of Volunteers in the pris-
ons. He said the Volunteer movement
sought to get at the individual, feeling
that if it made good citizens it would
insure good government. The work, he
said, was educational in character,
striving to raise the intellectual as well
as the social and moral standard. The
need Of the times, he said, was intelli-
gence, sanctified and dedicated to hui
man needs. He spoke of the kindly re-
lations with the established church,
and said that the Volunteers cared not
for creed or dogma, but worked every
where and anywhere, and tried to do
good
A collection yielded the largest
amount ever taken up at a similar ser
vice in the city.
In the evening Commander Booth
spoke to another great audience al
Plymouth church. His discourse was
much the same as in the afternoon
He pleaded for consistent Christianity
and spoke of sham religion and make
believe Christianity. He said that thG
Volunteer Army at its very birth re-
allied that the greatest foe of faith
was not doubt, but selfish Christianity
not higher criticism, but inconsistency
and hypocrisy. He said that the IN
believing world would never be reach
ed while men calling themselves Chris
tians served self and evil and showed
no single Christlike trait in their lives
Consistent Christian lives were the
worlds need, he said. Dogma and
creed were not essential, but living
human religion was essential. What
the world needs said he, is faitf
so vital and SO living that it touches
human life into beauty and unselfsh-
ness and purity and sacrifice. ''The
question is not whether you are {
Methodist or not, but how good E
Methodist you are. 1t does not mat
ter whether or no you are a Baptist
the point is, how good a Baptist are
YOU? How true are you, as a Chris
ton to the principles of Christianity
How much is Christianity eXemplifiet
in your daily life
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