The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-27
A SHELTER HOME
To be Instituted in Wheeling by
the Salvation Army
THE INITIATIVE WAS TAKEN
At the Meeting Addressed by Consul
Bootll-Tuckcr ut Fourth Street NJ.
Il. Church Last Night IA Large
Audience Heard Very Interesting
Recital of What the Army is Doing
for the Poor and Wrctchcd.

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a large audience listened to Consul
Booth-Tucker at Fourth Stree. NJ. e.
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rus, '''s mo "'''0'. tui W.
man Is daughter or General William
Booth, the organizer OF the Salvation
| Army. md hcr odfrens last n,e,t on
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'iie soe'i' "oth Vi cue army was inter-
esting and clevating, and Its effect Will
| he seen in Increased success In the III
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tractiVe In person and possessing q
deep we'll of magnetism, she spoke for
two ho,rs without. ,iripc nor hoorors
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CIV "oi' many "e" au'siiels 10! lhe
armys great work.
The meeting was called to order by
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'hose vi tne piallotfh were teV. >. IL
Sooy. pastor of the church. Rev. y. S.
Thomas rector Of ST. N1a,tbow's p +,
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No'so' i'ou'ii-i ucnei ana ie'
| private secretary, Colonel Lewis. These
| Two aules were me guests OF Mr..
ienry II. List, at ms home on North
NAM street. me exercises were opened
| oS SINGING, anu prayer olfcred By Key.
Or. Sooy. fer. Mr.. Thomas was Sc
lected TO preside.
Kew. Mr.. THOMAS, in Introducing
Consul booth-fncKer. said II gave him
great pleasure to present the second
daughter oil General William Booth, one
OF the greatest men or the nineteenth
century. what Stanley found in hfri-
ca, william Booth had found in Lon
don. He sought to lift up his fellow
men higher and the speaker knew Of
no movement which had so reached the
class the churches failed to reach as the
salVation Army.
Mrs. Booth,Tucker, thanked Rev. Mr..
Ihotnas Tor his kind words. and then
she soon brancheI out into discussion
OF her topic. What credit was due TO
the army, shel said, was perhaps be-
| cause Its members saw so much OF the
misery. the woe, the poverty and the
wretchedness of the world. They visit
cd the Sums, the novels and the prisons
ana mad seen humanity broken and
bruised. But the glory was all due to
CHRIST. to whom the Salvation!sts We're
committed ana their success was due
entirely to Him.
Ihe army was organized about thirty
years ago, was now in forty-two coun-
tries. ana It's Official organ, the WAR
Cry was printed in twenty different
languages ana hau n weekly circula-
| ton or 1.coo.OOo copies. The army's
mission was to bring the light Of the
gospel to churchless men and women:
TO those bordering on the brink of de-
struction and those who might sink
/ lower; but It's mission was not cXclu-
sively Tor the working classes as some
had supposed. During the past twelve
months In the United States alone.
$1,000 people had come forward to the
penitent form and expressed VOWS to
lead better lives. Concerning the great
work TO be done, the speaker said there
we're 100000 people in this country, in
GLIDING the vicious and criminal
classes, who might be termed voorhees,.
and living in the dark regarding Chris
| tlanity.
Among the pathetic snectacles that
| had come under her notice. was
In New York at the Saliva
| ton Army headquarters. where
1900 worthless men. abie-bcdied and ca
gcr for work. applied for shelter. They
were given their breakfast and on the
| following day they hurried bright and
early to get work shovelinS snow.
There were fifteen men for every shov-
| ell. Mrs. Booth-Tuckcr said she had
found that IS per cent of the voorhees,
| and homeless, poor was willing to
work. and the cry that these people
won't work." was traceable TO the per
cent that would not work. She detailed
incidents of how the dodgers at the
army's homes were put to saving wood
and other Jobs to help pay for their
meals and beds The army had found
steady employment for 5000 men last
year,
But the voorhees, poor were no worse
off than the homeless poor. or the lat
ter class there were 80. 900 in this cCun-
try. And then there were the drunken
masses. The Salvation Army was tho
largest temperancc society In tho
world: all It's members took pledges of
abstinence from liquor. The spcal;cr
spoke at length on the wrctchednoss
caused by strong drink. and her recital
of the reformation OF \ woman rag
picker who had sunk ms loN rs II was
possible to sink. vas intensely p,.ophic
and held the audience spoI,-bounI Tho
reclaimed woman If roy ono nf I'm
arn,y's most successful WORKERS. MANY
| other similar cypcrlanrcs wore related
The criminal cloeyas warn ucvt ais
cusscd briefly. Tho army worked among
the convicts in the cells and those who
had lcf. Tho nrisnr rntn r,y.cr,. ,.sor
1000 mon mass from thn nrisnne thc.
work done by tbn army nn,onr tbrm
was one OF mich mornitndo rbnv
| know, and feel thry INV" n frIcr,, In ,hn
army and thc nrnv;e bal,c o,,o,.,. Jny
| finds ono or ihcm Ioolkir,, a.. o,,,nIo :.
| tinn md ADVICE T, vns so,,oti,,,ns ~,
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