The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-11
MAN WITH TROMBONE
LEADS CHURCH ARMY
Missionary Work Done by Rev.
Wilson Garlic.
PURIFYING LONDON SLUMS
Newest and Stransest Ally Of the Church
Of Engisnd-It Has Wrought Won.
ders in Retaining the
Down.Trodden
PURIFYING LONDON sLUMS

- HAT most dignined, serious anu ~ III.
" sentative OF Institutions. the Cnurch
Of England, has taken into alliance
a man with a trombone. who horri-
- fed the stately bishops az hrAt py
carrying his instrument into his pulpit
and playing II right Justify, too. Inc all-
auce was not so one-sided an aiiaif as
might be supposed, either, for the man
with the trombone founded an army
whose proportions and whose achieve
monts viii prove astonishing when the
figures are given out al the annual con-
ference TO be held a few weeks hence IN
St. James hall.
The man with the trombone Is the Rev
Wilson Garlic, and the extraordinary or
ean.zation at his back is called the Church
Army. IL began eight years ago. with
poor curate and a broken-winded harmon
icum, Now-although these facts are not
known generally-it has an income OF
$4,000 a year and working STAN OF
more than 1000 people. 1T has been recns-
nIzed by the queen and indorsed by the
Archbishop OF Canterbury and has spread
quietly TO the United States. The move
ment on this side OF the Atlantic has been
on a small scale and has been confined 10
Naw York, but its future. II its growth Is
10 be Judged by that OF the parent ofgdni-
xntions will prove rather surprising.
That battered Trombone.
The man with the Trombone typifies
this queer army which Is beginning to at
tract general attention, He has played
that trombone In the streets. In saloons
and IN dance halls. and has had II pretty
badly battered in many an encounter with
toughs He was laid up for six months
after one such night. and he and his from
bone had to be patched up before they
could get into line again.
You can Judge from these facts that the
Church Army IL more like the Salvation
Army than would he thought possible
with an organization now officially con-
nected with the naughty old Church OF
England The growth Of the Church
Army has been phenomenal. and 1t would
indeed prove n dangerous rival to the SAL
walton Army II II were not a fact that.
although In no way allied. they are ON the
best of terms with each other. The
Church Army's work =. u anything. even
more picturesque than the vast organiza-
ton controlled BY the Booth family. and
IL Is as well worth watching
\ Religious Emporium.
fts headquarters. like It's founder. and a
good many OF It's methods. are out of the
ordinary. They occupy the second third
and fourth stories of almost solid block
IN Edgeware road, not far from the Marble
arch IN Hyde park, London The ground
floors OF these buildings are occupied by
millinery shops and similar resorts Of the
frivolous and worldly minded. in startling
contrast 70 the great religious emporinm
overhead. That phrase u not ussd light.
~. "Reigioiis emporium" describes the
impression that the headquarters Of tho
Church Army conveys Here eighty-nve
people are working nom morning unti
night. for nothing They are not old
maids and holier-than-thou men either
hut largely men and women between Is
and ~, who might he earning adequate
salaries busting about in this great bee-
hive. because as they say II IL lald on
their souls to DO n You hear the rattle
of score OF typcwriters mixed up with
the strains Of "a cottage organ, and know
that while on ono side of partition a
class of Young people is being taught how
to hold BIBLE aud prayer meetings on the
ether side the hookkeep.r ani iiis assist
ant are almost forgetting piety in giving
chase 90 missing Axfsnee in the bah
ance sheet
Mr.. Cariiie doesn't spend "a great deal
Of time at the Church Army headquar-
ters. His people there arc never sure at
what moment he may pop IN. for he has
ever so many religious irons IN the FIRE,
and the only office he has there Is a little
stan Of n place about as commodiaus az
n sentry box. with never chair In u. bat
simply "a deek AT which this enerEetic
clergyman stands and crosses on the
tainss done SO FAR that day from the list
~ the things vet down 10 be done
He T. an attractive. gray. haired mill
iarN-loohing man, who wears frock coat
ard silk hat and laughs every other
minute. he doesn't carry the pulpit into
his conversation. apparently has no thirst
for nctarety, and makes PRAYER AS
heartily snd a. wnaffecteiiy as he grips
your hand
when saw him ne was iust taking
luncheon at the Church Army hsadguAr-
tors aiulng room and in the act OF assur-
ms Healo9s CHRISTIAN who had given
him some Temperance heer'' that e was
mighty nat stun When asked Nhat
new ble schrmss he had nu hand he sail
he was planning 90 send a contingent ~
his men 10 thr 'front.' a. arAt both the
rVtl One ana the Beers a. the emporium.
tty presented itsclf-l rs fect. haA iusG come
from an interview with Lord faaxaowno
On thr subicSt
re remarked that a. FAR ~ hls army
was eoncernei IN was nos an expansion
tst. ana alsciaimed the ambition an often
impate8 - him SO beat the Saliva tgan
Army IN point os numbers
81 all the endless anA UNCOMMON thtnx@
that are bsinx done rs tire soniety quar-.
tered there. tire hrxest ana mess tntsr.
rztinx "A The work ia prisons aud naor.
hsnscR. and the system Of sHarkGne
homes" The church ARMY has afflrial
permission 80 set AZ the prisoners, and
the additional cnaceS siou thar no nsfasr,
ufffttaf NHst ~ fftHtlt curing tJn inter.
Views with the prisoaers
IN the course - those Interviews ire
missioner 10 told. nnt how siekat ara TIRE.
aeanNnle ne IS hut what a mistake no
has made In adopting a Hfe ~ iatourSs
ana worry inztead ~ one ~ tariff ana
content, N he realizes the TRUTH af thia
they ask him II nc would Ike 10 earn ar
honest living afger he comes aet " pfgsan
IN After all their evpss ha doesn't ~
II let alone. bgf N he d0es ghe Church
Array receives him when hss term az,
n.res. into one 81, us workiue homes ~
which there are lee IN Great Eylta4n
when a man enters the home ne begin
10 chop dveNooa ena 30 draw salary p,
the rate % about g - "A week For hts
h,afd--foar meals a 3ay-eRd lodging they
charge him 81 50 he gets Is cents foi
pocket money. and the rest Is banked 70,
him, Religion IS not pressed uHen Rim
TOO sharply: he attends morning ON.
.veninr prayer. but when work Is ION,
no can smoke and play checkers os dom
inoes.
1-ee Arst thing aimed az Is that thes,
.r.e,,,ess' should be as much like a hafu,