The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-18
Annual Report of Salvation Army
in United States.

Annual Report OF Salvation Army
in United States. s
The Salvation Army annual report for
the United States of America has just /;
been received in this Office 1t comes in
the form of 1GO-page booklet from off t
the Army's own press and compiled by1i
Commander Booth-Tucker. Besides be-
ing well written and got up it is splen-
ddly illustrated with = large number of
half-tone cuts of the different Army /
properties and operations.
The fact that the Army was only estab- /
lished in the. Union in 1881 and is thus |
only nineteen years old, makes the report /
the more Aemarkable.
THE CHURCH OF THE PEOPLE.
The distinguished writer of the report, I
in opening, says: The Salvation Army
is the evolution of two ideas-frst, that
of reaching with the gospel of salvation
the masses who are outside the pale of
ordinary church Influences; second, that
of caring for their temporal as well as
spiritual necessities. If IT were
possible to put into figures the sum total
of the indirect influence of the Army on
religious thought and sociological prog
ress and could we add to this it's direct
and visible accomplishments, the result
would indeed be startling"
THE CHURCH OF THE CHURCHES.
After pointing out that according to
church statistics there are some 20,000.0O0
persons for whom there Is no church ac-
commodation and do not attend any
places of worship, he says:
I'm the light of the above facts the ex-
treme Importance of the Army as a re-
o. ia ri N
fail to be recognized. Not only do tehs
of thousands of habitual neglecters Of the
ordinary means of grace make our SER
vices the only ones they ever attend, but
we follow them to their open-air resorts
and by means of our street parades, mu-
sic and open-air meetings We bring the
good news Of salvation to their very door
steps. The spiritual or evangelistic oper-
ations Of the Army are carried on by 7i9
posts or corps which are commanded or
in charge of 2,661 paid officers, whose en-
tire time is given to this work. Proper
oversight is secured by the country being
divided up into 16 divisions, II districts
and 81 sections. At these corps upwards
of 1900 meetings are held weekly be-
tween two and three millions of people
being reached annually and about 81, 900
persons profess conversion publicly every
year, amongst them being drunkards,
criminals and other outcasts of society -
WORK FOR THE VOORHEES,
1T is sometimes alleged that any man
, who wants work can get 81 But
the returns of the labor unions of the
State of New York show that during one
OF the most prosperous times ever re-
ported upon, 10 per cent of their men,
berS had been out of work If such was
the proportion amongst the powerful or
CARNATIONS represented it is easy to i'm
agine how great must be the suffering
n f7iz 10 .nr
! In single month the Salvation Army
+: found employment for 4,7S0 of these work
+: less persons through it's bureaux We
+ have now eight aaDor bureaux and nine
| teen salvage brigades, woodyards and
workshops, in addition to this each of oul
i corps Is practically a labor bureau ano
I by means of the efforts of the officers
+; thousands more are found employment
for. Our shelters for the homeless
=, poor have been greatly appreciated. Here
for five or ten cents each or it's equiva
z lent in work we nightly harbor thousand,
!, of destitute persons. There are now 4
: shelters for men and three shelters fo
o women. with accommodation for 5000
. For the year 1,S36,000 beds were provide,
d and 100000 meals supplied
!, RESCUE THE PERISHING.
In the United States we have nov
< fourteen Rescue Homes for Fallen WON
er with accommodation for $50 girls
: about 1000 having passed through during
e the year, 20 to SO per cent of them bein,
" restored to lives of virtue. . Meet
e ings are regularly conducted by permits
. sion of the authorities in many jails an
:. peLitentiaries, resulting in the conversion
81 of many conyicts. The Arm
~ also operates two orphanages in tn
. United States-one in New Jersey an
:, the other in California"
&C. FARM COLONIES.
in OF their interesting experiments o
e, this line the report says:
is 1T is now two years since our propose
to was made public. During this period. a
20 Though crippled for lack of capital. W
n have established three colonies-one
@, Colorado the second in California. an
ne another in Ohio. Each colon
I'd consists of tract of land divided I'D int
ed small homestead farms, from five to te
Of acres, with a cottage, a few cows. pis
and poultry. On our Colorado COLONY "
IT. have now about 80 persons. q cottage
It. l50 cows, 20 horses, 100 pigs and 1.O75 hea
ou OF poultry; also a creamery. At the er
Id of eighteen months what is the positio
Is, OF the colony? Each family is able
er meet its own expenses with the prospe
e. OF speedily repaying the money spent u,
C. on its establishment. There has been
IT. cash income of $500 en- an investment
be 100000, and this in the second year of Il
20 colony's existence"