The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-18

rRIENDS, you may always depend
- upon it that whichever the Saliva
Il ton Army makes an announce
nent of any kind, no matter
whether it be wedding or funeral
it is for some Interior purpose, and that
purpose is to save souls.
1t was in these words thsa Major
Wood of the Salvation \ArUg addressed
the large audience that had assembled
at the Y. NJ. C. A. Hall last evening to
witness the wedding of Adjutant
Maude Sharpe to Captain j. II. P. Jen-
sen. The ceremony, as conducted by
the major last night, bore out his
words. There was nothing to dis
tinguish the important occasion from
an ordinary meeting of the arm y, save
that the audience was somewhat larger.
much more mixed, and an admission
fee was charged. There were some four
hundred people present, and the re-
ceipts amounted to something like forty
or fifty dollars. The platform was
crowded with soldiers from all parts
of the Territory. The only decorations
were the celors that were displayed at
the back of the stage There was no
shimmering satin or orange blossoms,
and no conventional black.
The marriage of the two army officers
last night was the first Salvation Army
wedding ever held on the Island of
Oahu. The affair has occasioned con-
siderable talk, both among the organi-
cation to which the two contracting
parties are members and among the
community at large. The bride has
been the temporary head Of the rescue
home in Honolulu. The groom has had
charge of the work on Kauai and Maui.
Promptly at o'clock the wedding
procession filed into the auditorium
from the street, where the soldiers, in
Guiding the bride and groom, had par
tfcipated in the usual outdoor meeting
Major Wood. after a song and a
prayer, made a few opening remarks
He said:
as marriage a failure? Well
friends, that depends pretty much on
the point of view, and your reasons
for getting married. If you mean mat
rimony as something to help you to
lead better lives and to aid you in CIV
ing better service to the Lord, 1t Is
never a failure. If you intend 1t as a
means whereby to crafty selfish inter
ests, the result is almost always dtsas-
trous God made woman to be mans
helpmeet. and man to be the protector
of woman. He did not intend that one
should be superior to the other, Some
times. though. think the little girl
was right who said that when Coo
made Eve he made her out of Adam $
backbone 1t does seem to me that wo-
men have more backbone than men.
'In the Salvation Army we know no
such thing as inequality between the
sexes. A woman may aspire to any po-
sitfon she desires. In Canada, the head
of the work Is a woman. The same Is
true of Norway and Sweden, and the
same was true of India One thIne
that may be said of woman in this
work, and that is they do not get Dig
headed"
The major then made direct appear
10 the members of his audience to look
wen to IT that they neglected not the
work Of the Lord, and that they saw
n n that their everlasting peace had
been made. >.
Then came the wedding march 1t
was a typical blood and fire" song.
Following this, the officers and the au-
dieuce sang Friendship with Jesus.
This was succeeded by Scripture
reading. The Major read that portion
of Genesis which recounts the creation
Of Eve. Following this were some
more pertinent remarks on marriage
by the presiding officer. He told ms
hearers not to stop counting when the
marriage ceremony was performed, put
To keen on all through life. The time
| for a man to show a woman how much
he thinks OF her is after the preacher
| has finished his work Candy ice
cream and other little attentions are
sns4 &C much appreciated after the
n1IntiaI knot has been tied, as before.
| aCaptain Jensen" said the speaker,