The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-22
COL. FRI NOH TELLS
OF AkAY WORK
What SasvAtionists Are Doing
tor the Sinful.
LIGHT IN DARK PLACES
REACH IEoPIE THAT 10
oSaEas CAN SAVE.


At the First Congregational church
last night Colonel George French, who
has charge OF. the western disssfon OF
the Salvation Army, delivered a most
interesting address on the work of the.
Salv atioH Army, IL Taking the Cos
pei to Those in the Gutter In his
talk he presented to his listeners a.
most graphic picture OF the labors OF
the Army among those whoa the saI
loon and gan bIfngr house had cast into.
the cutters and Of the heroic work
of Army girls among, the women cast
into ethe depths of degradatfons and
shunrsec ike death by their sisters.
The Salvation Army attended in q
body and the audience though not
large. was very attentive and appre-
cfative.
The services were opened with q
beautiful solo with guitar acconpani-
Hent BY Mrs. Ensign Thompson, after
which Colonel French read his text
from the tenth chapter OF Luke, where
&c speaks OF the traveller who tel among
thieyes. and his treatment by. the
priest the Leyire. and the Coed saT
zone of the complaints said coloneT
Freuch. that IS made against the SAL
vzttOn Army IS thar il has brought re-
hglon, too low. You have dcRhtless
has dragged religion into the gutter.
We plead guilty to that charge and
consider it compliment, because we
feel that we are eunulating the exam
pie set blythe founder of religion.
rs il not a fact that he brought it
lotV enough for ewing thief on q
cross Of wood TO take It and low
enough Cor a Magdaien to partake Of
it, Is il not a fact that the tendency
is to take religion OUT of reach of the
peCp pie and place such a premium on
the confession of it that those who
are in the depths oE ST. feel that IL is
not fo' them and that they cannot get
-This IS the thing that the Army has
TO fght,,2gainSt for it. meets. it on ev-
es< hard When we take the teaching
II Chriet TO these people, they say it
is not for me, and some of them even
say that God has forgotten them. but
viii remember them Ia some future
time. These people are like the man
iu he verse of this text-they have
been rocbed not only of money, bat Of
Saloon, with its peFniciouS. influence,
and the gambling house with its gilt
tering aiiureueentS, are robbing men
O their hard-earned wages, robbing
hon IS into shelters for pauperisn.
alto these places the Salvation
\. ARR y has carried its banners, and now
fens OF thousands of these people are
and Efted from. their sin. ltse-s
The great need of the world today
Is s, sympathy. not dogma and religious
creea-" This needed sympathy and
hand-to- hand help, he said, was what
the Salvation Army was tryiag to rem
der to the class Of people with whom
they were called tie labor. He then
gave a most graphic description OF
how the women, bg a kind VOID or
deed, We're winning hundreds. Of souls
every week. He told how thes- went
into the teeement novels. where the
most pitiable want and desH tsition
reignRd. and by. hard ia'bor helped Efie
people there to. better their condition.
end gave them tracts of land in their
colopies. WI.ere they copld live and IN
timcsown homes
He said that t.ley We're preaching the
gospel IN thirty languages and distrib-
uting nc less thar 59.0cJ.a50 Copies OF
with a most touching description OF
girls from her path. aud told of the
work among these women.
At the close Of the talk, Rev. CIar-
e1ce T. Brown said.
ut IS with deep humiliation that ]
say thai there is not q spot Of ground
eeensingly- in this city where we car
erect Il rescue home There seems MOI
to be a place in the whole city where
there is not so much objection raised
that those who have the matter In
charge are forced to abandon tee idea
OF. erecting. oss here ~
After a song by the congregation. tht
meeting was dismissed by D.. Brown
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