The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-01
SALVATION
men CONFER
Officers of Army
Discuss Many
Methods.

The largest attended conference In
the annals of the Army in the Hawaii
an Islands met today in the reception
room of the Wemen's Home There
were two sessions, the morning one
commencing at 10 clock and the after
noon at O'Clock Major Wood called
the meeting to order and after short
devotional exercises introduced Colonel
French, who proceeded to lay down the
plans or lines upon which the confer
ence would run, and these lines were:
first, information; second, inspiration.
1t was not altogether as a legislative
body that they were met, for laws
were already made; the thing sought
to direct efforts to better advantage.
Each person present should endeavor
to both receive and give information
that would be mutually beneficial for
he believed that this would be means
| of inspiration to all.
Major Wood was called upon TO re-
port upon the years progress He
pointed out for the encouragement of
those present the advances which had
been made. There had been increases
| on almost every line; the membership
had gone up; the number of workers
augmented; circulation of literature
doubled, while the attendance at the
Sunday schools had been more than
! trebIed. The credit for all this he
gave to the workers present, who by
their self-denying, hard labor had made
such a report possible.
Colonel French then took ND several
points of the Majors report. eongratu-
llating the command upon the progress
made. he assured them of the great in
terest which was being taken in the
work here by. those in authority upon
! the Mainland. He very judiciously
touched upon the matter of the health
of the worker, pointing out the great
necessity for as far as possible con-
Iserying the strength, and while between
i wearing out and rusting out he would
Il always choose the former, he urged
should be taken.
The conference adjourned at noon for
! luncheon; reassembling again at p
! M. it continued sitting until 4:30 p. m
1.-THE subject under discussion. was that
of the Sunday schools and Young
Peoples work In very exhaustive
address lasting an hour and half Col
! French dealt very thoroughly with this
a he
what is the Junior work." he replied
by sketching it's four sections. First
the company meeting where Bible
truths are taught; second, the saliva
, ton meeting where these truths are
applied to the child's everyday life
third. the Band of Love, taking il
drills games, trade schools, gymnas-
tics, to meet the social and physical
side; and fourth, the Corps Cadet Bri-
Igade for handling the children between
the ages of II and is. Secondly, he
dealt with why it should be done,
| and lastly How to successfully en-
gage in it, In the course of his very
able talk he pointed out that stats
tics proved that the majority of Chris
tians We're converted in early life and
that after the age of % or 80 the chances
God. An ounce of prevention was
worth a pound of cure. and the best
method to deal with the stream OF
drunkenness and sin was to go to the
fountain head and save the children. a
general discussion of the subject in
| which the majority of those present
took part closed this session.
In the evening the Army divided its
/ ND hai CITY inc
one held forth oyer in Palama, where
q Maui delegate. Mr.. Kiyota, gave g
good talk in Japanese; the other open
air was at the usual stand Quite g
number of men from the U. S. S. Pet
! rel and the transport Thomas were pres
ent in the inside meeting. After the
usual testimonies Col French preach.
, ed from the text, LOOK unto me and
be ye saved all ye ends of the earth
Two more sessions of the conference
will be held TODAY AT night a "NIr.