The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-09-18
FROM FRIDAY UNTIL NEXT TUES
DAY, INAUGURATBD BY LOCAL
SALVATION ARMY.
CAPTAIN AND MRS. WILL ]. POND
10 PUT FORTH UTMOST EFFORT
IN SOUL SAVING WORK.
Cadets Institute Campaign IN Surround
ing Country Towns-Fund to Be
Raised for SIum Missions and for
Expenses of Opening of
Local Corps.


a harvest festival has been inaurated
by the local corps Of the Salvation Ar
my in charge Of Captain and Mrs. VIII
j. Pond. The festival viii last from
Friday, September IS, to Tuesday, Sep
tennber %. A fund of $50 for the slum
missions will be raised during the festi-
WI, and it is the hope OF the members
of the local corps to- raise. in addition,
enough to defray the cost Of the estab-
lfshment of the corps here. Captain
Pond wants to raise enough money to
pay for the big Salvation tent, the other
paraphernaIia, and to cover the expenses
of the opening of the Salvation Army in
this city.
Some of the cadets have instituted
campaign during the festival in the
country towns in the county and they
VIII continue to work in that direction
while Captain and Mrs. Pond are hold
ing the meetings in the city.
Many persons IN the city are some
what unfamiliar with the history of the
Salvation Army. Following is a pocket
history of the Organization, which gives
in brief outline few facts and data re-
'pnrding thisc ommendable Christian
organization:
The Salvation Army is tRirty.seven
years old, the year 1865 witnessing its
birth.
General William Booth, who com
nanded the Army, was, under the in
spiration of God, its organizer.
The Army started its meetings in a
disused burial ground belonging to the
Quakers, from whence it branched out
into some of the vilest and most dis
reputable localities in the East End OF
London. Some Of those could scarcely
have been equnled anywhere else at that
tim. Billy McGlory's old Haymarket
and the present McGiA-ll's Suicide Hall ?
both of the old Bowery in New York
scarcely came up, or rather down, to
their levi. Thousands of converts were
made in these places, and as if in pro
testation against the rationalism OF the
age, the great majority of these formerly
ldeoraded men and women lived and died
in fear of God.
The organization was first called The
Christian Mission" but military titles,
uniforms and Paraphernalia were adopt
ed and complete organization effected IN
1873, when the title was changed to The
Salvation Army"
The work Under General William
Booths command made great, and e
conservative churchmen, startling head
way. 1t stretched beyond the limits Of
the metropolitan area OF London, up
and down and across, into country after
country, up into Scotland, over into Ire
.lland and Wales, across channel into
Guernsey and jersey, then France, the
United States, Australia, and gradually
into other countries, until at the present
time the Army flag waves in England.
!, Erelnnd, Scotland Wales, France, Switz-
erland, HoIland, Belgium, Norway, swed-
en-. Denmark, Italy, the United States
Canada and Newfoundland, Germany
Japan, India, Ceylon, Java, Australia
J South Africa, Barbndoes, South America
and Jamaica.
commissioner George Scott Railton
! pioneered the work in the United States,
with seveI female officers. ''Railton and
J the seven halleluiah lassies" viii forver
/ live upon the pages of Army history in
the United States, The landing was
made in eFbruary, 1880
) The first convert in. America was
: James Kemp, known as "Ashbarrel Jim
NV because of his being found frozen
in an ashbarrel one cold winters night
in a drunken condition and was unable
to extricate himself. Kemp lived CON
, sisted life for many years and died
: victorious death.
The Army, having successfully stood
: The test of misunderstanding, has com
mended itself as "A stable institution
4 whose work, bearing, as it does, the di'
e vino impress, cannot materially be Hf'
e fected by the cast of individuals. 1t i
now generally accepted ns fact that
5 the organization is not built upon indi
y yiduals, but upon the Fundamental prin
ciples of apostolic Christianity.
This is one reason why the recognition
now accorded it Is so general. 1t i
interesting to know that in 1901 no
n only were kind words spoken OF tn
c work by members Of the rcigning fami
IS lies Of Sweden and Denmark, but Queer
E, Alexandra of England sent donation
n as nm expression of her sympathy, an
Y President Roosevelt contributed to tn
Christmas dinner fund.