Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-11-09
The SAL WALTON ARMY
Its Net hods and Its Accomplishments
in Phoenix.

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The following outline of the work
Of the Salvation Army in Phoenix has
been furnished by Mrs. Ensign West
The work OF the Salvation Army in
1'hocuiN is i'm a prosperous condition.
its hail on the corner of Second and
jefferson. is comfortably filled nightly
hy "a quiet, respectful audience. TheI"
are "a number recent converts whose
presence iii up the marches and plat.
form. At present there are over opes
hundred and fifty War Crys-the week.
Is paper-drd aiXty Young Soldiers
the children's paper-being sold on the
street ana i'm the citadel. and if there
were only q few lassie soldiers who
We're free from their daily toll for three
hours each week their distribution
could be raised 10 three hundred
COPIES per week. All the members of
the army have their homes and their
occupation TO attend to. Both men and
women are expected 10 work for their
own sustenance and not even their
uniforms are supplied by the army.
Some people are so far behind the
times as To suppose that the individual
members OF the Salvation Army are
supported by its nightly contributions
cxTect 20 live with the preacher ard
De- supported by the church collections
just because you had consented to join
abe church? Neither can you live with
the ensign and his wife or be supported
from army funds by becoming a MEM
aer OF it The officers who are seut
out by headquarters TO command the
pest are the same as ministers and
live ion the quarters prepared for them
the same us the pastors live in the
parsouaEes.
Sometimes. TWO lads are sent out to-
rether as captain and lieuteant.
sometimes two lassies under the same
or higher titles according to their
rank but never are lads and lassies
sent ont together unless they are a
married couple. II is surprising how
much ignorance still exists III the
minds OF some OF the people of Phoe-
nix concerning the army regulations
regarding these things. Some wen
read people. who ought to be more up
10 date seem TO think Salvationists are
only a band of free lovers, but if their
sons or their daughters should chance
10 be rescued from the slums of sin
by the Salvation Army how differently
they would feel.
The officers I'm command are the only
ones who are subject TO the orders OF
headquarters and even they do not
receive 90 stated salary. The collections
taken mp are spent for the rent light.
ing. fuel water bills and etc. If there
is anything left IN the treasury the
officers get q small saIary-if not they
get nothing. Still they toll. and faith
fully, because they love their work.
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and many people have found employ
meut thereby and many garments have
been -iEcn 20 the poor and needy.
Their latest achievement consisted
iu their clearing Of their yearly harvest
festival target. This is a collection in
which Headquarters sets certain
amount for every corps in the United
states 20 secure and il is spent Tor the
local and home missions. The target
set for The Phoenix corps this year
was $4,000 and something over 500
was raised by the earnest faithful
work of the members of the corps
putting their shoulder To the wheel.
This was q good record and they
speak zoo tho highest terms of the peo-
pie Of Phoenix for so literally helping
them 10 smash their target"
The Salvation army first bombardcd
Phoenix about twelve years ago Dy
two lassie officers sent here from
headquarters and they were Cminently
successful. Many remarkable cases
were captured who are still connected
with the army. Men VINO had been
besutted drunkards who cared nothing
seemingly for .heir homes or families.
are now faithful husbands and kind.
loving fIthers. sitting nightly upon
the platform testifying to the power
OF God TO save from sin. Women
who once pevcled in sin and tripped
lightly down the path of degradation
I'm this town are now marching the
streets with the army, living clean.
pure. sweet lives, loved and trusted in
their homes and respected by a pub
lie who once looked down upon them.
However the lassie officers sent out 10y
headquarters are never women who
have lived such lives. for while the
fallen sister is sought after as soldiers.
individual members, and as helpers
in the rescue homes, etc, they are
never placed upon the platform
Co lead IN the REGULAR field work.
And not all the soldiers have been
drunkards. cor many have been con-
rertcd from an Indifferent selfish
moral life. and some Of the homes of
the -Four Hundred" are open TO the
visits of the commanding officers
while the door OF the hut of poverty is
alvays swinging heartily 10 admit
their smiling faces.