The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-18
What Will Become Of the Salvation Army2
Question Answered an Interview With Commander

What will become Of the Salvation
Army?"
Commander Booth-Tucker. who is
soon to 'Aturn over the work in Amer
lea. to a successor not yet named in
order to take up position on the in
ternational STAFF in London, smiled
The question has girdled the
globe with the army itself. We meet
it at every turn. am daily. asked the
question and daily / see it seriously
discussed in the public prints. We of
the army can't get away from it. We
don't want to. We consider that every
time the query is propounded high
compliment is paid to us. 1t is proof
positive that the world at large no
longer regards us with utter indiffer-
ence, to say the least but now takes
us seriously and realizes that we are
social and economic factor that has
to be reckoned with in the gen.
eral scheme of things It recognizes
that If we are to dissolve upon the
death of our beloved leader there
would necessarily have to be a re-
adjustment, socially and economically,
in the forty-nine countries and colonies
in which we are established. Hence,
the constant reiteration of the query.
What will become of the Salvation
Army?'
Result of Booths Genius.
But no readjustments well be neces-
sary. II took. a genius to invest and
manufacture the locomotive; 1t takes
only an engine to run it, A Fulton
was needed to build the first steam
hnaf. a 1fra17cad
So with the Salvation Army. General
Booth is the genius that brought it
into being; he has spent his lifetime
organizing, vifalizing and improving
It.. Just as Fulton taught his helpers
to run a steamboat, so the General
has trained his lieutenants in the work
of the army; and there is no more rea-
son why the Salvation Army should
cease to exist with the last breath of
the General than there was for
Methodism to die with John Wesley.
Wesley not only eneunciated a
strong religious principle, he organ
lied 1t thoroughly from top to bottom.
so that the work he believed II could
be carried on after he had laid 1t
down. he vitalized a movement that
only Providence can vitiate. White
field was different. He recruited his
followers from the various existing
religious bodies Of the time he made
no. or little, effort TO perfect an or
ganization that would carry on his
work. AS a result, when he passed
off the stage his following was dis
persed and swallowed up by religious
bodies such as Wesley's, that had been
built up to live beyond thier founders
lifetime.
Organized From Top 20 Bottom.
1.-The Salvation Army has been thor
oughly organized from top to bottom.
II no longer depends on the guidance
of this man or that to keep II alive
The whole scheme for it's perpetuation
has been worked out to the slightest
detail Every man and woman in il
knows his or her work and just what
TO do IN this or that emergency. When
member Is promoted he does not
and cannot set about revolutionizing
his department; he can only bring
novelty 10 the position. The entire
army Is like well-oiled machine. with
each part doing It's own particular
duty II caf he left In charge OF lieu
tenants for an Indefinite period, N need
be. l lately returned from two
months trip 10 Europe 10 find that
the ar--y IN America had run along AZ
fmoothly during that time AZ II had
tecn here. hardly ever visit or por-
sonally direct the work OF any Of our
social institutions yet they are getting
along ewimminRly What ~ true Of
America ~ equally true Of the army N
the various countries.
II was IN india ten years. leaving
there fourteen years ago. rp 20 that