The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-26
NEEDS OF THE SALVATION
ARMY THOSE OF THE POOR

The officers in charge of the Salvation
Army Corps in this city announce their
annual week of Self-denia1 and Prayer
commencing Saturday evening. March
&c, to April 3, 1904. The Salvation
Army may very properly be called the
worlds charitable clearing house, in
and through which the public's money
is carried to thousand different needs
and necessities. and to the balancing
of as many phil enthropic accounts.
This is by no means a figurative ex-
preston for, like the clearing house,
| the Army handles not it's own but other
peoples money, and in it's activity ex-
presses, as it We're, the condition of the
worlds philanthropic market. 1t took
the world some time to find this out,
for the landless, shelters for the home
less, industrial homes for the voorhees,.
supply stores for the poorest, rescue
homes for the fallen, children's homes
for the orphaned, hotels for respectable
workingmen and workingwomen-thes
to say nothing of the countless express
sion of relief among the poor and
wretched, are but a few out of the
score of efforts to the maintenance of
which the public money goes.
The one thing that Army folk regret
is that they cannot do more: that by
reason of lack of funds they are unable
to go further than they have gone.
This being the case, it is certainly up
to- the public to consider it very seri-
ous1y. for in view of the splendid things
already achieved by the Army it can
hardly be considered as less than calam-
itous that mere lack of funds should
prevent its further development.
1t is almost wholly upon the public
generosity that the Army organization
depends in its noble work, and of ne
cessity as that work expands and en-
larges the Arny's dependence must in
crease with it. We need remind our
readers of the numberless deeds of
good done by the Salvation Army: of
the hundreds of thousands of men,
women and children fed and clothed
by them at Christmas time. The Army
has from all reports relieved clothed
and sheltered thousands of people dur
ing the past hard winter on the main
land. It's officers were on the alert each
time they were wanted both at the
floods in the State of Kansas, where the
mayors of several cities turned over the +
entire work of relieving the suffering
to the officers of the Army. Also at
Baltimore during the fire their officers !
were again to the front helping and
blessing the sorrowful and afflicted.
In consequence of the above-named
effort the officers in charge of the local
corps have arranged a special program
for each night of the coming week so
this evening the local
corps under the leadership of Ensign
Bessie Haynes, Capt. c. Homsharh
and Lieut.. McClelland and the corps
full brass band will open the effort by
TWO open-air services. one at the cor
ler of Fort and Hotel streets, viii be
ed by the lassies of the local corps.
The second open-air at the corner of
Hotel and NuUanu streets viii be led ,
1y the lads of the local corps so that
he public may have an opportunity to
lee the local corps in full swing So .
f you are not approached by either a
AISLE or lad in the next week and de-
ire to help this great effort, call at the
lall on King street near Fort any even
ng and the officers in charge will 4