The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24


great extent fail to accomplish, and dt
not SO much as seek to accomplish. i
originated i'm England. and was the
work of one man and his really saint
ly wife-William Booth and Mrs
Booth. He was a regular Methods
preacher, resigned his place in the
ministry of that church to follow q
new and even more important voca-
tion-to carry the Gospel to the fallen
the extremely poor, the utterly aban-
doned and despised. He showed q
true sacrifice, a hardy courage, a
sublime self-abnegation, a brave heart
when he gave up certainty for uncer.
tainty, a life of comparative ease for
one of exposure and poverty and per-
haps want. He was branded with in
fanny, denounced, ScOrned, der1ded, in.
suited. brutally prosecuted, and anita
gonized by the old church organiza-
tions He was hereto, coarse med
der a buffoon, an enemy to peace anC
order That eloquent and very uSefu.
and most entertaining minister ano
author, the late Arch-deacon Farrar
of the English Established Church, {
few years before his DEATH wrote il
high appreciation of the work ant
worth of the Salvation Army. Refer
ring to William Booths retiring from
the Methodist church to give himsel
TO the life of sacrifice and suffering
How many of those who have Ian
guage for him too contemptuous woul
have been ready to face the world
he did, with wife and four delicat
little children. to abandon all certain
means of support, and to ALLEVIATE al
most every friend in order to VIII
more souls to God?"
He began his work, went into tn
slums, dives, most loathSome retreat.
of vice and degradation in London
where "comfortab BILE pietism," to quot,
DIR. FarTar, did not enter but Steadfl
avoided as if pegt-houses, and refuse,
To acknowledge as existing, and We
one delicate, poverty-Smitten, enthus
iastic and earnest worker for God an
fallen humanity, dared to go into sue;
denS of iniquity and vice and lOath
someneSs, and without name, withou
fame, without rank, without intiu
ence," but imbued with faith, discard
ing formulas and graphing realities
he started that wonderful or
ganization extending from New Tea
land right round to San Francisco,
and from Cape Town to Nordkoping.
II think" says Archdeacon Farrar,
that even the bitterest, the most UNI
just, the most cynical and. the most
finical of the laymen and clericS who
have written to traduce and execrate
it (the Salvation Army) might wish
to God that in the life-Work of any
one of them they had done one
thouSandth fraction of good, compar-
able in amy one visible direction TO
that which has been wrought by Gen
eral Booth" Even Huxley, the infidel
sneered at and reviled it. and perhaps
was harked on by the other scoffers
and infidels. Now the originator ano
head of this great working power
General Booth, now aged and not
far from life'S end, is honored anC
revered by most of the churches, tha'
spat upon him and called him harsh
names once. Not long ago, an English
Archbishop spoke kind and appfecia-
tive words in behalf of. the Salvation
Army. Archdeacon Farrar sees
analogies for General Booths wonder
full success in the Protestant Refor-
nation. i'm Europe, in Wesley's great
evangelistic work, and particularly IL
the movement and success of the earl!
Christian Church. | must take leaV
to quote again from the very gifte,
and eminent Archdeacon Of the Eng
lish Establishment He sees the rea
son for General Booths wonderful sue
cess in that, first The recognized tire
mendous need, and next. instead
acquieScing in impotence, as most mel
do, he determined to grapple will
that need by most unconventiona
methods Four remarkable
elements of its structure have adde,
greatly to the rapidity of the success
which the Salvation Army has attain
ed.
Il. One of these is the use which
has been made of the energy and de-
votion of women.
-. The immediate use to which tht
Salvation Army puts it's converts
Many of the wavering nigh
have been lost for ever if they had no
been from the first taught and en-
couraged to come out of their evil sur
roundings and boldly take their sid
with God and with the work of God.
80. The teaching men to give. A
every meeting of the Salvo tio' ~
there is a collection. That
is how a sect of yesterday. started
a discredited Methodist, has succeed
ed in raising revenue of some ESQ.,
600 year.
"a. But, after all, the chief secret of
the growth of the army has lain in
the f-sacrifice-a self-sacrifice not
short of heroism-which it has evoked
in hundreds of it's votaries."
He tells (mind you fourteen or more
years ago., of scholars and diStin-
guished men who have been brought
To appreciate and sympathize with the
great and blessed work of the Saliva
ton Army, and among those who had
encouraged the great movement were
Cardinal Manning and the very elo-
quent and celebrated John Bright, OF
England, The Endorsement of such
men with Archdeacon Farrar is very
significant indeed.
Recently Rider Haggard, the Eng
lish novelist. visited the United States
to see for himself the movement on
the part of the Salvation Army in our
country, to procure lands for the re.
claimed poor and ruined, and to put
them in way to build colonies ano
expand production and trade. He has
published volume, which 1 have no
seen, in advocacy of the plan, anC
intends it for his own country. For
some z u months Wilmington has had
a Salvation Army. small be efficient
1t is under the direction of Adjutant
Virgins, very pious. consecrated
earnest Englishman, who was reared
q Methodist but has been in the Sal
walton Army for fifteen years He is
assisted by his pious. very intelligent
wife, and faithful niece and a sergeant
and they are most dutiful. earnes.
workers. They have hall on Seconc
street, and hold open air meetings
about three times week in many por.