The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-01
COL. R. E. HOLZ SPOKE
SALVATION ARsIy LEADER MAKES ADDRESS.
spenyxs cf work of Organization Dur ing Past Twenty-nve Years Compliments Efforts Of Fei-
 lowers in Montgomery.

aFsor a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit, neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For ev- cry tree is known by his own fruit was the text which formed the foun- dation of the lecture, "A Diamond in the Rough" delivered by. Colonel R. E.. Holz of the Salvation Army at the First Baptist Church last night.
 In an address which occupied more than an hour Colonel Holz devoted himself to describing the Salvation Army as tree. the branches Of which extend to all the world.
 For more than twenty five years Colonel Holz has been an officer Tn the Salvation Army, and for the past ten years he has held the ofice Aof Colonel which ranks second in the Army in this country He talked of what has been accomplished by the Salvation Army in Montgomery In the past twenty-five years; or the practi- cal religion exercised daily by the host of workers in the Army; of the thousands of men and women rescued every year and placed In positions where they have become credit to their community instead of menace and have become property owners and tax payers instead of burden ana aaliction to the community In which
 Colonel Holz illustrated the prac- ticaI work done by the Army through out this country. In feeding the hum gry.- sheitering the homeless and pro viding institutions for the p2or, m the endeayor to bring lost and strick- en souls from the paths or evil.
 In graphic language he told or a number of the diamonds in the rough which have been snatched from the slums of the greater cities. In Bunalo, N. Y., he had occasion to ask financial aid of the city. He was told to show .h.A szn1 F.v .rsh rs pose would result in a return in com- mercial value to the city.
 He selected fifteen men who had been rescued by the army as basis of cal- cuiation and simpiled from the lives ef those fifteen a record that won for him all he had asked.
 Statistics showed that the combined time of the fifteen men, in jails and guard houses had been fifty-four years: that the costs of arrests. convictions and court proceedings to the city had been $49,e4O. He also showed that each of those men at that time was self supporting and was caring for their families and buying homes
 Of the work in Alabama he spoke In terms of warlnest approval, especial ly of the Rescue Home at Birmingham. Of the work of Captain and Mrs. Odom in Montgomery his praise was unstint ed. especially of the nj Int school which Is conducted by Mrs. odom in West End and which is attended by an aver age of from forty-five to fifty pupils,
 Colonel Holz was accompanied to Montgomery by his daughter. Miss Maud Holz. captain of the army. and by Major J M. Berfiman, commander of the Southern Division. The party will leave Montgomery this morning for Tampa. Fla. from which place they will go to Cuba for few days. They will return to be present at the annual convention of the Salvation Army in the South which VII be held February 15-1S at Atlanta. Colonel Holz was in. troduced to his audience by Michael Cody.