The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-18
SAL VATION|sTs
WANT BOILOING
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sity to the general community. As DR..
Scudder said in church last Sunday
night, the Salvation Army is an adj
iunct to the Church. In our work we
reach people and conditions that could
be reached in no other way. We have
been accused of indiscriminate charity.
do not like that word charity, l prefer
eBrotherly Love, and it is true that we
have expended all our energies and
every cent of money that we could
raise in helping others. We believe
that the first thing to do is to relieve
suffering and discriminate afterwards.
IF we find woman on the street with
her children, half-clad, half sick, and
wholly starved, turned out because her
/ husband is a bad lot and has not paid
the rent, the first thing we do is to
feed and clothe the woman and her
children and then find out just what
kind of bad lot the husband is the
next day.
cit is no use for me to tell you
gentlemen what great work the Sal
walton Army is doing. I simply want
to impress on you that we are a me-
cessity here in Honolulu as well as in
every other part of the world and our
officers and workers rely on the com
munity in which they work for their
subsistence.
Just how little some of US live OF
would astonish you if you knew IT..
But that has no direct bearing on the
, case in question. [ want you to realize
that we are doing your work, and doing
it in way that could be done only by
such an organizati as ours and 7 am
here to appeal to you to aid us.
Colonel Miles then spoke on the inn
migration question and of the work
that was being done in Canada and
even in Australasia. Every year the
headquarters in England charter sew
eral steamers that take immigrants to
Canada. Most of these have already
received farm training in a Salvation
Army colony, and either pay their OWN
way on the steamer or paw part and
give promise to repay the balance
as soon as they are able, which prom.
ises are usually fulfilled to the letter.
In one instance they sent over
steamer carrying only unmarried wo-
men, destined for domestic service.
"The voracious mouth of Canada was
opened as soon as the steamer was
sighted, = said the Colonel, "and that
human freight was Immediately swaI-
lowed up. And, believe me, the wo-
men did not all go to be domestic SER !
wants, by any means. Then we got {
urgent appeals from the Canadian Gov
eminent to send us more steamers
laden with the same kind of freight.''
He then went on to say that there
was splendid material among the farm
laborers of the British Isles who could
be sent out to Honolulu under Saliva
ton Army surveillance if the people
here wanted them Continuing, he
stated that he wished to speak no
longer, but would like to have those
present ask questions. Several in
quiries were made as to the methods
of the Army and the way in which
they held land, and then Mr.. Trent
called for an expression of opinion on
the possibility of purchasing the prop
erty spoken of.
None of the expressions were enthu-
siastic Everybody spoke as one who
already had heavy drain on his
pocket in that way and reference was
made to the Salvation Army rescue
home as being a charity that had re-
ceived ample support. Each man
present. however, spoke in strong COM
mendation of Colonel Miles, the Saliva
ton Army and its work, and all shook
hands with the speaker and expressed
thanks for his talk and hopes for sue
cess for the institution he represented
and its work.
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