Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-15
GENERAL BOOTH
DISCUSSES WORK
FOUNDER OF VOLUNTEERS
SPEAKS TWICE
GIVES DETAILS OF AID GIVEN BY
HIS ORGANIZATION
Address Before Los Angeles Fellow
ship on Charity Extended to Poor
and Prisoners During the
Past Week


America, addressed a large audience
at the Los Angeles Fellowship yester-
S day morning. His speech had many
dramatic climaxes and he made him.
self very popular with his audience
After having been introduced by
Reynold Blight, minister of the Eel
lowship, General Booth took two pas
sages of scripture for his text, he
brews $40, For God is not unrighte-
Gus to forget your work and lapor OF
love, which We have showed toWara
his name. in that we have ministered
to the saints and do minister, and
Nehemiah SIG, Think upon me, my
God, for good. according to all that l
have done for this people" He said
in part
mot long ago 1 was in my library
and before me were columns on col
umns of figures representing the work
accomplished, which represents the
taking of little city children from the
degradation of the slums to the hlll-
sides and the valleys, and / read that
during the past year 49S9 women nave
been cared for in our Homes of Mercy
and 3S,743 beds have been provided in
these institutions.
"The Volunteer workers visited and
aided 4,41S families in and around the
poorest sections of the large cities
where they labor during the year.
There were 344, $50 persons lodged in
the homes and institutions for desti-
tute, and WORKING men and women,
not including the many thousands who
were given temporary relief during the
strikes in several sections of the coun-
try. There were 640.c.4 persons fed
with substantial meals in the institu-
tons, apart from those assisted tenn
porarily during the holiday and festi-
Y ~.
tai work II ,260 outdoor and dispensary
patients were treated during the past
year. 1873 visits have been made by
patients to the dispensary, 40,286 indi-
viduals have been treated in the hos
pital and dispensary since June 8, 1905,
making a total of 114,7S5 cases. The
Volunteer Prison league has embraced
in all some 10000 members of which
it is safe to assert that of those COM
ing to us 20 per cent are living re-
formed lives. By correspondence and
service it is in touch with $4,000 men
behind the bars today. Tens of thou
sands of mothers and little children
are given au outing annually into the
fresh air through the fundamentally
of the organization. Through the regi
mental reports from volunteer officers
it is found that $685. pesrons attended
our Sunday and week night services,
while 2, 1873, S42 persons gathered to hear
the stirring and present appeals in the
open air services
Prisoner Is Converted
I'm a southern camp Mrs. Booth,
the little mother went to visit the
prisoners and one she found who was
considered incorrigible. He had been
transferred from northern prison. and
as it was against the rules for him to
raise his hand, he asked the chaplain
to be allowed to speak with my wife,
and he said Have you message for
me. little mother?' To this Mrs.
Booth responded, Let the sunlight of
his presence fall on your path He
went away, and a few hours later the
prison officials were astounded to hear
this prayer from his cell, oh! God,
don't know you; I haven't spoken to
you before, but for the sake of my
mother have mercy on my SOUL Do
you think that God heard that rough
ungrammatical prayer? That man be-
came genuinely reformed and he let his
light shine on the darkest criminals
there, and recently when Mrs. Booth
again visited that prison he arose be-
fore his comrades and read an address
of Welcome to her and said that sixteen
other convicts were ready to be en-
rolled in the prison league. One SER
wants life had accomplished that in
side of the prison walls. What ought
not yours to accomplish in the world?
Don't say you can't. You despise a
selfish Christianity. You believe in a
broad, benevolent Christianity which
appeals to your reason, true benevo-
lent Christianity.
God rewards his servants even in
this world. Moses left a princely es-
tate, surrounded by ROYALTY, but he
became the leader of Gods children
up to the gates of the new land Dan
Tel was thrust into the den of lions,
but he came forth to the third ruler in
the greatest empire the sun has ever
shone on. Joshua was sold, but he
came forth exalted to the throne Da-
vid comes from tending his fathers
sheep in the wilderness to become king
of Israel. So will you if you are faith
full. Cast your bread upon the waters
you can never know when it will
turn up and how God will reward you.
Go on with your good work even if it
rs only tiptoeing through the hospital
ward to visit the sick or giving the cup
of cold water in the name of the best
man that ever lived, the man Jesus.
Eternal Reward Promised
1.-The reward of the hereafter shall be
eternal. He that oVercometh shall sit
with me on my throne I have been
greatly amused at the different ideas
of heaven propounded hv people Some
hold an idea that it will be like this
world with all sin, transgression. fear
and degradation taken out. Some peo-
pie seem to think it will be a place of
rest. But some of the people who
want all of the rest don't do much
work here. There is a pack of lazy
Christians in this world and you
couldn't make them work if you stood
over them with a sword.
81 remember one old man who dearly
loved horses, and when [ babe him
good by he felt that it might be for
the last time on earth. so he said that
probably the next time I would see him
1t would be in the next world and he
would gallop to me on a great white
horse That was his idea of heaven
An old lady who dearly loved her
rocking chair said that she would
meet me in heaven and that she would
be sitting in a rocking chair. That
going to heaven to sit in rocking
chairs, are we? Some think of celestial
bliss and everlasting coronation before
the great throne of brightness by the
river of crystal forever and ever.
but my idea is set forth in this sem
fence, his servants shall serve him.
Think of being able to render constant
unbroken, perfect service to God. You
who are attracted to this service for an
hour, wouldn't you like to render a
service like that?"
Last night General Booth spoke in
the First Presbyterian church of Pasa-
dena on Christ and His Influence
Through the Centuries" This evening
the general will address a mass meet
ing in the First Methodist church of
Los Angeles on the work of the Volun-
teers.