The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
4 PRETTY ROMANCE WHICH EXISTS
 IN LOCAL SAL "A TION ARMY RANKS 
 Spiritual and Industrial

And is your work, the street meet ings and that part, or have you to do with the Rescue Work and the Industrial Work, as well?" l inquired
 We have the spiritual side of the army work here. Of course it is all cooper ative-under the same principle, and in the same interest-but the Rescue Work is one thing and the Industrial Work is another," said MT Wager.
 T remember hearing a very interest ing talk here several months ago by one of your leaders. Brigadier Stannison,
 in which he explained the various de4 partments in the cleverest manner. l always felt after hearing him, that peo- pie who throw away even as much as an old shoe are deprivng the Salvation Army people of an opportunity to help some one.
 Yes" said Mrs. Wager. That is the Industrial Branch of the work We take discarded suit of clothes and brush 1t up and clean it and resolve it into some thing.
 And, taking up the thread of the con versation, MT. Wager said:
 We help the helpless to help them selves. It is not true charity to help the down and out to be useless. True charity creates principle and that is what is needed
 Do the people you help usually turn out well, or do they go back to the old life?" I asked.
 Let me ilustrate,' said the adjutant. Not long ago a young man came to us and said that he had been with vaude- vile company but the conviction had come to him that he wanted to be a worker in the Salvation Army He was accordingly given work. He stayed on and on and continued his work-forgot 1 all about the stage and its allurements and is today a full-fedged worker in our army"
 , T suppose you have many such in- stances," I remarked.
 "Yes, we have them often." was the quick response. "rhe son of the presi- dent of a great banking house in Balti- more is today a recruit of ours. He left his home and after wandering all over the face of the earth finally came within our Jurisdiction and we pulled him to- gether and sent word to his father, who welcomed the good news as we'll as his boy with open arms. And the young man still continued his work"
 I knew it was a bromidic commonplace. 1 but I just had to say:
 You people reach a different class and are In a position to help people no ono else can reach. I remember hearing one of your great English leaders tell the story of a dream some one had. The | man dreamed he went to heaven and sur@ rounding the great white throne were numberless Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists. Baptists and representatives of all other denominations. Finally some one asked why there were no Salvation Army people there, when suddenly there was heard in the distance a sound of the tambourine the drum and the guitar. There they are-on the outskirts-still at their old workl cried some one. Not at all,' was the quick answer. They are the only ones that the Lord can trust out of his sight! 1"
 And what are your plans for the sum- mer?" I inquired of MT. and Mrs. Ya- ger.
 We are going to take a vacation-the first in six long years'' said Mr. Yage/ We are going back to Texas with or seven little ones and enjoy much need ed rest"
 T think you richly deserve it." I re- piled. For 1t seems to me that your work here is never ending and that all your time is given to the beautiful self sacrifice 6f bettering and uplifting your fellow beings"