The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-04-23
COL. FRENCH TELLS
OF SALVATION ARMY'S
WORK IN TERRITORY


of the greatest of Salvation Army
leaders, quoted statistics last evening
in an address delivered at the Central
Union Church, showing that during the
year ending March /, 1912, 60,437 peo-
pie attended the various services con-
Quoted by the Salvation Army in tho
, Hawaiian Islands.
He told of the work that is being
done in the Territory by the Army,
and of its general work throughout the
world, ending with a general evangel-
zeal plea.
According to the figures presented by
Colonel French there are fourteen of
fees in Hawaii and 45 corps and cir
cults. In the year from March 1911 to
March 1912 there were in the Islands
1867 indoor services and 1888 open air
J services. The attendance was 46,440.
Seventeen hundred and eighty-eignt at
tended the Sunday school and young
peoples meetings, making the grand
total 60,437. The grand total attend
ance in the preceding year was 54,364.
In this period since November, 1909,
43 girls have been passed out from the
Salvation Army Home, and there are
now IL inmates. Out of those 43 girls
six are now married happily, two are
building homes, 20 have returned
to their own homes or those of friends,
IL have situations, are in other
schools or institutions of learning, and
have been termed unsatisfactory
The percentage of satisfactory results
is shown to be 81.
Requirements of Honle.
'.No girl" said Colonel French, sis
turned away from the Home upon APP
lplication. All girls are required to re-
main four months"
Eighty-three children were dealt with
during the same period. Of these So
have been passed out to friends or to
I other homes. Their maintenance costs
So per month. The work represents
property investment of $4,000 or over.
The local hotel and reading room
! statistics of the Army, quoted by Col
J onel French, show that S65 beds were
occupied for cash and 313 free during
the past year, making total of 117S.
The daily average number of men in
| the reading room was $50. Situations
were found for 25.
Colonel French supplemented his
talk with some figures showing the
great reach of the Salvation Army's
work in the United States. According
to these figures, compiled for the year
ending September 3d. 1910, there are
/ 500 corps and outposts in the United
States, the indoor attendance was
S,24S,497, the junior meetings held
were 54,55l, with total attendance at
the junior meetings Of 1852 1898. There
are 26 rescue homes, with accommoda-
tion for 6S5. The number of girls adj
mitted for the year quoted was 1872;
passed out, 1918; meals supplied 674,-
535; beds supplied, 235,35S; children
admitted, 93S; children passed out,
s91.
! Morning Sermon.
Colonel French spoke yesterday
morning at the Methodist Church on
The Missionary's Equipment" choos-
ing his text from Philippians x, 10.
The missionary's equipment, he said,
was threefold. 1t was to know Christ,
the power of His resurrection and the
fellowship of His sufferings. Paul
knew religion, declared the speaker, for
he had been brought up at the feet
of Gamaliel, but his yearning now was
to know the Christ, not historically but
as living vital personality in his own
life.
Speaking on his second point, he de.
elared that the resurrection is fact
and that there can be no Christianity
without it. "Jesus on the cross sim
ply meant forgiveness; Jesus dead and
buried would have spelled defeat and
Jesus raised from the dead means new
life" was the way the preacher put it.
Suffering is necessary to the per-
lection of character" summed up in
Colonel French own words, his rea.
sons for including the third part of the
equipment
can the prestige, power and influ-
enee that the great apostle had gained
consequent upon his good ancestry,
educational advantages and religious
attainments," the speaker eonclud.
ed, "all paled into insignificance as
compared with the splendid vision he
had had of Christ"