The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-03
COM. EVA BOOTH OFSAEVATIONISTS IS COMING HERE
Famous Evangelist To Tell Life
 Story of Her Father.
MEETINGS PLANNED
 FOR MANY CHURCHES
Silver Band of South MancheSt- CT Will Play Several
 Selections.

Selections.
 One of the largest meetings the Salvation Army has ever held in this city will take place next Sunday when MISS Eva Booth, commander of the Army, will speak at the Lyric theatre subject of the lecture will be My eather." Young children will not be admitted to the lecture.
 The lecture of Commander Booth will preclude a series of services held by the Army in various sections of the city On Saturday night the South Manchester Silver band, the most fa- nous musical organization in the Army. will give a concert in Warner Hall r. M c. A. building. Colonel Clifford will direct the concert
 Colonel Clifford will also conduct a Holiness meeting in Warner Hall at 10:45 next Sunday morning. Colonel Peart will conduct a service in the Park Street sCongregationa1 church at lO:3O There will be other services at the same hour under the direction of CIoneI Damon in the Stratford Methodist church: the Peoples Pres byterian church under the direction or CoIonef BrengIe, DID,; in the NeW1eld Methodist church under direction or Ldeut.-Co1onel Jenkins, and in the Second Baptist church under the di- rection of Lieut.-CoIone1 Stanyon-
 At 7:3O there will be services at the Milford Congregational church, d. rected by Colonel Damon at the First Methodist church, directed by Colonel BrengIe; at the Stratford Congrega- tional church, directed by Colonel Miles, at Trinity Methodist church, directed by Staff Captain Mabee, and at Washington Park Methodist church directed by Colonel Stanyon-
 In the union service at the Lyric theatre at 7:45 Sunday evening in which all the Congregational churches will join, Colonel Clifford will speak. and the South Manchester Silver band will play.
 Spea.kfng of Commander Eva Booth today local rodacer of thaE SaIkaelsn Army satd-
 Mary people govern in this coun- try, many make laws and write books, but only two command arnaies-fhe President and Miss Eva Booth. Her army compares with him as q Shetland pony with a touring car but it is a real army just the same, sDfacued by some $500 men and rTuTnen, and occupying over 300 posts 4n different parts of the land And slee is the commander of it a1;f every 1ne1nber, from the highest counmis-
  War Csrys from bedroom and saloon clicks his heels together and stands in reverea1t attention at the work cd 4hfs rai1 little woman, this modern J Juan of Arc-'s
 sETo accident has placed the com 1r1andsr in her present high station she has climbed to it rung by the strength of her own genius and en- ergv. From her cradle days practt scaIIy z1as has been on the firing line for she was born in the home of hel great fafherAfhe founder of the Sal walton Arny-the late General VII liam Booth. at about the time whe1 he with his heroic wife announced their pastorate and a Hfe's compe- tency to fling themselves at the pow erty and misery and sin Of tha: London nae1strom. the White chape district and 1t was there with th4 sto1id and stupid crowds pressing around her she made her first address when not more than prattfng child
 ''The war-cau was in her bones ana blood and from her schooldays nc toscin ever sounded but it found Z response in the depths of her soul She studied; but only that she migh the more efficiently serve and with nC higher ambition before her than tt spend herself to the last breath fol Gods poor and miserable
 
 Booth played an important part b! the side of her sister, the late Consu Booth-Tucker, who then, as Mis- Emma Booth was in charge of the frs training home. of the organization
 Her first appointment was to z large corps where she and her com patriots were assailed by a storm O. abuse and opposition, which threat ered to extin guish not only the organ 4dzation, but the lives of it's adherent: in that district. The hall which heIC {, 900 people, was surrounded by z dense population of the lowest ana most wicked
 Every other house in the street il which the officers lived was a den O fnfaIny. Captain Eva's first announce 4neat was that she meant to be hel own policeman. For some time tht 4oughs had been in possession of th' hall despite the assistance of the mer in blue, but what the law could no do. the frai1, fair girl accomplished Her prayers were heard at theil deathbeds, her songs were sung ovel their sick, her brave feet ripped III to the highest attics of those ricket1 AteneInents and down into the loves And darkest cellars where poverty ant crime lay hidden"