Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28
Address Delivered by Evangeline Booth at
 Grand Lodge Session
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 over this country-scores of tear 0nlashed letters from parents say mo. ip "How can l ever thank vol for M doing what you did for m, wounded boy? My dying boy. { That has been our reward. (Grea applauseo ;nouiries: "How do you accoun for your success ?" l will give yo, three reasons:
 First: When the war-bilt fell when the clarion call sounded when the proclamation went forth if found the Salvation army read, Ready not only with our mater. ial machinery, but with that piece of mechanism which is indisnansi ble to all great and high achieve ments-the right caiibre of man and the right calDre of woman s Men and women equipped bv a careful training for the work they would have to do.
 Not many in number, Grand Ex- alter ruler, 1 know. In France our numbers have been few. But this is because I have felt it was better to fall short in quantity than to run the risk of falling short in quality. Great ap- plause) Quality is it's own mul- tiplication table. Quality with out quantity will spread, whereas quantity without quality will shrink. Prolonged applausel Therefore I would send no off cers to France. except such as had been fully equipped in our train ing schools.
 Few men have even remote idea of the extensive training giv- en to all Salvation army officers by our military system of educa- ton that covers all the tactics of the particular warfare to which they have consecrated their lives the service of humanity.
 We have in the Salvation army 8 training schools in which our men and women. both for our mis- sionary and home fields receive an intelligent tuition and practical training in the minutest details l of their service. They are trained in that finest and most intricate of all arts, the art of dealing ably with human life.
 It is wonderful art which ransfigures a sheet of cold grey canvas into a throbbing vitality. | land on it's inanimate spread wis ualizes living picture from which ene feels they can never turn their yes away.
 It is a wonderful art which Takes a rugged, knotted block of marble, standing upon coarse wooden bench. and cuts out of it's uncomely crudeness-as I saw it done-the face of my father, it's very feature illumined with pro- phetic light and so true to life that felt that to my touch it surely hlst respond.
 But even such arts as these rumble, they are as dust under bur feet compared with that much Ereater art, the art of dealing ably with human life in it's varying londitions and phases. It is in ms that we seek by a most care 2ll culture and training, to perfect V officers. ( hey are trained in those expert kures which enable them to &e satisfactorily those that lnnot handle themselves, those lat have lost their grip on things nd that, if unaided, go down un- the high rough tides. Framed to meet emergencies of ; cry character-ta leap into the each, to span the gulf, and to It without waiting to be told M.
 Trained to press at every cost { the desired and decided-upon Trained to obey orders, willing
 and gladly and wholly; not in ltalned to give no quarter to \
 enemy, no matter what the
 racter, nor in what form he :
 present himself, nor what per /. al advantage may be derived. ralned in the art of the wiz i:
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 g told by the colonel of the : iaaent that she would be killed : sIs persisted i'm serving her E kanuts and cocoa to the men :
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 must Nt get back to safety, re- E
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 men, but we cannot leave g
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 aen therefore, I gathered the E companies together for their E
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