The Era-leader., 1919-08-14
world WIDE SERV|CE!:
OF SALVATION ARMY
Salvation Preached in Forty
Tongues

Tne SalVatlOn ARMY CoNelS 'no
world. Wherever the cry of dis
tressed humanity is heard, it ans.
wers, I'VE are here" 1t has planted
the cross in heather soil, and has
fought for all people on the globe
the battles against disease, crime,
misery, and want.
Already 9,69S corps and posts OF
the Salvation Army are established
in sixty countries and colonies. Its
workers are preaching salvation IN
forty tongues. People of seventy-one
different nationalities serve in It's
ranks. It has 1.191 social instltu'
tions, COS day schools and 1873
officers and cadets, and every year
the Salvation Army finds its world
growing bigger.
From the moment the first guns Of
the world war sounded across Eu-
rope, the Salvation Army was on the
battlefelds. Germans entering Bel.
GUM found the Salvationists there.
At Marchienees, two women officers
were sized as hostages. When they
were released day or so later their
first act was to open shelter for
families whose houses the invaders
had destroyed So it went from those
early days of the great struggle un-
til the boys of Pershing's army rails
ed their voices to tell the world OF
the cool heroism and unflinChing de.
votion with which the Salvation Ar
my served them. The Salvation Ar
my was ready even for worldwar
Just as it always has been ready
when earthquakes, plaques, great
fires and other human catastrorhes
caused the cry for aid to ccio to its
portals.
In Italy, when thousands Of rafu-
gees fled before the invading Hun,
the Salvation Army was there ready
to help. So 1t was in Serbia. So it
is in Russia where even the Red Ter
ror and Bolshevism failed to daunt
the Salvation Army. Reinforcements
were sent from Londan to the Sal
vation Army workers who we're in
Russia at the time of the first rev.
olution. Now there are seventeen
Salvation Army headquarters in that
land of chaos as we'll as training
schools for officers, slum stations
homes for refugee women and chill
dren and shelters for the aged.
In China, the work of the Saliva.
tion Army, which began only a few
years ago, is now we'll advanced.
There are a dozen Salvation Army
corps in China, a girls industrial
home, a training school for officers,
and a printing press from which is
issued the Chinese copy Of the "War
Cry"
In India, outside Of the work of re-
lieving the impoverished and con-
verting the criminal, the Salvation
Army has performed noteworthy
service in the establishment of hos
pitfalls and dispensaries by which the
frequently recurring visitations OF
the plague are fought. There are
almost a dozen Salvation Army hos.
pitals in India.
In Korea the relief Of famines has
been the Salvation Army's greatest
fight. South Africa is an old Saliva.
tion Army battle ground, the Army
having established itself there In
1883. Industrial homes, women's
shelters, prison relief and training
schools are only few of the Ar.
my's activities there.
Practical christianity is the way
the Salvation Army sums up its
work around the world. Everywhere
in service to the Allied Cause
its workers display the perseyer.
ance, patience and self.sacriice
which are so familiar to those who
have had the opportunity of observ.
! ing Salvation Army activities any
where. A striking example of the
self-sacriicing bravery of the typi-
cal Salvationist is that of the sink.
ing of the steamship Empress of
Ireland" There were 140 Salvation
Army workers aboard, and, when
the sea gave up its dead not Sal.
vationist was found with a life belt
on.
The money raised by the Salvation
Army during its Home Service Cam.
paign will be used in enlarging the
work at home.
NArINM ADMIN