The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-06
Leader Eyangeme Booth Tells What Future Holds for Salvation
Army, Emerging From War Crowned With Success Undertakings

NEW YORK, June 5.-What the fu-
ture holds for the Salvation Army,
crowned with success in all its war
undertakings, is discussed by Evan
gelfne Booth, its commander, in a
statement issued recently. She says:
1.-THE Salvation Army emerges from
the great war-as years ago the organ
ization came out of the Boer War
the loyal and devoted friend of the
fighting man. That was our first ex.
perience on battlefield Today khaki
clad men all over this country know
they can count on US in hours Of great
human need. think the whole world
understands this now.
Important changes are coming to
the Salvation Army and they will be
changes for the better. The passing
OF the old-fashioned, causal method of
soliciting money on the street corners
and the substitution of more modern
ways of collecting funds is good in
novation. The broadening and deep
ening Of our work is good. The fu-
ture, however, will see no change in
the mighty foundation rocks upon
which the movement stands.
mo different methods Of gaining
financial support will ever pull us
away from the poor, for we are of the
poor. Our calling and our service are
of the poor, for the poor.
And this Is the past, and all of the
future, as far as the great underlying
principles of the Salvation Army are
concerned. Always we have worked
with three o'clock in the morning
courage. Bonaparte once called that
the way to test courage. To us it has
meant, simply homely service to men
and women twenty-four hours of cv-
cry day. Destitution, neglect, disap-
pointment, pain, these are the things
that it takes high courage to meet. 1t
is right here and now that men and
women need help. This is the zero
hour of human agony, that God has
called upon US to mitigate and relieve.
BY His help, in His name and for His
sake, we accept the great responsible
ity.
In planning the program of work
for the year ahead, our expansion lies
in the service we offer rather than in
the machinery of the organization it
self. Rendering an account OF our
stewardship, we have only one thought
in mind; the man who is down-but
never out After ALL he is the one
who counts first.
Eve have tried 10 so;ve our prob
lem of living by formula less COM
| plicated than the problem itself. What
does it profit man to investigate his
i background and judge his case ac-
cordingly if he's in the gutter and hun
cry? If man is hungry on Wednes-
| day, the army has discovered that it is
better for both lis body and soul to
! feed him on Wednesday rather than
wait for the proper committee to meet
on Friday and give the case due con-
sideration.
THE war is over and the stage is
| set for a new play, based on a theme
j as old as the eternal hills. 1t is a
theme that has to do with the happi-
ness of man, with the things that go
| to make life a traedy or a long path
of contentment. The setting and the
characters are the same, only the
stae is biger-the cast is larger.
''In the orchestra you will hear the
same old horns and drums and the
little tambourines. The players will
wear the familiar blue uniform with
its dash of red like 1eaping flame
The message of hope and love which
the Salvation Army brings to the
unra Yelling of the plot will help the
unfolding human drama. All of this
is unchanged.
Nov the audience is not without
a more or less interested motive. II
has calculated that the price of the
augmented stage may not be as
heavy financial burden as the care