The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-21
SALVATION ARMY'S SUCCESS.
BY Evangeline Booth,
Commander of the Salvation Army in the United States

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For Atty years Wa have been pre-
pairing, for nifty years We knew moth
ing bDt war. For fifty years we have
only gone where there was no peace.
For fifty years all our days and all
our nights have been spent with
broken and wounded men.
when war sxont over the world
II, 1914 the Salvation ARMY was pre-
ylared We knew what manic and de-
spalr meant Wa knew that there
hav~ ALWAYS haep sansratious and
ht~edtnp wounds and lonely defeats
and nauelass pravas In everv rity
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and night ,haZSs4xa;ian@ army has
found these things Fsor ffty Years
-he organization has worked In its
fight ar-1fnst tncn, n was fo, ,ha.
reason we were known as an army.
I'VE have no more success now
than we have ever Rad n 10 onlv
that the wortd which was formerIv
blind to the panic aaspair and the
bitterness had jts avae anenad nv
a great. wa and through II saw some
Thing then that only the war had
brought into txfstenee
The Salvation ARMY has dome
nothing new + othing different It is
only that II tooR honobx h,,rstino ON
of the sky tnrnedoes tearing onen the
sea and guns hurting death for sixtv
miles, with armies of millions of men
to attract the attention of the world
to something quite. old. Sometime s
not especially ouick M seeing bnt
the war caught its ave and in the
course OF observations the work of
the Salvation Army was noted It is
interesting Il, us 10 see that the nre-
paredness Of the salvation Army 10
now called IT'S success
I'VE did not feel that we became
any more successful IN the estimation
of the world when W. took the gifts
we had to Offer to the battlaf,elds of
war than whom we to,k them Ia III o
t,attlefelds If reara We are crate
full for the words ar nraixe and an
preciatjop and We have been encour
aged in recent wears ~ we were mayer
Encouraged before
The Salvation ARMY lassie NJ the
front did nor recart, the soldier az a
social nroblnm 10 bs stndiad ana
classified any more than she REGARDED
tie o,,tcast IN preat c3+v % - nro-
aiict ~ sane n.ru1far Socta Ineica
condition Sha sammy brow Va Wa 9
a man n hungry lonely utterly n,,s-
cradle man
When the war hrote o,,t trio
slut,le methods followed ca diracti,,
Nv o,,r ore,pi7ttion ain c,,ar ~ ,,o,,d
followed Inc r4nn into tho ,rencbes
when .ha yani<s n,s, ~ saI,,,
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never befor. / row, 1noen, ana nntd
gne, 1,Lsn,,, era,,1 hnn,a ~ .,on.ar
IN ne s.1,,a,sor A,.n, ,,na.rs,nod
,h.sa thir..s pona,,. 49,, -,
a,,rnss tba world 10 erht ~ aa,,n'
,>r,ry ANA ,o a.fana ~ n-;,,.i,,as
Of ,ihertv !, oraar ,hs, * 80,
might no ,nor. ,i,,ahIo ,I.ao g.,
generations RI eorna /, Ala ~ ,a.sor
bfS bnncar y,hnv Ne 80, h,,,.rx ~,
, go 90 fha .ch II, Me he.rt ~, ~ ,,,a
rnneiy or hurasich on ~ n,arch
The tbinex no da,,gbf Nov a,,a ,,ad ~
,ac,t,-ad ra;s b,,ttar ,,,., a,.,.s -,
womsn wha smrdars,o,s ga es w
nathized heart ali about his hnrs.
, fotks ava bls xuost,aar, -, ,nnr
bursts ~ ,ons,asnoa W., n.,,avas
MA nent-un ,onpiny - ta1k ~ con,
woman he had donrhruts whar h.
was hungry and hot coffae when h.
was cold
"rhare was M rreachr.rt tor ~.
men Snirltral heIr ANA .a,tc. tho,
could have whar th,rs 70, We'd - 49,
needed Il I'm, Inc hing thev treas
ured most was INC homs,v .x,,, natha
tic understand,rg from The snr, -
women they had knowr and honore,
at home. The way OF man with :