The Washington herald., 1921-12-05
Some S Salvation Army
Members Kneel i'm
Icy Streets.
AUDIENCE HERE
MOVED TO TEARS
Miss Booth Leads Pictur.
esque Appeal for Par
ley Support.

Miss Evangeline Booth. com
mander of the Salvation Army,
kneeling on the stage at Polls The
ater at o'clock yesterday after
noon. led 5000. 900 people in a prayer
for everlasting peace.
In snowy streets. on storm-tossed
ships at sea. wherever Salvation
Army workers had followed the
call of service into far corners OF
the world, they dropped for a mo-
? nent their ministeTing tasks and
Joined in the petition of their COM
mander.
The ceremony, with its world
wide appeal, was one of the most
picturesque in connection with the
conference on limitation of arma
ments now in session.
Audience Moved to Tears.
Tears filled many eyes in the
audience yesterday when the frail
woman, whose name throughout the
civilized world is synomomous with
Belf-sacrihce, knelt with clasped
hands and bowed head
She spoke in a voice whose fer
vency of appeal was heightened by
the emotion which seemed to shake
her slender igure-characteris
oL meQleNdl SAINT
Salvation Army workers in cities
throughout the Eastern and Gen.
trail United States, in the grip of
winters worst storm, furnis he'd
many picturesque scenes. In most
OF these cities street-corner meet
!ngs were in progress when the
clocks started to strike 5.
simultaneously they fell on their
il rIrff
music of drums and tambourines
stopped. and all Joined in prayer.
Spectators Join in Prayer.
In many cases the workers were
5oined by spectators and newly
made converts as they prayed for
the success of the arms conference.
IN New York City alone over 5000
participated in these prayers.
Before the prayer in which the
members of the annual Salvation
Army Congress Joined with others
Of that body throughout the world,
Commander Booth lectured on the
accomplishments of the Salvation
Army in the United States.
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, introduces
the speaker and related his expert
snces with the Salvation Army In
France. lauding the work of the
Salvation soldiers IN the field and
extolling the leadership of Com
ynander Booth. Mr.. Roosevelt fur
ther said that the Salvation Army
practiced what they preached and
declared that he had no use for a
minister of the gospel who put his
Sunday sermon up in pretty wrap
oil oh .
Commander Booth said II am al
ways received in Washington low
inEly and cOrkingly. If you do not
love the Salvation Army for any
other reason. you must love us for
our service to little children"
Aided $4,000 Children.
"Forty-hve thousand children in
the United States have been taken
care of during the past year." declar-
ed Miss Booth. A resume of the large
work accomplished through the
War Cry and other publications
through personal visits to stricke N
homes, and the work of the mis-
sions all produce what Miss Booth
calls The worlds greatest ro-
nance"
The prayer offered by the COM
Inander is as follows:
Thou who art the author of
all Justice and of all mercy, We
beseech Thee TO hear the petitions
that rise at this hour from the
millions OF hearts around the world
gathered under the Salvation Army
flag. Moved by the sobs of wild
ow5. and the tears of orphans;
moved by the abiding grief of dew
astated hearths; moved by the
memories of the awful struggle and
bloOdshed of our near yesterday
moved by the fears of peoples who
yet dread a dark tomorrow, We be-
seech Thee to grant to the repre-
sentatives OF the nations assem-
bled at the call of our honored
President light that will show the
way, courage that will defy the
seeming impossible, wisdom that
will unraveI the tightly tangled
threads of national difficulties, SO
that they may reach an under
standing from which the whole hu-
man. family will profit"