Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-05-02

Monday was the first day in the Sal
walton Army's campaign. in Norwich
for $500 for its Home Service fund
to help it in its work of visiting the
fatherless and widows in their afflic-
ton and of keeping itself, and through
it many others, unspotted from the
world. The canvassers were at work
in the city all day and at the close
their reports showed that s24S.S5 had
been received for the fund on the open
ing day of the campaign.
Captain Charles Carpenter said Mon
day night that one of the questions
which the canvassers were most fire.
Quently aske dwas Why should the
Salvation Army be helped ?"
Captain Carpenter answered this
question for the information of the
general public who will be called upon
as follows:
II shall try to answer this question.
THE Salvation Army is one of the
purest and noblest institutions which is
at work today and that it is doing as
much good throughout the earth as any
existing social and religious body.
"A mere personal opinion the read
er may say. The Salvation Army has
many critics many enemies even, but let
the tree be judged by its fruits. Let
lis turn to facts. Using the native of
each land to come to the heart Of each
land throughout its traditions, tongue
and customs in no less than 70 countries
does it labor yes, even 1t the midst of
Russian anarchy and among the Grim
inal tribes of India, hitherto supposed
to be irreclaimable, but through it re-
claimed by the thousands. 1t is poor,
numbering in its ranks not many of the
everywhere it helps the poor, and by
the poor, as l believe, is in the main sup
ported.
Whenever there is a broken. help
less man or woman, wherever there is
an outrageous open offender, persist
ent drunkard or drug fiend, a har,ot, q
poor girl in trouble a bastard babe doom
ed to neglect, misery or DEATH a starv.
ing stomach. silly. blaspk eming
wretch, a thief. palmer of inhquities
a would-be suicide, an ignorant. I'M
taught or tortured child. victim OF
superstition or mental teErors, a re-
viler of all that is holy, doer of al
that is III, a. wandered in darkness, q
dwe-ler in the pit of despair-there, in
peace or war. almost FROM pole 10 pole
is the Salvation Army to comfort, uplift
to feed the body and spirit. to prove
that until everything is lost every thing
can be regained and to declare, by count
less examples, the truth of the old say
ing, that out of the foulest sinners may
still be fashioned the most perfec
saints.
Ills work remember is double edged
1t seeks to aid the body. empty, befoul
ed and frozen also it seeks to aid thu
choked ard drowning soFli Therefore
It claims the support of all right think
ing people whether they look to body o.
&c soul.
Its principles are those of Christi
anity: Faith, hope. and charity, especial
ly charity in its wider. nobler sense o
love. 1t holds, Correct me if I an
wrong). that the future well-being o
the world at large and of Norwich as ;
community. depends upon the growth
and spread of the spirit of Christianity
which is at once defied and summed u
in the ancient. hallowed injunction t
fear God and love your neighlbor a
| yourself It believes also that if thi
spirit dies and departs, the word vii