GENERAL BOOTH'S WORK IN FRANCE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1581, 26 October 1912, Page 11

GENERAL BOOTH'S WORK IN FRANCE.

A Paris correspondent of the "Manchester/ Guardian" writes:—lt is not in England alonp that General Booth is mourned. Hero in Paris there are four different centres of social and religious work carried on by Salvation Army officers; there are homes and shelters for men, homes and shelters for women. A little way out of Paris, in the country, there is a roomy house in a leafy garden where young girls who have gone astray are led back to respectability and honest work. At Lyons, at Nimes, and elsewhere in France the same sort of work goes on. The theatrical home founded by Lord Radstock for English girls working on the stage here in Paris,- and at which the Vicar of the English Church of St. George here (a church distinctly '"catholic" in the Anglican sense of the word) acts as chaplain, is yet worked by two Salvation Army _ officers, and a bright and happy home it is. The Salvationists have had a great deal to go through in their struggles to get a footing Here in France, but they have won the day. The name of General Booth is honoured throughout the whole country, nnd I am assured many of the most thoughtful men, men of science and men of letters, many freethinkers, find their war to the Salvation Army meetings in Paris and Lyons. The staff now is chiefly composed of Swiss, peop' 6 to whom French is a native language. A memorial servico was held in the Central Hall in Paris on September 1. . |