FAITH IN TOMORROW

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 7

FAITH IN TOMORROW

EVANGELINE BOOTH

ATTITUDE TO YOUTH

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, September 5.

In a special article in the "Daily Mail," Evangeline Booth, the Generalelect of the Salvation Army, says: —

"The Salvation Army is and has always been the popular conception of religion in action, and almost everywhere at some time or another we have been called in to counsel when plans affecting the needy were under consideration. We have contributed a groat deal both in service aud relief, and the result is that we probably stand higher in public esteem today than ever before in our history. . . .

"I look to the youth of today to be the lovers of mankind of tomorrow. The young people of today may be having what is called a good time, but they are questing after Truth and the higher things just as seriously and earnestly as their forbears. Beligion is no longer scoffed at or derided. I have every confidence that the next generation will compare well with this ono, for, after all, we have not too much about which we can boast.

"I have no patieneo with people who decry the youth of today as being decadent. The same thing has been said of the young in every generation by those who were much older. The youth of today is more open and above board than in the old days, and probably just as clean in mind and spirit.

"Because girls of today follow the fashions, they do not necessarily have lower ethical standards than their mothers. The modern boy may not seem to be as chivalrous as his father, but I think he is just as upright and thoughtful. So lam looking to youth to help in mending the troubles of the world. We have thousands of young people, soldiers of the Army itself or active followers. lam proud of them as I am proud of the huge band of experienced officers whose loyal and enthusiastic supnort I know I shall receive as general."