SALVATION ARMY APPEAL.

Evening Star, Issue 22442, 12 September 1936, Page 11

SALVATION ARMY APPEAL.

TO THE EDITOR. _ Sir, —Adjutant Coombs is leaving this city in which she has worked most nobly on behalf of the “ publicans and sinners,” now known as the “ down and outs.” She appealed a few days ago for • funds. Jt was an urgent SOS which maye be interpreted as “ Save our Souls,” but this lady has sadly depleted her budget by her very nature of being too kind' to refuse any, and in her endeavour also to save the health of her many callers. She appeals to this city for help to enable her to clear the load of debt from her books. 1 have seen this Christian woman trudging her weary way from the tram terminus. Anderson’s Bay, walking to Tomahawk in response to other calls from sick people, and when 1 recall

the words of a Dunedin writer that “ true happiness is derived by freedom from religious thraldom,” I must say in this lady’s case there never was a greater mistake, for she is happy in the service for others. I trust there will be some fruitful response to make her happier in the knowledge that her task has not been in vain, so that she will remember this good, sound city with people of sure judgment and with stout hearts who “ ken a guid woman.”—l am, etc., B. E. Kite. September 12.