Salvation Army.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 204, 2 January 1894, Page 3

Salvation Army.

Although it is the custom of many of us to sneer at the methods and feel shocked at the grotesque familiarity with which the Salvation Army speak of sacred things, no one can de-.y that the good works they do stands out boldly as having no parallel in ancient or modern times. They undertake, m the true and lowly spirit of Christian charity, rescue work at which the averse parson |>r priest stands aghast, pro fernng like the Lente, to pass on the other side to doing that char.ty winch is the foundation of (he Christian religion. These people, dispised, jeer d at and flouted by many, give up their lives to better the condi:ion of the hopeless the fallen, and the degraded, without recompense, being guided only by a sense of pertormiug the duties their Master pointed out to His followers 1900 years a««.. The work they do is not paraded and advertised, but at times instances of moral bravery and self-denial worthy of mnrtyis fiDd them out, and we uncover our heads with reverence at the deeds of these people; df their homely but effective system of philanthrophy which compels admiration, and makes us feel that, despite their unmelodious brass instruments and villa. inous drums there is a spirit which it would be well for the world if we all emulated more, and scoffed at less.— Evening Press.