Salvation Army.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 149, 20 December 1894, Page 3

Salvation Army.

The figures of the Salvation Army are startling; thirteen million? of converts eared for and drilled by thousands of offi. cers, and the entire army acknowledging without question General Booth as its supreme head, it is wonderful. Its flag, with its blood red cross waves in forty-one countries on the face of the globe and its advocates speak everj known language. Another peculiar feature is that where it once obtains a foothold, it never goes back. It does not seek its converts in the fashionable churches or among the brokers and bankers on 'change, but down in the slums where harlots and thieves hold the fort. The ordinary way of recruiting a church is by preaching and revivals, but the class the Salvation Army seeks never go n«r a church Up to a few years ago they were considered beyond the pale of redemption. General Booth in seeking for teachers ot the new gospel did as Christ did ; he did not go to the temples and schools, for his apostles ; he sought them among the unlettered fisherman of Galilee, and filled with the inspired spirit they spread the gospel to the furthest ends of the earth.— Broadbrim