SALVATION ARMY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 229, 5 October 1901, Page 3

SALVATION ARMY.

SELF-DENIAL WEEK. Tuk Salvation Array is actively engaged in preparing for its annual week of selfdenial. 1 winch has now become an established custom throughout the world. The dates fixed for this year's effort are October l'Uh to doth. Last year the Army raised, throughout the Commonwealth and New Zealand. ThO.OOO, which enabled u to push forward its work in every branch with increased vigor and success. The advances made by the Army m recent years are quite startling, and few people seem to realise that we have around us scores of men and women who are only the representatives of thousands of others scattered over the face of the whole earth. Forty different countries and colonies are now "enjoying the self-sacrificing labors of these soldiers of the Cross, language being no barrier, as the Army officers already preach the gospel in these countries m thirty different languages. It lifts gone to the Zulus, the Kaffirs, the Bechuanas, and the Mashcnas of Africa. It has gone to the Tamils, the Bengalis, theMarathis, the Sikhs, the B’neels, the Niaks. the Santhals, the Singhalese, and the Gujarati* of India. It has gone to the colored races of the United States, of Jamaica, and of British Guiana. It has gone to the Bed Indians of Northern Canada. It has gone to the Spanish settlers of bouth America. It has gone to the native, neglected races of Lapland. It has gone to "the Javanese, and to the Japanese, and manv others. There is, also, the e\eriucreasing circle of wonderfully suceesstul social agencies for dealing with the homeless the" outcast, the criminals, the fallen woman, and the prodigals of every class and clime, until in all parts of the wor.d there stands a splendid array of these humane institutions to the number of over 500. That the effort will meet with abundant success goes without saying, - and we predict that the generous people of Poverty Bay will not be slow in recognising in a practical way the disinterested toil of these friends of the poor.