EARLY DIFFICULTIES.
General Higgins described the almost insuperable difficulties encountered by the Salvation Army in the early days of its existence, difficulties which rose when William Booth departed from the orthodox and struck out bv new methods to secure the attention of the people. “Those days of difficulty are now passed,” he continued, ‘‘and from obscurity the Army lias reached a world recognition, and lias come to the ph’co where all men speak well of us. There is danger in it, though. -My eyes are not closed to that danger. Days of difficulty encourage us to greater devotion and toil, and I trust the present days are not creating softness or indifference.” General Higgins devoted the remainder 'of his speech to telling what the Army was doing to-day. The Army, he said, aas lighting against the indifference to religion which was so potent to-day ; it was fighting against the indifference to the great moral (piestions, against the spirit of gambling which bad got into the very life of the young people, and it was fighting agiust the breaking down of the great moral standards of the past.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1932, Page 8
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187EARLY DIFFICULTIES. Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1932, Page 8
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