THE SALVATION ARMY.

Kumara Times, Issue 2916, 4 March 1886, Page 3

THE SALVATION ARMY.

General Booth estimates the financial requirements of the Salvation Army for the ensuing year at £30,000. This sum is needed for the efficient maintenance and development of all the operations now in existence, and is thus divided : —For the general work, including ipscue work and the Prison Brigade, £14,000; the training of officers, £BOOO ; fon-ian work, £6OOO ; sick and wounded, £2OOO. He describes the year 1884 85 as havina " been one of protracted heavy struggle with persecutions, afflictions, and trials of every kind, not the least of which has been the desperate effort made to utterly destroy our public reputation, while from the Army's earliest days it has had a ceaseless, wearing fight with financial difficulties." It appears from the Army's last annual report that while at Home tho Salvationists' battles with roughs and "Skeletons" have been fewer than usual—Cambridge having been chiefly remarkable for the violence of its attacks upon the Army—abroad the "soldiers" have encountered much violent opposition, and notably in Switzerland. Whereas in England and Ameiica Salvationists have, only been sent to prison on account of open demonstrations in public places and highways, in Switzerland, it is said, they have lieen imprisoned "'by scores for the slightest effoits made in private to lead souls to Christ." It is complained that liberty in the United States is more worshipped in the abstract than observed in reality, for in eleven States the arm of the law has been used in suppressing the meetings of the Salvationists, and fifty arrests resulted. It is intended to send an expedition to the Southern States " to take salvation to the doors of our colored brethren."