CIR WILLIAM FOX ON THE SALVATION ABMY.

Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1889, Page 2

CIR WILLIAM FOX ON THE SALVATION ABMY.

» Sir William Fox delivered an ad* dress an the Auckland Salvation Array rescue *»ork as witnessed by him dttfifig Us recent tour in Australia. His address was highly eulogistic of the army. He said that it was Melbourne that saw the work of the army at its height. Owing to the way the city was laid out the lines originally rights-of way had been built upon and used as streets; the result was that a mass of sin and shame was congregated in these back elums in the very heart of the city. The scenes of de moralisation which he saw in Melbourne would never be effaced from his mind. Under the very shadow of the churches filled with clergymen there was growing- up a state of things which was an outrage on civilisation, and the Salvation Army, and it alone, was effectively grappling with it. What Melbourne would become but for 'the labours of the Salvation Army in this branch of social reform he shuddered to think. He was taken by Colonel Barker, of the Army, through the Chinese opium den, where hundreds of European gi>ls were going to ruin ; and as the walked along the colonel showed him tht' "blood stained spot " where half a dozen larrikins had kicked and " don.e to death " a Chinaman in pure devilment. Then Colonel Barker took hi. m to other quarters — those of gente.. 9 * rice — where he handed him over t° * ne detectives to take him round, t? a * ne Salvationists specially devoted, th em " selves to " gutter work." Und^ r the guidance of the detectives ha saw scenes of luxurious vice which rivalled those of Babylon. But it was in the homes of the poor, the outcast, the fallen that the Salvatiou Army labored; and what the Victorian Government thought of that work might be seen when Colonel Barber showed him the last letter ef the Colonial Secretary containinga cheque for £1000. — Exchange.

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