MR. IRWIN COBB’S IMPRESSIONS OF THE SALVATION ARMY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1886, 5 October 1918, Page 4

MR. IRWIN COBB’S IMPRESSIONS OF THE SALVATION ARMY.

In a recent issue of the Philadelphia Evening Post, Mr Irwin Cobh, the well-known American author, who lias just returned from France, has (his to say about the Salvation Armv at the front: —

“I wish to slip in a few words of approbation for the work which the Salvation Army has accomplished in France since we put our men into the field. Nobody has asked me to speak in its favour, because, so far as I can lind, out, it has no publicity department. May it live forever for the service it is rendering bur boys in France! “The Salvation Army in France is small, but it is powerfully busy: it came over without any fanfare of trumpets; none of its members are housed at any expensive hotels, and none of (hem have expensive automobiles to travel about in. Let a sizeable body of troops move from one station to another, and hard on its heels there comes a squad of men and women of the Salvation Army; an army truck may bring them, or it may lie they have a battered jinty to move them and Ilnur scanty outfits. They lind lodgment in the battered shell of a house, or (he cornel 1 of a barn, and very soon word is passed round amongst the men that the Salvation Army is serving hot pies, hot drinks, and hot doughnuts free. “Among officers as well as among enlisted men, one occasionally hears criticism —which may, or may not, he based on fair judgment — of certain activities of certain organisations. But I have yet to meet a soldier, whether he be a brigadier or a private, who, if he spoke at all of the Salvation Army, did not speak in terms of fervent gratitude for the aid that the Salvationists are rendering so unostentatiously, yet so effectively.”