THE SALVATION ARMY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 272, 20 October 1883, Page 2

THE SALVATION ARMY.

. Action for Libel Threatened. (UlflTEP i PRESS ASSOCIATION.) * _ ./, L^bcabgxll,* netober 17. : .^ere//have//,been ,v -in6^catMra that trouble, jp&s jbrewng for/ the Salvation Army officials here; although /most of those who do not approve of their prb- ! ceediugs have simply 'left them alone, and they havebeen respectfully treated. j Capt. Burfoot is4jlained< for if nagging*' individuals m thg audience and using insulting expressions, without, pause. The feeling against the Salvationists seem to -have -culminated, with the publication of the.', following letter m the Southland ' News last Anight :—-" I i attended the^ Sa^ya'ipn , meeting last* night, a^d/w^^tn%'.a^tphw made/use of 'in a pKce Tcrated to the wbrahip/,/p| "Gbß, as'they* term/it, .;. The kinging? complained of was v ed to a respep^able youth ;- ; was' unmanly, $os; jrac^llea'/'fqr, and.blackguardly •; m/,: the /-extreme, M^more; iikely to result m doing TiarnTtio the* caWe^bfireligipn than any^good it could dp to the youth m question, or the larrikin element Of our towns m gene., ral. . It is nothing more nor Jess than inviting assault ito use, expressions of this kind-—' Go home, and buy/ a paper/ ■ collar. and put another; shj^.y^/and giye them poor Uttlo, creatures' a rest, their feet will get sorernnhHgon your fles'V; ;|s t]^at %hat ' Christ taught? |*I jthinkiibt; M; To^njght a large crowd assembled at tii^^Salvatibn Theatre, and it soon became "Evident that there was to/be a rOw.^ When Captain Burfoio't'pr his We essayed to speak, their vbh^were > drowned m, rounds of howling/^d;l^ntish X ' l £re; i To intend tiatters^ %c" was comparatively cleared, but 'vntir little- ; effect ; th/e malcontents jgathereil Outside, and' at the conclusion 1 of the sPrvice assailed !Bur/fpbt ancj .his wife' with yelling, hooting, and/menaces. ; Mrs : JBurfoot ; was'byercbme with terror and fainted^ ■ i The party Tkook refuge m a fruit sh/ap; and after Mrs Burfobt camp rpund^ proceeded hptne, escorte/dby^the rowdy •,eißcor£, who finished by^rowmg^ stdnes on the rnof ofrthe house.- , The ypung ;man assailed^ by> Captain Burfpojb^i; 6 - : ferredto : in ; the letfervit/is.'Said^^ill, proceed-forlibeL-t t nu-nk- ? i .?;