The Salvation Army.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 154, 28 May 1884, Page 2

The Salvation Army.

[Asmodeus m the New Zealand Mail.] ' Why, Mr "War-dell, did you sneer at the Salvationists the other- day ? It came wilh exceeding bad grace from your exalted position on the Bench. You profess not to know anything about the doings of " The Army," and the probable influence it exercised upon the social life of the people. Then, sir, let me tell you that it is part of your business, as stipendiary Magistrate of the district, to be well posted up m all such matters, to peer into things, to search out for yourself. If you did this you would vory soon find out that the Salvation Army is potent for good ; that it in weaning thousands of the animaliaed of our species from ' their predominent brutiahnesf, and that sobriety m quite as much indebted to iit as to the Blue Ribbon movement. In fact, the army gets at the very people — ]ieople|low, low down — whom •the Blue Ribbon movement is powerless to affect. Look into this, please, will you, and the next time you take leporfcers to task for misquoting you, as you say, be ready to show that you understand the position, and to give j ustice where j uscice is due. We, that is, all liberal folks untramelled by dogmatism, recognise " the Army" as a power for good, and wish it much success.