The Selvation Army.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 7, 6 December 1884, Page 4

The Selvation Army.

i ■'' (Ormimunicniivl.) ■ ' The Salvation .Army again figured at the, Police Court on Thursday as prosecutors m a case of alleged assault. This organisation is now admittqcl to l)e an;abominable nuisance wher.eventfoe.y tike ., up their habitation. .■••Thoiirvery presence seems to; beget larrikin ism of the worst and most pronounced type. We cannot conebfvo of a more' objectionable 1 elie-j ment being fostered m any commi>! nity, or 6hc:wibre likely' to c*aiisc of-; fence, or induce frequent displays of; •Virulent' '^towards its | blasphcmous-fa'natical performances.' For the most part the Army is re--cruited byJian: itinerant nondescript; graceless crew, ;wiibse> business capi-i iM and stoek-initrade ird ' mainly! composed of unredeemed ignorance,! brazen effrontery,- and ..dinting hy-i pocricy. They^ pretend, ;t6 live in j an atmosphere of. holiness,' -and dwellj continuously imithe odour of sifnctity.j ißut: all suchiipr^fcensions are the! most arrant hurajbng/ Why the! provisions of )th§ :Vafcranfc • Act I havej not beforeri^oreiiibeenr eriforcedj m their Cascade <xjannot cb'nceiveJ \f fevor tlierelcwaß 'a;elass thattcon-j trive to exist without airy dvisiblej means (off subs'stekice- it; Siirely H the individuals who blasphemously! style . thejm selves „ t|je Salvation: Army/ ' I'hey amply'howlahd roar! profanely. ( and "make a -mockery ofj ail 'that* is neld m ieli£r6us' obsery^iuies. isSQinq/.^yihoilwere inj Palmerston and styled themselves; Captains, were actually so illiterate: alsolu^^iM^'Uo'^Pj the ordinary accounts of their re--'^ipl;s-'aiid'''d^sbiirs6in'ents: ', 'and '^cli they prestfiYiik^ to'; Ti; dct as sjiiritual ' 'and and' "pi'ts^de' ' -services; iTHefe :! ishot^a^s^t iiV.wli^bli^e ! 'SJiivatioh A'^my ''have .set; its. Toot! ilvSt has not' had 'reason,, to, lament r its t advent. . But 'sp.^Qng.as ; the ; flyman .race is as pfovi^tjially, credi „ulp^s, .ulp^s ;as ; it : is, , 50, . . 10ng • will ' , ,ing..hyppcrites be fqundvtQjtraffiqon jith/^t ,>credulity, and laugh m theif sleeves the Avhile at the.^simplicity 'ofbheir/ pliant dupes. I'.-Wie can imp 1 iagine persons of the. male>sex,-bf a mental; and moral dalibre^ ati"tending:these meetings;' ard' joining .'ill 1 the -ribaldry, of their -set vices ; bujt the presence of females witli ; 'ahy regard ,for theif ;^opd \ riajme', seems to its'' Wi'te,' iivecoiicilable' with the customary ideas, of, what 'con^t|tu te^ 'the ■teTms l "prdpriety,' 1 decorum,' and modesty as characteristic of thb other, §e^. It is,vsadto thinfc. ho^, Vre^j^ft. is H»uallvv ■: J^bslit^ite^ and brought into contempt and dis*.re^uifce; b^.rtl^e t^njia^loWjed .jperfoij-. .njances iii[it)ipus,i)rotape' crew\kiiQwnlas ,th.e;SalyationiArm.y. . ■> .>'... -.•■• r . •■-, \ !