SALVATION ARMY.

Patea Mail, 16 July 1881, Page 3

SALVATION ARMY.

TO THE EDITOR.

[Correspondents are invited to discuss matters of public interest with fairness and brevity ; this journal being an "impartial medium of discussion and advocacy for all affairs relating to the County of Patea.]

Sir, —l notice an article in One of your late issues relative to the Salvation Army at Basingstoke, in England. It may interest some of your readers to known that the treatment those inoffensi% r e people (they never offer more than passive resistance to the worst usage) received on that, occasion drew an indignant assurance from the Home Secretary in his place in the House of Commons that they should be protected for the future, and as an outcome of that promise 400 special constables were sworn in at Basingstoke. The movement takes a peculiar, and to many an eccentric and even vulgar form, more especially to those who must always run in an old and worn groove. To judge by results, however, it is the greatest religious revival that has ever taken place in the old country, as in many towns (notably Reading) the police have nothing to do, and are drafted off to other stations. Publicans also*bave to shut up shop and leave, as their occupation is gone. If any of your readers would like to hear more of the movement, I will be happy to forward to them a copy of the official organ of the Army, which I get every mail, and which has a weekly circulation of over 200,000.—1 am, &c., Jonx W. Kenjih. Waverley, 13th June.