THE ARMY OF THE HELPING HAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1921, Page 4

THE ARMY OF THE HELPING HAND.

No phrase more fittingly describes that world-wide organisation known as the Salvation Army than “The Army of the Helping Hand.” It succors the needy, comforts the sorrowing, clothes the naked, visits the prisoner, shelters the homeless, nurtures the weak, trains the young, and brings practical Christianity within the reach of all. The Self-Denial number of the War Cry, an advance copy of which is to hand, gives ample evidence of the many branches of the work of the Army that marches not to kill, but to make alive; not to wound, but to heal; not to devastate, but to restore. The memory of this Army’s war work will never be obliterated from the minds of our soldier citizens, who have always a good word to say for the Salvation Army padres. That was an exceptional sphere of activity, but it found the helping bands ready and eager for the new work. It is not our object at present to give a detailed account of what the Army does, it being more to the point to give a reminder that this vital force in the community needs financial support wherewith to carry on its beneficent activities and to still further extend them for the moral, social, material and spiritual welfare of the human race in all lands and of all creeds. The annual appeal in connection with the Army’s SelfDenial week affords a fitting opportunity for the whole community to enter into the real spirit of the helping hand. Tn advocating a liberal response by the public to this appeal, we cannot do better than quota the words of Commissioner Hodder: “To respond liberally to this appeal, you will enable me to continue the work begun, help to open other doors, and soften the lot of those exposed to misfortune’s storms. Then, indeed, you will be gloriously sharing in helping to make the world better, purer, safer, and thus in filling others’ cups, cause your own cup of happiness to overflow." No cause is more deserving of generous assistance than the work of the Salvation Army.