SALVATION ARMY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4456, 17 April 1883, Page 2

SALVATION ARMY.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sib, —As you have published a long, abusive letter from our local prophet on the Salvation Army, with adverse critia cisms, will you please publish the enclosed clipping, and oblige ; Fa.ie Plat.

•' I was at Sutton last Second Day. I observed a litile group collected—some half-a-dozen working people preparing, on their own account, to hold a service. A hymn was poorly sung, and a prayer was suitably offered. A young man exhorted for a few minutes, the exhortation consisting of a little more than an invitation to come to Jesus. He was followed by a young woman little more than a jjirl, who preached a nice, simple sermon, and the service closed, I spoke to these simple, earnest people, and found that they were connected with William Booth's Mission at Penge. lio sooner does Wm. Booth open a mission than some of his converts become volunteer, missionaries. I was much pleased to find these poor, simple people using the very little light they had to seek lost sheep who were in complete darkness. They were carrying onfc a principle of Quakerism in the free exercise of spiritual gifts. This is what I want to see—our converts becoming missionaries. There is no intensity in our converts; we can get them out of evil: h:ibits and then the rest."—John Hilton.