SALVATION ARMY
ITS FUTURE FOLfCY
THE NEW GENERAL INTERVIEWED.
(•Received, Last Night, 10.40 o'clock.)
LONDON, August 23.
MV Bra.inwcH Booth, the aiew General of tho Salvation Army, in an interview, 6-:iid the spirit of the Army was unchanged but the new methods employed by -tho Army were not found in personality alene, but m the spirit that worked throughout the ranks. There was still aw immense work to do among tho lowest strata. Ho believed that the Army in future would obtain ,some measure- of control of all unfortunate cases at Homo and abroad. Another new field was China, where investigations were proceeding. He hoped to develop schema to help the poor widows with families, by sending them to the colonies. Queen Alexandra-,- in a message to Mr JBramwell Booth, regretted- the loss of his great, good, never-to-be-forgotton father, which was felt throughout the civilised world. "But thank God," said the Queen, "his work will live for ever."
The King of Sweden, President Taft> General Botha, Lord Islington, Mr Alfred Deakin, and Mr W. F.' Massoy have telegraphed their sympathy.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10702, 24 August 1912, Page 5
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180SALVATION ARMY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10702, 24 August 1912, Page 5
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