SELF-DENIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10711, 1 October 1912, Page 4

SELF-DENIAL.

Jn connection with the annual selfdenial effort of the Solvation Army, which, is now in progress, a great amount of interest will attach to the following extract from a letter written by the late General Booth only a few weeks before his death. It deals

in fact with the prospects for this year's self denial, and runs:—"The perseverance- of the Salvation Army in her difficult task of removing misery and savin;;; the lost must win the admiration of every generous-minded person to whom we appeal. Whether blessed or cured, kindly responded to or driven from your door with ignominy and scorn, she persists in her Heaven-born task of rescuing the children, fowling the starving, comfor ting the broken-hearted, and guiding the lost to the--Better Land. J am again appealing for help to carry on this.blessed Avork. Will you not assist'me?" Whether your gift be large or small, wo shall reeeivo it . gratefully, make the host.possible uPe

of it, and press on to other hearts and hands for more. I must go forward. Turn hack 1 dare not. And you will gladden my heart by helping mo to make the self-denial effort of 1912 a. blessing to hundreds of thousands of suffering people."