MORAL FRONTIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1940, Page 2

MORAL FRONTIERS

SALVATION ARMY'S UNIVERSAL ROLE. “The Salvation Army is among the universals,” declared General Evangeline Booth in a farewell address broadcast from the 8.8. C. “It includes the peoples of every clime and of every manner of life. It teaches the unalterable truth that every man belongs to the race and owes a duty to mankind. The lav/ of humanity must reign over the assertion of all othei’ claims. This law covers all differences of colour, tongue and race. This law is God’s law —for God has made ‘of one blood all nations of men.’ 1 have visited the most lawless criminals in the largest prisons of tnis and other countries. I have made my home in the midst of the unmasterable miseries of the most poor and most desolate of the dark and melancholy ways of the underworld. I have been the honoured guest in the luxurious homes of the high 1 and wealthy. I have sat in the places of legislation. I have stood in the witness-box of the crowded courtrooms and made my plea for liberty to preach the Gospel to the poor. And I solemnly] declare that my heart has derived as much consolation from the conviction that God is just as it has from the conviction that God is love. In the hands of ‘the Judge of all the Earth' are the scales that weigh right and wrong. Peace our hearts yearn for; justice our hearts demand! The Salvation Army recognises frontiers; but they are not the frontiers that divide race from race, religion from religion, class from class. They are the frontiers that separate justice from injustice, right from wrong, love from hate. And wherever the true Salvationist is found, he stands the defender of the frontiers that make the difference between heaven and hell.”