Salvation Army Items.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3877, 4 August 1891, Page 2

Salvation Army Items.

[Communicated.] Archbishop Kiordan, of the Roman Catholic Church, lecturing in the Grand Opera House, San Francisco, said, " I know no one who has done more for the regeneration of the masses in this country than General Booth. I regard him as one of the noblest of men, and can you tell me where I can find another band of Christian workers who carry the qospel into the slums that are systematically visited by the Salvaticn Army." Antwerp is the latent Salvation Army opening on the continent of Europe. A party of Salvation Army officers have started a "trek" of 1000 miles by bullock waggon to Mashona-land. They are armed with rifles for the purpose of killing game to provide food for the journey. General Booth has recently interviewed the President of the Swiss Republic. The attitude of hostility hitherto assumed by the Swiss uuthori'ies towards the Salvation Army has given place to amicable re- , lations.

The stone-laying ceremony iu connection With the building of a new Salvation Army Barracks in Dunedin takes place on August Bth. The foundation stones of the new Barracks at Mosgiel were laid on July 23rd. Preparations are on foot for the erection of Barracks at Timaru and Goraldine. Colonel M'Kie, the champion evangelist of the Salvation Army, accompanied by his A. D. C, Staffj Captain Plant, arrived at the Bluff by the s. s. Te Anau on July 27th. The Colonel has held a successful campaign at Inve.rcargill, and comes on to Dunedin for a week's meetings there. The Salvation Army, which has hitherto published a separate War Cry for each of the Australian colonies, is about to merge all these journals into one, to be published at Melbourne. This will take the shape ot a sixteen page J paper, profusely illustrated, and absolutely devoid of advertisements, and all for one penny. It will stnrt with a circulation of over 100,000 weekly.