THE SALVATION ARMY AGAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1656, 15 February 1883, Page 4

THE SALVATION ARMY AGAIN.

A conw m'wxdknt writes from London, December (sth, to the, JWw York World : — Hens is a specimen' oi: tho blasphemous inbbish spoken by the "otliceis"' of that iiitolcniljlo'miis.-uicu (not mentioning, for shoitncs", other things) the .Salvation Army. The charlatans, it intibt bu rem.:mlieied, have been taken by the hand by certain eloigymen of the Chinch of England, ami at least one Bishop has patted them on the back. It was at a crowded meeting at (I suppiess the name of the town for particular leasons), ami the following Mas a part of the pi >yer : "0 Loidy, Lowly, come among u& ! We know the room b crowded, and that Thou nuiyest not be able to get in at tho door ; but make a hole in the ceiling, Lordy— we do not mind the expense— and come among us." Then thcie followed a hymn bet to an obvious populai tune. This is the refrain : " ]f you cannot get in at the Golden Gate, Climb o\ei the if.irdcn-wall." Messrs Moody and Sankey have been " doing " Toi quay this last week. It is incredible that people of the slightest intellect can listen to the fluent twaddle poured forth by Mr Moody, always accompanied by the oilensive familiarity w ith w hick he speaks of the Deity and sacted subjects. Nor would he be listened to, where it not for the leally admirable singing of Mr Sankey. Theie is no reason why they should not adopt the famous " The Heart Bowed Down," ftom the Bohemian Girl, os one of theii hymns. Mr .Sankey would certainly cause the gifted Borrani of our eaily youth to fade from our memory. The humbug of the whole matter is no disgusting. The " evangelists," as Stiggins and Co. profanely call them, profess to take no money. Nor do they. But they sell thousands and thousands of their hymn books at every meeting for various bums. I will venture to say that the profit on their twopenny hymn book is at least a bundled per cent., judging fiom the way in which it is turned out. Mr Ciitnach's style was certainly as good, if not .superior, and a halfpenny secured a good deal of literature. And so am th the Blue Ribbon Army. Their leaders take no money, but they stipulate that their hotel bills shall be paid. They cannot deny it, because I was asked to subsciibc for that purpose, and I canpioduceat any moment the person who twice asked me. And a very eonitoi table way of surveying mankind, They convei t our housemaid and kitchenmaid (if they would guarantee me a .sober cook I Mould pay one of their hotel lulls, even if it included a few bottles of champagne), and I have told those j'omijj ladies, who make one's life so agieeable and ftee horn worries and cares, that if I catch them binding themsehes to any such tomfoolery I shall stop their beer money.

Kncijsu readers are complaining because Luiit/maii'i) Mttr/azuu; the new London pciiodiual, ib iuteilea\ed -with lulvciti&cineiitd. A shout burial by Anthony Trollopc, on titled "The Two Heroines ol Plumpington," was commenced in the munber of ltd) p<t\ ]>((-'"<) for Oct. '20. Tin, neither in Russia last year was so diy and hot that the liveis full \ery low , and even in b\w Volga and Dvina navigation was attended with beiious dilhcultifs, as in borne places they were very shallow. Tin; .Joyci; Ma.ssacju,. — Apropos of this nun dor the following story is cimcut in the West of Ireland : — Mrs .Joyce, one ot the murdered family, witnessed the sinking in the lake of the bodies ol Lord Ardilaun's bailiffs : but was no Lorrilicd that for some time bhe did not \ unture to tell anyone what bhe had &ecn. One night, however, she could no longer keep it to herself, and described to her husband what she had seen eei tain men do. This wab ovciheaid by their &011, who shortly after, being bullied at school by another boy, cried out. <- I suppose you want to murder me ,md tli low me into the Like, as your lather did the bailills." The boy having lepeated this to his lather, the latter and his confedeiates determined upon their dreadful crime of massacring the whole family of the Joyces, in order to put out of the way such awkward w itnrsses of theii foimcv gnilt. The story beems too circumstantial to be untrue ; nor is it ca&y to .sec why it should have been invented. At anyiate, it offers a very sufficient explanation of the massacre, the motive for which has never been very clciiily made out. A Ci'KK J'ou tuk Toothaciii:. — The cm c for the most irritating and painful malady we know of cannot be made too public. The efheacy of the following simple pi occss is vouched for as having ciuod all who have tried it :—": — " Put about two table-spoonsful of the best vinegar into a cup ; gefcapiece of black bottle, about two inches square ; heat the glass as hot us you can in the house fire, and put it in the vinegar ; when the \ megar is cold enough to use, use it as hot as you can reasonably bear ; take the piece of glass out ; put some of the \ incgar into your mouth, and let it lie on the side of the bod tooth for a few lrnimtcs ; then spit it out ; continue until you have u&ccl alt the \ inegar, and you will get nd of a very dibagreeable companion, without undergoing the painful operation of having in many ca&cs Ui good tooth exti acted— thereby saving your teeth and your money in the baigam. The piece of glass must be pretty thick, somewhere near the bottom of the bottle, so that it will retain the heat to boil up the vinegar. Should any of our leaders try the above we should be glad to know the result. Thk Mvu.uJAScvn Qiur.HKr..— The treatment which the Malagasy ambassadoi s ai c receiving at the hands of the French Government is exciting the astonishment of Europe. The negotiations, we are told, are making no progress, and no wonder, for the demands made of the envoys are so astounding that they dare not even refer them to the Hova Government for fear of losing their heads on their return ; and if those iniquitous demands aie persisted in, war is inevitable — a war of conquest on the part of Krance, a wav of national defence on the pait ol the Malagasy. Sinking all minor points of dispute between the two eountiies which tho envoys came to settle, the French Government has' intimated that it intends to take possession of tho coast of Madagascar from Diego iSnarez, on the north-east, to Majambo, on the north-west, a coast line of the same extent as the whole south of England. On this coast the Queen has 13 garrisoned ports, which have been in undisturbed possession of the Hovas for periods ranging from 10 to 60 years ; and in no case has any foreign nation ever disputed the rights of the Hovas to maintain order in those ports, while vessels of all nations trading there have been paying duties to the Queen for the last 20 years. And now all this is to be surrendered to France, to gratify her newly-awakened lust for conquest. Meanwhile, if the Paris correspondent of the Standard may be credited, the ambassadors are virtually held prisouers in the Grand "Hotel. Not only have the French Government insisted on paying for their apartments in that establishment, but they appear to have set a guard over them. Their cruel position is exciting much sympathy in England. . i ' Where shall I buy my furniture apd carpets ? 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