Rotten Eggs For The Salvation Army
F course the Salvation Army is not one hundred years old. William Booth did not use the name until 1878, but the Army has been established in
New Zealand for more than 50 years. George Pollard and Lieutenant Ted Wright arrived here at Easter in 1883. Working simultaneously in Dunedin and Auckland, they opened their campaign in highways and byways. Opponents became more and more insistent in their efforts to destroy the good work. In the streets Salvationists would be pelted liberally with rotten eggs, clods, stones, flour, soot, and
yellow ochre. Some wore their coats inside out to avoid too much damage. Ridicule and interruption of meetings were the next steps. Salvationists were arrested for violating by-laws against street meetings. Whenever this took place, volunteers were available to take their places, and finally an Act of Parliament legalised the Army’s operations. — (Lieutenant-Commissioner J. Evan Smith, in a talk from 2YA, May 17).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 10
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159Rotten Eggs For The Salvation Army New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 10
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