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"It is in the back, streets that the Army finds its truest expression,"
- Left, General Eva Booth, the leader..
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WEDNESDAY, December 8, 1937.
HOPE DIES HARD There is a feeling abroad that Wilbur's Orch.international affiliations in Eu- rope may be undergoing change. -Jay. Wilbur's Orch. It is hardly conceivable that any alignment could be more dangerous than that which exists to-day, and there is there- fore reason for optimism. If a grain of comfort can be found
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"Are you willing that it should spent all its fe for God wher and not withhold it at any time ever He may choose to send it from such hardship, suffering, want or sacrifice as true devotion to the service of Christ and thr Balvation Army may entail?"
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It would be senseless to deny the underlying menace contain- ed in such agreements as the anti-Comintern Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan. True, it is ostensibly a defensive ar- rangement, and as such adds little to the general, apprenhen- siveness. But to Russia it must convey a particular significance. To Italy and Germany, on the other hand, the former military understanding between Britain,
This time It was not the bap- fism, but the death of a Salva-
A
COMMISSIONER had » heart attack at a meet- ing. Ie WAB dylug. Orcy-haired and venerable col- leagues kneeled beside him pray- Ing fervently, tearfully for his He.
He has gone," whispered the officer, who had his arms around him.
With that, those sixty Balvation veterans, the tears still on their checks, but smiles upon their lips, rose, shouted joyfully, shook hands with each other as for a great victory.
"Praise God," they cried us one.
France and Belgium must have tical life and the feeding of the! had the appearance of a cloud fires by propagandists.
"He has been promoted to a "short-cut,” Glory,"
What manner of men and women are these who are willing that their chlidren should be mar- tyred and who welcome death with a smile of triumph?
this Salvation HAT la
Arn y. which since William Booth first gave
It les title 60 years ago, has carried the banner of Blood and Fire Into 10 countries. has preached the
· Gospel in 87 languages, and has fulfilled a great social work in every corner of the earth?
Like the vast majority of its officers and "oldiers." the Army belongs to the common-people. It is recruited almost entirely from the working-classes.
It was born in the squalor and misery of the East End of London, where William Booth, the Metho- dist minister, had established the Christian Mission. It was brotherhood of poverty and mutuni privation.
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If the well-to-do helped it, it was because it was a sxive to the can- selence of 19th Century Indus tria!Ism
The Darkest England move
ment which launched its social work was a crusade against social abuses. True, it treated the symp- toms and not the causes.
It went after the drunkard, rather than the sluma and drudgery out of which drink was
It sought sin in the Individual and not in the system,
But it did, and is still doing, in- calculable good in helping, spiritu- ally and morally, those who might have sunk, pitiably, in the sludgo of social justice.
Essentially, it was the pour help. ing the poor,
And to-day It Is the same type of humble men and women who are carrying on the real work of the Army.
It is now a great organisation. Is General and the Commissioners Elder Statesmen who meet
in solemn council.
But it is among the zeit- sacrificing "soldiers,” brating the officers" in the back-streets of tambourines, or among the obscure
the slums, that the Army, perlinps, Ands its truest expression.
Think of the Army, not as the sct- elaborately stage-managed ting for some spectacular, albeit Inspired, leader, but as an organi- sation made up of little groups that - you see at the street corners,
The Salvation Inssles." in their poke bonnets; the 'soldiera," in their uniforms (they have to pay for them), maybe just a cap and a Jersey: the young carnest lleu- tenant, just out of training college, leading the songs; the captain, struggling to build up his "corps." The soldiers" are the local volunteers. The captain and lleu- tenant are paid officers.
Officers are recruited from the
volunteers. Young men or women (between 18 and 251 who, having
been converted, and having given "voluntary" "service in some local corps, are propared to give up their jobs (they must not be un- employed), and follow the flag." can go to, thơ, traitaring college at Camberwell na cadets.
For ten months they undergo an intensive course, not only la gospel tenching, and 'evangelisin, but in social work, music, gonoral oduen- tion, and. Orders and· Reguin- tions."
HOME · 200. · cadets pass
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through the collège ́evory · year, “Uving-in " na at a university, but giving un- sparingly of ume and service.
And, when at last they are con sidered. properly equipped, they have a strange "graduation cere- mony" at the Albert Hail.
They march into the hall to receive their "Marching Orders." They do not know, until their com-
missions are handed to thom. " where they are going.
It may be to Thurso or to Penzanco. It may be to 'a corps in their own town, or to one hundreds of miles away. Bome may be sent abroad. but they will have boon, at least, consulted and probably specially trained, beforehand.
They may be sent out as," fold oficers" or as social workers,
of the Army's 20,000 officers. about 20,000 are “in the fold." That la, they are evangeliste. preachers, pastors.
The rest are social workers look- ing after settlements and homes. doing work as probation ofcere. marriago - menders. carlog for drunkards, unmarried mothers.. orphans, or old, neglected people. They are concerned with souls, but also with bodies in which these souls are being tortured.
The Army would rezent it if I distinguislied between the two as "The Spiritual" and "The Prac tical." It would say that, bath were spiritual.
It is a career of golf-sacrifice although one large-hearted Balva- tion Army woman officer, thứ other day, såld to me:
"We are really most selfish people. We do it because it gives us so much satisfaction."
An officer forswears all worldly amusements. He or she does not smoke or drink, go to dances. cinemas, theatres, or places of public amusement, bo " dressy," ox" "flirtatious,"
O
FFICERS cannot marry Joutside the Army. It à young man is engaged before he enters the Army, bla flancee must also take the course and qualify as an offfeer,
If he falls in love, after he is un officer, he must get permission to become engaged. The girl must bo a Salvationist or be prepared to become one.
"The needs of the War' are. above all human desire," said an officer to me, when I remonstrated about this, "Each must be a proper helpmate to the other."
A married officer, without chil- dren. gets furnished quarters, a minimum of 203. a week and a maximum of 365,, although he may make a little more as the пона- agent" for "The War Cry."
His corps is expected to yield him his salary, but the first charge is always the buildings, rates. taxes, etc. If the corps cannot, headquarters stops in.
An officer with three chlidren at
One STORIES OF STRANGE FINDS school gets a minimum of 38s, and
them
After an agonistag search the clergyman advised him to borrow a ring from a member of the con- gregation. This was done, and the wedding proceeded.
on the horizon even when days can almost see them grop- were at their brightest. Given ing for a solution. It must TN a recent issue of the Shetland, wedding ring, though he was cer- a general muddling of inter-have become clear to
Tintes the following strange tain it had been put safely in his national affairs, with civil wars
that their previous course story appeared:-A Shetland wo-waistcoat pocket when he left
mas, working in the garden, lost a home. and hectic politics creating the was leading towards disaster. ring. Intensive search proving un tension to be expected from Someone, it may have been availing, she gave it up as lost. them, the Anglo-France-Belgian Lord Halifax, suddenly hit upon
The sequel was surprising in the the idea of working in
extreme. Twelve months later she i was preparlag potatoes for dinner nightmare to certain statesmen exactly opposite direction. In when, cutting a curiously shaped
Twelve months later the parish further cast in Europe. When who went to Germany and had inside of it the long lost ring,
any event it was Lord Halifax specimen, she was amazed to find
church gardener found the missing France added Russia to her certain talks with Herr Hitter
ring. He had discovered a nest of already powerful and potent which gave both London and not as rare ns might be supposed. dulled golden circlet was.
Strange Ands of this nature are field mice, and thers the now rather The list of potential allies-even Berun some reassurance. If, 39 From collected cuttings of the past farmer bridegroom had dropped it, though the agreement was sole-tain and Germany together can stories are gleaned.
a result of this beginning, Bri- few years the following amazing and the ring had been claimed later
as building material by mice.
alignment must have been a
an
ly defensive-the shock natural-bridge the noyes between the
whose alliances spread around
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For days the officials of the New
run
a maximum of 48s, a week.
The Territorial Commander is bound to bring the amount up to the minimum.
Promotions mean mail incre ments. The scales (which are higher in the US.. New Zealand and Australia than in this coun- try) have been fixed by the economic lovel or tho people around them. The Army officers must remain poor amidst poverty.
:
row the Field omcer,.' such as the commander of a local corps, has a full day.
Ho must go visiting throughout the day, sliting by the alek, comforting the wretched, do- ing good by stealth. He must hold outdoor meetings and his "citadel" must be open every' evening for worship.
On Saturday he must go round the public-houses selling "The War Cry."
Bandemen are all volunteers. They, too, must take the vows of self-denial, and shun all worldly pleasures.
Promotion is normally by length of service, although the higher commands are selected by the General, who can also advance an exceptional officer, regardless of service.-
A telegram' may' transfor an officer from Chipping Norton to Dovil's Island. "Marching Orders” must be oboyed..
ly stimulated her neighbours to opposing factions in Europe modal. A British officer just after
There is the case of the lost war Lost Locomotive look for a means of countering the world, it would seem-they thons into the sea and gave it up as years perhaps is that of a leermo- the war dropped one of his decora- The strangest loss of recent this diplomatic thrust. And so will have accomplished much last. Thirteen years
later the tive that went missing, out of the chaos that is Europe for civilisation. For there have P. & O. liner Bendigo weighed an the Rome-Berlin axis was born; peen times when it appeared chor at Malta. In the mud cling South Wales local line searched for that the weight of circum- ing to the anchor was the medal. it high and low. Then somebody no love child, but a creature of stances would topple the nations! It belonged to Captain Yates of the found it behind some buildings In stark necessity in the eyes of into that abyss on the edge of, Royal Scots Fusillers. He met the a brick field. its creators.
which they walked precariously, liner at Port Said, where the war
decoration was returned to him. Sirangely enough, it had The later development of the There is nothing more do
away in the night and gene off the lines at the very spot where all Ita anti-Comintern alliance, bring-structive to peace of mind than Mouse's “Mascot”
uncertainty. Economically and Another story is taken from an working life it had delivered truck as if a Ing to Germany's side twu politically the world has suffer- American newspaper. This also tonds of bricks. It was deeldedly belligerent states, added from this state of things for concerns a ring, the property of a horse or a dog had found its way ed to the consternation of the far too long. If only it could Mr. Emmett Willams, a former of
Old-fashioned stories which used chancelleries. One can imagine be assured that all armaments Warcaville, Georgia, U.S.A.
aro defensive, that all alifances. One night he trapped a mouse Into adorn fiction concerning magples the statesmen's feelings as they are protective, that neutrality hin cosa crib and received the sur- and other birds carrying off trin- realised the trend, the rushing could only be offended by direct priso, of his life. The dead mouse kats of great value and causing in- of sympathetic peoples into the attack, how much simpler the had around his body, so tightly necent people to be suspected of efforts of the diplomatists in wedged that it was difficult to re- crime art not nearly as unlikely as opposing camps, the piling up Europe and in the Far East. It move, the ring that had eluded they secul
"Only that year a Norfolk farmor of armaments on both sides, the is not going too far to say that search,
If this story.sounds "too Amer-lost his watch, to discover it again cidence by novelista. Wo shall there is more hope now that lcan," hera Is one from Devon"}when a nést fell from off the roof probably reflect also that the only Ergo thing, that, nover turns up again in church, but at the critical point After this we shall think twice | the money we lose.. Some apparently trying to remove old to farmer brought his bride of his house hazards.
in the service he could not find the before criticising the use of coin-
Arthur B Rich
-=[dreadful spectra of civil war in more than one country in con- sequence of the disturbed poll
Germany and Britain are
home.
The Army marches on,
To-day's Thought-
No pain, no paim no thorns. no throneno's gall," AU glory, no erosi no atown.
WILLIAM FENN.