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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,
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"it is in the back streets' that the Army Ands its 'truest expression," Left, General Eva Booth, the leader.
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Was
ABY
was just a months old. It chubby, bright-eyed and lively, fascinated by the banner of "Blood and Fire" under which its grandmother held it.
Bald that grandmother to the young parents as they stood before an audience of 1,700 people:
"Are you willing that it should spend all its life for God wher ever He may choose to send it and not withhold it at any time from such hardship, Buffering, want or sacrifice as true devotion
to the service of Christ and the Balvation Army may entail?"
And the young mother replied that she was willing.
Thus the fourth generation of Booths was dedicated...
It is seven years since I wit- nessed that scene at the Regent Hall, London, but it has remained as vivid as another scene which I also witnessed,
This time it was not the bap- tism, but the death of a Salva- tionist.
A
COMMISSIONER had a heart attack at a meet-
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was dying. Grey-haired and venerable col- lengues kneeled beside him pray- ing fervently, tearfully for his 3fc.
"He has gone," whispered the officer, who had his arms around him,
ARMY
"TIO Кав boon promoted to Glory."
men
What manner of
and women are these who are willing that their children should be mar- tyred and who welcome death with a smile of triumph?
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THAT is this Salvation Army, which since William Booth first gave
It its 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 "soldiers." the Army belongs to the comman-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 mutual privation.
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If the well-to-do helped it, it was because it was a salvo to the con- sclence of 19th Century Indus- trialism.
The "Darkest England" move- ment which launched its social
nbuses. True, it treated the symp- toms and not the causes.
With that, those sixty Salvation veterans,-the-tears-stili-on-their---work-was-a-crusade against-social- checks, but miles upon their Upa, rose, shouted joyfully, shook hands with each other as for a great victory.
"Praise God," they cried as one,
France and Belgium must have tical life and the feeding of the!
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It went after the drunkard. rather than the Gluzts and drudgery out of which drink was
a "short-cut” 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 sludge of social injustice.
Essentially, it was the poor 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. Its General and the Commissioners
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Elder Statesmen" who meet In solemn council.
But it is among
the self- sacrificing "soldlers," beating the tambourines, or among the obscure "officers" in the back-streets of the slums, that the Army, perhaps, finds its truest expression.
Think of the Army, not as the elaborately stage-managed set- 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" lassies," in their poke bonnets; the "soldiers," in their uniforms (they have to pay for them), maybe just a cap and a Jersey: the young earnest licu- 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 ilou- tenant are paid officers.
Officers are recruited from the
had the appearance of a cloud fires by propagandists. One STORIES OF STRANGE FINDS
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Twelve months later the parish church gardener found the missing ring. He had discovered a nest of dulled golden circlet was. field mice, and there the now rather The farmer bridegroom had dropped it. and the ring had been claimed later an building material by mice. There is the case of the lost war | Lost. Locomotive
the
years perhaps is that of a locomo tive that went missing.
volunteers. Young men or women. (between ill and 28) who, having.
been converted, and having given- voluntary service in some local, corps, are prepared to give up. their jobs (they must not be un- employed), and follow the flag. can go to the training college at Camberwell as cadets.
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For ten months they undergo an Intensivo course, not only in gospel teaching and evangellam, but in. social work, music, general educa- tion, and Orders and Requin- tiona.
NOME 300 cadets pass
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through the college every year, "living-in "* as at a university, but giving un- sparingly of time and servico.
And, when at last they are con- sidered properly equipped, theỷ have a strange "graduation cere- mony" at the Albert Hall.
They march into the hall to receive their "Marching Orders." They do not know, until thoir com--
missions are handed to them, where they are going. A
It may be to Thurso or to Penzance. It may be to a corps in their own town, or to one hundreds of milca away. Some may be sent abroad,. but they will have been, at least, consulted and probably specially trained, beforehand.
They may be sent out as “field. officers"
or as social workers.
Of the Army's 20,000 officers, about 20,000 are "in the . fold." That 19, they are avangolists, preachers, pastors.
The rest are social workers look- ing after settlements and homes, doing work as probation officers, marriage - menders, caring 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 resent I 1 I. distinguished between the two as "The Spiritual and "The Prac- tical." It would say that both were spiritual.
It is a carcer of self-sacrifice although one large-hearted Halva- tion Army woman officer, the other day, said to me:
"We are really most selfish people. We do it because it gives. un so much satisfaction.”
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An officer forsweats all worldly amusements, He or she does not smoke or drink, go to dances, cinemas, theatres, or plates of public amusement, be "drossy," or: **firtatious,"
FTIGENS cannot marry outside the Army. If a young man is engaged before he enters the Army, his Dancee must also take the course and qualify as an officer,
If he falls in love, after he is an 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 desiro," said an oneer to me, when I remonstrated about this, "Each must be a proper helpmate to the other."
A married ofeer, without chil- dren, gets furnished quarters, a minimum-of-253,a ̄week-and-a maximum of 35s., although he may make a little more as the "nows- agent" for "The War Cry."
His corps 14 expected to yield. him his salary, but the first charge is always the buildings, rates, taxes, etc. It the corps cannot,. headquarters stops in.
An officer with three children at school gets a minimum of 388, and a maximum of 488. a week.
The Territorial Commander is bound to bring the amount up to the minimum.
Promotions mean small incre- ments. The scales (which are higher in the US., New Zealand and Australla than in this coun- try) have been fixed by the economic level of the people around them. The Army officers must remain poor amidst poverty.
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TOW the Field Oficer, such as the commander of a local corps, has full day. He must go visiting throughout the day, sitting by the sick, 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,"
Bandamen
are all volunteers. They, too, must take the vows of self-denial, and shun all worldly pleasures.
on the horizon even when days can almost were at their brightest. Given ing for a solution. It must N a recent issue of the Shetland wedding ring, though he was cer
general muddling of inter-have become clear to them
Times the following strange tain it had been put anfely in his national affairs, with civil wars that their previous course story appeared-A Shetland wowalstcoat pocket when he left and hectic politics creating the was leading towards disaster. ringt. Intensive search proving un-
mat, working in the garden, lost a home. tension to be expected from Someone, it may have been avalling, she gave it up is Inst. After an agonising search the clergyman advised him to borrow a them, the Anglo-Franco-Belgian Lord Halifax, suddenly hit upon
The sequel was surprising in the ring from a member of the con- alignment must have been the idea of working in an extreme. Twelve months later she gregation. This was done, and the
was preparlig potatoes for dinner | wedding proceeded. nightmare to certain statesmen exactly opposite direction.
In when, cutting a curiously shaped further east in Europe.
any event it was Lord Halifax specimen, she was amazed to find When
who went to Germany and had insido of it the long lost ring. France added Russia to her certain talks with Herr Hitler already powerful and potent which gave both London and not as rare as might be supposed. Strange finds of this nature are list of potential allies-even Berlin some reassurance. If. as From collected cuttings of the past a result of this beginning, Bri- few years the following amazing though the agreement was sole-tain and Germany together can stories are gleaned. ly defensive-the shock natural-bridge the abyss between the ly stimulated her neighbours to opposing factions in Europe medal. A British officer just after whose alliances spread around look for a means of countering the world, it would seem-they the war dropped one of his decora The strangeat loan of recent this diplomatic thrust. And so will have accomplished much lens into the sea and gave it up as out of the chaos that is Europe for civilisation. For there have P. & O. liner Bendigo welghed an
lost. Thirteen years later the Rome-Berlin axis was born; been times when it appeared chor at Malta. In the mud cling that the weight of circuming to the anchor was the medal. no love child, but a creature of stances would topple the nations It belonged to Captain Yates of the stark necessity in the eyes of into that abyss on the edge of Royal Scots Fusillers. He met the its creators.
which they walked precariously. liner at Port Said, where the war The later development of the There is nothing more de- anti-Comintern alliance, bring-structive to peace of mind than| Mouse's "Mascot"! GILMAN & CO.,
uncertainty. Economically and Another story is taken from an working life it had delivered truck ing to Germany'a side
two politically the world has suffer-American newspaper. This also loads of bricks. It was an If a decidedly belligerent states, add-fed from this state of things for concerns a ring, the property of a horse or a dog had found its way BAUMANed to the consternation of the far too long. If only it could Mr. Emmett Williams, a farmer of home,
chancelleries. One can imagine be assured that all armaments Warenville, Georgia, U.S.A.
are defensive, that all alliances One night he trapped a mouse in to adorn fiction concerning magpies |the statesmen's feelings as they are protective, that neutrality his cot crib and received the sur- and other birds carrying off trln- realised the trend, the rushing could only be offended by direct prise of his life. The dead mouse kets of great value and causing in of sympathetic peoples into the attack, how much simpler 'the hnd around his body, so tightly nocent people to be suspected of efforts of the diplomatists In wedged that it was difficult to re-crimo are not nearly as unlikely as opposing camps, the piling up Europe and in the Far East. It move, the ring that had eluded they seem. of armaments on both sides, the is not going too far to say that search.
Only last year a Norfolk farmer If this story sounds "too Amer-lost his watch, to discover it again cidence by novelists. We shall dreadful spectre of civil war in there is more hope now that
Ican," here is one from Devon-when a nest fell from off the roof | probably reflect also that the only Germany and Britain.
thing that never turns up again is to church, but at the critical point After this wa shali think twice the money we long, sequence of the disturbed poll-hazards.
in the service he could not find the before criticising the use of coin-
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decoration was returned to him.
For days the officials of the Now
South Wales local line searched for it high and low. Then somebody found it behind some buildings in a brick field.
Strangely enough, I had run away in the night and gone off the lines at the very spot where all its
Old-fashioned stories which used
more than one country in con apparently trying to remove alishire. A farmor brought his bride for his house.
Promotion is normally by length of service, although the higher commanda are selected by the General, who can alsɑ advance an
exceptional officer, regardless of service.
A telegram may transfor. an. officer from Chipping Norton to Devil's Toland. "Marching Orders ** must be obeyed.
The Army marches on.
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To-day's Thought-
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory: no cross, no crown.
-WILLIAM PENN.
Arthur T. Rich.
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