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GENERAL BOOTH INTERVIEWED.

SALVATION ARMY'S AIMS.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1926.

£80,000 per annum in missionary work from London last year they 'spent £240,000. Eighty per cent. of what they spent was raised by their own people. The 20 per cont, still to be found outside was a big problem.

Work in Hongkong.

An appeal for men workers and leaders for the Salvation Army "I am very poor. I have no was made by General W. Bramwell money, that is not earmarked. I Booth, head of the International have been asked to day very Salvation Army, when he was in thing hare in Hongkong. There

cordially to come and do some terviewed by a representative of are one or two ways in which I the, Hongkong. Telegraph at thewould like to do some Hongkong Hotel yesterday after thing, but to get going noon. In the course of his re- in Hongkong would cost a cortain marks he expressed his willing-emount of money-it may be £1,000, ness to help the movement in It may be $10,000. Whatever the Hongkong, but said it would cost amount, I have not got it, so that a certain amount of money to get the first step towards doing some- it going, and ho had no monoy, that thing in Hongkong is to get money. was not already ear-marked. To At the same tinie, I look upon that get the movement going in Hong- a quite a secondary thing. It is kong, the first step was to get sum- the men and the spirit that we

want.. cient money, perhaps $1,000 or it does seem to me, however, might be $10,000, but at the same that we have reason: to look hope- timo the primary thing that was fully upon the Army's future when wanted was the real spirit, and we find that it is itself raising men "the men.

and women with this wonderful General Booth is now well ad- passion and this love for the com vanced in years, but his grey hairs mon people We want the common have in no way lessened the fight-neple to save the common people. We do not despise learning, for we ing spirit that has guided the

know that it adds to the fored of movement for so long: He said he all other qualities. Nevertheless, had been greatly impressed with we do not look for it. We believe the work of the Army in Japan. that if you want to evangelise, to His experience there was another Christianise the common muss, you, illustration that the Salvation will have to do it through the com- Army had become really of the mon people.. Amongst our 24,000 soil in the different countries.

to 25,000 officers, there are not half a dozen doctors of divinity and probably at the outside 50 Univer-

Progress,

"There was a time," he proceed ed, "when, in some considerable de gree, it could be looked upon assity graduates." transplanted, as a planting out of something which belonged to some- where else. That time seems to me to have now quite passed away, and the Army has given, and is giving, evidence of its probable per- manence. The Army is able to adapt itself to different communi- Lies. Whether you are in Lapland or in Uganda, whether you are out here in the East or in the big cities of Germany, there is the same motive, the same living, vital force manifesting itself in different ways with the thought and feelings of the people.

"The progress of the Army," General Booth concluded, "during the luat ten or twelve years, has certainly been greater than any previous ten or twelve years, While I do not expect that rate of progress to continue-because as the ground becomes occupied It is very difficult to extend I do see many signs of a bright future, There is a need for the Salvation Army. No movement will endure for which there is not a place in human life. The Army is still under the influence of the original impulse-love of God and a pura aardent love for humanity. That is what set it going; that is what keeps going. If that goes, then I hope it will die and be buried. We have enough dead things above the ground."

A Young Movement. "While, of course.

we are young movement-50 years is no thing in the life of a movement such as ours and while we are lacking many things which make fet permailence, yet there is this marvellous thing, that it is a new life born into the world, spirit imparted to human experi- ence, yes, and it is a new experi- ence at any rate new since. the days of early Christianity.

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"You may say, 'but don't you feel that the Army is essentially a thing of English origin or Anglo-Saxon origin. Yes, I admit it is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and I believe the Anglo-Saxon race has given more leaders in the moral sphere than any other race during the last 2,000 years. It is of Anglo- Saxon origin, but then it seems to me the Army goes further back and finds its original root was planted by Jesus Christ himself. We do feal, and we do claim, that we are a manifestation of practical Chris- tianity.

Not Accused of Being Respectable. "Nobody can accuse Jesus Christ of being respectable. He consort- ed with all the most unhappy sec-. tions of the life in which He moved. Nobody will accusé Him of being a mere intellectual. He was possessed of the emotional idea, if you like: His teaching is saturat-

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General Booth mentioned that

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