Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — A Remarkable Showing. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Showing.

At the present moment the Salvation Army has no less than 9,349 regular officers, 13,000 voluntary officers, 30 training homes, with 400 cadets, and 2,8(54 corps scattered over 32 different countries. In England alone it has 1,377 corps, and has held some 100,000 open-air meetings. This represents a part of its religious work. Besides this it has in social work 30 rescue homes, 5 shelters, 3 food depots, arid many other agencies for good. It began in the labors of a siDgle friendless dissenting minister, without name, without fame, without rank, without influence, without eloquence; a man poor and penniless, in weak health, burdened with delicate children, and disowned by his own connection; it now numbers multitudes of earnest evangelists. It began in an East End rookery, and in less than twenty years it has gone “from New Zealand right round to San Francisco, and from Cape Town to Nordkoping.” It has shelters, refuges, penitentiaries, food depots, sisterhoods, and brotherhoods already established in the slums. It has elevated thousands of degraded lives. It has given'hope and help to myriads of hopeless and helpless outcasts. It has proposed a scheme which, in spite of square miles of damp blanket and oceans of cold water, has received the sympathy of some of the best and highest men both in church and state. I think that even the bitterest, the most unjust, the most cynical, and the most finical of the laymen and clerics who have written to traduce and execrate it might wish to God that in the life work of any one of them they had done one-thousandth fraction of good comparable in any one visible direction to that which has been wrought by “General” Booth.— Harper’s Magazine.