Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1910 — THE SALVATION ARMY AND WHAT IT HAS ACCOMPLISHED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE SALVATION ARMY AND WHAT IT HAS ACCOMPLISHED.

Salvation Army was born in 1865. It has something to show fofr the elevation of the downtrodden. One of its champions says; Salvatlon Army flying in fifty-five countries. It has no less n cJ i soc * e t* es and, excepting in heathen countries, is self-supporting. A/!!f Sf lvationists hol{ * services in thirty-two languages and are led by 15,000 officers, assisted by 50,000 local officers, men and women, who earn their living by the sweat of their brows and give their time and money and work to the cause. In its advocacy twenty-five newspapers are published in seventeen languages. There are 17,000 bandsmen who play sacred music without pay. n Great Britain these bands march 54,000 miles a week to attract men and women to the cross. Over-200,000 hungry and wretched creatures are fed by its instrumentality. No man, woman or child who has fallen on the highways of life —and very slippery these highways are—and reaches out a hand and says; ‘I want to get up again and want to lead an honest, industrious life,’ to every such person there should go out another hand "J's ™ U P- We have many other branches of work. In all we have 120 different departments or plans for benefiting people, and the number Is Increasing constantly. “Now, what are you doing to lift up the people who are down? the poor, the drunkard, the sinful, the hungry, and the poor lassies who have gone over the line and who are in the worst hell this side of the river? What are you doing lor them all? Do you think it is my special work; that you have no part in It? Will you help me? Will you help the Salva•Ti? n C‘ rmy? WUI yOU help wlth your sympathy and prayer? You may say: We have our churches and missions to maintain,’ What a pitiful condi tion your city would be in if you did not have. When you have done all this there will be something left for the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army is .no longer an experiment. It has passed out of the Urea of speculation. It is an accomplished fact.” -L

THE ARMY ON THE MARCH.