Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1920 — Dedicate Salvation Hall in Tokyo [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dedicate Salvation Hall in Tokyo

MARQUIS SHIGENOBU OKUMA, famous Elder Statesman of Japan, was one of the distinguished guests of the Salvation Army at the recent dedication of the Salvationists’ View headquarters In Toyko. The Marquis appears at the extreme left above. Next him are Commissioner and Mrs. Johannes de Groot in charge of the work in all of Japan, one of the sixtythree countries and colonies in which the Army is laboring. “The reason I 1 always willingly render any service I can to the Salvation Army,” stated th® Marquis in the course of his address, “is because the organization does not) sit down and content itself with past achievements, but continues to keep up, a strenuous fight for further advancement in the future.”