People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — The Salvation Army. [ARTICLE]

The Salvation Army.

The Jubilee Band of the Salva- : tian Army is conducting special meetings at the M. E. church. At their first meeting Wednesday night the church was crowded to excess. Captian Kemp, the leader, spoke on the work of the Army. He said the foundation principles of the Army’s teachings are, (1) we can be forgiven, (2) we can be holy. (3). we must live to save others. These truths, ho continued can only be w'orked out by means of faith in God, hard work, sacrifice and discipline. He said the Army had no new doctrines but new|andextensive{methods. They realized they must use extraordinary methods to reach an extraordinary class of people. They seek to reach the unreached he said, 47 per cent of the working class of America are un re ached by the sound of the gospel. To call this class together he beat his drum while others pulled a bell, he failed to see the material difference between a piece of bell metal and a piece of parchment their methods were merely a means to attract the people there to preach the gospel. The army has 11,000 commissioned officers or military evangelists, 35,000 local officers and bandmen, 2,000,000 soldiers or members. The work is carried on in 42 countries and colonies. Salvation is preached in 24 languages. They hold three million meetings yearly. In the social work they have 261 institutions, with 1,050 officers at work day and night for the social and moral salvation'of the people. They have work shops, factories, coal and wood yards, laundries, bakeries. match factories, farm colonies, etc. (Since the inauguration of the social work in 1891, 11,000,000 meals, from 1 cent to 8 cents per meal, have been supplied to the poor; 8,000,000 lodgings supplied; 20,000 fallen girls have passed through the 55 rescue homes and 80 per cent, have proved satisfactory. The # 207 slum officers in 81 slum posts visit annually 60,000 families and nurse and care for 3,000 sick in the dark places of the great cities. Captain Kemp and the band will remain here a few days longer, at the M. E. church. An Indian Dubar will be held tonight and Saturday night a musical festival and battle of song, and special meetings Sunday at 2:33 and 7 p. m. Watch night service Monday night.

A certain preacher said no. newspaper that told the truth could make a pecuniary success. We say by way of returning the compliment that the minister who will at all times and under all circumstances tell the whole truth about his members, alive % or dead, will not occupy the pulpit more than a Sunday, and then he will find it necessary to leave town in a hurry. The press and the pulpit go hand in hand with with whitewash brushes and pleasant words, magnifying little virtues into big ones. The pulpit, the pen and the gravestone are the great' saint making triumvirate.—Ex.

Some naughty, naughty man says there is scarcely anything a woman cannot do with a hairpin. She uses it to pick her teeth, button shoes, clean fingernails, punch bed bugs out of cracks, fastens up strayed bangs, clean out her husband’s pipe, scratch her head, pick ]aer toe* : nails, run into cakes to see if j they are done, and about a million other things the poor deluded men know about. Ex.