Show i TAKE A VACATION i J i An exchange suggests that as pastors i of the city churches need and take a 1 I vacation during the hot months those i i other Christian workers the members 11 of the Salvation Army also indulge in i E J a vacaton We all heartily second the I I suggestion The poor Selvationists certainly require a respite from their i arduous labors If the man who occupies occu-pies a pulpit but an hour one day every 4 Li week and talks to intelligent and sympathetic t ft k sym-pathetic friends in a clean and well t ventilated church needs a rest during the heated term how much more do they need a vacation who sing and exhort I ex-hort root vigorously every day who i e vainly try to b ow melody from a cracked torn who jingle the tambourine + bourine bells more industriously than 1 the regulation end man and who pose i on their knees in the dust of the roads f The brazsa bugle also needs a rest and A It while unfortunately it is not a dumb i animal why should man not be kind to r I ii it Ve would think also that the t Hallelujah Lassies would absolutely demand de-mand restrest for their arms their 1 lungs and their jaws at least Patti 4 would have been in her grave a 3 I l generation ago if she had sung t I as much in a month as the Q i lassies lu tlue jerseys ana Army t bonnets sing in a week The weather is hot tinl poor miserable sinners are irZt ir j I A j < jj Zt JJ i i 1 1 f I t l t I t M I drooping and sweltering bat the Salvation Salva-tion s01diers from the big gemral down to the ambitious cadet go right along defying the sun while they assault tha sulphurous home of heat They seem tJ think there is no rest for the Salvationists Salva-tionists and that vacations picnic and shade are not for them The public is k nd and sympathetic it is really and sincerely desirous that the Salvation Army shall take a vacation No right thinking man or woman who has witnessed wit-nessed the labors of the Army or who has listened to the tired and painful sounds of that sad and weary horn will interpose any objection to the Salvationists Sal-vationists closing the barracks and taking tak-ing a vacatijn until they have rested fully and there has come a decided change in the temperature |