Show Just Folks By EDG EDGAR A. A GUEST I LINKS LINES S TO A SALVATION ARMY n MAN IMAN CA A. A S. S N. N I have hoard heard them singing hymns on tho the sidewalks 3 of or the slums I have havo heard them calling sinners to the beating of their drums I have heard them nightly pleading pleading pleading plead plead- ing with the craven and the weak To forsake their way ray of living and anda a better one ono to seek And nd looking morals over in this curious worldly plan I would choose for earnest labors your our Salvation Army man Herer no cozy sheltered red parson preaching sermons from a book Picking soft and easy cases dodging drunk and dope and crook But a cleric of the gutter meeting humans at their worst Who will seek the souls soul's salvation but will lill feed the body first And upon lIpon the Masters Master's business which is sometimes bitter grim Does Docs more real good with doughnuts dough dough- nuts than with ith any gospel hymn Heres Here's a man who cho lives his teaching teaching teach teach- in ing and the booming of ot his d drum rum Shows he doesn't pick and choose them but will take them as they come Where the most o of us are willing to perform the pleasant tasks We dont don't like the uglier labors which the good Lord sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times asks But Salvation Army heroes try to rescue to the end Since the lower down they've fallen fallen fall raIl en its it's the more men need a friend So heres here's to you Colonel Norris and to your our 40 years ears or more moreO O Of living your our religion going round from door to door Or st st. standing at the gutters where mens men's lives are swirled and tossed In the hope that you ou mi might ht save ave one which would otherwise be lost You are arc bigger braver finer than the most of ot us I swear By the work that you ou are arc doing and that uniform you ou wear |