Show f Go tor for Souls and Go for tor Worst Is Motto Lotto How o w Salvation Army Y Uses Charity as Means eons to End F FACTS ABOUT THE ARMY In Salt Lake City Locally tho Salvation Army bas has Two me meeting ti halls in the tho cit city and at Fort Douglas A working mens men's hotel botel where 25 men are supplied nj nightly with Ith beds for a afee afee fee c of 10 cents cent This includes a compulsory compulsory com bath every ni night ht and the fumigation fumigation fumi fumi- gation of the thc personal clothing the tho first night An industrial store which gathers athers up castoff CI clothing all an over tho the city This is distributed at a comparatively nominal nomi nomi- nominal nal cost to persons who can pay for tho articles bought ought Tho rho dime given for a n pair of shoes the tho nickel for n a shirt or the 1 13 lu cents for a pair of trousers goes oes to defray the thc expenses of the the tho rent o of the store the tho keep of tho I horse borse and the tho pa pay of the tho drivers In Incases Inen en cases es where after in esti investigation the tho rec recipients tents arc shown to bo be worthy and andin andin in need the supplies are aro given hen j gratis f An employment bureau which is supplying supplying sup sup- plying about n ms- ms a week with jobs in accord with their capacity for work and aims at all times to help a man mani i keep off the streets p A missing friend department which which i r seeks to find lost ones for whom inquiry inquiry Inquiry in- in In- In has bas been mad made r r A commissary department which ser so- so f r cures goods are wholesale prices for distribution distribution dis- dis as need ma may arise among tho the worthy poor What it Dots Does Locally r The local arm army holds eighteen salvation salva- salva I 1 tion meetings a 1 week including nine nino I open air meetings s where here tho the hearers I I average e from froin to people eople and as asi i many indoor meetings w ero the average average aver aver- I a age c attendance is from fifty to seventy seventy- I 1 f t five On Sunday bi flights it is is between 1150 and ana coo It lt claims an average O e t o of four converts converts con con- 1 t verts crts a n. week some of whom join tho the army arm while whilo others return to their re re- pe o denominations in this or other cities I It has bas but each no tithing system Ja lay member gives thes something each week I toward the maintenance of tho the corps k It has lias an expense roll roU for the spiritual spiritual spirit spirit- ual work of 70 0 a u month for rent rent- 10 3 a month for Ii light ht 20 to 25 a month for charity suc such as groceries coal etc I for the tho poor 15 a month for coal and andr r an n officers officers' salar salary which is no stated sum Um but is is barel barely enough enough for food and andi i clothing for the worker and his famil family It contributes its sharp share to tho the nn na national t organization and in addition in Salt Lake Cit City has a Thanks Thanksgiving illg i ipg and Christmas dinner for tho the unemployed L and md the tho poor which is an entirely local affair r affair and to which all the funds collected col col- for this purpose locally are de de- voted There arc are three officers in charge o of tho local work Throughout tho the World Tho The Salvation Arm Army is established I in four fifty countries and colonies and antI andr r its cers preach in twenty eight ht lan Jan ua eg Thero There are arc corps und end outposts out out- r po posts ts and md officers and cadets f r including tho the social officers In addition addi addi- i tion there thero are arc local officers jun jun- junior junior tor and senior and bandsmen It publishes sixty-nine sixty periodicals isI issuing is- is is- is I fuin suing Annually 1 2 copies And r i there is not a pai paid advertisement in one r of or them General Booth following out his idea that these publications ought t to be exclusively ely devoted to the uplifting up up- f lifting and betterment of mankind Tho The arm army has 76 6 social institutions I These supply in a year beds for 1 persons and meals for There Thero aro are seventeen prison gate ate homes where convicts just released from the penitentiaries arc arc assisted in li in living Jiving down their past and in becoming becom in rug ing new men These seventeen institutions institutions institutions can accommodate persons and report in oue one year 1711 fill satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory tory cases Tho 1110 rescue homes for women num number her ber with a a. total accommodation capacity at alone one time of 2562 The ThelI lI satisfactory cases report reported cd hero in one year vent are aro ajo or about 85 83 per pcr cent of all the inmates Go for the Worst It Go Go for souls and go o for lor the worst That is the motto adopted bv by a little publication issued by the Salvation Army Armr and devoted chiefly to the use me and instruction of its officers The motto tells in a 1 nutshell the aim and purpose purpose pur pur- pose of the Salvation Arm Army It is somewhat different from the Impression impression impression im Im- Im of the aims o of tho the Salvation Sal Army that o occasionally becomes cur cur- rent Local officers of oI the Salvation Army have bave found mistaken ideas prevailing pre pre- prevailing as to th tho nature of the work they have undertaken People tho they say eay seem to regard tho the Salvation Army as a sort 01 or organized charities designed that is primarily for the relief re re- re- re lief Het of tho physical wants of the tho suffering suffering suffer suffer- ing poor of the large cities Now tho the Salvation Army does a good deal of charitable work But its officers officers cers and soldiers alike ever cr have bao something something some somo thing else in view They rhey go go o for souls and go o for the tho worst Has Field to Itself It It is not a charitable but hut a philanthropic philan philan- organization said Ensign L. L II N Baldwin in iu charge of or the lime spiritual work of tb the local Salvation Army in discussing this phase of the question Of I or course we wo do much charitable work worle But Dut our aim is especially tho the uplifting up liftin lifting of mankind and particularly larl the worst of mankind and the charity work ork of the Salvation Arm Army is partly a II means to this endI end I Through our industrial rescue aud and prison gate ate homes hotels our employ employ- meat ment bureaus and various other well organized organized or agencies we do o what we wo can for the needs of those who aro are in want or who can ca'n be helped to a better life lifer r by such means But the tho aim is not to do dr this work worl but rather through it to todo do what wo we 0 can for the uplifting of mankind and particularly the tho classes classes' of mankind which the tho churches churches per haps I 1 should say elY tho the oth other r churches churches- do not reach To Humanity For there ther is is a class of humanity that seems nit amt it Vero to be beyond tho the pale IDle of the tho ordinary activities of church workers But wo we 0 are arc not seeking so much to increase our membership ns as simply to r brin bring men to a higher her and respectable pane plane of living No very large proportion tion of the men who accept assistance in in various ways from tho Salvation SalvationS S Army join that or organization ani Many r of them go o to their respective ti c homes in oth other r cities and ninny many of th th ni return to their own respective hew he Wo Ne V do 10 what we can to set thorn thom on the tho right path But t But perhaps n bettor better r under understanding of or the aims nims of the thc army can be obtained from the tho story of its founding For it came camo to fill a n need in tb the world and was as E somewhat of a spontaneous growth By tracing its origin wo we can see ECO why it was started an and therefore why it is is and what hat it aims to do o. o Founder of Army 14 William Booth Booth- was a pious godly bo boy bo- born of humble bumble parentage at Nottingham Nottingham Not Not- En England land Earl Early in his life lifo ho be showed that ho was reli religiously inclined inclined in in- I elined and was as possessed with a keen desire to help belp his weaker r companions Ho was always a stern admirer of the Bible Biblo as it is The ThC young voting man entered the ministry I of the Methodist church and became an nn o nn evangelist He lie brought hundreds of converts converts con con- verts to tho the Methodist faith LIt It It was wag as while the young oun minister was passing through h W h and aDd Mile End Waste the tho slums of London the worlds world's metropolis that ho was told of ot a million and half ono men women and children who ho never entered a church Youn Young Booth felt tho the call to toI reach these benighted hearts and homes bomes I Tho Tho conditions which Ibich ho bo lamented and tho the methods b by t which he ho thou thought ht the they mi might ht be bo corre corrected ted were laid Inid beforetime before the time who wh greatly disapproved of this successful young evangelist c relinquishing re reo his position Starts Starn Work Vork Work in iu Slums 14 mind and But But o once co tho the young youn mans man's will were cre thoroughly ly satisfied of divine tl i guidance nothing could convince him otherwise Without finances or the visible vis is ible wherewithal for his work worle or support support sup sup- port R Rev v. v Mr Booth and his worthy I wife commenced singing and anel preaching t the tho e gospel ospel o of Jesus Christ in the tho Milo End 1 Waste aste district The collections at first consisted largely larely of rocks water waste and refuse matter of various kinds Yet the young worl workers ers were stirred on by reh religious zeal and received receive the tho of time lIol Holy Ghost By B By their efforts the drunkard became became be be- came converted and drank no more The money he spent for drink was used to clothe the tho family house and feed them The Magdalene Ia daleno also finding Christ as asher asher asher her personal savior became chaste The pu pugilist and tho the pigeon flyer cr and those en engaged 3 ed in all tho the deeper grades of sin seeing tho the change o in in the tho lives of their former companions were compelled to believe Choose Booth to Lead By tho the un unselfish efforts of this untiring representative yo of Calvary's Calvary's Calvary's Cal Cal- vary's victim thousands of these those men and their wives and their families were converted Now for a place of worship Rev Roy Mr Booths Booth's aim was to b bring bang n these people to Jesus and then hand them over to their respective churches especially tho the Methodist to which he himself and Mrs Booth belonged But these converts unaccustomed to church and its mode of worship met together and notified R Rev Mr lr Booth that since since through tho the faithfulness of him and his bis Wi o they had bad been brou brought ht to God he be must be bo their leader Thence commenced tho work of the tho Christian mission From tho the nature o of its open air meetings and the inarching to to and from the ha hall ball J everything seemed to po possess sess a military movement The The work spread I from cit city to city tho the converts boldin holding house bouso to house bouse meetings s. Hundreds of times the they were arrested or stoned and beaten benten b by howling howling howl howl- in ing mobs Yet they were determined Arrayed Against SinTo SinTo Sin To To them tho the work was as often oton literally liter liter- literally ally a reli religious ious battle A change of of name was sug suggested ested and I Salvation of Christian Mission Mis Mis- Army took the place sion This commenced the work ork o of the tho arm army as a n thoroughly or organized religions religious reli reli- gions denomination that has in in forty forty- ei eight ht years ears the with globe a n practical reli religion ion that visits tho the widow and orphan and UDd keeps itself unspotted from the world It It was started stalled and has continued not as a n charity but as ns a philanthropic movement Ever Every branch of its work has been brought a about out through h sity The one ono and main purpose of this army of consecrated soldiers ol lers is to brin bring men and women to know Christ as a n. personal savior Thus it believes es and proves through its to con converts each year jear that the tho love of God Goil is tho the panacea for all the heartaches of the tho bum human an race Of or a a. Practical Kind Rind Practical religion ion is what tho the world wants wants not not an empty profession or form Feeding the hungry carin caring for the sick picking up the harlot barlot and stopping others others oth oth- ers from becoming such clothing th the 3 naked sheltering tho the homeless bringing bringing bring ring ringing ing about conditions where the willing unemployed can find employment in its industrial homes employing men meu and thus providing pro them with homes food and other necessities until a better position position position po po- can be bo secured always deahn dealing out the tho kind of charity chanty that helps a aman aman aman man to help himself himself this this is something of the tho work which the Salvation Army has taken on itself in the half century of its existence Has Legal Lesal Residence The Salvation Army Array is a corporation organized organize under the tho laws Jaws of New Kew York Every quarter each institution in this country must make malo a complete report of its finances and other circumstances And that means something For there thero are aro Soo corps and outposts 84 industrial homes homes 75 5 working mens men's hotels hotels 4 children's childrens childrens children's chil chil- drens dren's homes 21 slum posts 24 4 rescue homes a n worldwide de missing missing friend department department department de de- de- de for finding loved ones separated ed cd from homo home by thousands of miles of water and land three farm colonies of ofa a total of 2560 acres with settlers and so on through a lon long list Each Each back of these institutions must send its report from its cash book The Tho army has a thor thorough uth system of handling its finances Each week each cach officer must send to his divisional officer a report The latter in turn submits a statement to his provincial officer he ho to his territorial territorial terri terri- commander he to his bis national officer of of- ho to his territorial commander he heto heto heto to his national commander and he to the thc international commander And each divisional or provincial or territorial or national an and even enn the international commander has his various boards to handle tho the separate funds Keep Seep Check on Finances Commander Evangeline E Booth cannot purchase so little as ns a lead pencil without without without with with- out the tho consent of the tho financial board hoard at the national headquarters in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City And this same rule holds from tho the captains to Gen William Booth II I I 1 have bave to pass all my purchases for example under the supervision of a financial hoard board consisting of the treasurer treas I the secretary and the sergeant maIlo ma ma- major Ilo I jor of the time local post I Each ach officer in this immense and thoroll thorough h organization devotes otes his or her hor entire time to the tho saving and blessing of those in the thc community in n which he lie or she slit is is it stationed and tho the officer is is in in fact act the servant senant of the pub lie lic Tho The majority of the officers have given chen up good tood homes and positions position and have havo devoted their lives Jives without any guaranty of compensation Are Arc Devoted to Work But the tho paramount object of or these individuals is to spread sunshine wherever wherever ever tho |