Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-04-04 | Page 26 | Salvation Army Will Hold Week of Prayer

SALVATION ARMY WILL HOLD WEEK OF PRAYER Organization to Raise Funds for Missionary Mission Mission- ary Work t I During th the week of April 19 to April is 18 S the Salvation Arm Army throughout the United Stales Slates will hold Its Hs annual week of prayer and praying for tor special help In ht their work ork and amI making an effort to raise rl funds for or the homo and heathen mission work of ot the organization or or- or Tho The Salvation Arm Army Is said Bald to bo be the tho most most extensive and the tho most moat unique of Christianity's charitable enterprises It op opens ns Its Us doors door and its It heart to all I people peo yIo pic who need aid ald- ald old Christians Jews Mo- Mo lo those thosa of no religion thO e who oppose all aU religion and l yet et it Its purpose pur pur- and po pose e Is first and always alwa's ay religious and ns all all Its ministrations io are performed performed frankly In the name of Jesus JesUIt Christ What Arm Army Do Don Does The Salvation al Army organized ors on military mil nary Hary lines hues ha has developed and employs all the efficiency of a disciplined m military mili lii- lii tar tary orf organization yet ct It works to h heal Instead d of wound to lift t the tho burden of or fear feat Instead of ot to rep repress by Intimidation Intimidation tion to save human life instead of to to destroy It It and to bring JO uk joy to to human hearts I Instead of ot 01 ak them hen It feeds t-eds Instead Ins of plundering l leads ads gently gent gent- I ly Instead o of driving and builds up UI instead In- In stead Head of ot tearing down But toward the evil forces of or sin wrong sin rong thinking wrong Impulses wrong conduct conduct It It- It turns a 1 force orce bent on annihilation on not of t the sinner r. r but of sin eln explain P lain officers o of the organization In lit telling of or the army's work the local commander command r said It has had wonderful results It has taken multitudes of men and women In all the tho varying de degrees deg reu of sin an and degradation g ran dation und and has m made ode them happy and ad useful citizens and zealous workers for forthe forthe the uplifting of their former associates 11 It has attracted to U its ranks and provided provided pro pro- vided with nil nn Immense field of or usefulness useful o- o ness mess thousands and has made th them m more than friends to those thoRe who were averts worse than friendless Lifts the Fallen It has taken talen thoU thousands of women out of or the foulest mire of degraded c womanhood womanhood womanhood woman woman- hood and has M lifted them to the tho peace and purity of or wifehood and motherhood It H has taken those who hud lost tu their e r courage and self respect and infused Into them a U new life and has created new Ideals of ot citizenship citizenship It Jt has en entered en- en the vilest lIest of ot human habitations and amid has brou brought ht light and hope cleanliness clean clean- liness and ancl the power and ami faith alth to claim th the privileges of ot a new and find better bolter life Ufo 11 It has taken little tittle children awa away from degrading environments and pie placed C them In homes homell where love 10 Is the abiding g guest buest It Jt has 1118 taken relea released d prisoners and has placed their feet In the paths of ot f honesty honest iV The Salvation Arm Army has hall done these enese things In the 1111 past tit hut but but emphatically Is doing them today and moro more earnestly earnest earnest- ly h more thoroughly and more effectively lively toda today today- than at nt an any time In at the tho past In order to accomplish theeo IO vast results It has built up n many a and varied I institutions Institutions Industrial Industrial homes rescue homes slum settlements I shelters and hotels for men and women maternity limon hospitals a It a 1 a fresh tres air camps halls for the religious Instructions of the poor