Show THE SALVATION ARMY whatever wasy may be thought by sober people concerning the methods method 11 of the late phase of militant christianity that marches under the banner of the salvation army no one will deny that the motives actuating its if exponents and the results as seen been in its members are calculatedly calculate dl to improve the condition of the most fallen of mankind As an ai agency for good it to Is therefore entitled to respectful consideration and no go far as an it accomplishes reform by entering fields at whose confines others shrink and rescuing to a better life a class whose interest could not be aroused by a lens lees demonstrative form of worship it merits the aid at least the sympathy of every humanitarian whose sadness at the degradation in the worl i I 1 is not diminished by the fact that he has no remedy for it we may have our doubts ike as to te the acceptability abi I 1 I 1 ty of suot suc i a form of worship to the lowly teacher whose walk and talk a mong among men were an example of godliness and perfection and who gave his life that we might live jive his was not the combative spirit nor were his bis followers designated by any term or fashion in mimicry or caricature of war still the effort that would lead and does lead a fellow mortal to a better life may not be despised no matter what its sou source rue it can be praised for this much if for nothing more that it at least lifts its beneficiary to a plans plane where further progress toward a true pure ideal is not so hopeless an u undertaking for ourselves speaking now of all the sects which havlik havIn sc a form of godliness deny the power thereof whose creeds are man made and whose observances are a mere matter of con ven vengence venie lence Bce we cannot ties see that the salvation army ii less entitled to consideration toleration and respect than the most pretentious among them it at least goes at the business of soul saving in an earnest practical way and the difference between its methods and those of the average christian even as viewed by newspaper of the latter is too conspicuous to be altogether ignored we W e quote from one of these theme organs the new york observer the average christian gives a hungry man on the street a tinner dime for a supper or a nights lodging he cannot a afford ord to pay for a lodging at a respectable hotel I 1 and the man would not go home with him if he was asked but in nine cases out of ten he buys a drink with the dime for every cheap restaurant has a saloon attachment tach ment the salvation army takes the same man to a warm room gives him a supper and then provides occupation for his mind and heart it has a prayer meeting in which brass horns horna and tambour tambourine ines take stake a prominent part and the hymns are sung to tunes which he has often heard used to other words but it is only in that way that a religious emotion can be excited in his sinful heart it would not be the way of the average christian but it is the way in which the people the salvation army is trying so no successfully to reach can be most easily touched it in ia not true to say either that the feeling thus aroused is only momentary in its action for in a vast number of cases the genuineness genuine new of the conversions cannot be questioned all of which being too as stated already at least one reason why the work of the she army with an all its dissonance diMon anoe and pageantry oan can b sympathized with and in a meaurx encouraged and applauded by all wr save the bigoted and the |