"LEAGUE OF MERCY."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 96, 16 January 1908, Page 3

"LEAGUE OF MERCY."

A NEW ORGANISATION . A woman knocked yesterday afternoon a) the office.of Brigadier Albiston, North Island Commander of the Salvation. Arriiyf ■ "I live in-'.— — Street. There is a woman who lives hear me .who is helplessly drunk'; and she has. a family of . small children. There is no. one,.to look' after them. Can the, Army dt anything?".' . J ■ :"Such cases happen every, day,'.!;, said, the Brigadier; speaking to a Dominion ■■ ropre .sentativc.a few minutes, afterwards. ... . - "0: course we sent' one., of our women .stfaighl away.. In fclio ordinary course of things shi will make the woman a strong cup pf cqf fee,, wash'and put her. to bed, stay, ivith tin children till she sobers up, then'gives her'i lecture, say .a prayer with her, and leavi her." 1 .... The Army has always provided;- for,,;Sucl '■ cases, but in the future it intends'.to'dtfsi in a niriclv mere systematic way. • Oiy.Thurs ■ day there will be formed a "League, o Morcy,". or association of women,' .member of tho'Salvation Army, who will'uiidertaki to give thoir services for a certain numbe of hours each day to the work of visiting an< assisting the. poor, of Wellington,, and re lievirig distress, of every- kind. '/.There is ■ni reason why t-hete should-be a.homo in We) : lirigton," state's Brigadier Albiston, "wlier ! th'ero is, suffering, which a Salvation Arm, ; soldier will hot be on hand to visit, read; to look after the children of the unfortunate to attend- their.'sick, to -lay -out-' their dead and do whatever else is necessary." ( Mrs. Major Glover will be the secretary,o the new organisation, whose work-.will knoi - no distinction of creeds or persons* Besides visiting private'homes, where suffering o i hardship'exists, the cheering influence of it /members, will reach the gaol, tho hospitals and all the benevolent institutions. *