SALVATION ARMY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2112, 1 April 1914, Page 9

SALVATION ARMY

CLOSING DAYS OF CONGRESS,

AO day yesterday the Salvation' Army officers attending the second .annual National Congress'sat in private conference., cpranienced.'at DM, and when, tho., 400. officers marched .to luncheon at.midday the JJunedin Band, playeyi- theni tßrpughjilie.-.street?, .{join?,. ■ttissioner dtichftrfls prosiclcci- 'at, sioris,. and. was sujjportea by, Lieut.'-! Colonel- Poivley: .1 'beveral papers. were read-ii-and. duruig tho' juteryals, Commis- , 'siotier Kichards gave addresees.-;- The mab business related to children's'work-, and all-phases-ill comiection '.with itwere -dealt-with. ' -Further 'interest -was lent to-the proceedings by. a- demonstration given to tho officers by the children' tnemselVesv ■. This took place ; between i and 6 o'olock, and those attending were given an opportunity of seeing -tho Ktest.methods in children's instruction. During the tea adjournment the Dunedin officers took oooasion to farewell their divisional commander. Major Toomor, A gatheringof soldiery took place at the Citadel, Vivian _ Street. Commissioner Richards presided, and addresses and selections by the bands were given. . ; . . To-day his Worship the Mayor (Mr. J.. P. Luke) will open the Maternity Hospital, Kensington Street, at 3 p.m. Speakers at tliiis function will beCommissioner Eichards, Dr. A. K. Newman, and Dr. Platts-Mills.- To-morrow will witness the closing of the congress. At 3 p.m. the Hon. Jb\ M. B. Fisher will open the William Booth Memorial Training College. The evening will be featured by a final spectacular demonstration in tlfe Town Hall, when-the--Interna-tional Congress delegates will be farewelled. . < General Bramwell Booth, head of the Salvation Army, has sent a letter to the officers assembled at the Congress. In the course of-this the General says: "Press after God. Nothing else will really satisfy you. Good business is very important—success in life is very desirable —a happy, homo and consecrated family can give great joy;. health and prosperity and opportunity are great riches, but believo me the possession of cny of these, things or all of them together cannot feed the spirit, of man, nor satisfy the great hunger of tho soul. Nothing can do that but tho Bread sent down from Heaven, tlie love, the grace, tho power, the very lifo of God Himself. Go on in this grand and glorious pursuit ofthe souls of men. Love them, follow them, seek them, persevere'with them, turn neither to the left nor right, in this holy hunt for this immortal quarry."

The kinematograph has kte]y. been introduced. into the schools of the Dominion as an educational factor, and during tho past week the curriculum of tho scholars at some of the Wellington schools has been diversified by pictorial lectures on such subjects as "Hound the -.AVo'rid in Eighty Minutes/' "The Animal Kingdom,"- etc., a , small' charge •being made. A microscopic attachment is used with the kinematograph macbiuo for other living-pictures fqr.i'whieh tho l-'upiis provide the subjects—spiders, moths, butterflies, caterpillars, ants, and so on. At one scholastic institution yesterday tho world of natural history had been' well explored for.subiects for display;, and great was tho delight of those children whose "exhibits" gained honours on tho screen. There was ono very disgusted boy. however—his contribution was despised when even the fiea had found favvour. And he had brought his pet rabbit! Even a kineniatograph microscope though has not the capacity of tho cooking-pot. A grand concert and gymnastic display has been arranged for to-night in tho X.M.C.A. Gymnasium Hall. Items will be given by Misses Lissack (elocutionist), K. Davis. E. Smith, and Dorothy Wells (Violinist), Messrs. Frank Johnstoue (cellist), Stephens, Goudie, etc. Exhibitions on the horizontal and parallel bare and oa the Roman rings will Ix> given by members of the -men's class. i'he ladies' clasa will give an exhibition of club-swinging. Tho wholo of,the proceeds will bo devoted to the gymnasium renovation fund and tho strangers' tea. fund. Everybody is invited. If a new peer desires—like Viscount Bryce—to take his surname as his peerago title, he is always permitted to do so, regardless of there being othor peerages in existenco of tho samo name. Thus Lord Russell of Killowen was eo created,' although there was already an Earl Russell in existence. Thero - ar© no fewer than three' Lords Boyle, Bruce, Douglais, Hay, Herbert, and Hill; four Lords Grey,' and five Lords Howard 3nd Hamilton,