FINE WORKERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 6

FINE WORKERS.

The social and i'oli|iaus work wliieh is being dune in Jtfwsw Zeal-wl by tiie Salvation Army has -been brought. promiuoafcly before the community during the present week by ii,o Vonbircnce and other interesting functions which culminated yesterday in the official opening of the William Booth 'L'niitihig College, it handsome building in Wordsworth Street, which is to be used for tho training of the Army's officers. There caii be no doubt that. the late U£ft-e-rali Booth will live in history as the founder of one of the most to♦uarkable institutions the ttorld has ever suen, and also as a great anjl inspiring personality whose indomitable courage and perseverance enabled him to overcome almost insuperable difficulties. Many people thought that ho and his work too so closely bound together that when his personal direction and supervis; 011 were vitMrawn ..by death the work mm Id gradually languish arid dwindle away. But the manifold Activities of the Armv wore bail! up 011 stire.v foundations Ibau _ such people tiMgiiletl apii JiGthing iti- the wav of a setback resulted from the death of its iVistinguishec! fomrae!*. the great worker passed.- away, but the work went on; 'JV Salvation Army is IW knuwn in nearly every country of the world, and (he vigormis in'sCititHortS which it has established for the uplifting of fallen humanity have won the sympathy awl support of people of every shade of religious opinion,; aitt! even of those wlio stand' aloof from all tile' Churches. The Salvatrtta Army acts

oil tin; luifidjik' 1-imt Www is some good in everybody, awl thai »o ojio ■ is past redemption. It ftllllo ut help". ing tiio I'liioi' fin'| (he itlflkited, iuid rat givini; those who have {alinn inio evil vfn,v» another cbuiice iii life. Bvil it is not satisfied with merely feeding tit-! hungry, lending the flick, : and Vfselling Che fallen. Ita great object is in them tip again morally and iihyskaliy, and'to tcaeh them Kclf-R'h.'UKf, and thereby p fit tii.om to stand jiloii.c anil 1 ak*> their ■; )4&ce onco more as useful members of society, Wo have scon some splendid i!Lustrations of the Arm.y'ii work in New Zealand, The ©peiiiij.K of the Mafnriiiiy Hospital in Kensington St wet is a substantial ex- ■ ample of Qftc important plmsc of its activities, and the William Booth Training College, which was opened. yesterday, will stand as r constant reminder of the. fact that no great undertaking can bo successfully carried on without system, though!, and v.elt directed energy. Enthusiasm without knowledge is apt to do as much harm ns good, and the object of the new College is to provide a regular supply of men and women of the right type whn have been thoroughly trained for the duties • they have to perform, A good officer or soldier understand human Mature in all its phases, and alss Acquires an hioxhausiible fund of. practical common sense. Philanthropy lias its business side. Tljk has always been clearly recognised by the leaders of the Salvation Army, and it has been their policy to Wattage their institutions as far as possible on sound business lines. Aimless and indiscriminate charity is no . kindness either to its recipients or to the community, and it _is because Generai. BootH and his- successors have put intelligence of the most practical kind into every, phase of their work that the Army has grown and prospered everywhere it has secured ft -footing until it has become one of the greatest' religious and : charitable institutions of modern times.