SALVATION ARMY

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 182, 29 April 1933, Page 12

SALVATION ARMY

Jubilee Congress Opens in Wellington WELCOME TO DELEGATES The Jubilee Congress of the Salvation Army opened m the V iviau Street Citadel on Thursday evening with a welcome gathering to the delegates, conducted by Commissioner J. Cunningham. Features-of the meeting were the singing of the Jubilee Congress songsters numbering 150, under the baton of Brigadier Harewood: welcome speeches by representative speakers and a brief review by the Commissioner of the work of the Army in New Zealand during the past fifty years. Colonel Taylor, the chief secretary, spoke of the foundation principles on which the Army had been built during the last fifty years, and made an appeal for continued fidelity to them. A welcome was given to Envoy V\ 11kinson, of Christchurch, one of the oldest Salvationists in the Dominion. He gave an account of the first meetings held in Dunedin, and of the opposition of gangs of larrikins. Captain and Mrs. Chandler, of New Plymouth, sang as a duet "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” Sister Ballinger, of Lower Hutt, and Mrs. Commandant Rimmer, also sang. Lt.-Colonel Burton, the Field Secretary, told of the great, influence for good the Salvation Army had .wielded throughout the country since its commencement. and of the progress it had made. Mrs. Brigadier Scotney extended a welcome to the Congress delegates on behalf of the Home League, a women’s organisation within the ranks of the Army devoted to promoting Christianity in the homes of the Dominion and to helping the needy. The Citadel Band, under Bandmaster Scotney, who received a warm welcome home after his visit to Australia, supplied the music throughout the evening. . Mrs. Adjt. Goffin. of Napier, replied to the welcome given on behalf of the women delegates, and Adjt. Frazer, of Feilding, replied on behalf of the men delegates.