RELIGIOUS REVIVAL

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 122, 16 February 1935, Page 7

RELIGIOUS REVIVAL

General Booth Sees Signs FAREWELL IN LONDON (Received February 15, 5.5 p.m.) Loudon, February 14. Salvation Army officers almost mobbed General Evangeline Booth at Victoria Station in their anxiety to give her a hearty send-off to Australia and New Zealand. Hymns were sung and General Booth delivered a two minutes sermon before the train left. General Booth, in a message to the Press, says: “Contact with leading public figures and the mass consciousness of thousands of my audiences have greatly impressed me with the apparent imminence of a religious revival, people recognising that a sincere turning to God is the key to spiritual well-being and national prosperity. “Nevertheless, it is still too fashionable to live carelessly, which often means sinfully. lam preparing a manifesto calling on the Army throughout the world simultaneously to redouble every effort in which it is engaged. This embraces a four years’ programme, setting every individual Salvationist a specific task, the aggregate effect of which will mean a wide extension of our mission of salvation and helpfulness. Igo to Australia as a messenger bearing thousands of commissions from high and low, expressing the Homeland’s love.”