SALVATION ARMY'S SUCCESS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 20, 23 July 1910, Page 13

SALVATION ARMY'S SUCCESS.

"SET A THIEF TO CATCH A THIEF."The Salvation Army's Suicide Bureau had 1200 applicants in London alone in the first year of its existence, reports the Daily Chronicle, j They came with poison in their pockets, razors up their sleeves, and revolvers already loaded. The bureau has saved thousands of men and women from suicide, said General Booth at Brighton Hippodrome. Speaking at Regent Hall, London, on the Salvation Army work in India, Commissioner Booth-Tuckei* said it was succeeding in a wonderful way. In one part of India, he mentioned, 20,000 criminals are registered with the police, and the Salvation Army is taking over 1000, with a view to converting them, whereupon they world become preachers to their brothers, "for the Army," he said, "believes it to be a good policy to set a thief to catch a thief." Describing the system of training burglars amongst the lower castes, he said an old burglar 6at down watching his pupils build up mud walls, whi-^h were then broken down, prizes being awarded to the most ingenious pupils. He went on to explain that when converted the young men were put to school, and afterwards to trades, being thus trained to become useful citizens. Mrs. Booth-Tucker mentioned that the Salvation Army has now 430 dayschools in India, and that in these 9000 children are being taught.