SERVING TO SAVE

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 92, 19 April 1920, Page 2

SERVING TO SAVE

ASSURING SOCIAL SOLIDITY

SALVATION ARMY'S APPEAL.

The wide world knows that when the Salvation Army makes an appeal it is one for humanity, because the Soldiers of t.ho Ores.) «sr7e to save. The Army's practical Christianity for souls and bodies is honoured among all'classes in the Ok! World and the New. -People who 'giv« at Hie Army's call know that they arc helping in the making of a bettor world, for the Armys Social service is steadily working for that millennium which will be established solidly whan the nations have their policies based on the Lord's Prayer. To-day the Salvation Army, in Wellington calls to the public for £14,000, needed for the building of a citadel and youngpeople 6 hall. The timo for these projects was overdue long ago, but they had to be set aside during the war. In thoss difficult years th-o Army had to put its full power of personnel and resources into the new needs that arose here and overseas by reason of the war, and into the maintenance of existing institutions. During this period the Army's plans for new operations iv scci.vi »ervico wert necessarily retarded.

The young peopie's»hall (at the rear of tho- citiidel) facing Jessie-street, will be in three stories, with three distinct departments, which will' specialise in tho training of child-life. One flat will lie used for the primary department devoted to boys and girls from the age of four or five yca.r» to 6even and eight. The intermediate department will be for young people from the ago of eight Up to twelve and fourteen. The third department will be for older boys and girls from twelve and fourteen years up to the age at which they will be eligible for t-Ke young men's and young women's Bible classes.

The knowledge which the Salvation Army has gained in the half-century of close sympathetic study of child-life will bs used to assure the right training in the. new hall. Wholesome teaching, good, clean commonsenso, practical Christian- | ity, solid building of character for true i citizenship—that is the Army's education policy, In each department, due care | will be given,to the particular needs of the group, according to age, and 'within | a group individuality will have intelligent attention. Brießy, children trained by the Armjj are' developed into solid assets, not j liabilities, for the State. They learn how to help themselves and how to help others, j for the basic principle of the Army is~ self-sacrifice. Therefore, .in heiping to j establish and .\equip the Young People's Hall the community will really help itself, for the ha-il will make ,good oitizens. I . On a. different plane the same appeal can bft made to the community for th« Citadel, which is. vitally necessarj' for the maintenance and extension of the Army's 'uplifting operation with the masses In appealing 'to the public for the help necessary for those projects interrupted by the war and by tho Army's wide range ot work for soldiers and dependents, the Army has no feeling that it has a claim upon public gratitude for services during the war. The Army's work has always been don© for the work's sake—for Gbd and humanity—without expectations of reward. _ Yet it is ?, fact that in several countries tho Army's many activities for 'soldiers and dependents have been hindeoniejy recognised by gifts to help the world-wide organisation in various enterprises for the benefit of men. women, and children, who need light and warmth in the cold, dark times of misfortune.