THE SALVATION ARMY

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 2

THE SALVATION ARMY

GENERAL BOOTH AND HIS STAFF. (rnosi our' ot."« co.v.espokdent.) LONDON, 25th March. Arrangements. have- been completed nt the Salvation Army Headquarters in connection with ;t lour through Australasiaof General Booth. Briefly, the itinerary includes a visit to Australia, and New Zealand, and afterwards passing through Canada and the United States (New York) on the return journey. Accompanying the General are Commissioners John. Lawley .(the-late founder's travelling companion on. his famous world tours), T. 11. Kitching (the General's secretary), D. C. Lamb (International Secrotary). Adjutant Bernard Booth (the Genorars_ eldest son), and Staff-Captain John Smith. The two latter ere both on the secretarial staffs The party join the Ormonde at Toulon, and should arrive in Australia on the 22nd of April. After visiting each of the States they will leave Sydney for Wellington on the 3rd .Tune, arriving on the 7th. Owing to the uncertainty of the shipping schedule there it is not proposed to have any formal reception' on landing in Wellington, and tho opening of the Nevv Zealand programme will bo at Chrktchureh, fixed for lOth and 11th Juno—two days of devotional meetings. On Sunday, 13th June, morning and even- i in;r meetings will be held in Dunodin. I with a lecture in the afternoon. Auckland is to be reached on the 16th, where the General is. to have a civic reception,' followed by a public meeting ai night. Friday, the 18th, is fne. date cf arrival in WcHiiiKtou, where the General presides' at a Salvation Army Soldiers' Council the day following, and on Sunday, the 20th, he conducts morning and. evening service with lecture in the afternoon. A t»g public gathering i' to be held in Wellington on the 21sl. and on the Tuesday and Wednesday'following officers' councils for tlio whole of New Zealand ar3 being called. ' The Genera! and his party depart from Auckland en 25th June en route to Vancouver, eventually reaching .England at the latter end of July. A FIRST VISIT. The General, who celebrated his 64th birthday on the 3th of thi: month, is paving his first visit to his array overseas, anil it is. interesting to recall that the Salvation Army was started in New Zealand in 1333. and thai:, its famous founder, William Booth, visited it in 1891. "Whether the General-will be greeted \vith,_the same unbounded enthusiasm aa his illustrious father is a debatable question, but that he will be the -recipient of honour due to his position -and the magnificent cause he serves goes without saying. J.J-UOH ALFRED GREEK, M.C., N.Z.KF. One who knows Chaplain Green writes: "And lie was a real man ; ever anxious to piesce rank or file, and with a sympathy that, is rare. A natural psychologist,/ this chaplain of the Salvation Army probably did more for tlio New Zealand soldier in London than any other member of the New Zealand Chaplains' Corps. Whether you wanted to gei married or whether you wanted the wherewithal for a shakedown, it was always the sume —'Wo!' abcu.t seeing Ivlajo;- GreenY and Major Green saw to your moral or uccuniary benefit. What tales of wee lio lias heard in his little room in Uloomsbury-siiuare. and how ./eriously he treated thum ! One ;o,ik! wrive a- whuie book of anecdotes, v.ith the 'f:i'MU> Major'in fhief character, bill, v.o refrain. «c)l kiiowfng that he lives better in tas hearts cf BS many soldier friends."