RELIGIOUS FISHERMEN

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 54, 6 March 1922, Page 3

RELIGIOUS FISHERMEN

Goneral Booth, of the Salvation Army, is greatly interested in the religious, revival among the fisher folks of the NorthEast of Scotland, and hopes that it will tend to stimulate religious activity generally. This statement was made to a London paper by Commissioner Kitching, who added that he had received a telegram from Wick on the subject. The sender of the message states that; a steam drifter, owned by a Salvationist, left Wick recently with a full crew of converts and the army flag' nailed to the mast. After describing the origin of the movement at Yarmouth, and the return of the converts, headed by a cooper named Jack Troup, to the Moray Firth, the message adds:— "Drunkards, gamblers, hard cases, mostly young and feckless men, were swept in, and they" speedily took to platform and street-corner oratory, which flavoured of thrilling eloquence. .Meetings go on dur-, ing every day and far into the night, and 1 the songs of the revival may be heard now through the darkened streets in place of the syncopated melodics 1 which were.usual a few weeks ago." In their impromptu speeches the new Salvationists draw freely on their nautical vocabulary, and such phrases occur as: "Take the Salvation bait," "Seize the, life-line," and "Comb into the salvation boat," "Come away forward, here the light is shining clear."