SALVATIONISTS' PRAYER

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2462, 2 October 1914, Page 3

SALVATIONISTS' PRAYER

Newcastle, September 24. Addressing a large demonstration in Newcastle last night, Commissioner Hay, of the Salvation Army, referred to the war. He said the whole thing was involved in the one word Bonour, and he felt proud that he was a Britisher, and that Britain had entered upon the war rather than break her pledged word. War went against the gram of every Salvationist; but the honour of the' Empire was at stake, and they felt proud that the principle at issue was the principle for which they had been lighting for half a century in the Christian sphere. They therefore prayed that God would smite swiftly md decisively, and that there would l>6 everlasting peace. There were 1.0,000 Salvationists at the front. Hieir- organisation included a Red Oross section and surgical nurses. Yfany were working in the Army Medical Corps, and the General had •jffored another 500 nurses if they were required. The Army in Australia had given £1000 for the widows aid orphans, they were gathering a surgical brigade and a contingent of fled Cross workers, aud they would take as many Belgian women and orphans as possible. The women would go into domestic service, and there was no fear they would upset industrial conditions.