The Salvation Army.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 32, 25 August 1887, Page 2

The Salvation Army.

A TEMPERATE OPINION. [To THE EhITOB.) Sin,—You have a local in your last issue informing the public of what the Captain of the Salvation Army said about plain speaking and the terror Ministers had of doing so for fear of losing their stipends. I think with you, Sir. Our friend the Captain does not know anything about what our Ministers say to their people, but I will venture to say this, that they, one and all, are not backward in. enforcing on their people the obligation oi showing Christianity in their practice, They do not, of course, encourage young girls, and beardless boys, and silly Women to " testify " from the platform of Ithe " Barracks ” and promenade the streets of our towns, when they ought to be attending to their domestic duties and training their children in the fear Bl God. . Our Ministers are not slow in telling their people that there is more evidence of real Christianity-in a man paying his lawful debts than there Is in his 11 testifying ” however loudly, I dare say some of our local shopkeepers could tell us something on this head. No Sir, the clergy in this town have, with great forbearance, as I think, left the dplvatioß Army to do its work in its own way, believing that good was being done | but really if things go on as they seem to be doing the sooner the Ministers speak out the better, and warn their people against infineness at work, which tend to break up home life, demoralise domestic servants, encourage self conceit and spiritual pride, and hold up the religion of our Lord to ridicule, and sweep away all reverence for sacred things, and which, moreover, will eventuate in placing the “ soldiers ” under a system as stringent as any now laid upon the shoulders of the followers of Ignatius Loyola. Just a a word to Captain Holdaway: “ Those living in glass houees should not throw stones.”—l am, etc., A Cbubcbwabdbn.