THE SALVATION ARMY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17274, 15 September 1916, Page 7

THE SALVATION ARMY.

GENERAL ROBIN'S TRIBUTE. Speaking at a gathering in Welling* ton in connection with the annuafTSel? Denial Appeal of the Salvation Amy, Brigadier-General Sir A. W. -JWbin, C. 8., C.M.G., said that shfey hadjßnferred honour upon him by asking s ,hlin; to be present on that occasion.. In New: Zealand the army he had tho honour to command was very closely connected with the Salvation Army, and always under the most favourable circum-J

stances, both in peace and war. Th* work of the Salvation Army, ita>;cMM stant pressing forward in a self-sacrific-! ing manner into the farthest parts of. the world, without regard to creed or colour, was well known. ; (AW plause.) "It is not an organisation,"-, lie said, "that looks'around_ to'-'find or to see the bad that is said in the best of us, but all the' bers of the Army 6et themselves assidu-j ously to find that spark of good, which] we know is in the worst of us. (Ap-; plause.) And by fostering that spark they bring peace and bettermenf,..ajad ; the bettering of conditions to ; \thou-: sands and tens of thousands throughout the world." (Applause.) ,:;*, ; They were chiefly concerned that night, he added, with the war; ana would they let him for a moment re-, call their association with tho Salva--tion Army away back in the old Volunteer davs and encampments, and htnr ; the Salvation Army came and helped them when universal military trainings was introduced; when the young men* of New Zealand were compelled to giver over a portion of tho year to the camps.,' The Salvation Army provided profitable; recreation for the young men in *their ; hours of ease or idleness, and he thought that they, rather, outstepped) okl Satan in idle hands. (Loud applause.) _ Hecpuldj never adequately express his feelings; towards the Salvation Army for: the, wort they had nlwavs- done in .that, way in the camos, without thought-ofi reward or thanks. Truly, their reward] would be hereafter. (Applause.) i\ At] present they were, engaged in a great war, almost the Armageddon of -.spro-i phecy, and the Salvation Army was do-j ing its part as he remembered done it in the South African war, away, back in 1899 and 1900. (Applause.) | It might be o'f interest to them to know that the New Zealand Arrov List contained a number of names of Salva-' tion "Army officers as part and parcel of the chaplain's department New Zealand; Military Forces. ($&- plause.) Three of them—Chaplains Greene, Garner and Walls—were; .at the front, and Gray and Bladin—wore at Trentham and Featnerston. All of them were doing good work, and the buildints that the Salva-. tion Arrov had provided for the men at the eamps were a standing monumentj to the cood work of tboir Army. Other: officers "had done good work tho Territorial camps, and he forward to meeting them again aest 1 Territorial season. :[ ''2 ': Without detract'n<r from other orfSVn-; Prions that were working at'-'the front, he mv-st sav that he had nWer heard anHhinS hut the crente.st pmsa of the officers nf the Sanation Artpy who were abroad, OVr>T>!atisc. , i _ €*pt„,'n fJrpene had cainod tho MiTt-try Cross for service" abroad. —(armMise)- ~ and in the oositvm he now held, and in the preat work he wo,* now do ; ng, distributee the gifts mid comforts forwarded for their nrm. he hnd the,»bsoln+*i tw«t of all he came in contact* with. The present war would, likj all wars, come to an end sooner or hut tho war the Salvnt : on encased in was a war that weu!tl;,|o on nftor nrosont war. Their v£Oiribat with the frailties of liiiror>nity'"a,ii3 the machinations of the. devil be carried on until the lime wMi.'d be eliminated and the cause;.ipfj OVist would bo triumphant. (Ap-'. plause/5