SALVATION ARMY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9224, 28 May 1910, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY.

Special services will be held at the Salvation Army to-morrow to celebrate their 26th anniversary, Lt.-Col. Knight Provincial Commander for the North Island will conduct the services, assisted bv BrVadier Bray, secretary for men e social work for the Dominion. Col. Knight is a very popular speaker, and his knowledge- of men and grasp of affairs pertaining to the welfare of humanitv eained through 26 years' association with the Salvation Army, make him a very acceptable special. Brigadier Bray has spent over 25 years in the social work of the Salvation Army being associated in the early days wjth the Prison Gate Brigade, and was privileged to visit all the gaols of Victoria to preach to the prisoners, and for years he also had charge of the Bayewater industrial farmlor g reformatory boy* in Victoria hi vine the oversight of 130 boys. me three homes on the farm are conducted on -imilar-lines to the new boys' home at Fhnam, opened a few months ago Hp hae many interesting stories to tell of reforiT amongst the worst, and is in this capacity an attractive The Salvation Army haa rna.de good oroeress in Palmereton, and it is an .onto the many friends and weU-wTshers of the organisation to know hal Aecorps .ie a, healthy and prosperous to-day as ever it was. Several new soldiers w y ill be enrolled J ld friends are specially invited to attend. On Wednesday night the anniversary will bo celebrated by a coffee supper.