SOCIAL AND PRISON WORK
Experiences during many years of social and- prison work were related to the Palmerston North Rotary C.ub by Major T. Holmes, of the Salvation Army. The birth of the shelter movement in which the Salvation Army specialised was due to General Booth, who had thought it monstrous that men should have to sleep under bridges on tiic banks of the Thames. The system was now worldwide and.behind it was the idea of saving men’s souls as well as their bodies. Men had been taken into the shelters in all sorts of conditions and gently brought back to respectability. Despondency was not. an incurable disease, and many extreme cases had been helped. The speaker referred to the many reforms made in the conditions of life in prison and added that the Salvation Army never hesitated to take a hand in these reforms. One of their main tasks lay among discharged prisoners, where there was a big field of work. “We realise,” he said, “that there are no limits to the Grace of God and endeavour to make religion where there is none.” Professor W. Ruldet presided, and Major Holmes was accorded a vote of thanks on the motion of Mr C. R. Luke.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 263, 6 October 1942, Page 6
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206SOCIAL AND PRISON WORK Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 263, 6 October 1942, Page 6
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