A “ Home League ”

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6834, 15 April 1932, Page 2

A “ Home League ”

Interesting mention about the Home League belonging to the Salvation Army was made by Airs (General) Higgins in speaking at the Citadel, Wellington, on Saturday afternoon. She said there were over a hundred thousand members of this league, and she quoted that old saying that it takes a hundred men to make an encampment but one woman can make a home. The first ideal of home was a garden, shown by tho Garden of Eden, and carried on in the direction of beauty, order, growth, and many other ways. In London those who could not have a garden bad a window-box, or even a plant in a pot, but the idea of home behind it all was a place for rest and recreation, and recuperation from the battle of life. The tendency bad been to crowd homes up with so many unnecessary things, and she told a quaint, story of a minister of tho Gospel who walked up and down Fifth Avenuo in New York, with all the most wonderful and beautiful things displayed —and thanked God for all he could do without! Airs Higgins, in speaking of Japan, alluded to the wonderful self-sacrifice on the part of the women, who, when their beautiful temple at Kioto was burned down, cut off their hair to make ropes for hauling up parts, and spoke of the fact that these ropes wore of the strongest kind ever known. "Women were among the most ready to work for their own denominational churches, and helped substantially to build “God’s church upon earth.”