FIFTY YEARS AGO

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 February 1935, Page 4

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM “THE MAIL” OF 17th FEBRUARY The Salvation Army is having a hard struggle for recognition in America. It is like Paul: bonds and imprisonment await it in every city. In New York it was set upon by thugs and roughs. In Brooklyn the Salvationists were cast into prison for doing what any political party may do, namely,, walk the streets in procession with music. Its unusual and unseemly methods awaken opposition from the low and vile, and the contemptuous aversion of the refined. In several cities of Canada they are refused permission to march, and for disobedience are thrown into prison. In Montreal—a fine commercial city but ruled &y : ; a : !French-Caiiadian majority —the Salvationists were set upon by a mob like that which drove out Father Nayazzi some years ago and Chiniquy laier. . These (jiisturbances are valuable to the Salvationists as advertising them, and they persist in their marches, etc., in the face of every opposition with a fidelity that is truly admirable. Their meetings are usually crowded to the utmost, and by a class who attend no church. They reach some hearts who would otherwise be compelled to cry, “No man careth for my souL”