PERSECUTED ALL THE WORLD OVER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8986, 25 February 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

PERSECUTED ALL THE WORLD OVER.

" General" Booth, in the letter which lie has issued, says, in speaking of the work done this year : — " Mobs of ruffians have assailed and brutally beaten our people. Authorities have prosecuted and imprisoned them. Comrades have deserted our ranks and joined our enemies in vilely slandering us ; while our funds frave again and again been utterly exhausted." Still, more progress was made this year than in any preceding year, both at homo and abroad, and the "General" is convinced that the "opportunity of the Army is just as —nay, greater—abroad than at home. ' In Germany a "heavy struggle" is taking place, and the authorities, afraid of disturbances, will not allow the Army's meetings after noon; while in some towns the meetings are limited to avowed Salvationists. At Rome the gatherings of the Army have been disturbed by students, "someofwhom, on being expelled, stabbed the Italian doorkeeper. The " war" in French Canada had had to be prosecuted against "fearful odds, an attack having been made on one occasion upon the officers of the Army which resulted in serious injury to several of the number." Moreover, in many different parts of French Canada the barracks of the Army have been wilfully burned down. In Quebec the outdoor inarches had to be abandoned because of the extremely fierce opposition.