THE SALVATION ARMY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6440, 3 October 1882, Page 3

THE SALVATION ARMY.

The Christian World contains the following proclamation issued by the Salvation Army at Leeds:—" Monday, sfch Juno, at a quarter to 8, salvation charge. Tuesday, great exhibition of hallelujah lasses. Wednesday, fire and brimstone. Thursday, roll-call; soldiers to deliver up their cartridges. Friday, at halfpast 7, baptism of fire. Saturday, at a quarter to S, rejoicing over, victories won all over the shop meetings. Sunday, 11th June, at 7 a.m., knee-drill; ammunition supplied to soldiers by

quartermaster-general; 11 a.m., descent of the Holy Ghost: half-past 2 p.m., tremendous free and easy : half-past'i p.m., great charge on the dovil ;1' p.m., hallelujah gallop." " Dr Close, ex-Dean of Carlisle," the St. James's Gazette says, "hao entered a warm

protest against the Salvation Army. He says that no one who can read that fearful publication the War Cry without horror and indignation can be a devout Christian; while the Little Soldier, he says, boldly tramples the Fifth Commandment under foot. 'It appears to me that the teaching of these publications is the subversion of bur social system, and tends directly to the uprooting of every Christian church.. Some of these writers and speakers are really like maniacs casting out fire and dirt, and should this monstrous system prevail, the consequences are truly appalling.' He further says that the Army has drawn away a number of steady and pious men and women from their own religious bodies; charges it with the guilt of wide, extended, and persistent Sabbathbreaking, with scattering the idea of a church and sacraments to the winds, and with treating all aacred'and holy names and things with profanity." ■