SALVATION ARMY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22505, 25 February 1935, Page 15

SALVATION ARMY

VISIT OF COMMISSIONER ADAMS INSPIRING ADDRESSES DELIVERED Inspiring addresses were delivered in the Salvation Army Citadel yesterday by Lieutenant-Commissioner F. Adams, the newly appointed territorial leader of the Army in New Zealand. Commissioner Adams arrived in the Dominion from England in December last, and althougn this is his second visit to"Ounedin, it is the first time he has led the services at the citadel 6n Sunday. There were large attendances at the morning, afternoon and evening meetings, at each of which the commissioner spoke. At 11 a.m. his subject was "The Holy Spirit: His Nature and Operations," at 3 p.m. lie spoke on the work of the Army in New Zealand and other lands, and in the evening he chose as his subject, " Love."

At the gathering in the afternoon Commissioner Adams stated that for 19 years he had been stationed at Army headquarters in London, and among the varied offices he had filled was that of being a member of the board of the Salvation Army at which decisions were made regarding the publication of music composed by Salvationists. Just before he had left England the board had decided on a piece of music called "Recol-

lections," written by a young man who was now a student in the Salvation Army training college in London. That selection, he was pleased to say, had been played by the Citadel band that afternoon. He had been only ten weeks in New Zealand, said the commissioner, and in that time he had visited 33 corps and had travelled 40(30 miles. "When I re : ceived my appointment to come out here," he said, " I returned to my office, and as distinctly as if a person had spoken by my side, I heard the words 'called to be an- I believe in the doctrine of the Army, that there is salvation for the worst —the drunkard, the thief, the fallen." The Governor-General had received him most graciously when he arrived in the Dominion, Commissioner Adams went on, and everywhere the civic authorities had extended splendid welcomes to him and Mrs Adams. Business men had assured him of their sympathy because of the practical work the Salvation Army had done during the years of depression.