SALVATION ARMY LEADERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22720, 5 November 1935, Page 13

SALVATION ARMY LEADERS

MEETING AT ROSLYN During tie course of a tour of Otago and Southland, Lieutenant-commissioner Adams and Mrs Adams, leaders of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, paid their first visit to the Koslyn Corps. Colonel Scotney and Brigadier Dry, who are accompanying the commissioner on his tour, took part in the meeting. Dr A. R. Falconer, of Ashburn Hall, welcomed the visitors, and referred to the Army’s humanitarian and philanthropic work. He said that during the past depression.it was the Salvation Army s resident officer who had taught' the. Rehm Committee how to gope successfully with the social problem. . , Adjutant Rawclifte, the officer in charge of the.Baivatibh Army inHoslyn, extended a welcome on behalf of the local corps and friends'of the district.. _ . Mrs Commissioner Adams, who, on rising to speak, received a warm-hearted ovation, said the world to-day was looking for a practical expression of Christianity, and it was the duty of eyery believer in Christ deems to dedicate his hands and feet, his voice and brains, his gifts, and graces, to God, that His works of mercy, His acts of healing and His touch, of compassion might be displayed in these days. Lieutenant-colonel . .Burton, the field secretary of the Salvation Amy in New Zealand, introduced Commissioner Adafns, and referred to him as a man with a great soul, who was.ever, seeking to redeem the. lost. ' , . r , “Ye shall receive; power.' . . - Ye shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem,” was the text of the commissioner’s address. : Commissioner Adams .said. that whilst he was a firm'believer in missionary; work, he believed it was first of -all the duty of a Christian to witness in his own home, in the kitchen, the shop, the office or the factory; all of which he likened to a Jerusalem experience.