THE SALVATION ARMY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 10

THE SALVATION ARMY.

ANOTHER YEAR'S WORK. There has just been. issued a neatE* itri-attged aocl office ttvely itlustritttii booklet by'the Salvation; Army, gtvin.-; it brief account of the- Army's social and missionary opo-rations for the ye at t. ComcuissEoiit'r Richards, cri a foreword to the comprehensive- publication, states that its pages to'ueit 'i>ui r. t'rir!«- % of dtrr vast no.'fl tor su'.-it vvori as that of the Salvation Army. .A small part only eatt be menfion«!: oi the numerous agencies that have been put into operation itt thetr endeavour r.t- ■>T>"!i.)!- 'tr> sun-" ',•£ the d'strt-S thai exists, and of wtiieti there is more tit the Dom.in.inrt than its propter iinaguuv Th:> statistics tabulated ''throughout t.hi> hoofs: afford ample-, proof of the latter statement, white tb<> extPflt ami magnitude of the ArntT^ 'wperatlona throughorit the- world are impressively pnurtraved. There- are also appreciations of the work accomplished bv the Army from- the highest authorities iu the Dominion—the- Rr<;ht Hon. W. F. Mass-ey. Sir Joseph Ward, Sir- Robert Stont, Sir Joshua WiUiatus, and >sr Justice Chanman. Details of the admissions and discharges at the various institutions throughout New Zealand make very interesting reading. white- the- rescue eases n noted afford indisputable. «idertne- of the splendid and fsr-reaeltins; efFerts ef this ISraneh of th? Armv's vwk. Thv? o; or 'wlt 0 'snffer irt hopefesness and helnlesisrtess have. f»«»ftt»vl ilrViiv for t'efifr tilings. * Th-e belief itt t*his possibility aids, the lost and desolate to ftgh't their war upward to> honestv. mclttstrv. and retrieved ehawfcer. Snrfi is th<* endeavour of the Salvation Array, att'E with aa #iro so lofty and humane* it

. f • ntnst eontmatul the utmost respect anil ■ support or the community at large.