RESCUE WORK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10196, 4 July 1911, Page 1

RESCUE WORK.

SALVATION ARMY'S SOCIAL SERVICE. The Rescue Annual of the Salvation Army in Christchurch., which Mas commenced on Saturday and continued on. Sunday, was conclude last evening at tli© Victoria Street Jlnll, ivhero the principal attraction was an address on rescue work by Brigadier Albiston. The Brigadier said that it was unnecessary to repeat the marvellous figures 011 the magnitude of the Army's efforts as disclosed by the annual report on social work, but it was very inspiring to remember that every day in Australia and New Zealand the Army housed, clothed and fed 3000 men, women and children who could not help themselves. The Salvation Army not only preached, but it also practised, and one of its most useful activities was in connection with its Prison Gate department, where the records showed that (30 per cent of those passing through the Homes were genuinely reformed. Brigadier Albiston, with a wealth of anecdote, dwelt on the reformative work of the Prison (late Home, and touching on the rescue of fallen women, said that of 300 women taken to the Homes in a year from the streets and the Police Courts, 80 per cent were permanently reformed. Other phases of the social work were discussed entertainingly, and the meeting was liveued with singing.