As soon as possible, the Salvation Army hoped to do Peking as in Ceylon, where they went in and complotly cleansed Colombo of beggars.
General Booth also referred to the work which his organization was doing among children all over the world. There are now 7,000 children in al] parts of the world under their care. They have just been asked by one municipality in Russia to take chaga of 6,000 more. It was their hope that their schools could be run so that each child would learn some industry.
The Salvation Army was also do-wonderful work in Europe, pecially to help the might kome-less. There were hundreds of decent people who had no place to dwell. In Berlin and Paris each they had built places where 400 men and 250 women could find shelter.
Other European capitals bad similar homes.
Speaking of the advance of the Army, the evangelist said th had made greater strides ing the past 10 years than at time during its history. This wai because that everywhere the organization was becoming better understood among all classes, both hand poor and even those who attach nothing to religion were beinning to see the great help it was doing for humanity.
At present there was a great need for workers, but this was not because there had not been many applications. to go into the work. Last year 5,000 young people asked to into the work, but only 2,000 could be taken since there were mot sufficient training quarters for all. At present the business needed doctors, teachers, nurses and builders most. " These must not be in y it for the money involved—there was not a great amount to be given anyone—but for the purpose of helping their fellow-men, Brewster Gow. understood that one of The General Interviewed Interviewed on Thursday at the Majestic Hotel, where he is staying, General Booth' gave a short outline of the work of the Salvation Army, especially in the Far East, to members of the pre The General, who is 71 years old, hogan his interview by the words, am full of the Salvation Army."
He then said that he believed that the work of the Army was becoming more and more recognized since it was a move in human thought and life which has taken its impulse from the highest sources while finding ox-pression amongst the lowest forms of human life.
General Booth's missions to Shang-is for the preliminary organiza-the Salvation Army locally, be and that it will only be a matter of months until this is started.—The first stop will be the commencement of evangelistic work among the! Chinese. after which an attempt will be to gain the ce-operation of the foreigners and Chinese with a view lof final culmination into a complete Salvation Army organization
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