Feb. 22.
With all that is done for charity's sweet sake in Shanghai, there is still 0 much to do, And as long as there is poverty and distress sume agency or other will have to undertaice the work of bringing to the sufferers that comfort and. help without which their lot would in= deed be deplorable, The thought} arises from the fact that on Monday next the local branch of the Salva~ tion Army will open ils annual appeal for funds with which to carry on the good work for which, since its very inception, the. Army has been justly famed. Historically the days are still not far distant when the young Salvation Army seemed to do little else than endure the seem and contumely of the unthinking, when their prayer meetings were an incitement to unruly. elements to engage in all manner of persecution. It is an irenic fact that those very classes which the Salvation Army was designed best to serve resented its existence and let it know the fact in a manner which permitted of no misunderstanding. It was indeed scorned and rejected of man, and yet pursu~ ing its ideals with' a one-ness of purpose, with a whole souled devo~
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