After referring to the origins of the camp for aged people, opened with the $4,000 con from the Inter-ational Ted Cross, the Salvation leader said the biggest recor pense he and his workers had felt in Connection with this venture, was when an old woman once walked up to him and said: "Sir, {have reached Heaven."
"To have heard this old Lady," the speaker declared, "refer to the' matshed in which she was being cared for, as Heaven, was indeed a. bigger recompense to my workers and my-Self, than anything else she could have said."
Brigadier Morris told how the Army had been caring for tubercular refugees and lepers and in connection with the latter, mentioned Mr. K. Y. [Lee's assistance, who in less than 48 hours made arrangements to find 9 comfortable habitation for the 50 odd patients.
'The boys' vocational school, was another effort recently started by the JArmy, and, according to Brigadier Morris, had shown excellent results. Some i13 boys are at present being eared for at the school, he said, and most of them had applied for admission themselves, while they could eave when they wished. Up to Brigadier Morris continued, three boys had absconded and they Iliad been in prison before, whilst the: Jothers had up to now earned some: }$3,000 for themselves and were turn Ing out excellent products such as shoes, stockings, clothing and weaved materials. The objective of the venture is to gather the boys from the streets, to teach them useful trades: fand to place them with local firms afterwards.
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