Regeneration: being an account of the social work of the Salvation army in Great Britain online

the clerk in holy orders, of the minister, has been
so largely undermined that candidates for the ministry
are becoming scarce in many Churches, just while
we are seeing them arise in steadily increasing
numbers from among the very people who know the
Army and its work best, and who have most carefully
observed the demands of sacrifice and labour it makes
upon its leaders.

One cannot but rejoice when one hears ever and
anon of some conference or congress at which various
efforts are made to recover, at any rate, the appear-
ance of a forward movement in the Churches. But
the most serious fact of all, perhaps, is the mixture
amongst these Christianizing plans, whether in one
country or another, of the unbelieving leaven, so that
it is possible for men to go forth as the emissaries
of Christianity who have ceased to believe in the
Divine nature of its Founder, and who look for suc-
cess rather to schemes of education and of social and
temporal improvement than to that new creation of
man by God's power, wherein lies all our hope, as
indeed it must be the hope of every true servant of
Christ.

But I call attention to these facts not to reproach
any Church. Far from it. I simply desire to point
out one reason for thinking ourselves justified in
anticipating for the Army a future influence far
beyond anything we have yet experienced.

Recent ' defences ' of Christian revelation have, in
our view, been far more seriously damaging than any
attacks that have ever been made from the hostile
camp. In the hope a vain hope of conciliating
opposition, there has too often been a timid sur-
render of much that can alone give authority to
Christian testimony. If Jesus Christ was not com-
petent to decide the truth or untruth of the Divine



254 REGENERATION

revelation, which He fully and constantly endorsed
as such, how absurd it is to suppose that any
eulogies of His character can save Him from the just
contempt of all fearless thinkers, no matter to what
nationality they belong.

The Army finds itself already, and every year seems
more and more likely to find itself, the only firm and
unalterable witness to the truth of Christ and of His
redeeming work in many neighbourhoods and dis-
tricts, among them even some wide stretches of
Christian territory. And the times can only bring
upon us, it seems to me, more and more the scrutiny
of all who wish to know whether the declarations of
the Scriptures as to God's work in men are or are
not reliable. This, then, however melancholy the
reflection may be and to me it is in some aspects
melancholy indeed assures to us a future of far
wider importance and influence than any we have
dreamed of in the past.

Our strength, as your book eloquently shows, in
dealing with the deepest sunken, the forgotten, the
outcasts of society, the pariahs and lepers of modern
lifej has ever been our absolute certainty with regard
to Christ's love and power to help them. How much
greater must of necessity be the value and influence
of our testimony where the very existence of Christ
and His salvation becomes a matter of doubt and
dispute ! Here, at any rate, is one reason which leads
me to believe that the Salvation Army has before it
a future of the highest moment to the world.



APPENDIX 255



III

IN relation to other religious bodies, our position
is marvellously altered from the time when they
nearly all, if not quite all, denounced us.

I do not think that any of the Churches in any
part of the world do this now, although no doubt
individuals here and there are still bitterly hostile
to us. In the United States and in many of the
British Colonies the Churches welcome our help, and
generally speak well of our work ; and even many
Roman Catholic leaders, as well as authorities of the
Jewish faith, may be included in this statement. On
the Continent there are signs that they are slowly
turning the same way.

Now, I confidently expect a steady extension of
this feeling towards us as the Churches come more
and more to recognize that we not only do not attack
them, but that we are actually auxiliaries to their
forces, not only gaining our audiences and recruits
from those who are outside their ministrations, but
even serving them by doing work for their adherents
which for a variety of reasons they find it very diffi-
cult, if not impossible, to accomplish themselves.

At the same time it would be a mistake to think
that we have any desire to adopt any of their methods
or ceremonials. We keep everywhere to our simple
and non-ecclesiastical habits, and while we certainly
have some very significant and impressive ceremonials
of our own, the way our buildings are fitted, the
style of our songs and music, and the character of
our prayers and public talking are everywhere en-
tirely distinctive, and are nowhere in any danger of
coming into serious competition with the worship
adopted by the Churches.

Some of our leading Officers think that in one
respect our relations to the Churches, their pastors,
and people are unsatisfactory. In the United States



256 REGENERATION

it is customary for the clergy and leaders of every
Church to treat our leaders with the most manifest
sympathy and respect. But there is far too marked
a contrast between that treatment and that which we
receive in many other countries. There are, of course,
splendid exceptions. Still few members of any Church
are willing to be seen in active association with us.

I daresay this is very largely a question of class
or caste, and I am very far from making it a matter
of complaint. We would, in fact, far rather that our
people should be regarded as outcasts, than that they
should be tempted to tone down the directness of
their witness, or that they should come under the
influence of those uncertainties and misgivings to
which I have already made reference. Nevertheless,
it is certainly no wish of ours that there should
remain any distance between us and any true fol-
lowers of Christ by whatever name they may be
called. And so we keep firmly, even where it may
seem difficult or impolitic to do so, to our original
attitude of entire friendliness with all those who name
the Name of Christ.

I give a few figures bearing upon the present extent
of our operations :

Number of Countries and Colonies occupied by

the Salvation Army 56

Languages in which the Work is carried on . 33

Corps, Circles, and Societies of Salvationists . 8,768
Number of persons wholly supported by and

employed in Salvation Army Work . 21,390
Of those, with Rank, 16,220; without

Rank, 5,170.
Number of Training Colleges for Officers and

workers 35

Providing accommodation for .... 1,866

SOCIAL OPERATIONS. Number of Institutions . 954

Number of Officers and Cadets employed . . 2,573

Number of Local Officers, voluntary and unpaid 60,260

NUMBER OF PERIODICALS 74

These Periodicals are published in twenty-one

languages, and have a total circulation per

issue of about one million copies.



APPENDIX B

The Salvation Army's Articles of War

HAVING received with all my heart the salvation
offered to me by the tender mercy of Jehovah, I do
here and now publicly acknowledge God to be my
Father and King, Jesus Christ to be my Saviour, and
the Holy Spirit to be my Guide, Comforter, and
Strength; and that I will, by His help, love, serve,
worship, and obey this glorious God through time and
through eternity.

BELIEVING solemnly that the Salvation Army has

been raised up by God, and is sustained and directed

by Him, I do here declare my full determination, by

God's help, to be a true Soldier of the Army till I die.

I am thoroughly convinced of the truth of the Army's

teaching.

I believe that repentance towards God, faith in our
Lord Jesus Christ, and conversion by the Holy
Spirit are necessary to salvation, and that all
men may be saved.

I believe that we are saved by grace, through faith
in our Lord Jesus Christ, and he that believeth
hath the witness of it in himself. I have got it.
Thank God !

I believe that the Scriptures were given by inspira-
tion of God, and that they teach that not only
does continuance in the favour of God depend
upon continued faith in and obedience to
Christ, but that it is possible for those who have
been truly converted to fall away and be
eternally lost.

1 believe that it is the privilege of all God's people
to be wholly sanctified, and that ' their whole
spirit and soul and body ' may ' be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ.' That is to say, I believe that after



258 REGENERATION

conversion there remain in the heart of the be-
liever inclinations to evil, or roots of bitterness,
which, unless overpowered by divine grace, pro-
duce actual sin ; but these evil tendencies can
be entirely taken away by the Spirit of God,
and the whole heart, thus cleansed from any-
thing contrary to the will of God, or entirely
sanctified, will then produce the fruit of the
Spirit only. And I believe that persons thus
entirely sanctified may, by the power of God,
be kept unblameable and unreprovable before
Him.

I believe in the immortality of the soul ; in the resur-
rection of the body ; in the general judgment
at the end of the world ; in the eternal happiness
of the righteous ; and in the everlasting punish-
ment of the wicked.

THEREFORE, I do here and now, and for ever,
renounce the world with all its sinful pleasures, com-
panionships, treasures, and objects, and declare my
full determination boldly to show myself a soldier of
Jesus Christ in all places and companies, no matter
what I may have to suffer, do, or lose, by so doing.

I do here and now declare that I will abstain from
the use of all intoxicating liquors, and from the
habitual use of opium, laudanum, morphia, and all
other baneful drugs, except when in illness such drugs
shall be ordered for me by a doctor.

I do here and now declare that I will abstain from
the use of all low or profane language ; from the taking
of the name of God in vain ; and from all impurity, or
from taking part in any unclean conversation, or the
reading of any obscene book or paper at any time, in
any company, or in any place.

I do here declare that I will not allow myself in
any falsehood, deceit, misrepresentation, or dis-
honesty ; neither will I practise any fraudulent con-
duct in my business, my home, nor in any other
relation in which I may stand to my fellow-men, but



APPENDIX 259

that I will deal truthfully, fairly, honourably, and
kindly with all those who may employ me, or whom
I may myself employ.

I do here declare that I will never treat any woman,
child, or other person, whose life, comfort, or happi-
ness may be placed within my power, in an oppressive,
cruel or cowardly manner, but that I will protect such
from evil and danger so far as I can, and promote to
the utmost of my ability their present welfare and
eternal salvation.

I do here declare that I will spend all the time,
strength, money, and influence I can in supporting
and carrying on this war, and that I will endeavour
to lead my family, friends, neighbours, and all others
whom I can influence, to do the same, believing that
the sure and only way to remedy all the evils in the
world is by bringing men to submit themselves to the
Government of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I do here declare that I will always obey the lawf/il
orders of my Officers, and that I will carry out to
the utmost of my powers all the orders and regulations
of the Army ; and further that I will be an example
of faithfulness to its principles, advance to the utmost
of my ability its operations, and never allow, where
I can prevent it, any injury to its interests, or hindrance
to its success.

AND I do here and now call upon all present to
witness that I enter into this undertaking, and sign
these Articles of War of my own free will, feeling
that the love of Christ, who died to save me, requires
from me this devotion of my life to His service for the
salvation of the whole world, and therefore wish now
to be enrolled as a Soldier of the Salvation Army.

Signed

(Itutrt full Christian and Surnamt)

Address..



Date Corps .




x



0,
CL,



CO



tion,
om
m t



u
b
o





w











9













5O C5


1C












K


CD




,-j








5_ 9


8>












8 S


U5~




^






r* HCt

d ^o GO oo


r-l 1O O OJ




^






00


"^ CN CO


r-( rH










5


rH 1C CO

t- o> t-


2S S?




QJ






C":


C3 rH CO


^tf* t* f~^ M*


CO

i










s"


us cf oo'e<f


W










^




CO








rH






00

<


ASEHOLD

ir below
United


2
^

3
o


:| .2 : |g : |i| :|

t -g BO 2 >>

*> 2, SrS H - -S *




H



TJ


w
<D

2^


a

c


1


60 -:: -iS

a r , o n

"C -^60


11151




IEEHOLD an


PBOPEBTY
cost) in


Kingdom,
tern her 30,


"i ^ Ilisl^ili 1

Q Oc8 - - 5 V B 9 ^
.2 *^ * H CD ^ W - -2 '^ /^
to S Sit B C * cu** "

~ 5 aaS-cr fc ;'O

19 ti""*) >i-io83c8oHc/2ro




sfa








< fe M B


EJ < -q


o>, ....



















*


rH.






I-H O (M


t- CO













00 *C CO
1 1


<M

rH rH




<


t-






CO CO C73

*


O) CO
iH CD

i ""!.













i-T d C3
i i i i


8



J *.



a



Q ^



RESERVE FUN
General and



_
g
5 *





r^ f


us * -ti us






- -


GJ t> rH








^ t^


-f oo" c<f t

CO r-c O


1


Z




-


'i


8


cf




11


5?


d


g




*j o





a


A **











*o ^3




n *&


rH


o"


?




m




11






611 sf


5


a *

- a
11


o J

O




j


rfl


'-3 .-


o




I


a '




p






CB


"aS "- 1


X







.


m ^^


o


continued


a.
Brought forward

LOANS
Trade Headquarters


*T

'! *

g M

r-H O) H *tlj

H g

tf i 5

g g S

0! MO


toounts, and Voucher*
the Bank balances at


w


H

w


o t


- s s


^5




S

00


H


3 1



>







- 2


S S


ID




r5


1


g 8


M >




^


"* i


g" 1


1









53"
5?


1 *










-t> O






H


O t>


5






_


< S)


s






* 5


o


1 J5






rH


B


; 5






"44

P 0)
*


i (4g " ' ^ z '


J|


d

y




^CO


M^rQ


g 2






a Si


1 S 6C S : * 2 :


a

13


i!




* -9-5



i It;

g> |<J5

2^ -
< $
w CQ 5.


* ai 5 d ^
^ O * ^S^ ^ *


We have exa


FINSBUBY Ci
December 3]










S




M H


ft O








M o
H


: :







APPENDIX D

A FEW FIGURES SHOWING SOME OF THE WORK OF THE
DARKEST ENGLAND SCHEME IN THE UNITED KINGDOM



TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1909


DURING
1910


TOTAL TO
SEPT. 30. 1910


Number of Meals supplied at








Cheap Food Depdts


69,784,480


6,869,897


76,654,377


Number of Cheap Lodgings for








the Homeless


27,850,674


2,445,300


30,295.974


Number of Meetings held in








Shelters


140,747


8,660


149,407


Number of Applications from








Unemployed registered at








Labour Bureaux


302,538


13,009


315,547


Number received into Factories


63,694


6,754


70,448


Number for whom Employment








(temporary or permanent) has
been found


249,453


20,210


269,663


Number of Ex-Criminals re-








ceived into Homes


8,840


416


9,256


Number of Ex-Criminals as-








sisted, restored to Friends.








sent to situations, etc.


7,886


1,166


9.052


Number of Applications for Lost








Persons


44,001


2,120


46,121


Number of Lost Persons found


13,710


393


14.103


Number of Women and Girls








received into Rescue Homes. .


44,417


3,679


48,096


Number of Women and Girls








received into Rescue Homes








who were sent to Situations,








restored to Friends, etc.


37,168


3,346


40,514


Number of Families visited in






Slums


998,079


109,750 1,107,829


Number of Families prayed with


577,550


64,141


641,691


Number of Public-houses visited


630,021


33,188


663,209


Number of Lodging-houses








visited


17,330


3,457


20,787


Number of Lodging-house Meet-








ings held


7,319


1,792


9,111


Number of Sick People visited








and nursed


93,233


21,912


115.145



Index



AFFILIATION Orders, 91, 109-110
' Ann Fowler ' Home, 166, 168
Anti-Suicide Bureau, 151-164
Ardenshaw Women's Home,

Glasgow, 188
Argyll, Duchess of, 103
' Articles of War,' 257
Australia, 14, 83

BALANCE-SHEET for 1909, 260-261

Barlow, Sir Thomas, 123
Barnardo, The late Dr., 71, 73,

233

Black friars Shelter, 41
Booth, General, 7, 10-12, 14-18,

57, 61, 63, 85, 97, 200-201, 206,

208-217, 223

Booth, Mr. Bramwell, 218-225
Booth, Mrs. Bramwell, 87, 89,

91-93, 95, 144
Boxted Small Holdings, 69,

200-207
British Government, The, and

Colonial Land Scheme, 82

CANADA, 14, 82-86
Carrington, Earl, 206
Central Labour Bureau, 75
Chief of the Staff, The : see Mr.

Bramwell Booth
Cox, Commissioner, 96, 98, 119,

120

Criminals in England, 61
Crossley, Mrs., 176

DRINK, 37

Duke Street, Glasgow, 188

EDINBURGH, 179

Embankment Soup Distribution,

22, 39, 40
Emigration Department, 80 ;

Emigration Board, 85
Employers' Liability Act, 38
Ex-Criminals, 54



FIRST OFFENDERS ACT, 168
Free Breakfast Service, 41
Future of the Salvation Army,
Notes on, 237

GLASGOW, 165, 178-182, 192
Government Labour Bureaux,

75-76

Government Subsidy, 57
Great Peter St. Shelter, 33, 157
Great Titchfield St., 94, 140, 150

HADLEIGH Land Colony, 76, 182,

184, 194, 198, 199
Hanbury St. Workshop, 65-70
Herring, The late Mr. George,

19, 200, 201, 207, 212
Hillsborough House Inebriates'

Home, 98, 102, 122
Hollies,' ' The, 168, 169
Home Office, The, 55

ILIFFE, LIEUT. -COLONEL, 204

Impressions of General Booth,
208

India, 23

Inebriates' Home, The, Spring-
field Lodge, 122

International Investigation De-
partment, 77

Ivy House Maternity Hospital,
107

JAVA, 233

Jolliffe, Lieut. -Colonel, 41, 148,
185-186, 190-191

KING EDWARD Hospital Fund,



LAKOI R BUREAU, Central, White-
chapel, 75 ; Statistics, 76

Labour P art y an< ^ Trade
Unions, 65, 85-86



264



INDEX



Lamb, Colonel, 81, 83-85
Lambert, Colonel, n?
Land Colony, Hadleigh, 194
Laudanum-drinking, 124, 183
Laurie, Lieut. -Colonel, 194-196
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, 82
Liverpool, 165

London County Council, 129
London Maternity Home, 169
Lome House, 103, 105

MANCHESTER, 165 ; Social Insti-
tutions, 172

Maternity Home, Brent House,
Hackney, 105-106

Maternity Home, Lome House,
Stoke Newington, 103

Maternity Hospital, Hackney,
105, 107 ; Liverpool, 171

Maternity Hospital, New, re-
quired, 170

Men's Social Work, Glasgow,
178; London, 19, 65; Man-
chester, 171

Middlesex Street Shelter, 19

Midnight Work, Social, 94

NEEDS, Our, 235

Nest,' ' The, Clapton, 112

OAKHILL HOUSE, Manchester, 176
Old- Age Pensions Act, 130

PARIS, 93

Parliamentary Committee of the

Trade Unions, 65
Penitent-Form, The, 46-48, 51,

230

Pentonville Prison, 56
Piccadilly Midnight Work, 140
Prevention of Cruelty to Chil-
dren, Society for the, 233
Princess Louise, H.R.H., 103
Prison Act, The New, 63
Prison Reform, 62, 63 (note)
Prison Visitation, 55, 188
Prisoners' Aid Society, 180

QUAKER STREET, 54



RELIGION of the Salvation

Army, Note on the, 229
Rescue Home, The, 117
' Revivalism !' 49
Roosevelt, Mr. 214-215
' Rural England,' 10

SACRAMENTS, The, 230

Salvation Army, Some Statistics
of the, 9-10

Scale of pay, Officers', 90 (note)

Scotland, 131, 179

Slum Settlement, The Hackney
Road, 131

Slum Sisters, 88; Some Statis-
tics of their work, 131

Small Holdings, 200-207

South wood, Sydenham, 126

Spa Road Elevator, 27, 46, 79

Sturge House, 71-74

Sturgess, Commissioner, 19, 36,
47. 54, 55 57. X 86

Sweating, Charges of, refuted,
28, 66, 120-121

TITCHFIELD STREET HOME, The,

140, 145, 150
Trade Unions and rate of

Wages, 15-16
Training Institute for Women

Social Workers, The, 115

UNSWORTH, COLONEL, 155, 157,
160, 164

VEGETARIANISM, 99, 113-114
Visitation of prisoners by Sal-
vation Army Officers, 55-56

WANUSWORTH PRISON, 56
Waste Paper Department, Spa

Road, 27, 31, 52; Manchester,

172 ; Glasgow, 180
White Slave Traffic, 87, 93
Whitechapel, 72, 75, 95, 132, 142
Women's Industrial Home,

Hackney, 119; Sydenham, 126
Women's Shelter, 129
Women's Social Work, London,

87; Headquarters, 96



THE SALVATION ARMY PRINTING WORKS, ST. ALBANS



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY, LOS ANGELES

COLLEGE LIBRARY

This book is due on the last date stamped below.



Book Slip-25m-9,'59(A4772s4)4280



UCLA-College Library

HV 4386 H12r



L 005 699 066 6



College
Library



HV

4386

H12r



UC SOUTHERN REGKDNA LIBRARY FACILITY




A 001 029617 6