AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE 

 SALVATION ARMY 



By Evangeline Booth 



Commander Salvation Army - 



FOR more than half a century the 

 historic banner of the Salvation 

 Army has been raised over the bat- 

 tered towers and broken gates of despair- 

 ing, wounded humanity, but half of the 

 world never knew about it. It took the 

 blood and agony of a great war to dem- 

 onstrate the fire of a faith which has 

 planted its standards in every country on 

 the earth. 



"Around the world with the Salvation 

 Army" is not a challenge or a prophecy ; 

 it is an accomplished fact. 



The Army is working in sixty-three 

 countries and colonies, preaching the 

 gospel in forty languages. Our periodi- 

 cals, printed in thirty-nine different lan- 

 guages, reach a circulation of 1,184,000 

 a week. More than 23,000 officers and 

 cadets plan and execute our strategy 

 against insidious foes — poverty, sin, sick- 

 ness, and despair. It was for that we 

 were called an army. 



Wherever there is an earthquake, a 

 fire, a world war, or any great human 

 need, there you will find the Salvation 

 Army. It seems quite natural to report 

 that more than 105,000 Salvationists 

 fought in the different armies on the Al- 

 lied fronts. 



So, step by step, the Army is marching 

 on. It has crossed lances with Buddha 

 and Confucius. Offering ministration to 

 the forgotten ones in desolate places, 

 Salvation Army lassies and men have 

 gone into leper colonies and planted the 

 Cross on pagan soil. 



INTENSIVE TRAINING EOR SAEVATION 

 ARMY OFFICERS 



Few have even a remote idea of the 

 extensive training given to all Salvation 

 Army officers by our military system of 

 education, that covers all the tactics of 

 the particular warfare to which they 

 have consecrated their lives — the service 

 of humanity. We have in the Salvation 

 Army thirty-nine training schools in 



which our men and women, both for our 

 missionary and home fields, receive intel- 

 ligent tuition and practical training in the 

 minutest details of their service. 



They are trained in the finest and most 

 intricate of all the arts, the art of dealing 

 ably with human life. 



It is a wonderful art which transfig- 

 ures a sheet of cold, gray canvas into a 

 throbbing \atality, and on its inanimate 

 spread visualizes a living picture. 



It is a wonderful art which takes a 

 rugged block of marble, standing upon a 

 wooden bench, and cuts out of its un- 

 comely crudeness — as I saw it done — the 

 face of my father, with its every feature 

 illumined with prophetic light, so true to 

 life that I felt that to my touch it surely 

 must respond. 



But even such arts as these crumble : 

 they are as dust under our feet compared 

 with that much greater art, the art of 

 dealing ably with hitman life in all its 

 varying conditions and phases. 



It is in this art that we seek by a most 

 careful culture and training to perfect 

 our officers. 



They are trained in those expert meas- 

 ures which enable them to handle satis- 

 factorily those who cannot handle them- 

 selves ; those who have lost their grip on 

 things, and who, if unaided, go down 

 under the high, rough tides. 



Trained to meet emergencies of every 

 character ; to leap into the breach ; to span 

 the gulf ; to do it without waiting to be 

 told how. 



Trained to press at every cost for the 

 desired end. 



T rained to obey orders willingly and 

 gladly and wholly, not in part. 



Trained to give no quarter to the 

 enemy, no matter what the character, nor 

 in what form he may present himself. 



Trained in the art of the winsome, at- 

 tractive coquetries of the round, brown 

 dousfhnut ! And all her kindred. 



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