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Trained, if needs-be, to seal their serv- 

 ices with their life blood. 



One of our women officers on being 

 told by the colonel of a regiment that 

 she would be killed if she persisted in 

 serving her doughnuts and cocoa to the 

 men while under heavy fire, and that she 

 must get back to safety, replied: "Colo- 

 nel, we can die with the men, but we 

 cannot leave them.'' 



seventy-one: nationalities under one 



BANNER 



By imperial decree the Emperor of 

 Japan recently granted an annual fund 

 for the work of the Salvation Army in 

 his kingdom. India has turned over to 

 the Army the management of its great 

 criminal tribes and the problems of its 

 poor. 



As the work has grown, it has been in- 

 creasingly apparent that the faith which 

 regenerates men recognizes no barrier of 

 nationality or geographical limitation. 

 Seventy-one nationalities are now mar- 

 shaled under the banner of blood and fire, 

 working to destroy old idols of wood and 

 stone and turning the temples of the 

 gods, after due cleansing, into Christian 

 meeting-places. 



The work in India will be forever 

 linked with the name of its pioneer com- 

 missioner, F. de Latour Booth Tucker. 

 Judge Tucker was greatly interested in 

 the Salvation Army while in the service 

 of the British Crown in India in the early 

 days of the movement. There came a 

 time when he gladly resigned his govern- 

 ment position, with all that it meant to 

 him personally in the way of official suc- 

 cess, and came into the Army to wear the 

 flowing robes of the natives and to ex- 

 tend the work in the very heart of the 

 continent. 



Salvation Army settlements for crim- 

 inal tribes are unique in the annals of 

 social work throughout the world. Out 

 in the hill country there are entire tribes 

 of criminals for •which the prevailing 

 caste system is largely responsible. They 

 marry and intermarry, and their children, 

 born outcasts, are doomed to go through 

 life branded as criminals. 



For years these Ishmaelites have been 

 a source of constant worry to the British 



Government. Finally, in an effort to 

 reach a practical solution and meet the 

 growing need, the government turned 

 over the management of these tribes to 

 the Salvation Army. 



Sir John Hewett came to terms with 

 General Booth. The British Govern- 

 ment agreed to provide the territory and 

 the Salvation Army undertook to pro- 

 vide the men. The criminal tribes were 

 to be brought into a certain territory and 

 the Salvationists were to be responsible 

 for their regeneration. 



It was Harold Begbie who first re- 

 ported the historic meeting of Sir John 

 Hewett, then Lieutenant-Governor of the 

 United (Indian) Provinces, with my 

 father, the late General and founder of 

 our organization. 



Sir John had heard of the Army's 

 work in salvaging men, and it struck him 

 at once that similar methods might be 

 successful with the wandering tribes 

 which roamed the hills, a menace to the 

 people and a vexing political problem. 

 He visited General Booth and together 

 these two, so unlike in many ways, dis- 

 cussed methods of reclaiming men, of 

 making them over into useful citizens. 



"YOU CANNOT MAKE A MAN CEEAN BY 

 WASHING HIS SHIRT" 



The old patriarch brought to the mind 

 of the statesman one of the great funda- 

 mental truths of human experience, too 

 often neglected by legislators and some- 

 times conveniently ignored by the ene- 

 mies of religion : 



"You cannot make a man clean by 

 washing his shirt," General Booth ex- 

 claimed. "If you have a bad man to deal 

 with, you must first seek to alter the set 

 and current of his soul. I will tell you 

 the secret of governing tribes and nations 

 of evil-doers. It is religion. 



"Give them religion. If you alter the 

 circumstances of a man's life, and set 

 him in conditions where his liability to 

 vice is small, and where he knows his 

 sins will be most surely punished, you 

 will not go far, if that is all you have to 

 give him. 



"You cannot deal with the body of a 

 man when it is his soul that is the cause 

 of all the trouble ; that is to encounter 



