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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



WITH THE SALVATION ARMY IN JAVA 



The man at the reader's right is wearing the regulation Salvation Army uniform of the 

 Javanese branch of this world-wide organization. 



inevitable failure. Only one power is 

 known in all the long experience of hu- 

 man history by which a bad man can be- 

 come a good man, and that power is 

 religion." 



Years passed and the work of the Sal- 

 vation Army strengthened and grew. 

 There was just one way to success, and 

 that was to remake men into some sem- 

 blance of law-abiding, useful citizens. It 

 was the human equation which counted 

 and by this test must the work of the 

 Salvation Army be gauged in India, as 

 elsewhere. 



"Boom marches" constitute a phase of 

 the work conducted in India. Groups of 

 four or five Salvationists in native dress 

 tramp the roads that lead into the in- 

 terior. From the roadside in heathen 

 villages and towns they proclaim with 

 simplicity and force the unsearchable 

 riches of Christianity. In careful detail 



they explain what it all means to the 

 head man of the village tribe. 



Very often the villagers keep the 

 marchers with them and ask them for 

 songs and music, and very frequently 

 they ask for instruction in the Christian 

 religion. 



These marchers go far afield, reaching 

 out to all classes in India, irrespective of 

 the man-created caste system which has 

 brought about conditions in the Far East 

 not easy to overcome. 



THE) SALVATIONISTS AMONG THE CHINESE 



Long before Christian missionaries 

 went forth to fulfill the divine behest, 

 "Preach the gospel to every creature," 

 there existed a Chinese nation, with its 

 vast possibilities for happiness and for 

 good. Only the Egyptians, the Assyrians, 

 and the Jews were their contemporaries. 



Three and a half centuries have passed 



