THE SALVATION ARMY 



559 



The War Cry, issued by the Army 

 press in China, is as popular over there 

 as it is here. A song book has also been 

 published containing translations of well- 

 known popular Army songs. 



THE ARMY TEACHES THE CHINESE 

 TO SING 



According to Western standards, the 

 Chinese are not musical, but the Salva- 

 tion Army has found a way to teach 

 them to sing. A beginning is made by 

 teaching songs to the children when a 

 congregation does not seem to get the 

 idea. Very soon the little ones are heard 

 singing the favorite tunes of the Salva- 

 tionists in the streets and lanes, and in 

 this way they eventually have their elders 

 singing with them. 



During the winter of 1918 the Army 

 did trencher duty for flood sufferers at 

 Tientsin. 



Korea is now receiving assistance from 

 Salvationists sent especially for work in 

 that country. Last winter rice was very 

 high and the poor suffered greatly. The 

 Army immediately established a free 

 meal department and a station where rice 

 and fuel could be purchased cheaply. 



On account of the conversion of men 

 who were formerly great drunkards, the 

 wine shops in some of the villages of 

 Korea lost so much trade that they were 

 compelled to move to other places. 



We started our operations in Korea in 

 1908. There are now 69 corps and out- 

 posts in that country, 106 officers, cadets 

 and employees, and 175 local officers. At 

 Seoul, in addition to the headquarters, 

 there is a training garrison, citadel, and 

 a school for girls. 



In the East the translation of Salvation 

 Army is "Army to Save the World." 



LENDING A HAND TO THE LEPERS 



It has often been said that the mass of 

 men lead lives of quiet desperation; that 

 what is called resignation is in reality 

 "confirmed desperation." In its work 

 around the world the Salvation Army 

 has always thought first of the men who 

 go about the day's business lost in the 

 hopelessness of confirmed desperation. 



There are men like that in the leper 

 colony in Java, men who wait with grim 



certainty for the dark, dreadful, still 

 years to pass. We have gone out to help 

 them in order that these years may not 

 be full of pitiful things. The men and 

 lassies who go to these leper colonies can 

 never come out. 



They lay down their lives for those 

 they go out to save. 



Recently I received a report from a 

 Salvation Army lassie who has spent 

 four years in Java. The institution main- 

 tained by the Army at Boegangan cares 

 for more than 360 patients, all native 

 Javanese. 



One Salvationist has already been smit- 

 ten with the dread disease. Only by per- 

 sonal report can one visualize the need 

 of these people. Last Christmas time we 

 received this message from the officer in 

 charge : 



"We had a Christmas tree for them 

 and they all received presents. Clothing 

 was especially needed, as most of them 

 have only one set of clothes, and when 

 they wash these few rags they must wait 

 for them to dry before dressing. Many 

 of their clothes. are in such a condition 

 they are afraid to wash them, for fear 

 there will be nothing left to put on. 



"Of course, we have the poorest of the 

 poor here at Boegangan ; yet, with it all, 

 I love my work." 



When a lassie can face the world with 

 such courage as that, in the midst of the 

 greatest grief and loneliness human 

 hearts can bear, where men live as out- 

 casts, alone and forgotten by the world, 

 we feel that our efforts are bearing fruit 

 of untold value. 



Even the Red Terror and Bolshevism 

 could not keep the Salvation Army out 

 of Russia. 



Within three months after the open- 

 ing of our work twelve outposts were 

 established in various cities in Russia and 

 several hundred soldiers and recruits, as 

 well as thirty officers, were enlisted. 



A training center for officers was 

 started, two homes for refugee women and 

 children were established, and a shelter 

 for aged women opened. Since then our 

 workers have installed five more corps. 



Captain Larson, a Swedish officer, 

 working from headquarters in Finland, 

 was instrumental in forming the nucleus 



