THE SALVATION ARMY 



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DOUGH FOR THE DOUGHBOY 



It was not the Salvation Army doughnuts and pies themselves which won the hearts of 

 American soldiers in France, but the spirit of good cheer with which the Salvation Army 

 lassies rendered their every service. 



of the Salvation Army in Russia at the 

 time when its very existence was out- 

 lawed by the authorities. 



In Petrograd our people are free to 

 conduct meetings at the corners of the 

 streets and in the parks. 



FACING BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA 



Unafraid of flying bullets, the Girl 

 with the Tambourine sings and prays in 

 the midst of street-fighting in Russia 

 today. 



One of our chief difficulties is that of 

 traveling. Train service is unspeakable. 

 Much of our work has been accomplished 

 by traveling in sleighs in the winter time. 

 Recently one of the lassies wrote to our 

 headquarters in this country that a sleigh- 

 driver informed her on one of these trips 

 that all town lights must be out at 10.30, 

 as that was the time set for the plunder- 

 ing to begin. 



Trains so crowded that passengers had 

 to cling to car couplings and precarious 



footholds on locomotives were a com- 

 mon sight. To spend the night thus, 

 traveling in the bitter cold, in addition to 

 other dangers, gives one some idea of the 

 divine courage which it takes to carry the 

 message through Russia during these 

 dark days of fear and wild revolution. 



In the early days of the Army in Japan, 

 Colonel Gunpei Yamamuro, a native 

 Japanese, wrote a book entitled "The 

 Common People's Gospel.'' It was printed 

 in native characters and had a phenom- 

 enal circulation among the masses, who 

 thus learned, in the most direct sort of 

 way, the first news of the gospel. 



THE ARMY'S CRUSADE IN JAPAN 



This book simply brought out once 

 again the truth of Abraham Lincoln's 

 assertion, that the Lord must have had a 

 great love for the common people of the 

 earth, otherwise He would not have 

 created so many of them. 



One of the first important accomplish- 



