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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



MEMBERS OF THE SALVATION ARMY IN SOUTH AMERICA WEAR RESPLENDENT REGALIA 



But their service to their fellow-men is as simple, as earnest, and as self-sacrificing as is 

 that of their brother workers in the slums of Shanghai and in the hills of Hindustan. The 

 Salvation Army has been picturesquely described as a great empire — an empire without a 

 frontier, an empire composed of fragments separated by vast stretches of land and immense 

 sweeps of sea, but all bound together by the common cause of service to mankind. 



and horns and their yodels, mingling 

 their songs with the Germans, French, 

 Italians, Scandinavians, South Ameri- 

 cans, Canadians, Britishers, and 850 

 Americans. 



Delegates were in that hall who came 

 from Celebes, Sumatra. Costa Rica, Ar- 

 gentina, Cuba, Malta, Uruguay, Panama, 

 Chile, Peru, Saint Lucia, Finland, and 

 Antigua. 



Out of this great mass of humanity our 

 beloved General called to the front six 

 little girls from the Criminal Tribes of 



India. They made a pathetic picture, 

 with their little feet and legs bare, their 

 slender forms wrapped in pieces of yel- 

 low cotton. As they stood before that 

 vast audience they lifted up their dusky 

 little faces and told the reason for it all 

 in the song which they sang in broken 

 English : 



"Tell it again, tell it again, 



Salvation's story repeat o'er and o'er, 

 Till none can say of the children of men, 

 Nobodv ever has told it before." 



