Salvation Army Social Work

The stereopticon lecture, which will :e given by Major Parker of the Salvaron Army, on the Social Work of that organization at the Army Hall, on Fri. day evening, April 23, is very interest ng in its description and illustration of various branches of the Army work. The Sterling Daily Standard, in a long report of the lecture says, "The lecture was larejely attended, and it is safe to say that no one present left the house without an added respect for the lads inl hissies of the Army, and without a deeper interest in the work, a better mowledge of it, and a greater admiration of tlie self-sacrifioing life of the launtless soldiers. Illustrationsof every jranch of Salvation Army work was given, a complete description of which would fill columns. The wide scope and general effectiveness of the work is narvellous." The Army started some thirty-six years ago in London, England, and the different branches of the work have been added to it, as occasion demanded. Social work is one of the youngest branches of the Army's varied work. Pictures of General and Mrs. William Booth, the 'ounders of the movement, will be ;hrown on the canvass. The General, although quite oíd and feeble, travels all the time in all the countries where ;he Army work is established, holding great meetings in all the principal cities. All London mourned when Mrs. Booth died, some six years ago, and her funeral was one of the largest gatherings ever known in that great metropolis. International Headquarters, London, shows a large building occupied by the International officers. Congress Hall Training School Is also a very interesting place. Here six hundred men and women are trained anually for the Salvation Army work. Pictures of the Army marching through the mobs in Paris, and of Zulu chieftains before and after conversión, and a Budhist priest and other converts, serve to show a wonderful missionary work the Army has in different parts of the world. Then there are the outriders of California and Colorado, who, mounted on hardy mustangs, ride froin ranch to ranch among the cowboys, and from camp to camp in the mountain ranges among the miners, carrying the Gospel to these people who are so far beyond the pale of civilization. The uniform adopted by these workers is very much like the dress worn by the cowboys themselves. Pictures showing the Salvation Army lassies at work in the slums of the great cities will also be shown. These girls are known among the inhabitants of the slums as the "Slum Angels," and are respected by even the very lowest and and worst of the people among whom they work.