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I he Salvation Army.—Reasons fur Hit He markable Growth.Four remarkable elements of its structure have added greatly to the rapidity of the success which the Salvation Army has attained.1. One of these is the use which it has made of the energy and devotion of wo men.2. The immediate use to which the Sal vation Army puts its converts. It recog ni/ed the great and nation regenerating truth that every Christian should lie God’s missionary. Many of the wavering might have been lost torever if they had not been from the first taught and encouraged to come out of their evil surroundings, and boldly to take their side with God and with the work of good.15. The teaching men to give. At every meeting of the Salvation Army there is a collection. Giving is usually declared to be abhorrent to the steady going Christian. The offertory is supposed to frighten away congregations trlt;»m churches. The Salvationists have better understood hu mun nature, and better exemplified the spirit of the early converts. They have confidently made their missions self-supporting, and have wisely taught that act-of worship ar- more tittiugly eounertt-d with works of self-deuial. That U how this sect of yesterday, started by a discredited Methodist, has succeeded iu raising a revenue of some i'S00,00() a vear.90But, after all, The chief secret of the growth ot the Army has lain in the self-sacrifice a self sacrifice not short of heroism—which it has evoked in hundreds of its votaries. Archdeacon Farrar, iu Harper’s Magazine tor May.
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Hillsdale Standard
Hillsdale, Michigan, US
Tue, May 12, 1891
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