| 4SALVATION LASSES AT HOME
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Mrs Peattie Writes of the Blue
Frocked Sisterhood of
the Lord
---
Their Life in the Cadet School - Rules Con-
cerning Their Conduct and Actions-
Room for the Banner.
---
Among the many commonplace sights
of Omaha there is one isght which is
never exactly commonplace. It is, in-
deed, almost heroic. It is the little band
of men and women that in storm and
sunshine, when the pavement is slippery
with mud or hot with mid-summer sun,
march the streets in the name of their
Lord, and kneel amond the secular sur-
roundings, making a cathedral of the
common street, and there make their
plea with high heaven for the souls of
those who so thoughtlessly pass them
with smile or jest.
Without doubt, here in Omaha today,
in the midst of the greed, that disguises
itself as shrewdness, in the midst of the
materialism that masks as industry, in
the midst of the selfishness that governs
almost all of us, the Salvation army
remains an [honest?] protest against our
display, our selfism, and our pride of
purchasable things. Time was when
this band of men and women was much
persecuted. People objected to having
them march the streets. They did not
think they had a right to sinng. They could
find no reason for their disinterested-
ness, and so they accused them of being
immoral. A number of young attorneys
who has not so many prejudices as the
laymen - and particularly the churchly
laymen - protested that a group of re-
ligious singers had as much right to
make a noise on the street as a band
playing for the benefit of the base ball
park or the [schuetzen vercin?]. A number
of them offered to argue the case for the
Salvationists in the courts, after they
had been withstrained from open air
meetings as a public nuisance, and
one of them did this, and the court de-
cided that no law was broke and no
right of any man injured by the sinnging
of these worshipers upon our public
streets. There are still some who seem
to think that this music is blasphemous
because it is not always in tune, and
who consider that the matter of religion
ought to be treated with more conserva-
tism. But they can do no more than
[rall?]. The law protects the Salvationists.
To most of the citizens of this town,
however, the train of bonneted women
and uniformed men, with their two
flags, one of the army of the Lord, the
other of the army of the republic, with
their cymbals, cornets, drums, their
sharp, metallic, nervous voices, their
absolute indifference to public [con-
tumely?], their unqualified sacrifice to an
unpopular cause, has come to have in
it something so familiar and pleasant
that the smiles which used to be scorn-
ful have become indulgent, and if any
misfortune were to overtake the Salva-
tion army here there would be much
sorrow.
The little band numbers about eighty
souls at present. It is never very large,
for the reason that many of the soldiers
are migratory. They stay in one place
but a short time. They are restless -
they are rovers. However, the barracks
on the corner of Davenport, near Seven-
teenth, is well filled nightly, and the
crusade for souls goes on there with as
much fervvor as ever the crusade for the
sepulcher of the Lord went on in the
dim days of the eleventh century.
To many an outsider this work
may appear to be entirely haphazard.
But, on the contrary, it is well regu-
lated. There is great system employed.
The states of Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska,
South and North Dakota, Colorado and
Wyoming are under the charge of Major
George French. The "war office" is in
the New York Life building on the sec-
cond floor, and here the books are kept
the reports revised , the orders issued
and all personal and general matters at-
tended to. There are 1,500 Salvationists
in this district under the command of
Major French. This commander has
manifold duties, and it goes without saying
| 4SALVATION LASSES AT HOME
---
Mrs Peattie Writes of the Blue
Frocked Sisterhood of
the Lord
---
Their Life in the Cadet School - Rules Con-
cerning Their Conduct and Actions-
Room for the Banner.
---
Among the many commonplace sights
of Omaha there is one isght which is
never exactly commonplace. It is, in-
deed, almost heroic. It is the little band
of men and women that in storm and
sunshine, when the pavement is slippery
with mud or hot with mid-summer sun,
march the streets in the name of their
Lord, and kneel amond the secular sur-
roundings, making a cathedral of the
common street, and there make their
plea with high heaven for the souls of
those who so thoughtlessly pass them
with smile or jest.
Without doubt, here in Omaha today,
in the midst of the greed, that disguises
itself as shrewdness, in the midst of the
materialism that masks as industry, in
the midst of the selfishness that governs
almost all of us, the Salvation army
remains an [honest?] protest against our
display, our selfism, and our pride of
purchasable things. Time was when
this band of men and women was much
persecuted. People objected to having
them march the streets. They did not
think they had a right to sinng. They could
find no reason for their disinterested-
ness, and so they accused them of being
immoral. A number of young attorneys
who has not so many prejudices as the
laymen - and particularly the churchly
laymen - protested that a group of re-
ligious singers had as much right to
make a noise on the street as a band
playing for the benefit of the base ball
park or the [schuetzen vercin?]. A number
of them offered to argue the case for the
Salvationists in the courts, after they
had been withstrained from open air
meetings as a public nuisance, and
one of them did this, and the court de-
cided that no law was broke and no
right of any man injured by the sinnging
of these worshipers upon our public
streets. There are still some who seem
to think that this music is blasphemous
because it is not always in tune, and
who consider that the matter of religion
ought to be treated with more conserva-
tism. But they can do no more than
[rall?]. The law protects the Salvationists.
To most of the citizens of this town,
however, the train of bonneted women
and uniformed men, with their two
flags, one of the army of the Lord, the
other of the army of the republic, with
their cymbals, cornets, drums, their
sharp, metallic, nervous voices, their
absolute indifference to public [con-
tumely?], their unqualified sacrifice to an
unpopular cause, has come to have in
it something so familiar and pleasant
that the smiles which used to be scorn-
ful have become indulgent, and if any
misfortune were to overtake the Salva-
tion army here there would be much
sorrow.
The little band numbers about eighty
souls at present. It is never very large,
for the reason that many of the soldiers
are migratory. They stay in one place
but a short time. They are restless -
they are rovers. However, the barracks
on the corner of Davenport, near Seven-
teenth, is well filled nightly, and the
crusade for souls goes on there with as
much fervvor as ever the crusade for the
sepulcher of the Lord went on in the
dim days of the eleventh century.
To many an outsider this work
may appear to be entirely haphazard.
But, on the contrary, it is well regu-
lated. There is great system employed.
The states of Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska,
South and North Dakota, Colorado and
Wyoming are under the charge of Major
George French. The "war office" is in
the New York Life building on the sec-
cond floor, and here the books are kept
the reports revised , the orders issued
and all personal and general matters at-
tended to. There are 1,500 Salvationists
in this district under the command of
Major French. This commander has
manifold duties, and it goes without saying
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