The War Cry . ps as aman. that ho took such a high placeIn their resneet and regard. Be-cause of this, they welcomed him,not only to the meeting that after-noon, but to take over the proceed-ings of the same. His Worship the Mayor, in open-ins the meeting, described Tbe Sal-vation Army as one of the greatestorganisations in the world for doinggood. An organisation, that demon-strated practical Christianity, waswhat was needed to raise tbe of them could overestimatethe great work done by The Army—it had. been one of tbe factors of thecivilisation of tbe world. It was amovement that


The War Cry . ps as aman. that ho took such a high placeIn their resneet and regard. Be-cause of this, they welcomed him,not only to the meeting that after-noon, but to take over the proceed-ings of the same. His Worship the Mayor, in open-ins the meeting, described Tbe Sal-vation Army as one of the greatestorganisations in the world for doinggood. An organisation, that demon-strated practical Christianity, waswhat was needed to raise tbe of them could overestimatethe great work done by The Army—it had. been one of tbe factors of thecivilisation of tbe world. It was amovement that extended a band tothose who were down and who badmade mistakes, and gave them newlife. And, ladies and genfemeu, saidHis Worship impressively, we donot know if we ourselves, under thesame circumstances, might not havebeen the same as they. Commissioner Coombs then rose .ospeak, and while the house vibratedwith a hearty weeome, there wastluie to notice that he bas ehangedbut little since his last visit to the. W. H. Calkin, £^„ Who sec®a«kd the wsle ©I U& c©B3Ej%stoBOTs tuesilag to -tueSra press TSeMrs, VaAceara. 8. C coast. His beard is a little , but otherwise he gives no ,sign that the vast work he has un-dertaken, as Head of the whole Armyin Canada, is beginning to tell on bisconstitution. And be has lost nowhit of his powers as a platformspeaker. In his vigorous denunci-ation of the various kinds of sinthat threaten a new conntry. hisvoice rang out in pene: rating tonesthai could l>e beard all over .tnehouse. Best of all. it was obviousto the most sceptical mind, lhat herewas a man who was thoroughly sin-cere iu everything that he The substance of tbe Commission-ers address has already been print-ed in our columns, so it will be un-necessary to refer to it, except tosay that for power and soul-stirringeloquence, the Commissioner hasrarely been neard to creator ad-vantage than on this occasion. We quote again rrom the •?Worldsrepo


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