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Regeneration By: Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) |
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REGENERATION Being an Account of the Social Work of The Salvation Army in Great
Britain. H. RIDER HAGGARD
1910
DEDICATION
I dedicate these pages to the Officers and Soldiers of the Salvation
Army, in token of my admiration of the self sacrificing work by which
it is their privilege to aid the poor and wretched throughout the
world. H. RIDER HAGGARD. DITCHINGHAM, November, 1910
CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY MEN'S SOCIAL WORK, LONDON SPA ROAD ELEVATOR GREAT PETER STREET SHELTER FREE BREAKFAST SERVICE EX CRIMINALS MEN'S WORKSHOP: HANBURY STREET, WHITECHAPEL STURGE HOUSE, BOW ROAD CENTRAL LABOUR BUREAU INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT EMIGRATION DEPARTMENT WOMEN'S SOCIAL WORK IN LONDON HEADQUARTERS OF THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL WORK HILLSBOROUGH HOUSE INEBRIATES' HOME MATERNITY NURSING HOME MATERNITY RECEIVING HOME MATERNITY HOSPITAL 'THE NEST,' CLAPTON TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S SOCIAL WORK WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL HOME, HACKNEY INEBRIATES' HOME WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL HOME, SOUTHWOOD WOMEN'S SHELTER, WHITECHAPEL SLUM SETTLEMENT, HACKNEY ROAD PICCADILLY MIDNIGHT WORK ANTI SUICIDE BUREAU WORK IN THE PROVINCES, LIVERPOOL MEN'S SOCIAL WORK, MANCHESTER OAKHILL HOUSE, MANCHESTER MEN'S SOCIAL WORK, GLASGOW ARDENSHAW WOMEN'S HOME WOMEN'S LODGING HOUSE, GLASGOW LAND AND INDUSTRIAL COLONY, HADLEIGH SMALL HOLDINGS SETTLEMENT, BOXTED IMPRESSIONS OF GENERAL BOOTH THE CHIEF OF THE STAFF NOTE ON THE RELIGION OF THE SALVATION ARMY APPENDICES
AUTHOR'S NOTE The author desires to thank Mr. D.R. DANIEL for the kind and valuable
assistance he has given him in his researches into the Social Work of
the Salvation Army. He takes this occasion to make it clear that this book does no more
than set out the results of his investigations into some of that vast
Social Work, and his personal conclusions as to it and those by whom
it is prosecuted. To obviate any possible misunderstanding as to the reason of its
writing, he wishes to state further that it has not been compiled by
him as a matter of literary business.
INTRODUCTORY
WHAT IS THE SALVATION ARMY? If this question were put to the ordinary person of fashion or
leisure, how would it be answered? In many cases thus: 'The Salvation Army is a body of people dressed up
in a semi military uniform, or those of them who are women, in
unbecoming poke bonnets, who go about the streets making a noise in
the name of God and frightening horses with brass bands. It is under
the rule of an arbitrary old gentleman named Booth, who calls himself
a General, and whose principal trade assets consist in a handsome and
unusual face, and an inexhaustible flow of language, which he
generally delivers from a white motor car wherever he finds that he
can attract the most attention. He is a clever actor in his way, who
has got a great number of people under his thumb, and I am told that
he has made a large fortune out of the business, like the late prophet
Dowie, and others of the same sort. The newspapers are always exposing
him; but he knows which side his bread is buttered and does not care.
When he is gone no doubt his family will divide up the cash, and we
shall hear no more of the Salvation Army!' Such are still the honest beliefs of thousands of our instructed
fellow countrymen, and of hundreds of thousands of others of less
degree belonging to the classes which are generally typified under the
synonym of 'the man in the street,' by which most people understand
one who knows little, and of that little nothing accurately, but who
decides the fate of political elections. Let us suppose, however, that the questioner should succeed in
interesting an intelligent and fair minded individual holder of these
views sufficiently to induce him to make inquiry into the facts
concerning this Salvation Army... Continue reading book >>
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