falsehood, deceit, misrepresentation, or dishonesty; neither
will I practise any fraudulent conduct in my business, my
home, nor in any other relation in which I may stand to my
fellow-men, but that I will deal truthfully, fairly,
honourably, and kindly with all those who may employ me, or
whom I may myself employ,
I do here declare that I will never treat any woman, child,
or other person, whose life, comfort, or happiness may be
placed within my power, in an oppressive, cruel or cowardly
manner, but that I will protect such from evil and danger so
far as I can, and promote to the utmost of my ability their
present welfare and eternal salvation.
I do here declare that I will spend all the time, strength,
money, and influence I can in supporting and carrying on
this war, and that I will endeavour to lead my family,
friends, neighbours, and all others whom I can influence, to
do the same, believing that the sure and only way to remedy
all the evils in the world is by bringing men to submit
themselves to the Government of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I do here declare that I will always obey the lawful orders
of my Officers, and that I will carry out to the utmost of
my powers all the orders and regulations of the Army; and
further that I will be an example of faithfulness to its
principles, advance to the utmost of my ability its
operations, and never allow, where I can prevent it, any
injury to its interests, or hindrance to its success.
AND
I do here and now call upon all present to witness that I
enter into this undertaking, and sign these Articles of War
of my own free will, feeling that the love of Christ, who
died to save me, requires from me this devotion of my life
to His service for the salvation of the whole world, and
therefore wish now to be enrolled as a Soldier of the
Salvation Army.
_Signed_...........................................
_Image (full Christian and Surname)_
_Address_........................................
_Date_........................ _Corps_.............
APPENDIX C
COPY OF THE SALVATION ARMY BALANCE SHEET, EXTRACTED FROM THE
FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING
SEPTEMBER 30, 1909.
_Copies of this Balance Sheet with Statements of Account can be had
upon application. The Balance Sheet and Statements of Account for the
year ending September 30, 1910, will be posted from the press early
next year. The Balance Sheet of The Army's Social Fund can be obtained
from the Secretary._
LIABILITIES
DR.
£ s. d.
TO LOANS UPON MORTGAGE,
including accrued Interest 540,277 3 11
" LOANS FOR FIXED PERIODS,
including accrued Interest 121,958 8 1
" RESERVE FUNDS, including
General and Special Reserves 176,143 15 ½
" SUNDRY CREDITORS 10,359 3 2
" COLONIAL AND FOREIGN
TERRITORIES FUND 55,219 10 7
" SELF-DENIAL FUND
(Balance) 3,463 12 3
----------------
Carried Forward £907,621 13 1/2
ASSETS
CR.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
BY FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY (at or below
cost) in the United
Kingdom, as on September
30, 1908 1,066,923 16 2-1/2
" Additions during the year 23,271 4 6
--------------------
1,090,195 2 8-1/2
" Freehold Estate in
Australia 10,375 3 6
----------------- 1,100,571 6 4-1/2
" INVESTMENTS, including
Investment of Reserve
and Sinking Funds 196,412 9 2
" FURNITURE and FITTINGS
at Headquarters, Officers'
Quarters, and
Training College, as on
September 30, 1908 5,412 16 1
" Additions during the year 2,768 9 5-1/2
---------------
8,181 5 6-1/2
_Less_ Depreciation 2,433 19 9
--------------- 5,748 5 9-1/2
-----------------
Carried forward £1,802,732 1 4
BALANCE SHEET--_continued_
DR.
Brought forward 907,621 13 0-1/2
To The Salvation Army Fund,
as per last Balance Sheet 411,701 0 6-1/4
" Donations and Subscriptions
For Capital Purposes
(including building
Contributions,
£20,044 0s. 2d.) 37,044 6 2
" General Income and Expenditure
Account
(Balance) 1,309 17 8-1/2
----------------------------------------------------------------------
450,064 18 4-1/2
-----------------
£1,357,706 11 5
CR.
Brought forward 1,302,732 1 4
By Loans
" Trade Headquarters Fund 27,902 16 5
" Sundry Colonial and
Foreign Territories 8,606 16 0
------------
34,506 12 5
" Sundry Debtors 18,360 10 4
" Cash at Bank 2,107 7 4
---------------
£1,357,706 11 5
We have examined the above Statement with the Books, Accounts, and
Vouchers relating thereto, and certify the same to be correct. We have
also verified the Bank balances and Investments.
KNOX, CROPPER & CO.,
_Chartered Accountants._
16 FINSBURY CIRCUS, E.C.
_December_ 31, 1909.
APPENDIX D
A FEW FIGURES SHOWING SOME OF THE WORK OF THE DARKEST ENGLAND SCHEME
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1909 DURING TOTAL TO
1910 SEPT. 30, 1910
Number of Meals supplied at
Cheap Food Dépôts 69,784,480 6,869,897 76,654,377
Number of Cheap Lodgings for
the Homeless 27,850,674 2,445,300 30,295,974
Number of Meetings held in
Shelters 140,747 8,660 149,407
Number of Applications from
Unemployed registered at
Labour Bureaux 302,538 13,009 315,547
Number received into Factories 63,694 6,754 70,448
Number for whom Employment
(temporary or permanent) has
been found 249,453 20,210 269,663
Number of Ex-Criminals received
into Homes 8,840 416 9,256
Number of Ex-Criminals assisted,
restored to Friends,
sent to situations, etc. 7,886 1,166 9,052
Number of Applications for Lost
Persons 44,001 2,120 46,121
Number of Lost Persons found 13,710 398 14,108
Number of Women and Girls
received into Rescue Homes 44,417 3,679 48,096
Number of Women and Girls
received into Rescue Homes
who were sent to Situations,
restored to Friends, etc. 37,168 3,346 40,514
Number of Families visited in
Slums 998,079 109,750 1,107,829
Number of Families prayed with 577,550 64,141 641,691
Number of Public-houses visited 630,021 33,188 663,209
Number of Lodging-houses
visited 17,330 3,457 20,787
Number of Lodging-house Meetings
held 7,319 1,792 9,111
Number of Sick People visited
and nursed 93,233 21,912 115,145
NOTES:
[1: See Appendix C]
[2: The following extract from the recently issued 'Report of
the Commissioners of Prisons and the Directors of Convict Prisons,'
for the year ended March 31, 1910, Part I [Cd. 5360], published since
the above was written, sets out the present views of the Authorities
on this important matter:--
'Out of the present inmates of convict prisons over 40 per
cent have been previously in penal servitude, viz. out of
3,046 male convicts in convict prisons, 1,253 had been
previously sentenced to penal servitude, 672 once, 271
twice, 196 three times, and 114 four times or more. Mr.
Secretary Churchill has referred to us the question whether,
and in what way, it would be possible to make any impression
on this roll of recidivism--this unyielding _corpus_ of
habitual crime. The problem is never absent from the minds
of those responsible for the administration of prisons and
the treatment of crime, and during recent years great
efforts have been made to improve the machinery of
assistance on discharge, fully impressed as we are with the
truth of the old French saying, "_Le difficile ce n'est pas
emprisoner un homme, c'est de le relâcher_." We have tried
to avail ourselves fully of the resources offered by such
powerful agencies as the Church Army, Salvation Army, as
well as other societies who have for years operated in this
particular field of charitable effort. We recognize the
ready help given by all these agencies. No doubt by their
efforts many difficult and unpromising cases have been
rehabilitated; but after full consideration we have come to
the opinion that the task of rehabilitation in the case of
men returning to freedom after a sentence of penal servitude
is too difficult and too costly to be left entirely to
voluntary societies, unaided by any grant of public funds,
and working independently of each other at a problem where
unity of method and direction is above all things required.
Mr. Secretary Churchill, to whom these views have been
represented, at once agreed that the difficulty lay in this
question of discharge, and that the official authority,
acting in close and friendly co-operation with the voluntary
societies must take a more active part than hitherto in
controlling the passage into free life of a man emerging
from penal servitude. ... A plan is now under consideration
for establishing a Central Agency of Control for Discharged
Convicts, on which both the official and unofficial element
will be represented, with a subsidy from public funds, the
purpose of which will be to take in hand the guidance and
direction of every convict on the day of discharge' (pp. 15,
16).]
[3: See Parliamentary Blue Book [Cd. 2562].]
[4: The scale of pay in the Salvation Array for Officers in charge of
Corps (or Stations) is as follows:--For Single Men: Lieutenants, 16s.
weekly; Captains, 18s. weekly. For Single Women: Lieutenants, 12s.
weekly; Captains, 15s. weekly. For Married Men, 27s. per week and 1s.
per week for each child under 7 years of age, and 2s. per week for
each child between the ages of 7 and 14. Furnished lodgings are
provided in addition.]
[5: But the day before this proof came into my hands it was my duty to
help to try a case illustrative of these remarks. In that case a girl
when only just over the age of sixteen had been seduced by a young man
and borne a son. First the father admitted parentage and promised
marriage. Then he denied parentage, and, apparently without a shadow
of evidence, alleged that the child was the result of an incestuous
intercourse between its mother and a relative. At the trial, having,
it seemed, come to the conclusion that this wicked slander would not
enable him to escape an affiliation order, he again frankly admitted
his parentage. In the country districts, at any rate, such examples
are common.--H. R. H.]
[6: The loss is being reduced annually, that for the financial year
which has just closed being the lowest on record.]
[7: See Appendix A]
[8: On this and other points see the Salvation Army's 'Articles of
War,' Appendix B.]
INDEX
Affiliation Orders, 91, 109-110.
'Ann Fowler' Home, 166, 168.
Anti-Suicide Bureau, 151-164.
Ardenshaw Women's Home, Glasgow, 188.
Argyll, Duchess of, 103.
'Articles of War,' 257.
Australia, 14, 83.
Balance-sheet for 1909, 260-261.
Barlow, Sir Thomas, 123.
Barnardo, The late Dr., 71, 73, 233.
Blackfriars Shelter, 41.
Booth, General, 7, 10-12, 14-18, 57, 61, 63, 85, 97, 200-201, 206,
208-217, 223.
Booth, Mr. Bramwell, 218-225.
Booth, Mrs. Bramwell, 87, 89, 91-93, 95, 144.
Boxted Small Holdings, 69, 200-207.
British Government, The, and Colonial Land Scheme, 82.
Canada, 14, 82-86.
Carrington, Earl, 206.
Central Labour Bureau, 75.
Chief of the Staff, The: see Mr. Bramwell Booth.
Cox, Commissioner, 96, 98, 119, 120.
Criminals in England, 61.
Crossley, Mrs., 176.
Drink, 37.
Duke Street, Glasgow, 188.
Edinburgh, 179.
Embankment Soup Distribution, 22, 39, 40.
Emigration Department, 80;
Emigration Board, 85.
Employers' Liability Act, 38.
Ex-Criminals, 54.
First Offenders Act, 168.
Free Breakfast Service, 41.
Future of the Salvation Army, Notes on, 237.
Glasgow, 165, 178-182, 192.
Government Labour Bureaux, 75-76.
Government Subsidy, 57.
Great Peter St. Shelter, 33, 157.
Great Titchfield St., 94, 140, 150.
Hadleigh Land Colony, 76, 182, 184, 194, 198, 199.
Hanbury St. Workshop, 65-70.
Herring, The late Mr. George, 19, 200, 201, 207, 212.
Hillsborough House Inebriates' Home, 98, 102, 122.
Hollies,' 'The, 168, 169.
Home Office, The, 55.
Iliffe, Lieut.-Colonel, 204.
Impressions of General Booth, 208.
India, 23.
Inebriates' Home, The, Springfield Lodge, 122.
International Investigation Department, 77.
Ivy House Maternity Hospital, 107.
Java, 233.
Jolliffe, Lieut.-Colonel, 41, 148, 185-186, 190-191.
King Edward Hospital Fund, 201.
Labour Bureau, Central, Whitechapel, 75;
Statistics, 76.
Labour Party and Trade.
Unions, 65, 85-86.
Lamb, Colonel, 81, 83-85.
Lambert, Colonel, 115.
Land Colony, Hadleigh, 194.
Laudanum-drinking, 124, 183.
Laurie, Lieut.-Colonel, 194-196.
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, 82.
Liverpool, 165.
London County Council, 129.
London Maternity Home, 169.
Lorne House, 103, 105.
Manchester, 165;
Social Institutions, 172.
Maternity Home, Lorne House, Stoke Newington, 103.
Maternity Home, Brent House, Hackney, 105-106.
Maternity Hospital,
Hackney, 105, 107;
Liverpool, 171.
Maternity Hospital, New, required, 170.
Men's Social Work,
Glasgow, 178;
London, 19, 65;
Manchester, 171.
Middlesex Street Shelter, 19.
Midnight Work, Social, 94.
Needs, Our, 235.
Nest,' 'The, Clapton, 112.
Oakhill House, Manchester, 176.
Old-Age Pensions Act, 130.
Paris, 93.
Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Unions, 65.
Penitent Form, The, 46-48, 51, 230.
Pentonville Prison, 56.
Piccadilly Midnight Work, 140.
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Society for the, 233.
Princess Louise, H.R.H., 103.
Prison Act, The New, 63.
Prison Reform, 62, 63 (note).
Prison Visitation, 55, 188.
Prisoners' Aid Society, 180.
Quaker Street, 54.
Religion of the Salvation Army, Note on the, 229.
Rescue Home, The, 117.
'Revivalism!' 49.
Roosevelt, Mr. 214-215.
'Rural England,' 10.
Sacraments, The, 230.
Salvation Army, Some Statistics of the, 9-10.
Scale of pay, Officers', 90 (note).
Scotland, 131, 179.
Slum Settlement, The Hackney Road, 131.
Slum Sisters, 88;
Some Statistics of their work, 131.
Small Holdings, 200-207.
Southwood, Sydenham, 126.
Spa Road Elevator, 27, 46, 79.
Sturge House, 71-74.
Sturgess, Commissioner, 19, 36, 47, 54, 55, 57, 186.
Sweating, Charges of, refuted, 28, 66, 120-121.
Titchfield Street Home, The, 140, 145, 150.
Trade Unions and rate of Wages, 15-16.
Training Institute for Women Social Workers, The, 115.
Unsworth, Colonel, 155, 157, 160, 164.
Vegetarianism, 99, 113-114.
Visitation of prisoners by Salvation Army Officers, 55-56.
Wandsworth Prison, 56.
Waste Paper Department,
Spa Road, 27, 31, 52;
Manchester, 172;
Glasgow, 180.
White Slave Traffic, 87, 93.
Whitechapel, 72, 75, 95, 132, 142.
Women's Industrial Home, Hackney, 119;
Sydenham, 126.
Women's Shelter, 129.
Women's Social Work, London, 87;
Headquarters, 96.