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N'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 nu