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Title: The Social Work of the Salvation Army

Author: Edwin Gifford Lamb

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Language: English

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THE SOCIAL WORK OF THE
SALVATION ARMY

BY

EDWIN GIFFORD LAMB, A.B.

Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Political Science

Columbia University

New York

1909

COPYRIGHT, 1909

BY

EDWIN GIFFORD LAMB

PREFACE.

I use the word "Social" in the title of this work to suggest that, save
in an auxiliary way, I am not attempting to describe the religious
features of the organization. Such a field of investigation would prove
a very profitable and interesting one, but it is a field, which, for the
sake of clearness and impartial study, should be kept separate. The
organization itself recognizes the primary division. Commander
Booth-Tucker, the leader of the Army in the United States from 1896 to
1904, says, "The Salvation Army is the evolution of two great ideas:
first, that of reaching with the gospel of salvation the masses who are
outside the pale of ordinary church influence, and second, that of
caring for their temporal as well as spiritual interests."[1]

I have secured very little data from books, as there is but little
authentic literature on the subject. Primarily, the data for this
treatise were taken from personal observation. In pursuing the subject I
have visited Salvation Army social institutions of every description. In
addition to visiting the larger cities of the United States and the
three Army colonies, situated in Ohio, Colorado and California,
respectively, I have investigated the work in London, where the Army had
its origin, and at the farm colon