e flowed out of the Social Work, and which will continue
to flow out of it as long as time rolls on.
(a) The first benefit I will mention is the Salvation of
thousands of souls.
(b) The world has been further benefited by the knowledge of
Salvation spread throughout every part of the habitable globe.
(c) The world has been further benefited by the Conviction that
has been brought to governmental, philanthropic, and religious
agencies, as to the duty they owe to the classes we seek to
benefit.
(d) The world has been further benefited by the sympathy created
in the hearts of royal personages, scientists, literary people, and
the Press generally; indeed, in every class and grade of mankind.
(e) The world has been further benefited by the removal of misery
on such an extensive scale as had never even been dreamed of as
possible.
Think of the multitudes who, by our operations, are daily saved
from starvation, vice, crime, disease, death, and a hundred other
nameless woes.
In some of the principal cities in Italy, Holland, Germany, and
elsewhere, visited during my recent Continental Campaign, I have
been looked upon with unspeakable satisfaction and enthusiasm as
The General of the Poor, and The Salvation Army has been regarded
as their friend.
(f) The world has been further benefited by the help which our
Social Operations have afforded to the Field and other Departments
of The Army all over the world.
(g) The world has been further benefited by the confidence the
Social Work has created in the hearts and minds of our own
people--both Officers and Soldiers--as to the truth and
righteousness of the principles and practices of The Salvation
Army.
(h) The world has been further benefited by the answer which the
Social Work constitutes to the infidel's sneers at Christianity and
the assertion of its effeteness.
Truly, our future chroniclers will have to record the fact that our
Social Operations added a celestial lustre and imparted a Divine
dignity to the struggles of the early years of The Salvation Army's
history.
To our own eyes in The Army, however, that which has been done in
connexion with the Institutions is only a very insignificant part of the
whole effect produced. Until the present movement all over the
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