March 10
SALVATION ARMY DAY
It had been two years after ‘General’ William Booth changed the name of the Christian Mission, the organization he had founded in London in 1865, to the Salvation Army.
Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven women officers of Booth’s army landed in New York on this day in 1880 to officially put the Salvation Army to work in the United States.
The Salvation Army’s work consisted of providing food, shelter and clothing to the needy along with the spreading of the Gospel to the spiritually needy. Fresh-air camps, boys’ clubs, family welfare-work programs, aid to prisoners and their families, and low-cost housing for the poor continue to be everyday features of the working army of men and women. Wherever disaster strikes, the Salvation Army is there to help.
The Salvation Army is a worldwide organization, familiar to and accepted by most as the Christian religious organization that administers aid to all without question.
Those Were the Days, the Today in History service from 440 International
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