They are doing a work that God has honored, and that has reached and rescued a vast number of outcasts.

Their chief weakness is that they appeal mainly to the emotions, and give too little solid instruction to their ignorant hearers.

Their chief danger is that when the strong arm of their founder is taken away he may not leave successors who can hold the army together.

Let us hope and pray that the period of their usefulness may yet be protracted.
While an abnormal agency, like the Salvation Army, may do some useful service among the occupants of the slums, the greater work of reaching and evangelizing the immense mass of plain, humble working people must be done by the churches themselves.

What do the dwellers in the by-streets and the tenement houses need?
They need precisely what the dwellers in the brown stone houses on fine avenues need--a sanctuary to worship in, a Sunday school for their children, a preacher to give them the Gospel, and a pastor to visit them and watch over them--in short, a spiritual home.