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Slum Sisters -
Traditions & Tactics
by
Cadet
Heather Dolby
Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, snatch them in pity
from sin and the grave…
In
his book “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, General William
Booth speaks of his Slum Crusade thusly:
“I
have a hundred women under my orders...most of them are the
children of the poor who have known hardship from their youth
up. Some are ladies born and bred, who have not been afraid to
exchange the comfort of a West End drawing room for service
among the vilest of the vile, and residence in small and fetid
rooms whose walls were infested with vermin. They live the
life of the Crucified for the sake of the men and women for
whom He lived and died. They form one of the branches of the
activity of the Army upon which I dwell with deepest sympathy.
They are the front; they are at close quarters with the
enemy.” These women go forth in Apostolic fashion...visiting
the sick, looking after children, showing the women how to
keep themselves and their homes decent, often discharging the
sick mother’s duties themselves; cultivating peace, advocating
temperance, counseling in temporalities, and ceaselessly
preaching the religion of Jesus Christ to the Outcasts of
Society.”
Slum Sister - any Salvation Army soldier or officer who lives,
loves and labors in the slum neighborhood she ministers in.
There are also slum brothers who do the same. Incarnational
Living - living in the neighborhood you minister in -
following Jesus’ example. Street Combat - hitting the streets
to pitch the Gospel and offer prayer to all you meet, one by
one.
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