Word: mckeown
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...them shuffled uncertainly to the rail while McKeown and Larder and their soldiers sang...
...Road Back. McKeown's was an old-fashioned kind of evangelical attack, but one from which the army has never wavered. From its years of experience on the seamy side of life, the army thinks that it knows as much about drunkenness as any other organization. It maintains that evangelism can reach into depths of degradation which psychiatry cannot touch. Says Captain Tom Crocker, onetime alcoholic and drug addict who is now in command of the army's famed Harbor Light corps in Chicago: "Overcoming drunkenness is a matter of prayer from beginning...
...Gutter. The fighting is sharpest in the streets and in city slums, in small, crowded buildings marked by neon-lighted crosses in the midst of dark Skid Rows. The army regards such positions as its most important beachheads in the Devil's territory. Captains Olive McKeown and Luella Larder, of the army's Greater New York division, command one such corps (church) at 349 Bowery. One night last week, as they had hundreds of other times, they gathered to their fold some 200 men-refugees from the saloons attracted by amplified phonograph music, drawn by hunger, curiosity...
...little auditorium was heavy with the odors of whisky breaths and unwashed bodies. Eyes-cunning, defiant, haunted, hopeless, anguished and apathetic-fixed on the platform where McKeown and Larder sat surrounded by a small band of soldiers and converts...
Captain Olive McKeown said: "Come to the altar. Ask God's forgiveness . . . Come on down. It's nothing to be ashamed of-it's something to be proud...