Word: salvationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officers' pay ranges from $10 a week to the "about $70" a week paid to Commissioner Pugmire. The Salvationist owns few worldly goods, no home, no furniture. What he needs, beyond food and clothes, is provided for him. He is ready to pick up in an instant and fly to any part of the world, at his superior's command...
Cold Soil. Commissioner Pugmire's plain, earnest, large-jawed face is that of a veteran campaigner. He has been dedicated to the cause for almost half a century. A third-generation Salvationist, he and his forbears-bridge army history from its founding to its present...
...maternal grandmother became a convert to the army when bearded, Godfearing General Booth was shocking England with his evangelism. Her daughter Mary Ivison was also a convert who met and fell in love with Joseph Pugmire, another Salvationist. Joseph was sent to plant the army's blue-bordered, blood-red flag in Kansas City, Mo., and Mary later followed and married...
...leader is also probably the Army's best-known hymn writer, with more than 250 to his credit. A verse from one of them (sung to the tune of The Old Rustic Bridge) well sums up his conception of a Salvationist's business...
...Army's writers, directs much of its relief work in England. Throughout their lives the Carpenters have lived within the Army's rigid pattern, which forbids smoking, use of alcohol, going to the theater. The General has not read a novel for 20 years. A typical Salvationist couple, the Carpenters have two children, both in the Salvation Army...