THE SOCIAL WORK OF THE SALVATION ARMY

BY

EDWIN GIFFORD LAMB, A.B.

Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Political Science

Columbia University

New York

1909

Copyright, 1909

by

Edwin Gifford Lamb

PREFACE.

I use the word "Social" in the title of this work to suggestthat, save in an auxiliary way, I am not attempting to describethe religious features of the organization. Such a field of investigationwould prove a very profitable and interesting one, butit is a field, which, for the sake of clearness and impartial study,should be kept separate. The organization itself recognizes theprimary division. Commander Booth-Tucker, the leader of theArmy in the United States from 1896 to 1904, says, "The SalvationArmy is the evolution of two great ideas: first, that ofreaching with the gospel of salvation the masses who are outsidethe pale of ordinary church influence, and second, that ofcaring for their temporal as well as spiritual interests."[1]

I have secured very little data from books, as there is butlittle authentic literature on the subject. Primarily, the data forthis treatise were taken from personal observation. In pursuingthe subject I have visited Salvation Army social institutions ofevery description. In addition to visiting the larger cities of theUnited States and the three Army colonies, situated in Ohio,Colorado and California, respectively, I have investigated thework in London, where the Army had its origin, and at the farmcolony in Hadleigh, on the river Thames, some thirty miles fromLondon. I have slept in the hotels, worked in the industrialhomes, wandered over the farm colonies, and mingled with theinmates of other types of Army institutions.

Nov., 1909. E. G. L.

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