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INSIDE THIS WEEK Concert raises millions for Japan disaster response Hong Kong PAGE 5 〉〉〉〉 PLUS LOTS MORE! PAGES 11–13 〉〉〉〉 PAPERS ■ ■ FA CUP FINAL: ‘I AM NOT A TALE OF TWO CITIES GLORIFYING SEX, DRUGS AND ■ TURN TO THE VIOLENCE’ SAYS MIDDLE FOR A MOBO WINNER LAUGH AND GUVNA B A GIGGLE ■ SPEAKER’S ■ WIN A MINI CHAPLAIN VOTES REMOTE-CONTROLLED ‘YES’ TO MIXING ROBOT FAITH AND POLITICS ■ PERCY THE PENGUIN THIS WEEK’S QUOTES FROM THE PAPERS TEACHERS’ UNION FAITH SCHOOL PLEA LETTING CHILDREN DRINK AT But research has The law must be changed to HOME ‘RAISES RISK OF TEEN suggested that the stop faith schools ALCOHOL PROBLEMS’ practice sends mixed Parents who let their signals that result in discriminating against children have the odd applicants because of their children being more likely glass of wine or bottle of to abuse alcohol in their sexuality and recruiting staff beer at home when they teenage years… on the basis of religion, say are in their early teens are Two years ago, Sir Liam teachers. Free schools, many doing them more harm Donaldson, then England’s of which are founded on than good, according to chief medical officer, religious principles, will a study. said children under 15 Many mothers and exacerbate the problem, should never be given fathers think that allowing according to a motion passed… alcohol, even though it their children to have a is legal for parents to at the National Union of supervised drink is a good give a child over the age Teachers’ annual conference way of exposing them to of five alcohol in the in Harrogate. alcohol safely and home. The Times removing its illicit thrill. The Daily Telegraph CHRISTIANS SHOULD SMILE MORE demeanour what must people Churches are not playhouses think of our church? What does and priests are not ordained to our face say about the Church we ‘make-merry’ but our faces are so love? Think hatch, match and meant to reflect the inner dispatch with an added hint of workings of our soul. If we leave gloominess and slumped shoulders. church with a bleary-eyed Ryan Service writing in The Catholic Herald TERRITORIAL HEADQUARTERS Tel: 0845 634 0101 SALVATIONIST 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN Tel: 020 7367 4890 Fax: 020 7367 4691 Email: salvationist@salvationarmy.org.uk Web: www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist A registered newspaper published weekly by The Salvation Army (United Kingdom Territory with the Republic of Ireland) on behalf of the General of The Salvation Army and printed by benhamgoodheadprint Limited, Bicester, Oxon. © Linda Bond, General of The Salvation Army, 2011. The Salvation Army Trust is a registered charity. The charity number in England and Wales is 214779, in Scotland SC009359 and in the Republic of Ireland CHY6399. EDITOR Major Stephen Poxon Tel: 020 7367 4901 MANAGING EDITOR Stephen Pearson Tel: 020 7367 4891 ASSISTANT EDITOR Major Jane Kimberley Tel: 020 7367 4892 ASSISTANT EDITOR Claire Anderson Tel: 020 7367 4894 DTP DESIGNER Colin Potter Tel: 020 7367 4895 DTP OPERATOR Denise D’Souza Tel: 020 7367 4896 GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jonathan Carmichael Tel: 020 7367 4883 ADMINISTRATOR Stella Merino Tel: 020 7367 4881 ADVERTISING Tel: 020 7367 4883 Email: advertising@salvationarmy.org.uk DISTRIBUTION Salvationist Publishing and Supplies (Periodicals), 66-78 Denington Road, Denington Industrial Estate, Wellingborough NN8 2QH Tel: 01933 445451 Fax: 01933 445415 Email: keith.jennings@sp-s.co.uk THE SALVATION ARMY FOUNDER William Booth GENERAL Linda Bond TERRITORIAL COMMANDER Commissioner John Matear EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND PUBLISHING SECRETARY Major Leanne Ruthven 2 7 May 2011 SALVATIONIST www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist COMMENT cap from Major Beryl Beamish, as she was then; one that had been left behind by a candidate with the same size head as mine, who had gone to fight elsewhere. The greatest Tomorrow is Candidates Sunday, when we seek to encourage those who have stepped out towards officership. Of course, as General Linda Bond reminded us at her welcome meeting, adventure this is by no means an Army for officers only. Everyone has a place on the battlefield. It is, though, healthy to remember, at least once a year, those men and women whose vocation will in due course result in them possessing, of all with apologies to hymnwriter John Mason Neale, if not wealth, then rank. Somewhere in a box in my garage (we’ve not yet unpacked everything), I have my framed dedication certificate, dated December 1965 and signed by Captain Bert Menary. This yellowing piece of paper tells me I was dedicated ‘For God And The War’. I’m afraid I don’t know enough about God to know whether my dedication on that winter’s morning is directly linked with my having subsequently become an officer. The Bible hints at such things coming to pass, but then I also know of scores of babies who were dedicated WISH I could testify that Satan with a great deal of brouhaha and who put up a fight to prevent me probably won’t come anywhere near the I becoming a candidate. So far as Army again except for the trivial round I could tell, he wasn’t bothered one and common ceremonial task of what way or the other about whether I did we might call ‘hatches, matches and or not. This troubles me slightly dispatches’. whenever I hear people say, of others, All the more reason, then, to secure such things as, ‘You must be doing a such lives and deaths in prayer, and marvellously splendid Kingdom work with Candidates Sunday on the horizon, if the Devil is sufficiently worried ‘I caught the bus to Denmark what better time to start! about you to personally step down With the greatest respect to Captain Hill. I remember pausing for a from his dung heap and launch a (now Lieut-Colonel) Menary and a high moment as I went up the steps campaign of intimidation’, and so on. regard for Army tradition, my dedication of the International Training Beelzebub only ever flung at me a certificate is, ultimately, but parchment. College and saying to myself maths form that stumped me with There is a certain responsibility upon us wistfully: “The moment I walk questions about how many songbooks to pray for our candidates, that they an officer might wish to purchase – that through those doors I will never may increasingly know the inward sort of thing. realities represented by those external belong to myself again”… Life That blow to foolish pride symbols. has been a great adventure.’ notwithstanding, I became a candidate, (From General John Larsson’s Saying Yes To Life) and was comforted by the gift of a free MAJOR STEPHEN POXON, EDITOR NEWS LETTERS FEATURE NEW COMMITMENTS Pages 4 – 9 & 19 〉〉〉〉 Page 9 〉〉〉〉 Life below the line Pages 16 & 17 〉〉〉〉 SouthernBedlingtonCoventryCityRomfordSkewen Pages 11 to 13 〉〉〉〉 WilliamstownHongKongIvoryCoastIpswichCitadel LongEatonRhylChelmsfordTringTenbyBromley BIBLE STUDY ANNOUNCEMENTS SunderlandMillfieldNewZealandMiddleEastHorsham ClaptonKilmarnockSouthendCitadelGuisborough When is ‘then’? INTERVIEW Army people, engagements, ExeterGranthamKnottingleyNorwichCitadel Leigh-on-SeaL’IsletRochdale Page 10 〉〉〉〉 A face and a voice tributes and caption Pages 14 & 15 〉〉〉〉 competition Pages 18 & 19 〉〉〉〉 ADVERTS Pages 20 – 23 〉〉〉〉 salvationist@salvationarmy.org.uk SALVATIONIST 7 May 2011 3 NEWS Seekers respond Southern DIVISIONAL Commander Lieut- Colonel Graham Owen introduced the leaders of the divisional cele- bration, Colonels Brian and Rosalie Peddle (THQ), to a capac- ity congregation at Boscombe. Pre-meeting music included contributions by Portsmouth Citadel Band, the Southern Youth Chorus and the Aldershot African Choir and a video recording by former divisional leaders Lieut- Colonels Neil and Chris Webb (Papua New Guinea Territory). The meeting was charac- Their evening programme included ‘To A God terised by a blend of reflective Band witnesses to Like This’ and featured soloists Callum White and rousing worship, inter- (cornet), Jonathan Evans (trombone) and Sam Ellis spersed with music by the passers-by (xylophone). The theme for Sunday morning sections. A video presentation Romford worship was The Light Of The World and a seeker showed the breadth of work at WITHIN a short time of arriving on Saturday after- knelt at the mercy seat at the conclusion of the The Haven Community Centre noon, the 40 members of the West Midlands Youth meeting. Stuart Farmer led evening worship, which (Portsmouth Citadel) and Candi- Band were entertaining and witnessing to hundreds included the pieces ‘Dance Like David’ and dates Alison and Mike Hutchings of passers-by in the shopping centre. ‘Amazing Race’. – M. W. (Guildford) shared their calling through an interview. Later in the meeting, Chief Secretary Colonel Brian Peddle spoke on the Prayer of Jabez and challenged people to widen their sphere of mission and ministry. At the conclusion of his message, the Chief Secretary led a time of prayer and reflection during which the mercy seat was used by many seekers. – G. O. Youth choirs present gospel music Skewen NEXUS Youth Choir (West Midlands) and the divisional youth choir, Alive In Him, presented an evening of gospel music at the Memorial Hall. Nexus began by dancing onto the platform and singing ‘Give You The Glory’. After the opening prayer and introductions their leader explained that the choir chose the name Nexus because they are connected to God, each other and The Salvation Army. Other Songsters bring in the crowds songs included ‘My Life In Your Hands’ and ‘Taste And See’. Bedlington In Adverts For God, members of both choirs used drama to high- LEIGHTON Buzzard Songsters visited the corps as part of songster light the importance of the fruit of the Spirit in their lives. weekend celebrations. Lieut-Colonel Rob Garrad (IHQ) accompanied After the interval Alive In Him contributed various songs including the section and brought much blessing with his talks.