SALVATION ARMY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2396, 11 January 1909, Page 4

SALVATION ARMY.

FAREWELL SERVICES

The various services, all day yesterday, hold by the Salvation Army, were conducted by Adjutant Dickens and Captain Jenkins, assisted by a willing band of helpers. As it was the last Sunday on which Adjutant .and Mrs. Dickens will be in charge of the local corps, the services took the character of farewells, and many appreciative references were made to the work of the departing officers. In the evening there was a large audience in the Citadel, land a most impressive service was held. Short addresses were given by Sergt.-Majors Jackson and Sawyer, and both speakers paid a high tribute to the work of Adjutant and Mrs. Dickens in Gisborne, and expressed their regret iat the departure of officers who had so endeared themselves to the hearts of all. Mrs. Dickens spoke a few wordsof farewell, and stated her regret at leaving so many kind friends as she was going to do in Gisborne. However, it was, she said, the Lord’s call, and they must obey it. (She urged all those who had not already done so to make it a farewell service of the real kind, and to say good-bye to their sin and wrong doing, and if they did not meet on earth agiin they surely would on that great day when thev stood before the Great White Throne'. Adjutant-Dickens also spoke briefly. He reviewed bis sojourn in Gisborne, and said that from the bottom of his heart he was sorry to say “good-bye.” He asked that the sympathy and help that had been so universally given to him should be extended to his successors, and said that after all they were only parting to meet again at the right hand of God, “where the wicked cease from troubling, (and the weary are at rest.” He would like to ex-’ press his heartfelt thanks to the soldiers and comrades who had given him such cordial support, and his prayer was that God’s blessing should rest upon them, that they should bo enabled to go on and on doing good for the Master, until _ at- last they should all clasp hands in the Gloryland, that land of eternal morning. The singing of an appropriate hymn and the pronouncing of the benediction brought the meeting to ri close. Adjutant and Mrs. Dickens leave for Wellington on Wednesday evening. en route for their new home at Richmond, in Victoria. Captain .Jenkins, who has been transferred to Taumaranui, to start the work of the Army there, remains in charge of tlie local corps until the arrival of the new officers.

TRANSFERS AND APPOINTMENTS.

WHOLESALE CHANGES

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WELLINGTON, January 9. The following appointments and transfers of Salvation Army officers were confirmed yesterday: Captain E. Smith transferred from Apiti to Ashurst; .Captain Shearer ard Lieutenant Trenbarth from Ashurst to Waipawa: Captain Johnson from Rotorua to Paliiatua: Lieutenant luce, from Carterton to Paliiatua; Adjutant Dawkins, from Feilding to New Plymouth; Adjutant Dickens, from Gisborne to Richmond (\ ictoria); Adjutant- Melksbam. from Hastings to Gisborne; Captain Doran and Lieutenant Calcott. front Hawersr-w. to Parnell; Captain Giles, froni Hamilton to Fielding, pro tern.;Adjutant Marshall, from Levin to Hastings; Captain- Pickering and Leutenant Hansford, from Opotiki to Okahune (opening); Lieutenant Copern, from Otahuliu to assist at Dannevirke; Lieutenant Bannan, from Otahuliu to assist at Taihape: Adjutants Felthen and Lamberton, from Napier to Wanganui; Lieutenant Larson, from Napier to Newton; Captain Avenell, irom New Plymouth to Parnell; Captain Mathieson and Lieutenant Touug, from Taihape to Paeroa ;Captain pson. from Thames to Petone; Captain Clarke, from Woodville to Hamilton ;Adjutant MacAuley, from W an<ranui to Beaeonsfield (Tasmania); Ensign Gardner. from Wellington South to Newtown: Captain Trentworth. from South Wellington to Rotorua; Captain Tatton, from W aipawa to' Otahuliu : Lieutenant- Jarman, from Norsewood to Levin (assistant); Captain -Rose, from Inglewood to Opotiki- Ensign Wellington, from Now South Whiles to South Wellington; Captain Botlieras. from Australia to Woodville: Captain Jenkins, from Gisborne to Taumaranui (opening); Captain Cliarteris to Hawera (first appointment); Adjutant Thurkettie, from Dannevirke to Dunedin; Adjutant Haywood, from Invercargill to Dannevirke jLieutenauts Entmoro and Rowe, from Otaki to Rahotu; Adjutant Styles, from Parnell to Captain Copp, from Paliiatua to xaihape jLieutenant Shearman, from Pahiatua to Taumaranui; Captain H. Adams, from Palmertson North _ to Patea; Captain Pike from and Lieutenant Lewis, from Paeroa to Carterton; Captain Gibbs, from Petone to Levin; Lieutenant Matters, from Paliiatua to Ashurst; Captain Johnstone,, from Rotorua to Apiti; Adjutant Powick, from Newtown to I< eliding ; Adjutant E. Woodford., to Apiti.