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Excerpt from The Salvage of Men: Stories of Humanity, Touched by Divinity In widely-differing histories of men and women who through this medium have ex perienced the miraculous effect of the Divine Touch, its Social and Industrial, Field and Re lief, Women's Rescue and Children's Orphanage, Prison and Open-air branches are disclosed a composite picture which goes to show that all the Army's means point to one end - the re demption of the soul, which whether it is car ried under broadcloth or homespun or a ragged apology for raiment these people persist in thinking equally valuable and worth saving. Upon this stage of real life, the more or less tragic experiences of the drunkard, the parasite, the criminal, the prostitute, the neglected child, the professional gambler, the wife-deserter, the would-be suicide, the betrayed, the prize-fighter and the college-bred are enacted in characteris tic habiliments, until exchanged for the gar ments Of righteousness. As is inevitable with any work dealing with the peoples of this Union, a cosmopolitan strain runs through the narratives, some of these liv ing epistles being drawn from the Scandina vian, Hebrew and Latin populations, as well as from proud descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.