THEY'RE TEACHING RELIGION
BY CORRESPONDENCE NOW.
Salvation Army Has Adopted New
Plan of Education in Ranks -- One
Hundred Students Already.
"Salvation by correspondence" is being extended to more than 200 young men and women in the Southwestern province of the Salvation Army by the department of young peoples' work, recently reorganized and put in charge of Staff Captain William Kiddle and his wife, who is of the same rank. They have just organized their school by preparing the lessons which are sent out for the students all over the province to master. The active school work will begin soon. Twenty-five of the pupils enrolled are in the district of Nebraska and Dakota, and seventy-five are in Oklahoma. The others are in the Kansas division.
The courses offered extend over six months each and ten of them must be completed before a certificate will be awarded and the pupil allowed to enter a higher school for the training of officers. The supervision of the lessons is entrusted to the officers of the corps to which the cadet is attached.
Besides the work for the training of religious teachers, schools will be established for the teaching of trades and manual training to the Army training. They will meet once a week in the afternoon. Meetings have been held by the local band in the citadel hall, at Thirteenth and Walnut streets.
