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noun

Salvation n.

The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.

(Theol.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness. "To earn salvation for the sons of men." "Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation."

Saving power; that which saves. "Fear ye not; stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you to-day."

Salvation Army, an organization for prosecuting the work of Christian evangelization, especially among the degraded populations of cities. It is virtually a new sect founded in London in 1861 by William Booth. The evangelists, male and female, have military titles according to rank, that of the chief being "General." They wear a uniform, and in their phraseology and mode of work adopt a quasi military style.

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"Salvation army" Quotes from Famous Books

... and that done her in the Antwerp procession; but both are infinitely removed from the degradation of emotion produced by an orgy of superstition such as that depicted in Ostendorfer's print, which is truly nearer akin to the scenes that occasionally occur in Salvation Army or Methodist revivals, and is even more repugnant to the spirit of the Renascence than to that of the Reformation as Luther and Duerer conceived of it. It is well to remind ourselves, by reading such a passage and ...

— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore

... of the Salvation Army describes a vessel making its way home from the Australian gold fields. The miners had struggled to get rich and at last every man had around about him his belt of gold. The ship lost her way in the ocean and, set out of her course, suddenly crashed upon the rocks of an island near by. ...

— And Judas Iscariot - Together with other evangelistic addresses • J. Wilbur Chapman

... channels were closed for any but the exceptional man. But that wasn't it! Why was he arguing with himself along these lines? What was getting into him? He felt as if some good and powerful influence was come into his life! He had felt like this in Denver when a Salvation Army lassie had approached him. But this wasn't Denver! Nor was there a woman! What was it, anyway? ...

— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton

... coldly and without any enthusiasm. It was not considered quite good form to be enthusiastic; it was apt to lead you into rather uncertain company with such people as Socialists and the Salvation Army. ...

— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole

... exceptions of the Society of Friends and the Salvation Army, every existing "denomination" of Christians has continued in one form or another the observance of this Mystical Meal. In the Roman Church, and in many parishes of the Church of England, it is celebrated daily; and it is evident from the provisions of her Prayer-book that the Church of England ...

— Religious Reality • A.E.J. Rawlinson

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