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A practical ministry

In her book, Booth’s Drum, The Salvation Army in Australia 1880-1980, Barbara Bolton writes that it was the practicality of The Salvation Army that attracted some of the new soldiers: James Harold and James Sparrow were bullockys struggling to free their wagon bogged to the axles just out of Bourke when an Army captain passed that way. Captain Alex Millar was a big, brawny man who promptly took off his coat to help them. As soon as the men arrived in Bourke they found the Army hall and decided to follow Captain Alex Millar’s God. James Harold became the Corps Secretary at Bourke and James Sparrow the Corps Sergeant-Major at lonely Charleville in Queensland.

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