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Good: Tidy condition, minor marks on the bottom edge of the dust cover and book.
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Fight the Good Fight The Story of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, 1883-1983
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REAR BOOK: On 27 March, 1883 the SS Manapouri berthed at Bowen’s Pier, Port Chalmers. On board was a small contingent of Salvationists dispatched to New Zealand to “open fire” here. Five days Jater, the first official Salvation Army meeting was held in Dunedin. The assault had begun. Today, the importance of the work done...
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- Published 1982
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REAR BOOK: On 27 March, 1883 the SS Manapouri berthed at Bowen’s Pier, Port Chalmers. On board was a small
contingent of Salvationists dispatched to New Zealand to “open fire” here. Five days Jater, the first
official Salvation Army meeting was held in Dunedin. The assault had begun.
Today, the importance of the work done by the Salvation Army is well-known and widely respected.
Less well-known however, is the dramatic battle the Salvationists of New Zealand fought in last century
in order to establish their movement here.
Its members were set upon by so-called “skeleton armies” formed to’ disrupt their meetings. The Sal-
vation Army was actively opposed by town councillors, and its members were sent to prison by the courts
for holding open-air meetings; creating a furor involving central government. They were labelled
(along with rabbits and gorse) as a disaster of acclimatization and abused by some clergymen for
holding meetings that “promoted immorality”.
Fight the Good Fight is more than a straightforward look at 100 years of Salvation Army work in New
Zealand. In it, Cyril Bradwell holds up a mirror to an extraordinary, little-docurnented side of our history —
of an expedition launched to save souls and to help the deprived, the down-and-outs, the dispossessed. The
movement marches on today offering the same helping hand to the needy and the poor.
Good: Tidy condition, minor marks on the bottom edge of the dust cover and book.
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