CHAPTER II.
WHAT IS GENERAL BOOTH'S SCHEME ?
His object is to supply the destitute with, food, shelter and clothing, to provide them with work and to set them on their feet for making a fresh start in life.
With a view to this he proposes to call into existence, a threefold organisation, consisting of self-helping and self-sustaining communities, governed and disciplined on the principles of the Salvation Army. These he calls " Colonies/3 and divides into
(1) The City Colony,
(2) The Country Colony, and
(3) The Oversea Colony.
All these are to be linked together and to be interwoven With and dependent on each other. In the City Colony a series of agencies will be established for gathering up and sifting the destitute. Thence they will be passed on to the Country Colony and subsequently many of them will be sent to Colonies across the sea.
How this triple organisation can be brought into existence, on the largest possible scale in India under circumstances peculiarly favorable to the success of the scheme.
Our country is not of limited extent like England. It covers an immense area and Includes a conglomeration of nationalities, such as we find in Europe^ with the special advantage of being united under a single, and that a friendly (government.