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| - | First Contact with the Army, in Stafford, so stirred the heart and captured the imagination of Joseph Riley that it was not long before he felt that such work demanded not only his identification with the Salvationists as a soldier but fulltime service as an officer. This was no light matter, for he was one of four brothers who were all connected with the public-house business. However, in 1882 he left home to be trained as a Salvation Army officer. | + | First Contact with the Army, in Stafford, so stirred the heart and captured the imagination of Joseph Riley that it was not long before he felt that such work demanded not only his identification with the Salvationists as a soldier but fulltime service as an officer. This was no light matter, for he was one of four brothers who were all connected with the public-house business. However, in 1882 [sic. Most likely 1892] he left home to be trained as a Salvation Army officer. |
| For thirty-six years he faithfully strove to influence men and women for God, visiting them in their homes and delivering burning messages throughout the British Territory, until his retirement in 1928. | For thirty-six years he faithfully strove to influence men and women for God, visiting them in their homes and delivering burning messages throughout the British Territory, until his retirement in 1928. | ||
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