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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 29, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 13.

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Salvation Army Missionary Dress

"Major" Tucker, of the Salvation Army, and a fellow soldier in India, have adopted the fakir dress, for the purpose of gaining the attention of the natives. The Hindoos have a superstitious reverence for the fakirs, the ascetic and penniless "saints" who traverse the country; and it is thought that by means of this dress a class may be reached which is almost beyond the ordinary missionary effort.