'The Army used to hold open air meetings, press into the Devil's strongholds ... Now, everybody is better off, everybody is respectable.' Commissioner Catherine Bramwell-Booth, 94-year-old grand-daughter of the founder of the Salvation Army. This month, the Army has been electing its 11th General. Peter France reports on the work of the Army today and asks how an organisation founded to deal with the spiritual and social crises of late Victorian England is succeeding in finding a role for the 1970s.