Salvadoral (salvador a)

[NL. (Linnæus, 1753), named after J. Salvador, a Spanish botanist.] A genus of gamopetalous shrubs or trees, type of the order Salvador aceæ. It is characterized by a bell shaped calyx and corolla, four stamens fixed at the base or middle of the corolla, a one-celled ovary with one ovule, very short style, and broad peltate stigma, the ovary becoming in fruit a globose drupe with papery endocarp and Branch with Flowers of Salva dor a Persica. a, a female flower; b, the fruit. Ps. xxvii. 1. The Lord is my light and my salvation . Their brother's friend, declared by Hans to have been the salvation of him, a fellow like nobody else, and, in fine, a brick. George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, xvi. Salvation Army, an organization formed upon a quasi military pattern, for the revival of religion among the ma es. It was founded in England by the Methodist evangelist William Booth about 1865, under the name of the Christian Mi ion; the present name and organization were adopted about 1878. It has extended to the continent of Europe, to India, Australia, and other British pos salvation se ions, to the United States, South America, and elsewhere. In the United States it has about 600 stations and 27,000 soldiers and adherents. Its work is carried on by means of proce ions, street singing and preaching, and the like, under the direction of officers entitled generals, majors, captains, etc. Both sexes participate in the services and direction of the body on equal terms. Besides its religious work, it engages in various reformatory and philanthropic enterprises. It has no formulated creed, but its doctrines bear a general resemblance to those common to all Protestant evangelical churches, and especially to those of Methodism.