Voices and influences
Catherine Booth
The Army Mother, who argued women into the pulpit and then walked into it herself.
Summary
This site quotes Catherine Booth 2 times across 2 books, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1829 to 1890, English.
- Quoted here most in Luke: 1 of 2.
Catherine Booth
- Lived
- 1829 to 1890
- Nation
- English
- Tradition
- Salvation Army
2 of 2 quotations
Own words
Quoted in full, because Catherine Booth died in 1890 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
“I will have guests, and if you can't get them in by civil measures, use military measures. Go and compel them to come in. It seems to me that we want more of this determined aggressive spirit.”
Luke 14:23 So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. BSB
“Why should woman be confined exclusively to the kitchen and the distaff, any more than man to the field and workshop?”
Female Ministry, in Papers on Practical Religion, page 134, 1859
Acts 2:17 ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Catherine Booth 2 times across 2 books.
This site’s own count of what it does with the voice
The life, in order
The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
Catherine Mumford read the Bible through eight times before she was twelve and married William Booth at twenty-six. When a minister attacked the American evangelist Phoebe Palmer for preaching, Catherine answered him in print with Female Ministry — a careful argument from Scripture that God had never barred a woman from the pulpit. A year later, sitting in her husband's congregation, she stood up and preached herself, and went on to become the better-known preacher of the two. Her meetings in London's wealthy West End paid for the work in the East End, where the Booths' Christian Mission became the Salvation Army in 1878. She wrote its doctrine, designed the bonnet its women wore, and made women officers equal to men from the start. Near the end of her life she took up the match girls whose jaws were being eaten away by white phosphorus. She died of cancer in 1890; tens of thousands filed past her coffin.
2 quotations across 2 books