Voices and influences
William Booth
The pawnbroker's apprentice who took the gospel to the gutter and built an army out of the people no church wanted.
Summary
This site quotes William Booth 2 times across 2 books, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1829 to 1912, English.
- Quoted here most in Matthew: 1 of 2.
William Booth
- Lived
- 1829 to 1912
- Nation
- English
- Tradition
- Methodist
2 of 2 quotations
Own words
Quoted in full, because William Booth died in 1912 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.
“These are the two points of the Cab Horse's Charter. When he is down he is helped up, and while he lives he has food, shelter and work.”
Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, BSB
“My only hope for the permanent deliverance of mankind from misery, either in this world or the next, is the regeneration or remaking of the individual by the power of the Holy Ghost through Jesus Christ.”
In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890), the preface, 1890
The rest of the quotation
But in providing for the relief of temporal misery I reckon that I am only making it easy where it is now difficult, and possible where it is now all but impossible, for men and women to find their way to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Titus 3:5 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes William Booth 2 times across 2 books.
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The life, in order
The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
William Booth was a Nottingham pawnbroker's apprentice who never forgot what poverty smelled like. When the churches would not seat the converts he won in London's East End — they came in rags and sat next to the people they had robbed — he stopped sending them to churches and built his own movement, renamed in 1878 The Salvation Army, with brass bands, uniforms, and his wife Catherine preaching as his equal. His people were pelted, jailed, and mocked; they kept marching. His book In Darkest England laid out farms, refuges, and job schemes for the 'submerged tenth,' and the Army's soup kitchens and shelters made the point plain: you cannot preach to a man with an empty stomach. At his death forty thousand filled Olympia hall, and London stopped for the funeral of a pawnbroker's boy.
2 quotations across 2 books