Warnings of a Coming Age
The chief danger of the twentieth century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and Heaven without Hell. -William Booth
A Passion for Souls
We want men who are set on soul-saving; who are not ashamed to let everyone know that this is the one aim and object of their life, and that they make everything secondary to this. -Catherine Booth
A Time of Turmoil
In the mid-1800s, England was in the first decades of the Industrial Revolution, a time etched into our minds by authors such as Charles Dickens, in his stories Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, among others. The power of industrial efficiency had driven many middle-class craftsmen into the streets as paupers. Factory conditions were often untenable, child labour was rampant, and England might have been well on her way to a civil war between the classes – reminiscent of the French Revolution – had it not been for the sweep of revival and social reform initiated by William and Catherine Booth.
A Movement is Born
In a matter of a few decades, the movement they began went from transforming England with renewed hope to encircling the globe with new missions. The Salvation Army undertook to seek out each nation’s distressed, indebted, and discontented, and to bring them the transforming grace of Jesus Christ. It became a movement – an army of “Salvationists” – determined to set captives free through the blood of the Lamb and the fire of the Holy Spirit. TO BE CONTINUED…
Tale Tuesday 077
Date: 5th March, 2024
Title: : William & Catherine Booth “Through Blood and Fire” (Part 1)
Source: God’s generals- The Revivalists
Author: Roberts Liardon
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