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Category: William Booth

  • Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill

    On meeting with Winston Churchill (then, Home Secretary) in 1910 where Booth had outlined the Salvation Army’s strategy for helping those in British prisons: ‘We parted in the most genial manner – Mr Chruchill saying with a smile, “Am I converted?” We had talked much about conversion from our standpoint. “No,” I said, “I am…

  • You are ordained!

    You cannot say you are not ordained. You were ordained when you signed Articles of War, under the blessed Flag. If not, I ordain every man, woman and child here present that has received the new life. I ordain you now. I cannot get at you to lay my hands upon you. I ordain you…

  • Old Fashioned Gospel

    Old Fashioned Gospel

    We believe in the old-fashioned salvation. We have not developed and improved into Universalism, Unitarianism, or Nothingarianism, or any other form of infidelity, and we don’t expect to. Ours is just the same salvation taught in the Bible, proclaimed by prophets and apostles, preached by Luther and Wesley and Whitfield, sealed by the blood of…

  • I want you young men

    I want you young men to bear in mind that it is in the nature of a fire to go out; you must keep it stirres and fed and the ashes removed William BoothClick to Tweet