They held nightly open-air addresses, after which they invited people to meetings in cottages. Finney.īooth and a group of friends set out to evangelize the poor. The rush of souls to hear the gospel led Booth to see that "soul-saving results may be calculated upon when proper means are used for their accomplishment." Booth went on to make a lifelong commitment to the scientific revivalism methods of Charles G.
Then came another life-changing experience: he heard an American revivalist who led "a remarkable religious awakening" at Nottingham's Wesleyan Chapel. He wrote in his diary, "God shall have all there is of William Booth." Sometime during his fifteenth year, William was invited by a Wesleyan couple to attend chapel, where he was converted. By that time, William was helping to earn the family income as a pawnbroker's apprentice. His father, "a Grab, a Get," by William's definition, died when William was just 14. His parents were not religious and at best laboring class, with little education. Pawnbroker's apprenticeīooth was born in relative poverty, in Sneinton, a suburb of Nottingham, England.
It was a remarkable end for a man born into poverty and who worked in the midst of poverty his whole life.īut William Booth was a remarkable man, who was given the title "The Prophet of the Poor." He is best known today as founder and first general of the Salvation Army. "I seemed to hear a voice sounding in my ears, 'Where can you go and find such heathen as these, and where is there so great a need for your labors?'"Īfter he died, 150,000 people filed by the casket, and 40,000, including Queen Mary, attended his funeral.
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