The Blood-and-Fire Mission of the Salvation Army - Christianity Today Magazine

Before the mid 1880s, Booth tended to see social services as a diversion from revivalism. Early Salvationists had begun various charitable enterprises, but it was only in the decade leading up to the writing of his widely acclaimed book In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890) that Booth changed his mind and integrated the social and spiritual emphases. In Issue 26, Murdoch tells how the firebrand evangelist was inspired by Salvationist workers on the urban "front lines" to begin working for the social salvation and physical well-being of the poorest city dwellers

I found that interesting, cause in the army churches, when we hear about booth He is the fire blood preacher speaking out on behalf of the poor and the lost. So even William Booth went through a time of not seeing the big picutre.

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