Most of church history is written. You study documents,
commentaries, histories written many years before.
Just now and again you get a visual- a picture that tells you something of the subject.
It’s very rare indeed to get an audio contribution. So this is something special- a recording of William booth from over 100 years ago!
Booth was an amazing young man. He said at the age of 15 ‘God shall have all there is of William Booth’.
He became a Methodist rider, resigned and began to work in the hardest places, where poverty and vice were at their worst. He gathered those to help and support him in the work. The Salvation Army was born.
One of his most famous quotes was:
‘While women weep as they do now, I’ll fight. While little children go hungry, I’ll fight. While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight. While there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor girl lost on the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God- I’ll fight. I’ll fight to the very end.’
And then we have this. An audio recording, discovered comparatively recently. Listen to this man from another age and allow his words to stir you to fight!
Just now and again you get a visual- a picture that tells you something of the subject.
It’s very rare indeed to get an audio contribution. So this is something special- a recording of William booth from over 100 years ago!
Booth was an amazing young man. He said at the age of 15 ‘God shall have all there is of William Booth’.
He became a Methodist rider, resigned and began to work in the hardest places, where poverty and vice were at their worst. He gathered those to help and support him in the work. The Salvation Army was born.
One of his most famous quotes was:
‘While women weep as they do now, I’ll fight. While little children go hungry, I’ll fight. While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight. While there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor girl lost on the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God- I’ll fight. I’ll fight to the very end.’
And then we have this. An audio recording, discovered comparatively recently. Listen to this man from another age and allow his words to stir you to fight!
‘You don’t demand a certificate of virtue before you drag
some drowning creature out of the water.’
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