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A book detailing over 500 films in which the Salvation Army appears or is mentioned was published in 2020 entitled The Salvation Army at the Movies. [189] The Salvation Army began producing silent films when they started their own film studio called The Limelight Department in 1892, [190] which was the first in Australia. The original studio ...
The Christian Mission becomes The Salvation Army (May 1878). Salvation Army Social Campaign (1890) by William Booth. Having been founded as the East London Christian Mission in 1865, the name The Salvation Army developed from an incident in May 1878.
Salvation Army founded in London by William Booth. Van Dyck Bible (in Arabic) completed. 1865 – Ernst Faber arrives in China. [280] 1865. Henry Venn (1796-1873) of the Church Missionary Society called for "three-self" native churches: self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating. [281]
Unusually for the Victorian era, all of William and Catherine Booth's children survived into adulthood. [1] Marie, however, had an accident at an early age that caused her to have convulsions thus limiting her mobility; [ 2 ] therefore, she was the only one of the Booth's children who did not regularly serve in the Salvation Army.
Many of the corps outside of New York were unaware of the controversy and continued to be loyal to Booth and the international Salvation Army. Moore's army was "The Salvation Army of America" and Moore styled himself as "General". [10] The International Salvation Army then sued in U.S. courts resulting in Moore's Army being renamed to American ...
When in 1896 an American break-away group led by her brother Ballington Booth and his wife Maud Ballington Booth attempted to tempt American Salvationists away from The Salvation Army and into a rival group called Volunteers of America, General Booth sent Evangeline to New York. When she arrived the doors to Army headquarters on 14th Street had ...
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The first awards were made in 1920 to 15 officers and one soldier. Three years later, seven officers and one local officer were honoured, but since then the awards have been made much more sparingly and, to date, 104 officers and 106 lay Salvationists have been recognised with the Army's highest honour, a mere 210 in total over 83 years.