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The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation headquartered in London, England. It is aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.7 million, [3] consisting of soldiers, officers, and adherents who are collectively known as ...
Hattersley, Roy (1999), Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army, Little Brown, ISBN 0-316-85161-2; Railton, George Scott (1912), The Authoritative Life of General William Booth, George H. Doran; Sandall, Robert (1947), The History of the Salvation Army Vol.1 1865–78, Thomas Nelson
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]
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 ...
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.
The Salvation Army U.S.A. Western Territory; Salvation Army Act 1931; Salvation Army Act 1963; Salvation Army Act 1980; Salvation Army Boys Adventure Corps; Salvation Army corps; Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers; Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network; Salvation Army Vision Network; The Salvation Army, Canada; Chief of the Staff of ...
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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 ...