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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 ...
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.
A "circle corps" was a corps which was based in a number of villages, and the officer in charge being responsible for a number of centres which ranged from back kitchens and outhouses, to barns and to actual Salvation Army buildings. A "Battery" was a horse-drawn cart staffed by two single officers, who were in effect mobile evangelists of ...
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 ...
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 Salvation Army: Style: General: Type: Chief executive officer: Residence: London, United Kingdom: Appointer: High Council, but must be under 68 years old: Term length: Five years, extendable up to a maximum of seven years: Constituting instrument: The Salvation Army Act 1931 and Salvation Army Act 1980 via the Parliament of the United ...