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William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). The Christian movement with a quasi-military structure and government founded in 1865 has spread from London to many parts of the world.
The Methodist Reform Church was a Christian denomination that was formed in 1849 in England by a breakaway from the Wesleyan ... William and Catherine Booth, ...
Growth was strong in the middle 19th century. Membership declined after 1900 because of growing secularism in society, a resurgence of Anglicanism among the working classes, competition from other Nonconformist denominations (including former Methodist minister William Booth's Salvation Army), and competition among different Methodist branches ...
The Salvation Army founders, Catherine Booth and William Booth. The Salvation Army was founded in London's East End in 1865 by one-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine Booth as the East London Christian Mission, [1]: 21 and this name was used until 1878.
At the home of Edward Rabbits, in 1851, she met William Booth, who also had been expelled by the Wesleyans for reform sympathies. William was reciting a temperance poem, "The Grog-seller’s Dream", which appealed to Catherine, who had embraced the new Methodist passion for abstinence. [3] They soon fell in love and became engaged.
The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant [8] denomination based in the United States, ... Salvation Army founder William Booth, ...
Broad Street Wesleyan Chapel was a former Methodist chapel in Nottingham from 1839 to 1954. ... The church was built in 1839 by the architect S. S ... William Booth ...
The Methodist New Connexion, also known as Kilhamite Methodism, was a Protestant nonconformist church. It was formed in 1797 by secession from the Wesleyan Methodists, and merged in 1907 with the Bible Christian Church and the United Methodist Free Churches to form the United Methodist Church . [ 1 ]