Friday, February 25, 2011

William Booth: "In Darkest England"

Rob Edwards

William Booth: “In Darkest England” (page 205)

  • Founder of the Salvation Army

  • He became a Methodist minster after a strong religious awakening during his teenage years

  • In his book “In Darkest England and the Way Out,” he describes the misery of the poor and outlined his method of achieving spiritual salvation through social service

  • England is filled with vice and poverty and crime

  • He relates the poverty of England to the dark forests of Africa

  • Many young women are often force to sell their bodies, because they face starvation if they don't

  • England also wreaks with Malaria

  • “The population is sodden with drink, steeped in vice, and eaten up by every social and physical malady”



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