The GOSPEL TRUTH
 
LIFE of

WILLIAM BOOTH

FOUNDER and FIRST GENERAL

of the SALVATION ARMY

 by

Harold Begbie

1920

In Two Volumes

Volume 1

INDEX

Chapter 1: THE TIMES INTO WHICH OUR HERO WAS BORN

Chapter 2: HIS PARENTAGE, A TALE OF THE HOUSE IN WHICH HE WAS BORN, AND THE CHARACTER OF HIS ENVIRONMENTS

Chapter 3: WHICH TELLS OF A DIFFICULT ROAD LEADING UP TO A YOUTHFUL CONVERSION

Chapter 4: BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW LIFE AND THE FIRST SERMON EVER PREACHED BY WILLIAM BOOTH

Chapter 5: WHAT HE BELIEVED AT THIS TIME

Chapter 6: OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY COUPLED WITH THE DETERMINATION TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS

Chapter 7: LONDON; THE EARLY VICTORIANS

Chapter 8: THE CALL TO PREACH

Chapter 9: A CRISIS IN METHODISM

Chapter 10: TELLS HOW WILLIAM BOOTH BECAME A PASTOR, AND INTRODUCES THE READER TO CATHERINE MUMFORD

Chapter 11: THE BEGINNINGS OF A LOVE STORY

Chapter 12: PURITAN LOVE-LETTERS

Chapter 13: WILLIAM BOOTH AS A SUCCESSFUL EVANGELIST

Chapter 14: WILLIAM BOOTH TO CATHERINE MUMFORD

Chapter 15: THE EVANGELIST TROUBLED ABOUT MANY THlNGS

Chapter 16: MARRIAGE, HONEYMOON, AND THE THEOLOGY OF REVIVALISM

Chapter 17: THE HAPPINESS OF A YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE

Chapter 18: WHICH TELLS OF A THORN IN THE FLESH, SECTARIAN DIFFERENCES, AND A BREAK WITH METHODISM

Chapter 19: WILDERNESS

Chapter 20: THE MOVE TO LONDON

Chapter 21: A LADY LODGER'S ACCOUNT OF THE BOOTHS' HOME LIFE

Chapter 22: THE FIRST LONDON MISSION

Chapter 23: A SUMMING UP IN MIDDLE AGE

Chapter 24: FROM THE CHRISTIAN MISSION TOWARDS THE SALVATION ARMY

Chapter 25: WHICH GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF THE HAPPINESS AND EXCITEMENT OF THE MISSION AND DESCRIPTIONS OF "HOLINESS MEETINGS"

Chapter 26: LETTERS OF THE PERIOD IN VARIOUS MOODS

Chapter 27: THE REV. WILLIAM BOOTH BECOMES GENERAL OF THE SALVATION ARMY

Chapter 28: THE QUESTION OF HOLY COMMUNION

Chapter 29: HOSTILITY, SUSPICION, AND OPPOSITION

 

 

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