The GOSPEL TRUTH

LIFE of

WILLIAM BOOTH

FOUNDER and FIRST GENERAL

of the SALVATION ARMY

 by

Harold Begbie

1920

In Two Volumes

Volume 2

INDEX

Chapter 1: A CRITICAL YEAR

Chapter 2: A VAGUE BUT EPISCOPAL CHARGE OF IMMORALITY

Chapter 3: NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

Chapter 4: THE PURITY CRUSADE

Chapter 5: FAMILY LIFE IN THE 'EIGHTIES

Chapter 6: IN THE CHARACTER OF PILGRIM FATHER

Chapter 7: THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ADVENTURE

Chapter 8: "IN DARKEST ENGLAND AND THE WAY OUT"

Chapter 9: THE DEATH-BED OF CATHERINE BOOTH

Chapter 10: THE CONFLICTING RECEPTION GIVEN TO THE DARKEST ENGLAND SCHEME

Chapter 11: TROUBLES OF AN OVERWORKED AND SUFFERING AUTOCRAT

Chapter 12: AT THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW PHASE

Chapter 13: POPULARITY OF THE GENERAL, AND THE SPIRIT OF THE ARMY

Chapter 14: SOCIAL REFORMS AND FAMILY DIFFERENCES

Chapter 15: GOING BACK TO FIRST CAUSES

Chapter 16: THE LION IS INTERVIEWED BY THE LAMB

Chapter 17: WHICH TELLS OF DISPATCHES, A STORM AT SEA, HOW WILLIAM BOOTH WAS BOARDED IN A BEDROOM AND BORED AT A TEA-MEETING, AND OF AN INTERVIEW WITH W. E. GLADSTONE

Chapter 18: THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT AGAINST OLD AGE

Chapter 19: ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE PICTURESQUE PERIOD

Chapter 20: IN WHICH PERSONAL SORROWS CLASH WITH PUBLIC ESTEEM

Chapter 21: THE DAWN OF A SECRET HOPE AND THE END OF A GREAT CAMPAIGN

Chapter 22: APPROACHING OLD AGE IN A SUBURBAN VILLA

Chapter 23: WHICH TELLS HOW THE GENERAL LOST HIS "LEFT HAND"

Chapter 24: WHICH NARRATES, AMONG OTHER MATTERS, HOW WILLIAM BOOTH WASHED HIS HANDS IN A WORKMAN'S PAIL BEFORE VISITING KING EDWARD THE SEVENTH

Chapter 25: THE OLD CAMPAIGNER VISITS THE HOLY LAND--RECEIVES THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF LONDON--IS HONOURED IN HIS NATIVE TOWN--AND SWEARS BY THE SPADE

Chapter 26: IN WHICH THE MODERN MOSES, IN THE CHARACTER OF EMPIRE-BUILDER, DREAMS OF A PROMISED LAND

Chapter 27: FROM INTERVIEWS WITH ROYALTIES WILLIAM BOOTH PASSES TO THE BANZAI OF JAPAN ENTERS THE FIRST SHADOWS OF BLINDNESS, AND RECEIVES THE OXON. D.C.L. (OXON.) DEGREE

Chapter 28: THE GENERAL DOES A LITTLE LOBBYING, FALLS AMONG POLITICIANS, SHAKES HANDS WITH A BISHOP AND A POLICE-INSPECTOR, AND UNDER GOES HIS FIRST OPERATION

Chapter 29: AFFORDING FURTHER EVIDENCE OF ROYAL FAVOUR AND CONCLUDING WITH ANOTHER STAGE ON THE ROAD TO BLINDNESS

Chapter 30: WHEREIN THE GENERAL WEEPS OVER THE SUFFERINGS OF CHILDREN, TELLS MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL HE IS NOT CONVERTED, THANKS GOD FOR A YEAR OF UNINTERRUPTED MERCY, AND MAKES PLANS TO HELP PRISONERS

Chapter 31: THE DARKNESS DEEPENS

Chapter 32: HE DESIRES TO GO HOME

Chapter 33: CONCLUSION

 

 

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