Popular Christianity

by Catherine Mumford Booth

A Series of Lectures Delivered In Princes Hall, Piccadilly
The Christian Witness Co. 151 Washington St. Chicago, Illinois 36 Bromfield St.
Boston, Massachusetts 1904

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First published January 1, 1888

About the author

Catherine Mumford Booth married as wife of William Booth.

Catherine Booth (nee Mumford) is best known as the co-founder alongside her husband of the Salvation Army. She was eloquent and compelling in her speech, as well as articulate and devastatingly logical in her writing.

At first, Catherine and her husband had shared a ministry as traveling evangelists, but then she came into great demand as a preacher in her own right, especially among the affluent. A woman preacher was a rare phenomenon in a world where women had few civil rights, and no place in the professions. For over twenty years she defended the right of women to preach the gospel on the same terms as men. Many agree that no man of her era, including her husband, exceeded her in popularity or spiritual results.

The Booths had eight children. Two of their offspring later became Generals of the Salvation Army.