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Catherine Booth Popular Christianity
What an inveterate tendency there is in the human heart to trust in outward forms, instead of seeking the inward grace! And where this is the case, what a hindrance, rather than help, have these forms proved to the growth, nay, to the very existence, of that spiritual life which constitutes the real and only force of Christian experience!It is a calamity deeply to be deplored that men should thus put the form in the place of the power, but they have always been doing so. Catherine Booth
138 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1888
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Catherine Mumford Booth
86 books7 followersCatherine 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.
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.
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