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Poverty and Chistianity
26 April 2012
William Booth (1829-1912) is the founder of the Salvation Army. He worked as a Methodist lay-preacher in the poverty strikken East End of Londen in the mid-1800's before he founded the Salvation Army in 1865.
In this book he explains his views on how a Christian should live and act. Booth believed that people should be helped and not judged. The Salvation Army is still very active in the distribution of humanitarian aid in many countries of the world. In this memoir-like book Booth also writes a lot about the poverty and destitution he saw in the slums of London. He includes some of the stories of people he met to help him explain his points of view on poverty and humanitarian help. He is not only touched by the difficulties of the poor, he also believes that to save the soul of a man you need to seek the salvation of the body ("...I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for
the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body." [Copied from Chapter 5]).
The first edition of this book was printed in 1890.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in William Booth and the Salvation Army, or in social history of the UK in the 19th century.
To give you an idea of the book I will copy two subsections of Chapter 3:
[...]
Some seven years ago a great outcry was made concerning the Housing of
the Poor. Much was said, and rightly said--it could not be said too
strongly--concerning the disease-breeding, manhood-destroying
character of many of the tenements in which the poor herd in our large
cities. But there is a depth below that of the dweller in the slums.
It is that of the dweller in the street, who has not even a lair in the
slums which he can call his own. The houseless Out-of-Work is in one
respect at least like Him of whom it was said, "Foxes have holes, and
birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay
His head."
[...]
(About one of the homeless people Booth met on the street he notes:)
No. 8. Slept here four nights running. Is a builder's labourer by
trade, that is, a handy-man. Had a settled job for a few weeks which
expired three weeks since. Has earned nothing for nine days. Then
helped wash down a shop front and got 2s. 6d. for it. Does anything
he can get. Is 46 years old. Earns about 2d. or 3d. a day at horse
minding. A cup of tea and a bit of bread yesterday, and same to-day,
is all he has had.
In this book he explains his views on how a Christian should live and act. Booth believed that people should be helped and not judged. The Salvation Army is still very active in the distribution of humanitarian aid in many countries of the world. In this memoir-like book Booth also writes a lot about the poverty and destitution he saw in the slums of London. He includes some of the stories of people he met to help him explain his points of view on poverty and humanitarian help. He is not only touched by the difficulties of the poor, he also believes that to save the soul of a man you need to seek the salvation of the body ("...I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for
the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body." [Copied from Chapter 5]).
The first edition of this book was printed in 1890.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in William Booth and the Salvation Army, or in social history of the UK in the 19th century.
To give you an idea of the book I will copy two subsections of Chapter 3:
[...]
Some seven years ago a great outcry was made concerning the Housing of
the Poor. Much was said, and rightly said--it could not be said too
strongly--concerning the disease-breeding, manhood-destroying
character of many of the tenements in which the poor herd in our large
cities. But there is a depth below that of the dweller in the slums.
It is that of the dweller in the street, who has not even a lair in the
slums which he can call his own. The houseless Out-of-Work is in one
respect at least like Him of whom it was said, "Foxes have holes, and
birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay
His head."
[...]
(About one of the homeless people Booth met on the street he notes:)
No. 8. Slept here four nights running. Is a builder's labourer by
trade, that is, a handy-man. Had a settled job for a few weeks which
expired three weeks since. Has earned nothing for nine days. Then
helped wash down a shop front and got 2s. 6d. for it. Does anything
he can get. Is 46 years old. Earns about 2d. or 3d. a day at horse
minding. A cup of tea and a bit of bread yesterday, and same to-day,
is all he has had.
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