Born: Ap­ril 10, 1829, Snein­ton, Not­ting­ham, Eng­land.

Died: Au­gust 20, 1912.

Buried: Ab­ney Park Cem­e­te­ry, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Booth found­ed the Sal­va­tion Army in 1865. His works in­clude:

Booth’s last pub­lic ad­dress, in the Roy­al Al­bert Hall, Lon­don, May 9, 1912, in­clud­ed the fol­low­ing:

While wo­men weep as they do now, I’ll fight; while lit­tle child­ren go hun­gry as they do now, I’ll fight; while men go to pri­son, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight; while there is a drunk­ard left, while there is a poor lost girl on the streets, while there re­mains one dark soul with­out the light of God, I’ll fight—I’ll fight to the ve­ry end.

Sources

Hymns

  1. Boundless Salva­tion
  2. Send the Fire