The Authoritative Life of General William Booth, Founder of the Salvation Army
The life of William Booth published in the year of his death, written by his first commissioner with a preface by Bramwell Booth, his son and successor as General. It quotes Booth’s own accounts of his early ministry and of the beginning of the work in East London.
Railton calls himself on the title page the first commissioner to General Booth, and says that he knew the Booths closely in the years when the Army was being formed. The book quotes William Booth’s own recollections and diaries at length and ends with a table of dates.
It is an official and admiring life, published within months of Booth’s death. It is cited here for Booth’s own words, for dates and for what a senior officer of the Army recorded about its early organisation. One slip should be noted: the table of dates at the end prints 1827 for the births of both Booths, where the first chapter and the captions to the portraits give 1829.
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- July 1865, firm date