Catherine Mumford Booth

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Catherine Mumford Booth


Born
in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, The United Kingdom
January 17, 1829

Died
October 04, 1890

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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
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“If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.”
Catherine Booth

“Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.”
Catherine Booth

“It seemed clear to me from the teaching of the Bible that Christ’s people should be separate from the world in everything which denoted character and that they should not only be separate but appear so.”
Catherine Booth

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