The Salvation Army: The Christian Salvation Army

The Salvation Army was started when William booth who lived in London at the

time as a minister left his life and came to America to take his message to the streets to

the poor and homeless about the gospel. And these people also thought as as unwashed

started to come to there church. This made the wealthier feel uncomfortable. Then booth

came up with the idea for them to have their own church. To help with of his son

Bramwell and a good friend of his they started an annual report, which is called “THE

CHRISTIAN MISSION is A VOLUNTEER ARMY”. His son really felt strongly against

this wording so booth decided to change the word volunteer to the word salvation. Now

the sign read, “THE CHRISTIAN MISSION is a salvation ARMY.”