The
Life of General William Booth
Table of Contents ~ Volume 2
Volume 2 - Part I
CHAPTER I ~ 1882
A CRITICAL YEAR
A VAGUE BUT EPISCOPAL CHARGE OF IMMORALITY
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
THE PURITY CRUSADE
FAMILY LIFE IN THE ‘EIGHTIES
IN THE CHARACTER OF PILGRIM FATHER
THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ADVENTURE
Volume 2 - Part II
“IN DARKEST ENGLAND AND THE WAY OUT”
THE DEATH-BED OF CATHERINE BOOTH
THE CONFLICTING RECEPTION GIVEN TO THE DARKEST ENGLAND SCHEME
TROUBLES OF AN OVERWORKED AND SUFFERING AUTOCRAT
AT THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW PHASE
POPULARITY OF THE GENERAL, AND THE SPIRIT OF THE ARMY
SOCIAL REFORMS AND FAMILY DIFFERENCES
GOING BACK TO FIRST CAUSES
THE LION IS INTERVIEWED BY THE LAMB
WHICH TELLS OF DISPATCHES, A STORM AT SEA, HOW WILLIAM BOOTH
WAS BOARDED IN A BEDROOM AND BORED AT A TEA-MEETING,
AND OF AN INTERVIEW WITH W. E. GLADSTONE
THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT AGAINST OLD AGE
ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE PICTURESQUE PERIOD
IN WHICH PERSONAL SORROWS CLASH WITH PUBLIC ESTEEM
THE DAWN OF A SECRET HOPE AND THE END OF A GREAT CAMPAIGN
APPROACHING OLD AGE IN A SUBURBAN VILLA
WHICH TELLS HOW THE GENERAL LOST HIS “LEFT HAND”
WHICH NARRATES, AMONG OTHER MATTERS, HOW WILLIAM BOOTH WASHED
HIS HANDS IN A WORKMAN’S PAIL BEFORE VISITING KING EDWARD
THE SEVENTH
THE OLD CAMPAIGNER VISITS THE HOLY LAND, RECEIVES THE FREEDOM OF
THE CITY OF LONDON, IS HONOURED IN HIS NATIVE TOWN, AND SWEARS
BY THE SPADE
IN WHICH THE MODERN MOSES, IN THE CHARACTER OF EMPIRE-BUILDER,
DREAMS OF A PROMISED LAND
FROM INTERVIEWS WITH ROYALTIES WILLIAM BOOTH PASSES TO THE
BANZAI OF JAPAN, ENTERS THE FIRST SHADOWS OF BLINDNESS, AND
RECEIVES THE HON. D.C.L. (OXON.) DEGREE
THE GENERAL DOES A LITTLE LOBBYING, FALLS AMONG POLITICIANS,
SHAKES HANDS WITH A BISHOP AND A POLICE INSPECTOR, AND
UNDERGOES HIS FIRST OPERATION
AFFORDING FURTHER EVIDENCE OF ROYAL FAVOUR AND CONCLUDING
WITH ANOTHER STAGE ON THE ROAD TO BLINDNESS
WHEREIN THE GENERAL WEEPS OVER THE SUFFERINGS OF CHILDREN, TELLS
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL HE IS NOT CONVERTED, THANKS GOD FOR A YEAR
OF UNINTERRUPTED MERCY, AND MAKES PLANS TO HELP PRISONERS
THE DARKNESS DEEPENS
HE DESIRES TO GO HOME
CONCLUSION