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...there anything salvageable in such wreckage? William Booth had told his followers: "We are moral scavengers netting the very sewers." A grey, wiry little man in the army's uniform stood up to preach. Twenty years before, he told his audience, he had crawled out of the gutter into just such a meeting, figuring that he had tried everything else, and might as well...
...cold, hard soil for evangelism. In 1880, General Booth's devoted and indefatigable disciple, George Scott Railton,* had landed in Manhattan at the head of seven female soldiers. He moved into Harry Hill's Gentleman's Sporting Theater, Billiard Parlor & Shooting Gallery and started to preach. But America, like England, received the hosts of William Booth with hostility...
...Midwest hooted at Mary and Joseph Pugmire and threw them into jail. It was against the law to preach in the streets. Between jail terms, on March 4, 1888, Mary Pugmire bore her first child. In the next 14 years, between Hallelujah-singing and evangelizing in the U.S., Canada and England, she bore six more. Her first child was son Ernest...
...longtime general secretary of China's Y.M.C.A., made it clear that Christians could not hope to put off decisions until things blow over. "The present regime has come to stay in China," he warned. "All Christians must . . . meet the challenge for a more vital faith. And we must preach the complete gospel...
...Right Direction. Meanwhile, as the Japanese government became increasingly lenient toward Christianity, Dr. Hepburn was able to preach the Gospel openly. When he returned at last to the U.S. in 1892 to spend the remaining 19 years of his life, the Japanese showered Kunshi with honors, as they did again last week in newspaper articles and at the unveiling of Yokohama's monument. Said Monument Committee Chairman Kumakichi Nakajima: "Lately we Japanese have made a great mistake in the direction of progress. We sincerely desire that this monument, although very small, may be a milestone for modern Japan...