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;In Darkest England and The Way Out;

by General William Booth



    To the memory of the companion察counsellor察and comrade of 
    nearly 40 years。  The sharer of my every ambition for the 
    welfare of mankind察my loving察faithful察and devoted wife
    this book is dedicated。


PREFACE

The progress of The Salvation Army in its work amongst the poor and  lost of many lands has compelled me to face the problems which an more  or less hopefully considered in the following pages。  The grim  necessities of a huge Campaign carried on for many years against the  evils which lie at the root of all the miseries of modern life察 attacked in a thousand and one forms by a thousand and one lieutenants察 have led me step by step to contemplate as a possible solution of at  least some of those problems the Scheme of social Selection and  Salvation which I have here set forth。

When but a mere child the degradation and helpless misery of the poor  Stockingers of my native town察wandering gaunt and hunger´stricken  through the streets droning out their melancholy ditties察crowding the  Union or toiling like galley slaves on relief works for a bare  subsistence kindled in my heart yearnings to help the poor which have  continued to this day and which have had a powerful influence on my  whole life。  A last I may be going to see my longings to help the  workless realised。  I think I am。

The commiseration then awakened by the misery of this class has been an  impelling force which has never ceased to make itself felt during forty  years of active service in the salvation of men。  During this time I am  thankful that I have been able察by the good hand of God upon me察to do  something in mitigation of the miseries of this class察and to bring not  only heavenly hopes and earthly gladness to the hearts of multitudes of  these wretched crowds察but also many material blessings察including such  commonplace things as food察raiment察home察and work察the parent of so  many other temporal benefits。  And thus many poor creatures have proved  Godliness to be ;profitable unto all things察having the promise of the  life that now is as well as of that which is to come。;

These results have been mainly attained by spiritual means。  I have  boldly asserted that whatever his peculiar character or circumstances  might be察if the prodigal would come home to his Heavenly Father察he  would find enough and to spare in the Father's house to supply all his  need both for this world and the next察and I have known thousands nay察 I can say tens of thousands察who have literally proved this to be true察 having察with little or no temporal assistance察come out of the darkest  depths of destitution察vice and crime察to be happy and honest citizens  and true sons and servants of God。

And yet all the way through my career I have keenly felt the remedial  measures usually enunciated in Christian programmes and ordinarily  employed by Christian philanthropy to be lamentably inadequate for any  effectual dealing with the despairing miseries of these outcast  classes。 The rescued are appallingly fewa ghastly minority compared  with the multitudes who struggle and sink in the open´mouthed abyss。  Alike察therefore察my humanity and my Christianity察if I may speak of  them in any way as separate one from the other察have cried out for some  more comprehensive method of reaching and saving the perishing crowds。

No doubt it is good for men to climb unaided out of the whirlpool on to  the rock of deliverance in the very presence of the temptations which  have hitherto mastered them察and to maintain a footing there with the  same billows  of temptation washing over them。  But察alas with many  this seems to be literally impossible。  That decisiveness of character察 that moral nerve which takes hold of the rope thrown for the rescue and  keeps its hold amidst all the resistances that have to be encountered察 is wanting。  It is gone。   The general wreck has shattered and disorganised the whole man。

Alas察what multitudes there are around us everywhere察many known to my  readers personally察and any number who may be known to them by a very  short walk from their own dwellings察who are in this very plight  Their  vicious habits and destitute circumstances make it certain that without  some kind of extraordinary help察they must hunger and sin察and sin and  hunger察until察having multiplied their kind察and filled up the measure  of their miseries察the gaunt fingers of death will close upon then and  terminate their wretchedness。  And all this will happen this very  winter in the midst of the unparalleled wealth察and civilisation察and  philanthropy of this professedly most Christian land。

Now察I propose to go straight for these sinking classes察and in doing  so shall continue to aim at the heart。  I still prophesy the uttermost  disappointment unless that citadel is reached。  In proposing to add one  more to the methods I have already put into operation to this end察do  not let it be supposed that I am the less dependent upon the old plans  or that I seek anything short of the old conquest。  If we help the man  it is in order that we may change him。 The builder who should elaborate  his design and erect his house and risk his reputation without burning  his bricks would be pronounced a failure and a fool。  Perfection of  architectural beauty察unlimited expenditure of capital察unfailing  watchfulness of his labourers察would avail him nothing if the bricks  were merely unkilned clay。  Let him kindle a fire。  And so here I see  the folly of hoping to accomplish anything abiding察either in the  circumstances or the morals of these hopeless classes察except there be  a change effected in the whole man as well as in his surroundings。 To this everything I hope to attempt will tend。  In many cases I shall  succeed察in some I shall fail察but even in failing of this my ultimate  design察I shall at least benefit the bodies察if not the souls察of men察 and if I do not save the fathers察I shall make a better chance for the  children。  

It will be seen therefore that in this or in any other development that  may follow I have no intention to depart in the smallest degree from  the main principles on which I have acted in the past。  My only hope  for the permanent deliverance of mankind from misery察either in this  world or the next察is the regeneration or remaking of the individual by  the power of the Holy Ghost through Jesus Christ。  But in providing for  the relief of temporal misery I reckon that I am only making it easy  where it is now difficult察and possible where it is now all but  impossible察for men and women to find their way to the Cross of our  Lord Jesus Christ。

That I have confidence in my proposals goes without saying。   I believe they will work。  In miniature many of them are working  already。  But I do not claim that my Scheme is either perfect in its  details or complete in the sense of being adequate to combat all forms  of the gigantic evils against which it is in the main directed。  Like other human things it must be perfected through suffering。  But it is a sincere endeavour to do something察and to do it on  principles which can be instantly applied and universally developed。   Time察experience察criticism察and察above all察the guidance of God will  enable us察I hope察to advance on the lines here laid down to a true and  practical application of the words of the Hebrew Prophet此  Loose the  bands of wickedness察undo the heavy burdens察let the oppressed go free察 break every yoke察deal thy bread to the hungry察bring the poor that are  cast out to thy house。  When thou seest the naked cover him and hide  not thyself from thine own flesh。  Draw out thy soul to the hungry Then they that be of thee shall build the old waste places and Thou  shalt raise up the foundations of many generations。;

To one who has been for nearly forty years indissolubly associated with  me in every undertaking I owe much of the inspiration which has found  expression in this book。  It is probably difficult for me to fully  estimate the extent to which the splendid benevolence and unbounded  sympathy of her character have pressed me forward in the life´long  service of man察to which we have devoted both ourselves and our  children。  It will be an ever green and precious memory to me that amid  the ceaseless suffering of a dreadful malady my dying wife found relief  in considering and developing the suggestions for the moral and social  and spiritual blessing of the people which are here set forth察and I do  thank God she was taken from me only when the book was practically  complete and the last chapters had been sent to the press。

In conclusion察I have to acknowledge the services rendered to me in  preparing this book by Officers under my command。  There could be no  hope of carrying out any part of it察but for the fact that so many  thousands are ready at my call and under my direction to labour to the  very utmost of their strength for the salvation of others without the  hope of earthly reward。  Of the practical common sense察the resource察 the readiness for every form of usefulness of those Officers and  Soldiers察the world has no conception。  Still less is it capable of  unders

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