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Travel with William Booth, founder of the Salvation ArmyTravels with my aunt SallyTRAVEL WITH WILLIAM BOOTH A new style of book has arrived! You don't just read it; you arrange a family/church outing and you follow the trail. This is one of a unique series of travel books, beautifully produced, with colourful illustrations and photographs on every page. The carefully researched biography of a man whose life was totally devoted to God is movingly portrayed - a remarkable man whose boundless energy was fuelled by untiring zeal for the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ and great compassion for the poor and the wretched of Victorian England. Interwoven with Booth's life story is a travel guide to the areas where that life unfolded, places as far apart as Cornwall and Camberwell, Worthing and Whitechapel, Nottingham and Newcastle, Stockwell, London, and Spalding, Lincolnshire. Also included are details of museums, monuments, maps and transport information, complete with parking facilities and even a London Congestion Charge warning! The author has included framed insets featuring notable preachers, who influenced Booth in his 'altar call' method of preaching. He also helpfully explains Calvinism and the 'Doctrines of Grace', which Booth rejected as, in his mind, incompatible with the gospel. Whatever our view, we rejoice that through Booth and his associates in the Salvation Army 'thousands of prostitutes, alcoholics and criminals' were gloriously saved. Other books in this series include John Bunyan, John Knox and C.H. Spurgeon, with more in the pipeline. (I've just bought myself the John Bunyan.) Christine Gobbett,
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