Alcoholics helped & prevented by Salvation Army requiring total abstinence
‘Probably during no one hundred years in the history of the world have there been saved so many thieves, gamblers, drunkards, and prostitutes as during the past quarter of a century through the heroic faith and labors of The Salvation Army.’
—Josiah Strong, cited in Fashionable or Forceful?
“Perry Anderson was near the brink of death when he first walked into Salvation Army hostel The Beacon. At 29, he had been battling alcohol addiction for more than a decade and had lost everything, including his marriage and home. “ This former carpenter had lost his job after a back injury. He drank and …
Perry Anderson homeless alcoholic to sober Salvation Army soldier. Thanks to Jesus! Read More »
Evangeline Booth’s Indictment: Who should know better the effects of liquor than this brilliant woman, from her experience in the redemptive work of the Salvation Army? Says she: Drink has drained more blood, Hung more crepe, Sold more homes, Plunged more people into bankruptcy, Armed more villians, Slain more children, Snapped more wedding rings, Defiled …
Exploiters and Drinkers: Evangeline Booth “Drink has drained more blood…” Read More »
The reasons for this are two-fold. Alcohol is a mind-altering, mood-changing drug, a central nervous system depressant and intoxicant. Alcohol can produce harmful effects such as impairment of judgment, reason, insight, memory, conscience, speech, hearing, vision, and muscular co-ordination even in small amounts. The ever-increasing problems which result from its consumption. Those related to alcohol …
Salvation Army refrains from Social Drinking (1990 statement) Read More »
1880s: Early magistrates refused to prosecute mob violence against Salvation Army victims In many places the publicans stirred up violent opposition against the Salvation Army, ‘who, like the silversmiths of the ancient story [Acts 19:23-41], could not help seeing that the hope of their unholy gains was going, if not already gone.’ The Christian, January …
Salvation Army vs. Skeleton Army – History of Teetotalism vs. Alcohol 1851 – 1880 Read More »
Not exactly. It is hardly clear that General Booth supposed even unfermented grape juice would endanger former alcoholics. (But if perchance unfermented wine were not available at times, coloured water would suffice.) Nevertheless, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper were both discontinued, not really due to grape juice being considered dangerous, nor due to alcohol which …
Was alcohol why the Salvation Army quit both sacraments? Not exactly. Read More »
THE subject upon which I have been requested to write a paper is, “The Value of Temperance in connection with Religious Aggressive Effort.” Before entering directly on the subject, I want to make two or three preliminary remarks, and, I. It may be well to explain that we understand religious aggressive effort to be, that …
Drinking Alcohol vs Christianity – Catherine Booth, Salvation Army, 1879 Read More »
I ought to be able to make a speech with such a text; but it seems, as The General has said, to have taken all the breath out of me.
See also: Bible says be sober again and again. “Word to a Drunkard” by John Wesley 1. Are you a man? God made you a man; but you make yourself a beast. Wherein does a man differ from a beast? Is it not chiefly in reason and understanding? But you throw away what reason you …
The head of WA’s [Western Australia’s] Aboriginal Health Council is calling for alcohol to be made illegal in indigenous communities across the State as the Government considers implementing liquor bans in at least three more townships. Henry Councillor said the early success of a complete alcohol ban imposed on the remote east Kimberley outpost of …
‘the thing is an evil in itself’ ‘Make your children understand that it is not safe for them or anybody else to take strong drink in what is called moderation’ —General William Booth, Salvation Army, who cares about his example to others! 1. Ought not children to be instructed in the evils attendant on the use …
Drinking Not Safe For Anyone – General William Booth, Salvation Army, 1888 Read More »