The Shepherd Who Left His Parlor
In the winter of 1865, William Booth walked through the Whitechapel district of East London and couldn't shake what he saw. The gin-soaked streets were...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 15:3-7.
In the winter of 1865, William Booth walked through the Whitechapel district of East London and couldn't shake what he saw. The gin-soaked streets were filled with people the established church had written off — dock workers, prostitutes, homeless children sleeping in doorways. Respectable congregations had buildings full of the found; no one was going after the lost. Booth left a comfortable speaking career to pitch a tent in Whitechapel's Mile End Waste.…
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