History of the Salvation Army
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Religion II
Salvation Army
* July 2nd, 1865, William Booth – founder of the Salvation Army
* A Methodist minister, emerged from the Methodist church
* Started preaching but came to realise that providing basic needs for people was essential before all other things.
* 1867 – offered evening classes, basic schooling, soup kitchens, distributing bread and small sums of money
* September 5, 1880, Jon Gore and Edward Saunders providing food for the hungry in addition to preaching– Salvation army in Australia had begun
* Melbourne was the national headquarter of the Salvation Army until 1921
* Within 18 months numbers grew to forty in the Salvos
* Started in Melbourne which had many churches but were not accessible to the poorer population who found religion to be irrelevant.
* Evangelical -> Evangelical Methodist -> Methodist -> Salvation Army (split up)
* Salvation Army is a denomination of Christianity, but is not a religion in itself.
The Contribution of Christianity to Australia
Rural and Outback Communities
* Great distances in the Australian outback posed unique problems for Christian ministry
* It could take hours-days to journey from family to family
* Transportation was difficult
* Loneliness and isolation were challengers faced by outback ministers.
Bush Brotherhoods
* Established by the Church of England in the late 1800s
* Men who joined took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. (Kind of like an Anglican monk)
* There were 10 groups in outback Australia – the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd were the most active in NSW
* Men worked in pairs
* Sometimes these men would be the only people an outback family would see in a year.
* Administered the sacrament of Baptism and conducted marriages and funerals.
* ‘nomadic pastors’
Bush Church Aid Society (BCA)
* Established in 1919 by evangelical Church of England (COE) adherents
* Men and women sought to...
Salvation Army
* July 2nd, 1865, William Booth – founder of the Salvation Army
* A Methodist minister, emerged from the Methodist church
* Started preaching but came to realise that providing basic needs for people was essential before all other things.
* 1867 – offered evening classes, basic schooling, soup kitchens, distributing bread and small sums of money
* September 5, 1880, Jon Gore and Edward Saunders providing food for the hungry in addition to preaching– Salvation army in Australia had begun
* Melbourne was the national headquarter of the Salvation Army until 1921
* Within 18 months numbers grew to forty in the Salvos
* Started in Melbourne which had many churches but were not accessible to the poorer population who found religion to be irrelevant.
* Evangelical -> Evangelical Methodist -> Methodist -> Salvation Army (split up)
* Salvation Army is a denomination of Christianity, but is not a religion in itself.
The Contribution of Christianity to Australia
Rural and Outback Communities
* Great distances in the Australian outback posed unique problems for Christian ministry
* It could take hours-days to journey from family to family
* Transportation was difficult
* Loneliness and isolation were challengers faced by outback ministers.
Bush Brotherhoods
* Established by the Church of England in the late 1800s
* Men who joined took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. (Kind of like an Anglican monk)
* There were 10 groups in outback Australia – the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd were the most active in NSW
* Men worked in pairs
* Sometimes these men would be the only people an outback family would see in a year.
* Administered the sacrament of Baptism and conducted marriages and funerals.
* ‘nomadic pastors’
Bush Church Aid Society (BCA)
* Established in 1919 by evangelical Church of England (COE) adherents
* Men and women sought to...