[cover title: "The Salvation Army / Heathen England"

Heathen England: Being a Description of the Utterly Godless Condition of the Vast Majority of the English Nation, and of the Establishment, Growth, System, and Success of An Army for its Salvation.

Consisting of Working People under the Generalship of

William Booth

Third Edition

London: S.W. Partridge & Co. / Army Stores

1879

Paperback, iv + 185pp [+7pp ads]. Spine worn away and some sections loosening as a result. Spine edges tender. A good reading copy of this narrative detailing the pre-history of William Booth's Salvation Army. A bold libel on the Victorian British public as godless "heathens", with chapters on prophets, preaching in music halls and theatres, religious street fighting, etc.

From William Booth's foreword: "In days when almost everything is disputed, when everything supernatural is repudiated as utterly absurd and impossible by so many, amongst the most educated as well as amongst the most ignorant, it behoves all who can produce positive evidence of the existence and activity of miracle-working power to come forward, and to tell the truth and the whole truth. I do not pretend to have seen paralytics or blind men suddenly restored to the use of their physical faculties in the manner that pilgrims to Lourdes and other Popish shrines are said to have been. But I do place on record a story of cures far more complete and startling, wrought not in some far-off 'corner,' but in the presence of hundreds and thousands of spectators-amidst a blaze of gas-light, if not of daylight. For years I have been mixing daily with such scenes, and with people who have instantaneously received a power far exceeding all their bodily forces combined."

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