He taught that this belief would manifest itself in a life of love for God and mankind. His doctrine remained much the same, though he preached that eternal punishment was the fate of those who do not believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the necessity of repentance from sin, and the promise of holiness. Soon he was barred from campaigning in Methodist congregations, so he became an independent evangelist. At the Liverpool conference in 1861, after having spent three years at Gateshead, his request to be freed for evangelism full-time was refused yet again, and Booth resigned from the ministry of the Methodist New Connexion. Though Booth was now a prominent Methodist evangelist, he was unhappy that the annual conference of the denomination kept assigning him to a pastorate, the duties of which he had to neglect to respond to the frequent requests that he do evangelistic campaigns. There is a blue plaque on the wall of the old Bethel Church in Bethel Street, which is now a Wetherspoons pub, commemorating the fact William Booth served at this church between 1858 and 59. By 1859 he and his wife had left Brighouse and moved to Gateshead. William and Catherine campaigned against the employment of seven-year-old girls in a local mill. In the summer of 1857 the Booth family moved to Brighouse in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where he was appointed preacher at the Bethel Chapel. He married Catherine Mumford on 16 June 1855 at Stockwell Green Congregational Church in London. In November 1853, he was invited to become the Reformers' minister at Spalding, in Lincolnshire. John Frost but Booth disliked Frost's school, and left shortly. The recommendation was training under Rev. Through Thomas, he met John Campbell and then James William Massie. Interested in the Congregationalist approach, Booth consulted David Thomas at Stockwell about the ministry. Just over a month after he started full-time preaching, on, William Booth became formally engaged to Catherine Mumford. William styled his preaching after the revivalist American James Caughey, who had made frequent visits to England and preached at the church in Nottingham where Booth was a member, Broad Street Chapel. In 1851, Booth joined the Reformers ( Methodist Reform Church), and on 10 April 1852, his 23rd birthday, he left pawnbroking and became a full-time preacher at their headquarters at Binfield Chapel in Clapham. Booth tried to continue lay preaching in London, but the small amount of preaching work that came his way frustrated him, and so he resigned as a lay preacher and took to open-air evangelising in the streets and on Kennington Common. In 1849, Booth reluctantly left his family and moved to London, where he again found work with a pawnbroker. When his apprenticeship ended in 1848, Booth was unemployed and spent a year looking in vain for work. Sansom and Booth both began in the 1840s to preach to the poor and the sinners of Nottingham, and Booth would probably have remained as Sansom's partner in his new Mission ministry, as Sansom titled it, if Sansom had not died of tuberculosis, in 1849. Booth was encouraged to be an evangelist primarily through his best friend, Will Sansom. He then read extensively and trained himself in writing and in speech, becoming a Methodist local preacher. Two years into his apprenticeship Booth had a religious conversion. In 1842, Samuel Booth, who could no longer afford his son's school fees, apprenticed the 13-year-old William Booth to a pawnbroker. Booth's father was relatively wealthy by the standards of the time, but during William's childhood, the family descended into poverty. William Booth was born in Sneinton, Nottingham, the second son of five children born to Samuel Booth and his second wife, Mary Moss. 8 Children of William and Catherine Booth.
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