Soup, soap and salvation — in that order, and the order is the doctrine.
Booth's position was that you cannot preach to a man who is starving and that saving his soul while leaving him in the rookery is a fraud. In Darkest England, published in 1890, laid out a national scheme of shelters, farm colonies, labour bureaux and a missing persons service, and the Army built most of it.
In Darkest England and the Way Out, published in 1890 and ghost-assisted by the journalist W. T. Stead, was a national plan: city colonies of shelters and workshops, a farm colony, an overseas colony, a labour bureau, a poor man's bank, a legal aid department, and a missing persons bureau, all costed. Booth raised the money and built much of it. The Army's social work grew from that — hostels, rescue homes for women, employment schemes, the match factory at Old Ford opened in 1891 to shame the phosphorus manufacturers whose workers developed phossy jaw. The Army also ran a campaign with Stead in 1885 that exposed child prostitution in London and helped force the Criminal Law Amendment Act, at the cost of Bramwell Booth standing trial. The social work has since grown so large that it obscures the church attached to it, which the Army periodically worries about in print.
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