Test 1 Flashcards
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Victorian Britain traits
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class lines
no universal suffrage
submerged tenth
2
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2 major influences on Victorian Britain
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Industrial Revolution
Wesleyan Revival
3
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Industrial Revolution
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from a mostly agrarian and rural society into an industrialized, urban one
4
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Wesleyan Revival
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- John Wesley
- preach spiritual revival and holiness
- converts from working class
- major factor in preventing an uprising among the working and poorer classes in Britain like the violent French Revolution.
5
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Urbanization of Industrial Revolution
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- Machinery killed cottage industry, farm laborers no longer needed and moved into towns with factories.
- class system strengthened-the middle class merchants and factory owners had the wealth and political power
6
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Urbanization effects on towns
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- influx of poor into cities
- Small towns which had factories became crowded cities with all the problems of large cities
- Appalling living conditions
- Garbage and sewage ran down middle of streets
- Disease was caused by poor diet and sanitation
7
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Urbanization effects on work
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- Workers paid very little
- worked in unhealthy and dangerous conditions
- children (as young as 4) went to work, many dying falling into machines
8
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England’s national church
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- Anglican Church
- Queen and her archbishops were head
- unsympathetic to the needs of the poor, the spiritual condition was not even considered
- Poor unwelcome in church, rich believed you were born into a class and could never go up
9
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Humanitarian Movement
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- Many wealthy and influential evangelicals used their political and social authority
- From this came the Reform Bills (child labor laws, poor working condition laws, universal manhood suffrage, brought end of slavery)
10
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Revival Positive influences
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- beginning of non-denominational home missionary groups
- Mrs. Booth was drawn to one helping girls caught in prostitution
- One such group invited William Booth to speak in open air meetings on East End of London.
11
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William Booth - birth
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- Born April 10, 1829
- Nottingham, England
12
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William Booth’s Father
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- Samuel Booth
- “illiterate speculative builder”
- built most of the slums in Nottingham
- was ruined financially by the time William was 12
13
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William’s Mother
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- Mary Moss Booth
- gave William the only religious training he had in his childhood
14
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William begins work
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- William leaves school and apprenticed to a pawnbroker at age 13.
- Samuel Booth dies, leaving family in poverty
- Mary Moss Booth opens a small notions shop.
- William continues in the pawnbroker’s shop to help support his mother and 3 sisters.
15
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William’s 3 great aims for life
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- determination to get on in the world;
- ambition to work for the alleviation of the miseries of the poor;
- a longing to get right with God.
16
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Holy Spirit convicts young William
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- Broad Street Wesley Church
- 15 Years old
- Holy Spirit spoke to his heart, and after much struggle, knelt, confessed sin, and accepted Jesus as Savior.
- “God shall have all there is of William Booth.”
17
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James Caughey
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- led a ‘remarkable religious awakening’ at Nottingham’s Wesleyan Chapel
- emphasis was on ‘knee work (‘Knee drill’)
- used other “American methods”
- advertising meetings in rented halls,
- preaching and praying for specific results,
- bringing sinners to open confession of sin at a penitent form
- training converts to win others.
18
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Evangelists who influenced William Booth
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- James Caughey
- Charels G. Finney
- Phoebe Palmer
19
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Wesley Chapel
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- William began street meetings, brought a group of ragged slum boys into the Wesley Chapel through the main door, told to go in side door
- at 17 became Methodist lay preacher traveling from one small church to
20
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Going to London (beginning full time ministry)
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- couldn’t find work
- moved to London in 1848
- No Methodist church openings
- sought employment as pawnbroker to make ends meet
- accepted a post as lay preacher on a circuit. He also led street meetings
21
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Edward Rabbits
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- member of the reform movement
- owner of a chain of shoe shops
- heard Booth preach
- on William’s 23rd birthday (10 April, 1852), in the home of Rabbits, 2 important events happen
1. Rabbits offered to pay his salary (1 pound sterling = $3.00 per week) for 3 months
2. Met Catherine Mumford
22
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After 3 month Rabbits deal
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- William sold furniture to support himself
- gave last of funds to poor needy woman
- invited to join Methodist Reformer’s circuit, (18 months there)
