Talk:William Booth
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Promoted to glory??? Doesn't sound very NPOV, I'm changing it.
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[edit] Ives Neighbor?
pardon me for not being incredibly well versed in wikipedia, but Charles Ives (an american composer) was never a neighbor of William Booth, as the article claimed. William Booth never took up permanent residency in the US, in fact.According to http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/booth.html, Ives did share a neighborhood with Booth's daughter Evangeline in Hartsdale, NY, but the relevancy of such is a stretch at best. I left the information, corrected, in the article, but I don't think it's terribly important information, as the composition was inspired more by Lindsay's writing style than by sharing a street corner with Booths young daughter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.226.16.209 (talk) 11:43, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] POV
this article seems really biased toward the Salvation army. "He and the other soldiers of God's Army..." " His mission was to win the world for Jesus. The Salvation Army was a classic 'ultra-revivalist movement,' preaching repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as the means of forgiveness and regeneration." All these make it seem as if the Salvation Army really an army for god, which, albeit I'm atheist, probably isn't a good thing. I say we should remove/change these and other POV sentences. The thing one needs to know concerning "Gods Army" is The Salvation Army does not claim to be God's only army but a army for God.4.68.248.200 03:21, 18 December 2006 (UTC)Xunflash 19:24, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sources
What sources have been used for this article? --PaulGarner 09:57, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Accuracy of this article
These passages are William Booth's words taken from Railton's biography:
"Before my father's death I had been apprenticed by his wish. I was very young, only thirteen years of age, but he could not afford to keep me longer at school, and so out into the world I must go."
"I had scarcely any income as an apprentice, and was so hard up when my father died, that I could do next to nothing to assist my dear mother and sisters, which was the cause of no little humiliation and grief."
Samuel Booth's year of death must have been sometime in the 1840s, not 1832. The statement "... William was apprenticed to a pawnbroker's shop to help support his mother and sisters." is invalidated by the second passage. --PaulGarner 11:37, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Saints banner and category
Based on this individual being included in the Calendar of saints (Church of England), I am adding the Category:Anglican saints and the Saints WikiProject banner to this article. I am awaiting reliable sources which can be used to add the content to the article. John Carter 16:38, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
