Mother of an Army

A lively retelling of the story of Catherine Booth co-founder of The Salvation Army

ﾡﾰThe taunts and jeers were like cinders in Catherineﾡﾯs eyes.? She longed to rebuke the crowd for their heartless insults.? At that moment a hot spring of indignation rose within her that would remain throughout her life ﾨC a readiness to stand up in the midst of injustice.ﾡﾱ

Here began young Catherine Boothﾡﾯs lifelong commitment to plead for the poor and the downtrodden.? Like Deborah-her favorite woman in biblical history-Catherine Booth worked courageously against all human odds-but on the side of God and His Kingdom.

Biographer and novelist Charles Ludwig tells the inspirational story of Catherine.? Surmounting the pain of spinal disease and tuberculosis, and the strain of bringing up eight children, she and her husband General William Booth crisscrossed Britain to proclaim Good News to the poor.? Readers enter with her the ﾡﾰdark Satanic millsﾡﾱ of Victorian poverty, but with her see the dawning of the light and salvation of the Christian gospel.