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Article from Winter 2003 Issue
General William Booth, A Vegetarian When It Took Great Effort
During the latter period of his memorable life the Founder and first
General of the Salvation Army uttered these memorable words:
"White women weep as they do now, I'll fight; while little children
go hungry as they do now, I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and
out, in and out, I'll fight; while there is a poor lost girl upon the
street, I'll fight; while there remains one dark soul without the light
of God, I’ll fight – I’ll fight to the very end”
Not so very long after uttering those memorable words, concerning
Darkest England, William Booth ‘laid down his sword’ to be received in
to the presence of the King of Kings. My Reader and Friend, times have
changed since Booth’s Victorian England. Most of the evil he fought has
been conquered. Gin palaces are a thing of the past and so are the
street urchins as well as the destitute and stigmatised ‘women of the
streets’. Sadly, however, along with Methodism from which Booth broke
away, today’s followers of both these great men have little if any up to
date vision at all for opposing the major evils rampant within Britain
today.
Forgive me if I come across too judgmental. I don’t intend to be, but
I sense they are in a past time-lock. The alcohol that these great men
opposed as being one of the vilest evils of their day, their
twenty-first century followers still denounce. Yet things have changed
so much that such protests are barely relevant. Paradoxically, however,
though both John Wesley the founder of Methodism, and William Booth the
founder of the Salvation Army, were Vegetarians, today’s followers are
not. Consequently, both these Christian traditions are falling abysmally
short for confronting our present Nation’s major evils. and this I
consider sad, to say the very least.
Evil is every bit as rife today as ever before. For what people do
today towards defenceless and helpless animals, for 'sport'; to satisfy
a momentary taste on the palate; for clothes to wear; to further weapons
of mass destruction; or to 'further' research in to human illness, is
too awful to contemplate. And concerning the latter, the vilest mental
disease of all is surely the ability to stoop to such appalling depths
of misconstrued research. Those who promote this plague of mental
sickness in seeking to further such hellholes at Cambridge, Huntingdon,
and elsewhere, must have morals equivalent to that of a Doctor Mengele
and a Doctor Goebels. Yes, while lacking the scientific validity of
their past Nazi counterparts who experimented on the same species!
Go on to
Animal Activists: God's Mouth For This
Hour!
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