Why and how was salvation army founded?
When William Booth and his wife started the Salvation Army in
1865, it was originally called the East London Christian Mission.
The story goes that at a meeting of its leaders, someone said that
they were like a great volunteer army, to which William Booth, the
Army's founder, replied something like: I am not a volunteer for I
am compelled to do what I do. We are not a volunteer army, we are a
Salvation Army. In 1878, the organisation became known as the
Salvation Army. They adopted a uniform and adapted Christian words
to popular tunes sung in the public bars.