Figure 1.--Bramwell Booth was the son of the Salvation Army'dounder, William Booth. The press caption read, "General Booth 70 Today: General Bramwell Booth, ildest sonof the founder of the Salvation Army and head of that organization, celebrated his 70th birthday today. {hoto shows Geneal Booth receiving flowers from his two [grandchildren?] ???? and Stuart ..." The photogrph was taken in December 1926. At the time many were quetioning his leadership.

William Booth embarked upon his career as a minister in England (1852). He had the idealistic vision of saving the lost multitudes of the English poor over to Jesus. Booth did not pursue conventional ministry of a church and pulpit. He took his ministry to the people he felt needed it the most. He went out on the steets of London to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the city's poor, homeless, hungry, and destitute. Established church leaders in London were agast. They though this was undignified for a Christian minister. They thought ministers should work through churches and preserve a degree of decorum. Not only did they not like Booth's methods, they did not relly want the peole whch he preached to coming to their churches. Established ministers sought the prestige of having congrgations with the most important people of the country. Booth ecentually withdrew from the established church and began traveling throughout England, preaching his unconventionl ministry. He conducting evangelical meetings. His wife Catherine was with him all the way and was essentially a cofounder of Salvatio Movement which came to be called the Salvation Army. General Booth died (1912), but by that time the Salvation Army was an important Christian mvement. His eldest son, Bramwell Booth, succeeded him as the Salvation Army General. Bramwell was born in Yorkshire (1856). The Booth family regularly moved from place to place as William Booth's ministry necessitated until the family finally settled in London in 1865. Bramwell Booth was involved in The Salvation Army right from its origins as the obscure Christian Mission, established in Whitechapel (1865), into an international Christian organisation with a range of social activities like soup kitchen focused on the poor and down trodden. He was educated at home, briefly at a preparatory school and finally at the City of London School, where he was bulliedby the other boys. Bramwell was responsible for the groups current name. He became an active full-time collaborator (1874). His father was dictating a letter to his secretary George Scott Railton and said, "We are a volunteer army." Bramwell heard this and exclaimed "Volunteer? I'm no volunteer, I'm a regular!" His father instructed, Railton to cross out the word 'volunteer' and substitute the word 'salvation'. We note an English family we beleve to be working with the Salvation Arny in the 1870s. The Salvtion Army in Britain organized Junior Auxileries and much of our information comes from British sources. Britain may be an excetion concerning Junior uxileries, but even in Britain, the numbers of boys involved the Salvation Army Junior Auxileries were very small compred to other Youth Groups like the Boy Scouts and Boys' Brigade.