CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS
...oth. Catherine Booth is known as the ‘Army’s Mother’, she was a preacher, writer, teacher, and bible student not to mention a co-founder of the Salvation army movement. She believed in woman equality and her preaches were very strong in her convictions. Without her strength Woman Salvationists would not have the same rights and opportunities in the Army today. She died in 1890 at the age of 61 (1829). Customs, Rites, Sacraments The Salvation Army is very different to other Christian Denominations when considering its militarised style. Members are known as soldiers and parishioners position in the community are expressed as a military rank (such as sergeant-major). The Salvation Army does not use sacraments it did but ceased it because of a variety of reasons those include: • Earlier Salvationists were converted alcoholics so it wasn’t good to give them wine. • Some bible scholars believed that there was no scriptural evidence • Founders believed to parishioners were relying too much on the ‘sacraments of grace and not on grace itself’. Some practices of the church include the initiation of soldiers, marriage, dedication (children are blessed), officership, and promotion to glory (funeral). History of The Salvation Army in Australia The first Salvation Army meeting in Australia was on September 5th 1880 which was held from the back of a green grocers cart in the in the Adelaide Botanical Garden led by Edward Saunders and John Gore. The railway worker and the builder did not have theological training or been ordained and they presented themselves as ordinary men which helped the movement become accepted where so many other religions had failed. Saunders and...