History

"The Salvation Army was invented
to save souls, to grow saints
and to serve suffering humanity."

General John Gowans

The Salvation Army was originally founded in England. During the 19th century, the country was gripped by the industrial revolution. Karl Marx considered London with its East-End slums as the perfect subject for his studies of the proletariat. It was the place for the development of his revolutionary ideology.
At the same time, also William Booth recognized the same terrible situation.