Editing Catherine Booth (section)

==The Christian Mission==
They began the work of The Christian Mission in 1865 in London's East End. William preached to the poor and ragged and Catherine spoke to the wealthy, gaining support for their financially demanding ministry. The textile industry employed as many women as men and contributed a substantial number of female officers. In addition, domestic indoor servants flocked to the Army, and many became officers.<ref name=horridge>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/1990/issue26/2614.html Horridge, Glenn K., "William Booth's Officers", ''Christian History Magazine'', Issue 26: William and Catherine Booth: Salvation Army Founders (1990) Christianity Today]</ref> William and Catherine and their son Bramwell and daughter-in-law Florence were all vegetarian. Bramwell wrote a list of reasons he had maintained the diet.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://salvationist.ca/articles/2010/10/the-gospel-of-vegetarianism/|title=Gospel of Vegetarianism|date=5 October 2010 }}</ref>

The "Appointments of Officers, 1883" lists 127 married men. This number is important, because wives were expected to help run the corps. Since wives were not compelled to attend the officers' course at the Training Home, they were not given a commission and, therefore, did not appear in the list. General Booth had an active policy of encouraging officers to intermarry. The "Appointments of Officers, 1883" lists thirty-six couples who had done so, the women resigning their own rights of officership to become joint officers with their husbands. The loss of the women officers' rights when marrying contradicts the constant statement regarding equality. The Army leaders were clearly not so radical as to lose the concept of man's conjugal superiority. This social policy carried into pay; the husband, as head of the household, received the pay for the couple. The idea that single female officers could manage on less money than their male counterparts was abolished before the Second World War. Until that time, male officers received a third more pay than their female counterparts.<ref name=horridge/> {{Citation needed|reason=Missing proper quotation marks|date=August 2024}}

Catherine Booth organized Food for the Million shops where the poor could buy a cheap meal and at Christmas, hundreds of meals were distributed to the needy.<ref>[http://www.derbyshireuk.net/booth.html "Famous Derbyshire People", Derbyshire, UK]</ref>

When the name was changed in 1878 to [[The Salvation Army]] and [[William Booth]] became known as the [[Generals of The Salvation Army|General]], Catherine became known as the 'Mother of The Salvation Army.' She was behind many of the changes in the new organization, designing the flag and bonnets for the ladies, and contributed to the Army's ideas on many important issues and matters of belief.

The Booths rented a small villa, Crossley House, in [[Clacton-on-Sea]], which had a sea view that she loved.

Catherine Booth died of [[breast cancer]] at age 61 at Crossley House. She is interred with her husband in [[Abney Park Cemetery]], London.

Subsequently, Crossley House was donated to people with learning disabilities and provided many summer holidays until it was sold to property developers in 2005.