to London, where he found work with a pawnbroker. Booth tried to continue lay preaching in London, but the small amount of preaching work that came his way frustrated him, and so he resigned as a lay preacher and took to open-air evangelising in the streets and on Kennington Common.

Methodist ministry

In 1851, Booth joined the Methodist Reform Church, formed in 1849 by a breakaway from the

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