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Not content to battle Satan only with prayers. Booth’s followers would find him and drive him out wherever his treachery was manifest in the miserable lives of men. The fiery Salvationists held mock trials and burned Satan in effigy.
They employed any dramatic device that would attract attention: brass bands, parades, empty coffins, and prison uniforms. In their early years in New York they commandeered double-decker buses to gather up drunks and derelicts and transport them back to the Mission.
Those too drunk to board buses were thrown in a water wagon. Those that didn't make it to the Mission to sober up amidst hell-fire sermons and hot soup "fell off the wagon.”
There has never been a more colorful religion in our I—-1
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