{"id":26657,"date":"2025-12-19T00:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=26657"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:55:17","slug":"the-life-and-death-of-john-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/12\/the-life-and-death-of-john-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Death Of John Booth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gospel Standard 1928:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. John Booth, for 30 years pastor of Zoar Particular Baptist chapel, Bradford, Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

John Booth was born of humble parentage at Thurlestone, a moorland village near Penistone, Yorkshire, on October 19, 1861. Lacking the privileges of even elementary education he worked in a factory, but applied himself to mastering the rudiments of education in his leisure hour.<\/p>\n

He was called by divine and sovereign grace in June, 1882, and was baptised by the late Mr. Wm. Schofield, in October, 1889. In August, 1890, the church meeting for worship at Thurlestone asked him to read at their prayer meetings, as some of the members had it laid on their minds that the Lord intended him for the ministry. He so feared that this reading would lead to the pulpit that he refrained from exposition, and that brought bondage. The work of the ministry, however, was so laid upon him that he had to wrestle with God for direction. He was led to Proverbs 11:24, and it went like an arrow to his conscience, but the 25th<\/sup> verse gave him encouragement, and when he read on to the 30th verse he closed the book, sank to his knees crying, “Lord I will go, if Thou wilt make a way.” He commenced preaching on the 3rd Lord’s day in February, 1894, and was sent out to speak the word wherever the Lord should open a door, in September of the same year.<\/p>\n

In all he had twelve calls to pastorates. He had three in the house at one time, and being led by the unerring Wisdom of God he accepted that from Bradford, and commenced a pastorate in January, 1898, which hag lasted 30 years. During these years he has seen an old church pass into eternity, and a younger one grow up around him. He was loved by all, and with his members and others, esteemed highly in love for his work’s sake. Though of a cheery and sociable disposition, the solemnity of his position as a minister of the gospel was marked by his deportment and expression, particularly before he was due to preach. The burden of the word of the Lord was a real one to John Booth. A true preacher of the gospel, he ever waited for the word at the Lord’s mouth, and many are the witnesses in our land who can testify to the way it was commended to their consciences.<\/p>\n

Whilst on his way to preach in London and the south on February 10th [1928], he broke his journey at Peterborough to visit a friend lying ill. On leaving the station he hurried to avoid a motor ‘bus, but was knocked down by a horse. Falling on to the pavement he sustained bruises, but on examination no bones were broken. He was removed to the friend’s house, and their doctor attended him. He wrote cheerfully each day, and the doctor gave him permission to return home on Friday, February 17th. Arriving at Bradford, his wife met him, but he was very cold and very dazed, and he was quickly taken home and his own doctor called in. The writer saw him before he retired to bed, and was shocked at his condition. After a restless night he sank into a sleep about 8 a.m. Saturday, from which he never again regained consciousness. A specialist was called in on the Monday, who strongly recommended an operation on the brain. He was removed to the Infirmary near his home and survived the operation, which itself proved without avail, and he passed away about 6 a.m. on Wednesday, February 22nd, in the 67th year of his age.<\/p>\n

The funeral took place on Saturday morning, February 25th. Mr. A. McKenzie (Holinwood Lane), read the 90th<\/sup> Psalm and engaged in prayer at the house, and committed his body to the grave in Scholemoor Cemetery, Bradford, in the pure and certain hope of glorious resurrection. Mr. G. Whitbread (Manchester) gave a short address at the grave side, and the writer was favoured to conduct the service in the chapel, where he had so long and so faithfully been enabled to preach the glorious gospel. Despite the early hour the chapel was filled with the mourners from the causes in Yorkshire and Lancashire.<\/p>\n

Mr. Booth leaves a widow, two sons and three daughters.<\/p>\n

W. G. B. V.<\/p>\n

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Mr. John Booth, for 30 years pastor of Zoar Particular Baptist chapel, Bradford, Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

John Booth was born of humble parentage at Thurlestone, a moorland village near Penistone, Yorkshire, on October 19, 1861. Lacking the privileges of even elementary education he worked in a factory, but applied himself to mastering the rudiments of education in his leisure hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":13387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1232,1226],"class_list":["post-26657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-booth","tag-baptist-history","tag-gospel-preachers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26658,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26657\/revisions\/26658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}