Short Name: | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest |
Full Name: | Demarest, Victoria Booth-Clibborn |
Birth Year: | 1895 |
Death Year: | 1981 |
[Mrs. Agnew Demarest]
The Rev. Victoria Booth Demarest, an evangelist, writer and member of the founding family of the Salvation Army, died Sunday of heart failure at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. She was 93 years old and lived in St. Petersburg.
She was the granddaughter of William Booth, who founded the mission group in England that became the Salvation Army, and the daughter of Catherine Booth-Clibborn, who organized groups in France and the Netherlands.
Mrs. Demarest was born in Paris and graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Music. She came to the United States in 1918 and married Cornelius A. Demarest of Louisville, Ky., with whom she wrote hymns and sacred music.
She also wrote such inspirational books as "The Shade of His Hand," and plays, including "King David and the Empty House." She traveled widely as an evangelist in the United States and abroad, preaching in four languages. In 1946 she founded the World Association of Mothers for Peace Inc.
In 1949, Mrs. Demarest was ordained a minister in the Congregational Church, now the United Church of Christ, at the Broadway Tabernacle Congregational Church at 58th Street.
Mrs. Demarest, whose husband died in 1959, is survived by four children: Evangeline Demarest of St. Petersburg; Victoria Monro of Austin, Tex.; Arthur Demarest of Beechurst, Queens, and Cornelius Demarest of Lexington; 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
--www.nytimes.com/1982/04/06/obituaries/
Texts by Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (19)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Dark the night and fierce the storm | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
Down through the ages comes the noble cry | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
Even now though deep in sin | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
Fair city of peace and joy | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
For God is our battle cry | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
I need thee sadly, sadly, Lord | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
In the struggle of life | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
Jesus, I come to Thee, Thy face I long to see | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | English | 2 |
Jesus, my Lord, I love thy grace to worship | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 3 | |
Let go and let God have his own way | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
Lo the Savior is here | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
Looking to Jesus we run the race | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
Stand on the Word, the Word of God | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
There is a place, a hallowed place | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
This our world is crushed and smitten | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
When fingers cling, they sorrow bring | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
When in the night my spirit cried to Jesus | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
When weary I cried to my Savior | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 | |
Work out your own salvation with fear | Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest (Author) | 2 |