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- Religious organization within the Church of
- England founded 1882 by Wilson Carlile
- (1847-1942), an industrialist converted after
- the failure of his textile firm, who took
- orders 1880. Originally intended for
- evangelical and social work in the London
- slums, it developed along Salvation Army
- lines, and has done much work among
- ex-prisoners and for the soldiers of both
- World Wars.
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