| We must reach those who the churches normally | | | | Wound and kill with the old sword, and pour in the |
| don't contact. We must enlarge our hearts and | | | | old balsam and you will see the old |
| begin to love the entire world Christ died for. No | | | | result--Salvation. The world needs it. The worst |
| nation can own our soul. We must be citizens of | | | | man that ever walked will go to Heaven if he |
| heaven and go wherever God tells us to without | | | | obtains it, and the best man that ever lived will go |
| complaining. Until you have asked God where | | | | to Hell if he misses it. Oh, publish it abroad! |
| geographically in the world He wants you to be, | | | | There is a Hell. A Hell as dark and terrible as is the |
| you have no right to remain within your nation. As | | | | description given of it by the lips of Jesus Christ, |
| citizens of heaven, we must relinquish all earthly | | | | the Truthful. And into that Hell men are departing |
| rights and fulfill the cause of Christ. We must be | | | | hour by hour. While we write men are going into |
| mature disciples who take up our cross and deny | | | | everlasting punishment. While we eat and drink, |
| ourselves to fulfill our missionary obligation to the | | | | sleep and work, and rest, men are going where |
| world. | | | | the worm dieth not, and where the fire is not |
| When the cry of our heart becomes, "Thy will be | | | | quenched. |
| done!" we also will love the frontlines of battle. | | | | So wake up all the powers of your being, my |
| When the Salvation Army was born it was | | | | brothers, and consecrate every awakened power |
| organized "to carry the blood of Christ and the | | | | to the great end of saving them. Be a |
| fire of the Holy Ghost into every corner of the | | | | Salvationist." |
| world." | | | | As Booth the founder of the Salvation Army |
| General William Booth wrote: | | | | declared, we need to be about our heavenly |
| "We are Salvation people--this is our | | | | Father's business. Jesus came to "seek and save |
| specialty--getting saved and keeping saved, and | | | | the lost" (Luke 19:10) not build religious edifices and |
| then getting somebody else saved, and then | | | | establish religious denominations. No, religion is the |
| getting saved ourselves more and more, until full | | | | enemy of God. Religion grossly misrepresents God |
| salvation on earth makes the heaven within. | | | | and distracts from His eternal purposes, which is |
| WE BELIEVE IN SALVATION. We believe in the | | | | winning souls. |
| old-fashioned salvation. . . . proclaimed by Prophets | | | | We need the smell of hell to compel us to seek |
| and Apostles, preached by Luther and Wesley | | | | and save the lost. Most folks don't go to |
| and Whitefield, sealed by the blood of | | | | "preaching places." We therefore must go to |
| martyrs--the very same salvation that was | | | | them. Let us never lose touch with the common |
| purchased by the sufferings and agony and blood | | | | man. After all, Jesus was a friend of sinners (Lk. |
| of the Son of God. | | | | 7:34). Jesus only wants faithful soldiers in order to |
| We believe the world needs it; this and this alone | | | | win the uttermost parts of the earth for His |
| will set the world right. We want no other | | | | possession. We're fighting a war for God. Urge |
| nostrum--nothing new. We are on the track of | | | | those who will listen and those who will not to |
| the old Apostles. You don't need to mix up any | | | | consider their spiritual condition and awaken them |
| other ingredients with the heavenly remedy. | | | | to the reality of hell. |