the glory of Christ's Name far more effectively than you will if you are not fully
welcome to wash away your inward iniquities, in the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness, as any other son or daughter of Adam. Oh, He Will be delighted for you to step into the blessed stream at once:
"Will you, will you now enter in? Will you, will you wash and be clean?"
7. If you are a Holy Man or Woman you will help forward the War, and spread the glory of Christ's Name far more effectively than you will if you are not fully saved. Holy people are the great need of the world. I am sure they are one of the great wants of The Army.
8. Do you not feel in your heart, while I am talking to you, that the Holy Spirit wants you to be Pure, and is waiting now to give you the Blessing? The fire of desire for your Sanctification is burning strongly in my heart while I write this Letter. Does not your desire also rise up for this? I believe it does. Well, wait no longer! All things are now ready! Is not a holy yearning springing up within you? Go down this moment before God, and sing:
"Oh, that the Fire from Heaven might fall,
And all my sins consume! Come, Holy Ghost, for Thee I call,
Spirit of Burning, come! "Refining Fire, go through my heart,
Illuminate my soul; Scatter Thy life through every part,
And sanctify the whole."
Yours affectionately,
William Booth "More hard than marble is my heart,
And foul with sins of deepest stain;
But Thou the mighty Saviour art, Nor flowed Thy cleansing Blood in vain;
Ah, soften, melt this rock, and may Thy Blood wash all these stains away!
"O grant that nothing in my soul May dwell, but Thy pure love alone;
O may Thy love possess me whole, My joy, my treasure, and my crown! Strange flames far from my heart remove;
My every act, word, thought, be love."