own experience, or in promoting the same experience in other Comrades. I think
6. To keep a pure heart you must carefully continue the use of such means as God has appointed for your assistance. Purity does not bring you into any state that renders the use of means for its maintenance and increase unnecessary.
7. To keep the Blessing:
(a) You must pray; and I strongly urge you to pray at stated hours, and for given periods.
(b) You must read and study your Bible.
(c) Read such books and papers as are instructive and encouraging on the subject of Holiness.
(d) Watch as well as pray. Be ever on your guard.
8. Keep on fighting for souls, do not be led off into a selfish occupation with your own experience, or in promoting the same experience in other Comrades. I think it is right and proper that you should devote a portion of your time and energy to the duty of sanctifying yourselves and of spreading a full Salvation among your Comrades. But nothing can relieve you from the duty of fighting for the Salvation of dying souls around you.
I have only space for one other word. It is one of deep importance. With all the emphasis I can command I would say to every reader of these Letters, if from any cause whatever you should lose the assurance that the blood of Jesus cleanses you; or if, more melancholy still, you should lose the blessing of Purity, fly at once to your Saviour's feet, confess your wrongdoing, give yourself up again to the full service of your Lord, and once more plunge in the Fountain opened for sin and uncleanness; and then, profiting by the sorrow and disappointment of your fall, start afresh to live the life of faith in a purifying Saviour.
Yours affectionately, William Booth
"What though a thousand hosts engage
A thousand worlds my soul to shake,
I have a shield shall quell their rage,
And drive the alien armies back: Portrayed it bears a bleeding Lamb,
I dare believe in Jesus' name. "Me to retrieve from Satan's hands,
Me from this evil world to free, To purge my sins and loose my bands,
And save from all iniquity, My Lord and God from heaven He came;
I dare believe in Jesus' name."
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