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Purity of Heart: Letters to Salvation Army Officers is unavailable, but you can change that!

The pure heart described in Matthew 5:8 is a key theme in Salvation Army culture. Purity of Heart is assembled from addresses William Booth delivered at weekly meetings for “Salvation Soldiers.” It is rich with General Booth’s practical and direct philosophy of Christian living.

It is the Heart that decides on the particular line of conduct to be pursued. When you say, “This young man went to the Mercy-Seat and gave his heart to God,” you mean that he decided, in his inmost soul, to accept Salvation and become a Soldier of Christ. (d) It is the Heart that loves righteousness and hates iniquity. When God says, “My son, give Me thy heart, He means “Come along, young man or woman, and love Me and holiness, and Souls, and hate the Devil and Sin, with all the powers you possess.”