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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.

By a Pure Heart we do not mean a Heart that cannot sin. The Devil was once a beautiful, sinless creature. But he yielded to temptation. The sinless crown fell from his beautiful brow, and from a pure archangel he was changed into a foul fiend, and hurled all the way from his bright and sinless Heaven to his dark and gloomy hell. Adam was pure when he came from the hands of his Maker. God pronounced him to be good; but, led away by Satan, he lost his Purity, and was cast out of Eden into a world of