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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.

you not only possess the ability to live the kind of life that He desires, but that you actually do live it. Now, Purity, I need not tell you, my Comrades, is much admired and greatly desired by all right-minded beings. To begin with: We all like material purity; for instance, I am sure that everyone reading this Letter prefers to have a clean body. When you rise in the morning, you are not comfortable till you have washed yourselves. When the miners come from the pit, or the farmers from the field,