Product Overview
This slim, pocket-size book is the first in a new series featuring classic Salvationist texts. The aim is to healp a new generation of readers become familiar with great writing published by The Salvation Army over the past century-and-a-half. Of these writings, General Shaw Clifton, the present world leader of The Salvation Army, says: 'They live on not only for their content but also for the passionate spirit that breathes through what is written.'
This first book, Purity of Heart, by the Founder of The Salvation Army, General William Booth, began in 1900 as a series of letters to be read in weekly gatherings of Salvationists. Two years later they were published in book form.
The teaching of the blessing of a clean heart was, and is, a central tenet of Salvationism, reflecting the Movement's Methodist roots. Salvationists still seek it, claim it and testify about it, though less than once they did. Say General Clifton: 'The Holy Spirit still waits graciously to grant it to all who seek in sincere faith. May the republishing of Booth's letters help to that end.'
