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Gen. Booth's Vision and Other Addresses ...
Gen Booth's Vision and Other Addresses Author:William Booth Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IN HEAVEN BUT NOT OF HEAVEN. A VISION.—Gen Wm. Booth. The following article, under the above caption, is worth a careful reading. It appeared some twelve yea... more »rs ago in the Christian and Missionary Alliance. The secret of the successful and consecrated labors for God of General Booth, of the Salvation Army, is here given. May we each receive the same mighty impulse Godward from reading of the vision given to this earnest-hearted man that came to him through seeing the vision. He begins thus: I had a very curious vision the other day, and I have been much perplexed whether or no I should give it to my friends. The chief difficulty I find respecting it is that it seems to lay me open to the charge of uncharitableness, in seeming to shut out of that Blessed Land a great multitude who are expecting to go in thither, and that too with a great nourish of trumpets, because I portray the gate narrower than the Bible is supposed to make it. In this it will be considered, perhaps, that my vision is at fault, and, therefore, somewhat misleads ; but on its behalf I may suggest that as heaven is, as the negro said, "a mighty big place," it may be only some special part of the vast Continent of Blessedness that is referred to. In my vision I thought that so far as the world was concerned, Agur's prayers were answered in my circumstances, for I had neither poverty nor riches. All my wants were supplied. I had leisure, and friends, and home, and all that was really necessary to make me happy, Then I thought that I was, as I have already said, a Christian ; most of my more intimate friends professed to be the same. We visited together at each other's houses, joined in amusements, business, politics, and many other things. In short, we bought and sold, and married and gave in marri...« less