More officers! We want more officers. Here is an early take:
WANTED ALWAYS to become OFFICERS IN THE SALVATION ARMY men and women of God
Anxious to devote their lives to the work of souls,
Whose character will bear any amount of investigation;
Who can talk to a crowd of people out doors and in, so as to wound sinners’ hearts;
Who can lead a band of godly men and women to do something likely to win souls;
Who are perfectly ready to speak, pray, visit, sit still, travel a hundred miles, or die;
Who have given up drink, tobacco and finery, for Christ sake, or are willing to give up anything and everything for Him;
Who are willing to be led and taught, and to be sent home again if they do not succeed.
Who are willing to be evil spoken of, hated and despised, and even to be misrepresented, misunderstood, and undervalued at headquarters.
THE FOLLOWING NEED NOT APPLY:
Persons, who, “being out of employment, desire to vie themselves entirely, etc, etc,”;
Who, “do not think they can be expected” to exhaust all their strength in laboring day and night to save souls;
Who, “if engaged, will endeavor to give satisfaction to their employers”;
Who will take any notice of the fact of their going or living anywhere or doing anything they are asked to do;
Who desire “light employment”, “find their work beginning to tell on them”, etc. Etc.;
Who would like to know “particulars as to salary, hours, home, etc. before being engaged”;
Who “are sometimes troubled with doubts” about the inspiration of the Bible, the divinity of Christ, the Atonement, election, the possibility of falling from grace, eternal damnation, or the personality of the devil;
Who, “having had considerable experience” in our kind of work and think they know how to do it.
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Are you in? (wow, there is some great stuff for those of us who are currently officers to re-read!)
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Holy. now.
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And from SALVATION SOLDIERY by William Booth:
"Here, young men and young women, you are thinking about this cadet business, and I am not surprised at it either. What is trade and shop keeping, and emigration, and marriage, and money making, and—and anything else compared with this business of war?"
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