kolmapäev, detsember 15, 2004
Quotes
from another Salvationist blogger --
Catherine Bramwell-Booth:
"Never must we lose sight of the fact that the spirit of attack is one of the distinctivefeatures of The Salvation Army. Was it not, in fact, this that brought the Army into existence?There were already churches and chapels and mission halls. There was probably more religious observance than now, an abundance of preaching, any amount of routine businessof what is called Christian service. That which was lacking—that which gave birth to theArmy—was desperate unflinching assaults on the strongholds of evil outside."
Bramwell Booth:
"What are our soldiers for if not to fight? And how can they fight if they never come up with the enemy and force him to stand, and see their leader strike home with the truth? The fact is that some corps—and fine bodies of men and women they are—make little or no impression on the great mass of people in their district, or outside the comparatively small circle of their own people and their families and a fringe of regular hangers-on outdoors and in, just because they do not stand up to the enemy and provoke a proper battle."
Catherine Bramwell-Booth:
"Never must we lose sight of the fact that the spirit of attack is one of the distinctivefeatures of The Salvation Army. Was it not, in fact, this that brought the Army into existence?There were already churches and chapels and mission halls. There was probably more religious observance than now, an abundance of preaching, any amount of routine businessof what is called Christian service. That which was lacking—that which gave birth to theArmy—was desperate unflinching assaults on the strongholds of evil outside."
Bramwell Booth:
"What are our soldiers for if not to fight? And how can they fight if they never come up with the enemy and force him to stand, and see their leader strike home with the truth? The fact is that some corps—and fine bodies of men and women they are—make little or no impression on the great mass of people in their district, or outside the comparatively small circle of their own people and their families and a fringe of regular hangers-on outdoors and in, just because they do not stand up to the enemy and provoke a proper battle."
