Booth: declaring salvation

Monday, August 20, 2012
    Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153
    Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890
Meditation:
    What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?
    —Luke 9:25 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The Scheme of Social Salvation is not worth discussion which is not as wide as the Scheme of Eternal Salvation set forth in the Gospel. The Glad Tidings must be to every creature, not merely to an elect few who are to be saved while the mass of their fellows are predestined to a temporal damnation. We have had this doctrine of an inhuman cast-iron pseudo-political economy too long enthroned amongst us. It is now time to fling down the false idol, and proclaim a Temporal Salvation as full, free, and universal, and with no other limitations than the “Whosoever will,” of the Gospel.
    ... William Booth (1829-1912), In Darkest England, London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890, p. 36 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your salvation is open to all. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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