This is an etext version of Mildred Duff, Catherine Booth: A Sketch, with preface by General Bramwell Booth. Originally published by Salvation Army Book Department, circa 1907. This edition was created by Jone Johnson Lewis, 2003.
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With one of her daughters she reasons and pleads: -
'Oh, it seems to me that if I were in your place - young, no cares or anxieties, with such a start, such influence, and such a prospect - I should not be able to contain myself for joy! I should, indeed, aspire to be the "bride of the Lamb," and to follow Him in conflict for the Salvation of poor, lost, miserable man. I pray the Lord to show it to you, and so to enamour you of Himself, that you may see and feel it to be your chief joy to win them for Him. I say I pray for this - yes, I groan for it, with groanings that cannot be uttered; and if ever you tell me it is so, I shall be overjoyed.
'I don't want you to make any vows (unless, indeed, the Spirit leads you to do so); but I want you to set your mind and heart on winning souls, and to leave everything else with the Lord. When you do this you will be happy - Oh, so happy! Your soul will then find perfect rest. The Lord grant it to you, my dear child.'
She made all her children feel that the only reward they could give her for her ceaseless toil and labour on their behalf was that they should give themselves to the War: -
'I hope, my dear boy, that, whatever sense of obligation or gratitude you have towards me, you will try to return it by resolutely resisting all temptation to evil, and by fitting yourself to your utmost to be useful to your fellow-men. I ask from you, as I asked from God, no other reward. If I know my own heart, I would rather that you should work for the Salvation of souls, making bad hearts good, and miserable homes happy, and preparing joy and gladness for men at the Judgment bar, if you only get bread and cheese all your life, than that you should fill any other capacity with 㾶,000 per year.'
