Are you waiting for some lightning to be called?
William Booth College, Champion Park, London, the London training college for UK officers of the Salvation Army. By Giles Gilbert Scott, 1932. (The illuminated cross is a later addition). Taken by User:Dbiv on March 25, 2005. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “Not called,” did you say? “Not heard the call,” I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible , and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burden, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world. Two things have always struck me about the famous quote from William Booth , founder of the Salvati...