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Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
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