William Booth's Wisdom

Member of the church of England I may be - but as a South Londoner The Salvation Army's William Booth is up in the top 5 of heroes.  Here what he says about the impact of the Gospel and the place of social action:

"To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine."