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I have had a number of heroes and mentors in my life. Most of them I have never met in person .Many of them lived on planet earth over a century ago. I have never met them "face to face, nor have I rub skin with them, but I have communed heart to heart with them by the means of the written page. What they wrote; what they crafted in their sentence and paragraph structures has touched my life and shaped me to become what God intended for me. These men and women have enriched my life. What they wrote challenged me and shaped and molded my life so I have become what God wants my life to be.

Down through the annals of time the one man from the past that challenges my inner most being and influences me to be the best I can be for the glory of God is William Booth the forth-right co-founder of The Salvation Army. As a very young teen William Booth declared "God shall have all there is of William Booth." That was the supreme driving force behind his life. For him to live was Christ and to die was gain"

William Booth was a Masterful communicator. He was able to motivate many young men and women and shape them into a strong fighting force that swept across the world and fought front line battles against Satan and his hordes. Booth was a gifted wielder of the pen. Many of his thoughts are in print today because every time he opened his mouth people plainly heard the voice of spiritual maturity speaking and many responded to him and were brought to a living relationship with Jesus Christ.

Among the most challenging items that William Booth penned was a vision that has been published under the Title "WHO CARES? In it William Both dreams of countless men and women and boys and girls sinking in the flood waters of the sea of sin. There are people on the shore trying to rescue the perishing souls. There is only one life boat and it is not making good progress. Many people are lost. They are crying and desperately trying to grab a hold of anything that get them to shore and safety. Booth was challenging his readers to get ready to go into the sea and be part of the rescue of perishing sinners. Booth was asking Do you Cadre? Do you really care?

Another of William Booth's challenging items was the words he wrote in the autograph book of the British King Edward V11 (In 1904). "Some men's ambition is art; some men's ambition is fame; some men's ambition is gold' my ambition is the souls of men"

William Booth counseled his followers ""Go for souls and go for the worse!" When William

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