When I went to France [1881], I said to Christ: “I in You and You in me!” And many a time in confronting single-handed a laughing, scoffing crowd, I have said, “You and I are enough for them. I won’t fail You, and You won’t fail me.”
That is something of which we have only touched the fringe. That is a truth almost hermetically sealed. It would be sacrilege, it would be desecration, it would be wrong, unfair, unjust if Divine power were given on any other terms than absolute self-abandonment.
When I went to France, I said to Jesus, “I will suffer anything if You will give me the keys.” And if I am asked what was the secret of our power in France, I answer: First, love; second, love; third, love. And if you ask how to get it, I answer: First, by sacrifice. Christ loves us passionately, and loves to be loved passionately.
From “The Marechale” by James Strahan. Catherine was the eldest daughter of William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army. She founded the Salvation Army’s work in France and Switzerland. Later, she and her husband became Pentecostal evangelists.
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