CHRIST the WRATH-BEARER: “the ark…is also an antitype which now saves us…” (1 Pet 3:20-21). Just as the waters of judgment destroyed the unbelievers, it also lifted the ark and it’s inhabitants to safety. So death that once damned us to hell now lifts us up to glory! Catherine Booth (nee Mumford) was born in Ashbourne, England, in 1829. Saved as a child, she voraciously read Finney’s and Wesley’s gospel sermons. She met William Booth in 1851; after a three-year engagement, they were married. They began The Christian Mission in 1865 in London’s East End, which would expand to become the Salvation Army. Catherine was tireless in gospel work and in helping the needy. She died with cancer at the age of 61. As she approached the crossing, she said, “The waters are rising—but so am I! I am not going under but over.” To her eight Christian children, she added, “Do not be concerned about dying; go on living well, and the dying will be right.”