icership will be like a
body without a soul, or like a locomotive without any power. The
D.O. must encourage Officers to cry out to God for this, and must
continually explain its importance.

"The D.O. must understand that if Officers under his command
decline in their love for souls and become careless about the
progress of their work, he will have failed in a very important
part of his duty. The D.O. exists for the purpose of helping and
saving his F.O.'s.

"The D.O. is responsible for the development of energy and
enterprise in his Officers. One great temptation of F.O.'s is to
settle down and to be content with a formal discharge of duty, and,
what is worse still, to offer all sorts of excuses for their
lackadaisical Laodicean condition. Few people have in themselves
sufficient force of character, human or Divine, to keep them
pushing ahead for any considerable length of time. Officers who
when they first enter the Field are like flames of fire, will, if
not looked after, get into ruts, and content themselves with
holding so many Meetings, doing so many marches, raising the
ordinary Corps funds, Meeting the ordinary expenditure, keeping the
ordinary number of Soldiers on the Roll, and doing everything in
the ordinary day, while the world, undisturbed, is going forward at
express speed to Hell. The D.O. should endeavour to prevent this
settling down on the part of his Officers by continually stirring
up their minds with inducements to labour and encouragements to
renewed activity and increased sacrifice for the Salvation of the
world.

"The D.O. is also responsible for the improvement of the gifts of
his Officers and of their efficiency for the work they have in
hand. He must not only show them wherein they fail, but must teach
them how they may do better.

"The D.O. must encourage his Officers. If they have gifts and
capacities--and none are without some--he should cheer them
forward by acknowledging them. He should point out where they do
well, at the same time setting before them the higher positions of
usefulness they may reach with a little application and
perseverance. He may always remind them of Officers who during the
early part of their career have had little success, but who, by
sticking to the fight have reached p