to live, and fight, and die for the living God.

"THE SPIRIT OF PURITY

"And now we come to the consideration of the message of the second
Spirit. Let us recall his words: 'O Officers, Officers, the Great
Father has sent me to tell you that if you would be successful in
your campaign against wickedness, selfishness, and fiends, you must
yourselves be holy.'

"I come now to the task of showing, as far as I am able, what the
plan of life is which God has formed for a Salvation Army Officer.

"What must an Officer be and do who wants satisfactorily to fill up
the plan God has formed for him? Of course, there will in some
respects be certain striking differences in that plan. But in the
main there will be remarkable resemblances.

"The first thing that God asks is, that the Officer shall possess
the character He approves.

"You might say the character that He admires. The very essence of
that character is expressed in one word--_Holiness_.

"In the list of qualifications for effective leadership in this
warfare, The Salvation Army has ever placed Holiness in the first
rank. The Army has said, and says to-day, that no other qualities
or abilities can take its place. No learning, or knowledge, or
talking, or singing, or scheming, or any other gift will make up
for the absence of this. You must be good if you are to be a
successful Officer in The Salvation Army.

"Let us suppose that a comrade were to present himself before us
this morning, and say, 'I am a Salvationist. I want to be an
Officer amongst you, and I want to be an Officer after God's own
Heart; but I am ignorant of the qualifications needed.' If I were
to ask you what I should say to this brother, I know what your
answer would be. You would say, with one voice, 'Tell him that,
before all else, he must be a holy man.'

"Suppose, further, that I appeared before you myself for the first
time at this Congress, and were to say to you: 'My comrades, I have
come to be your Leader. What is the first, the foundation quality I
require for your leadership?' I know the answer you would give me.
You would say, 'O General, you must be a holy man.'

"If there were gathered before me, in some mighty building, the
choicest spirits now fighting in The Salvation Army the world