s
streaming through my soul."

"They confound temptation with sin. Whatever they may say about it,
they do not see the difference existing between temptation and sin.

"Some Officers are hindered in the fight for Holiness by supposing
that purity will deliver them from serious depression, low spirits,
and the like.

"With many sincere souls I have no doubt that one of the most
serious hindrances in this strife is the confounding of Holiness
with happiness, and thinking that if they are holy they will be
happy all the time; whereas the Master Himself was a Man of
Sorrows, and lived, more or less, a life of grief.

"Then there comes the last reason I shall notice, and that is the
want of perseverance. There are some Officers who have been up the
mountain--part of the way, at any rate, if not to the top. But
through disobedience, or want of faith, they have no longer the
experience they once enjoyed.

"The condition. You say to sinners that they are never to give up.
I do, at least. So with those who are seeking Holiness. They must
persevere or they will never find it."

Chapter XXVIII

The General as a Writer

None of us have yet any idea how voluminous a writer The General was,
because so much of his writing was in the form of contributions to our
many publications, or of letters to Officers.

We can only insert here a few, specimens of what he wrote at various
dates, and remark that in private letters there was always the very same
flow of happy earnest life, the same high ideal as finds expression in
the following extracts. In his _Orders and Regulations for Field
Officers_ he says:--

"It must always be remembered by the Field Officer, and by every
one who is desirous of producing any great moral or spiritual
changes in men, that the example of the individual attempting this
task will be much more powerful than the doctrines they set forth,
or any particular methods they adopt for teaching those doctrines,
however impressive these may be.

"The correctness of this statement has been proved over and over
again in this Salvation War. Everywhere the people measure the
truth and importance of what the Field Officer says by their
estimate of his character. If he produces the impression in their
minds that he is a mere talker or performer, they may list