throughout our ranks than! the expression, 'I am glad I am
saved!'
"As it is impossible for a Salvation Soldier to perform the duties
hereafter set forth with satisfaction to himself, and profit to
others, unless this change has been experienced, it will be well to
describe it rather particularly, so that every Soldier who reads
these Regulations will be able to satisfy himself whether he has
really undergone this change.
"If on reading this description, any Soldier should have reason to
believe that he has not experienced this change, and is still in
his sins, or that he has been unfaithful since he did realise it,
and is, therefore, a backslider, the first business of such an one
will be to go to God and seek Salvation; otherwise it will be
impossible for him to be a good Soldier.
"Salvation implies the devotion of the whole life to the
accomplishment of the purpose for which Christ lived and suffered
and died. It means that the Soldier becomes His disciple.
"Enlisting in His Army, the Soldier receives not only power to walk
in His commandments for himself, but to subdue other men to the
Lord.
"His new nature now continually cries out, 'What wilt Thou have me
to do?' and carries him forth with the feet of cheerful obedience
in the service of his new Master, to weep and suffer, and, if
necessary, to die, to bring others into the enjoyment of the
Salvation which he himself has found. He lives the same kind of
life and is actuated by the same purposes as God Himself."
In _Religion for Every Day_ he writes:--
"I am always talking to you about what we call religious duties,
such as praying and singing, making efforts to save your own soul
and the souls of the people about you. In these letters I propose
speaking of the things that men call secular, and which many people
reckon have nothing to do with Religion. But I want to show you, if
I can, that the Salvationist's conduct ought, in every particular,
to be religious; every meal he partakes of should be a sacrament;
and every thought and deed a service done to God. In doing this you
will see that I shall have to deal with many quite commonplace
subjects; and, in talking about them, I shall try to be as simple
and as practical as I possibly can.
"The first topic to which I s
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