in the field,
on the Salvation platform or in the coal mine, whether Officers or
Soldiers, we are all alike, as servants of God, under the
obligation to do all we possibly can in the service of men; and to
do it with the holy motive of pleasing our Heavenly Master.

"Here let me review my warrant for requiring from you the kind of
loving labour that I advocate.

"The Bible enjoins it. We have already quoted Paul's words to the
Ephesians, in which he says that our work is to be done, 'Not with
eye-service as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart; with goodwill doing service, as to
the Lord, and not to men.' That is all I ask for.

"It is enjoined by the doctrine of brotherly love. I cannot
understand how any one can suppose, for a moment, that he is living
a life acceptable to God unless he is striving, with all his might,
to fulfil the Divine command, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.' Your master, or whoever has a claim upon your service,
must be included in the term 'neighbour'; and to comply with the
command of the Saviour, you must work for that master, or mistress,
as the case may be, from the voluntary principle of love rather
than the earthly and selfish principle of gain.

"Is not the disinterested method I am urging upon you in keeping
with the loftiest ideals the world possesses with respect to work?
About whom does it write its poetry? Whom does it laud to the
heavens in the pulpit, on the platform, and in the Press? Whose
names does it describe the highest in its Temples of Fame, or hand
down to posterity as examples for rich and poor, old and young
alike, to follow? Is it the man who makes his own ease and
enrichment his only aim in life, and who toils and spins for
nothing higher than his own gratification? Nothing of the kind. It
is the generous, self-sacrificing, disinterested being who uses
himself up for the benefit of his fellows.

"Nay, at whom does that same world ceaselessly sneer, and whom does
it most pitilessly despise? Is it not the mean and narrow spirit
whose conduct is governed by selfish greed and sensual indulgences?
Whatever may be its practice, in this respect, the sentiment of the
world is in the right direction. It asks for benevolence evidenced
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