service? The husband who loves his
wife as Christ loved the Church, does not stop to consider the
claims of duty, or the advantages following its discharge in
toiling for her welfare. He will be willing to die for her, as
Christ died for the Church.

"He does not say, 'I will toil for my delicate wife, and deny
myself pleasant things, in order to obtain for her the necessaries
and comforts she requires, because she would do the same for me, if
I were in her place and she in mine.' Nothing of the kind! The wife
I spoke of, who told me the other day that she had not had her
clothes off for seventeen days and nights in nursing her husband
did not make it appear that she thought she was doing anything
extraordinary, or that she rendered this service to her companion
in life because she felt sure that had he been the wife and she the
husband, he would have gladly done the same for her.

"Had the newspapers thought that the American millionaire was going
to the Leper Island, with his gold, to make something out of it for
himself and family, or to make a name in the world, instead of his
being greeted with a chorus of admiration, there would have been a
universal chorus of execration at his selfishness. It was because
they believed that he was going to make the sacrifice of his own
gain, if not of his own self, for the benefit of the poor
sufferers, that they praised him.

"Supposing, however, that we come down to the low level of
self-interest, we insist then, that those who work from the motive
of love, rather than the motive of gain, will not necessarily be
sufferers in consequence, so far as this world goes. But it may be
asked, 'Will not unprincipled masters or mistresses be likely to
take advantage of this docile and unselfish spirit?' Perhaps, nay,
doubtless, in many cases, they will. The Salvation Army has been
taken advantage of all through its past history, and so have all
the true saints of God, because they have submitted to wrong, and
have not fought the injustice and false representations and
persecutions inflicted upon them from the beginning. It will
possibly be so to the end, but that does not affect the principle
for which I argue, which is, that we _must_ do good work, and as
much of it as we can, regardless of what the world may