that content you?  Instruct them in doctrines, and rescues, and Salvations in which they have no share?  Will that content you?  No!  No!  No!  A thousand times no!  You won’t be content with all that.  God has sent you into this dark valley for nothing less than to raise these doom-struck creatures from the dead.  That is your mission.  To stop short of this will be a disastrous and everlasting calamity.

“What do you say?  It cannot be done?  That is false.  God would never have set you an impossible task.  You cannot do it?  That is false again, for you have done it before again and again.  There is not an Officer here who has not called some souls from the dead.  Not one.  How many thousands—­how many tens of thousands, in the aggregate, have the Officers present at this Congress raised from the graves of iniquity?  Who can tell?

“Go, and do it again.  Go, and look at them.  Go, and compassionate them.  Go, and represent Jesus Christ to them.  Go, and prophesy to them.  Go, and believe for them.  And then shall bone come to bone, and there shall be a great noise, and a great Army shall stand up 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