“Courage is the most valuable quality in this War.  There are few gifts of greater importance.  Only think what it has enabled the Prophets, the Apostles, and the Salvation leaders of modern times to accomplish!  How it covered Moses, and Joshua, and David, and Daniel, and Paul, and a crowd of others with glory, and enabled them to conquer men, and devils, and difficulties of all kinds.  I shall have something more to say about this before I have done.

“Courage and Holiness are linked closely together.  You cannot have one without the other.  Sin is the very essence of weakness.  A little selfishness, a little insincerity, a little of anything that is evil means condemnation, and loss of courage, which means cowardice and failure.

     “‘The wicked flee when no man pursueth.’  Double-minded people are
     uncertain, fickle, unreliable in all their ways.  ’The righteous are
     bold as a lion.’  Remember Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego.

     “God wants you to be holy, in order that He may do mighty works
     through your instrumentality.

“I verily believe that His arm is held back from working wonders through the agency of many Officers, because He sees that such success would be their ruin.  The spirit of Nebuchadnezzar is in them.  He cannot build Babylon, or London, or New York, or anything else by their instrumentality, because He sees it would create the spirit of vainglory and boasting, or of ambition; make them dissatisfied with their position; or otherwise curse them and those about them.  Look at Saul.  What a lesson his history has in it for us all.  ’When thou wast little in thine own sight wast thou not made the head of the Tribes of Israel? and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel.’

     “Now, I may be asked whether some Officers do not fail to reach the
     higher ranges of the experience I have here described, and the
     reasons for this.

“To this question I reply that I am afraid that it is only too true that some Officers are to be found who are willing to dwell in the land of uncertainty and feebleness.  They are the slaves of habits they condemn in others.  Their example is marred, their powers are weakened for their work, and, instead of going onward and upward to the victory they believe so gloriously possible, they are a disappointment to themselves, to God, and to their leaders.

     “If I am asked to name the reasons for their neglect of this
     glorious privilege, I would say:—­

     “They have doubts about the possibility of living this life of
     Holiness.