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 shall call your attention is your daily employment, and by that I mean the method by which you earn your livelihood.  Or, supposing that, having some independent means of support, you are not compelled to labour for your daily bread, then I shall point out that special form of work, the doing of which Providence has plainly made to be your duty.  Because it is difficult to conceive of any Salvationist who has not some regular employment, for which he holds himself responsible to God

“Work is a good thing, my comrades.  To be unemployed is generally counted an evil—­any way, it is so in the case of a poor man; but it seems to me that the obligation to be engaged in some honourable and useful kind of labour is as truly devolved upon the rich as upon the poor, perhaps more so.  Work is necessary to the well-being of men and women of every class, everywhere.  To be voluntarily idle, in any rank or condition of life, is to be a curse to others and to be accursed yourself.

“You would utterly condemn me if you thought that I engaged in my work in The Army merely to make a good show, or for some personal profit, and did not care about what God thought