n; and further, there can be, I think, no two
opinions as to his having taught and manifested to the world what it
means to be possessed entirely by the Saviour's spirit.

And what did that spirit produce? Surely it was the same entire
devotion of our all to the service of God and humanity which we
Salvationists daily teach. The difference between our spirit and that
of the subject of this Memoir is, I trust, very slight, although the
manifestations of it are widely diverse. We are quite as extreme in
our demands as to poverty and solitude as he was, only that we do not
value these things for their own sake as he did. We daily induce
persons to leave earthly possessions and prospects in order to go and
seek the salvation of the poor, amongst whom their future life is to
be spent; and we require our Officers to consecrate all they have to
the service of the Kingdom of God right through their career, and to
live always in a state of readiness to be sent away from all they have
known and loved--not, indeed, to live in any cloister or hermitage,
but in the solitude amidst the crowd which must ever be more or less
the lot of the highest leaders of men.

The system established by Francis was not adaptable to family life,
whereas it is our joy to show how as complete a devotion to the good
of others can be manifested by the father or mother, who spend most of
their hours in toil for the support of those dependent upon them, as
by the monks and nuns of old, even when they walked in entire harmony
with the rules of their various orders.

We have demonstrated that most people by the very fact of their being
engaged in business, and having to fulfil the duties of family life,
acquire extra power to capture for God those who are still in the
ranks of worldliness and selfishness.

Nevertheless, we must always expect God to require from time to time
witnesses who might step out of the ordinary path altogether in order
to revolutionise the world for Him. It were better far to aspire to so
high and holy a calling than to excuse in ourselves any less
self-denial, any easier life than this man's boundless love to Christ
constrained him to adopt.

It is most melancholy to reflect that Francis died almost
broken-hearted over what he felt to be the unfaithfulness of his
brethren. We believe that God has guided us to plans which, being
consistent with the possibilities of modern human life, are capable of
being carried out fully and al