Look at the foliage, the blossom, the fruit. Look at the reptiles
crawling at your feet, and take care they do not sting you. Look at
the birds chattering and fluttering on the trees, and they will
charm you. Look at the animals roving through the woods, and take
care they do not devour you.

"Contrast all this movement with the empty, barren, silent, Polar
regions, or the dreary, treeless sands of the African desert.

"Go and look at the overflowing, tirelss activity of the children.
Why are they never still? It is the life that is in them. Go to the
man at work. With what glee, and for what a trifling remuneration,
he sweats, and lifts and carries the ponderous weights. Go to the
soldier in the military war. How he shouts and sings as he marches
to deprivations, and wounds, and death.

"Even so with Spiritual Life. It never rests; it never tires; it
always sees something great to do, and is always ready to undertake
it. What is the explanation? How can we account for it? The answer
is, Life--abundant life.

"It is only by the possession of Life that The Salvation Army
Officer can spread this life.

"That is, reproduce himself, multiply himself, or his kind. This
reproduction or multiplication of itself is a characteristic of all
life.

"Take the vegetable kingdom. Every living plant has life-producing
seed, or some method of reproducing itself. The thistle: who can
count the number of plants that one thistle can produce in a year?
One hundred strawberry plants can be made in ten years to produce
more than a thousand million other strawberry plants!

"Take the animal kingdom. Here each living creature has this
reproductive power. They say that a pair of sparrows would in ten
years, if all their progeny could be preserved, produce as many
birds as there are people on the earth--that is, 1,500,000,000. 'Ye
are of more value than many sparrows.'

"Just so, this Spiritual Life is intended to spread itself through
the world.

"It is to this end it is given to you. God's command to Adam was,
'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.' How much more
does this command apply to you and to me! You are to be progenitors
of a world of men and women possessed of Spiritual Life; the
parents of a race of angels. How this is to