it before; I tell it you again.
Holiness is the royal road to peace, contentment, and joy for you.
The love God bears you, therefore, makes Him ceaselessly long after
your Holiness of heart and life. Will you not let Him have His way?
Will you not do His Will?

"God wants every Officer to be holy, in order that through him He
may be able to pour His Holy Spirit upon the people to whom that
Officer ministers.

"The men and women around you are in the dark. Oh, how ignorant
they are of God and everlasting things! They cannot see the vile
nature of the evil, and the foul character of the fiends that tempt
and rule them. They do not see the black ruin that lies before
them. So on they go, the blind leading the blind, till over the
precipice they fall together. God wants their eyes to be opened.
The Spirit can do the work, and through you He wants to pour the
light.

"The men and women around you are weak. They cannot stand up
against their own perverted appetites, the charms of the world, or
the devices of the Devil. God wants to pour the Spirit of Power
upon this helpless crowd. But He wants holy people through whom He
can convey that strength. He works His miracles by clean people.
That is His rule.

"There is nothing in the work of the early Apostles more wonderful
than the miraculous manner in which they went about breathing the
Spirit of Life and Light and Power on the people. But they were
fully consecrated, Blood-and-Fire men and women.

"What do you say, my comrades? Will you be holy mediums? Do you not
answer, 'Thy will be done'?

"God wants you to be holy, in order that you may reveal Him to the
world by your example.

"Men do not believe in God--that is, the real God--the God of the
Bible; and they do not believe in Him, because they do not know
Him.

"He seeks to reveal Himself to men in various ways. He reveals
Himself through the marvels of the natural world; and many say they
can see God in the sun, and stars, and seas, and trees. He reveals
Himself by speaking to men in their own hearts, and many hear His
whisperings there. He reveals Himself in His own Book, and some
read and ascertain what is His mind there.

"But, alas! the great multitude are like children. They require to
see and hear God reveal