ss 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.

"They think there is some fatal necessity laid upon them to sin--at
least a little, or just now and then. They think that God cannot,
or that He will not, or that He has not arranged to save them
altogether from their inward evils. They know that the Bible says,