It is the old recruiting talk of the chief captain in the fight against the sins of this world, the pressing exhortation to get converted at once, to-day, in this very hour.

It is the old entreaty to become a child of God, in spite of all opposition; the old call to purity of heart and life.
Whoever has wandered must come back again.

He who has fallen a hundred times must get up again for the hundred and first time.
"This General believes in the Salvation of the worst and the most deeply sunken.

He preaches the gospel of holding on, of going steadily forwards, of freedom from the lusts of the flesh and from public opinion.

He preaches at the same time the gospel of work, of unwearied faithfulness in business, and of love to all mankind.
"When he has finished The Army sings with musical accompaniment and clapping of hands its glad and even merry-sounding songs, not without a mixture of that sudden inrush of enthusiasm which springs from the conviction of having the only faith that can make people blessed, and the consciousness of a resistance hard to be overcome.
And then begins that extraordinary urgent exhorting of the sinner from the stage--the ten-and-twenty times repeated 'Come'-- come to the Penitent-Form, represented here by a row of twenty chairs.