Excerpt from The Soldiers Manual, or Piety and Practice Our profession is a very high one, and, the higher the profession, the more conspicuous the inconsistency of a life which does not correspond with it. The whiter the garment, the more vis ible the stains or blotches; just so, dear comrade, with a soul that has been washed white with the blood of Jesus, the stains of some little fault, allowed to mar its whiteness, will stand out even more conspicuously than in the soul of one who professes not to have known the cleansing power of Calvary's stream. Walk as children of light. The first and foremost necessity to the 'success fulness of the Salvationist's life is piety - godli ness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.