why we succeed

Listen again to George Scott Railton, quoting in "Heathen England" some reasons for the early success of the Salvation Army, which easily could be reasons for success today!

"The Army succeeds by

- aiming at immediate results

"We have always aimed at immediate and definite results, believing that the Gospel of christ, properly preached in the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power, ought to prove, most prove, visibly as well as in the heart, its Divine efficiency." - Amen!

- making the most of the converts

"We simply ask people to speak what they do know and testify to that they have seen, and the mere fact of their having become so totally changed as to stand there at all, speaks with a voice that completely stills in every honest mind cavilling about their words, their manners, and their defects."

- teaching converts to be holy

"The people have been taught to seek for that perfect love which casteth out fear an fits people for desperate warfare against sin, - for that consuming zeal which uses up in the Master's service every faculty and hour."

- teaching it's hearers to do their utmost towards meeting the expenses of the work

"We think it a vastly important test of the value of any work done amongst the poor, to what extent they themselves help to keep it up. "