To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Datty News."
Sirn,—X. Y. Z. says truly enough, in his criticism of my letter to you on "The will to be well" that I have not gone very deeply into the subject. I agree to that part of his letter, but he is not, in my judgement, fair to the Salvation Army when he says the sole appeal of its officers in their addresses to the unconverted is to the. emotions. They' appeal both to the emotional and to the reasoning faculties My critic seems to think it is a mark of inferiority to appeal to the emotions. That this is far from being the case is shown by the fact that poets, painters and orators all appeal to the emotions. In the emotions lie the springs of action. "The heart's aye the part aye that makes us right or wrong." The great change called "conversion" is the rectification of the
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