Chapter I: Front Matter

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* * * * *

THE RED-HOT LIBRARY.

EDITED BY BRAMWELL BOOTH.

No. I.

BROTHER FRANCIS

OR,

LESS THAN THE LEAST.

BY

BRIGADIER EILEEN DOUGLAS.

THE SALVATION ARMY BOOK DEPARTMENT
LONDON: 79 & 81 Fortess Road, N.W.
MELBOURNE: 69 Bourke Street
NEW YORK: 120 West Fourteenth Street
TORONTO: Albert Street
CAPE TOWN: Loop Street
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD.
4 STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LONDON, E.C.

1911

_Second Edition._

_Uniform with this Volume._

II. ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER. A Brief History of the Last Days of
MRS. GENERAL BOOTH.

III. GEORGE FOX, THE RED-HOT QUAKER.

IV. HELPS TO HOLINESS.

V. DAVID STONER; OR, THE SHY PREACHER.

VI. RED FLOWERS OF MARTYRDOM.

VII. HEART TALKS ON HOLINESS.

VIII. COMMISSIONER DOWDLE, THE SAVED RAILWAY GUARD.

IX. PETER CARTWRIGHT: GOD'S ROUGH-RIDER.

X. THE LIFE OF LIEUT.-COLONEL JUNKER.

XI. THE SOUL-WINNER'S SECRET.

XII. GIDEON OUSELEY: AN OLD-TIME IRISH SALVATIONIST.

XIII. FLETCHER OF MADELEY.

XIV. THE CROSS OUR COMFORT.

XV. SIGHS FROM HELL.

XVI. WHAT HINDERS YOU?

XVII. THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT, AND THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER. PAGE.

I.--ASSISI AND FRANCIS 1

II.--A CHANGE 5

III.--A LONELY STRUGGLE 10

IV.--VICTORY WITHOUT AND WITHIN 15

V.--FRANCIS' CALL 21

VI.--FRANCIS' EARLY DISCIPLES 28

VII.--FRANCIS CALLED TO BE A SAINT 36

VIII.--FRANCIS AS A LEADER OF MEN 44

IX.--ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ORDER 50

X.--THE STORY OF CLARA 57

XI.--THE FIRST CHAPTER 62

XII.--SOME OF FRANCIS' CONVERTS 70

XIII.--THE STORY OF THE MARTYRS 80

XIV.--FIRST FOREIGN MISSIONS 87

XV.--FRANCIS' VISIT TO THE SULTAN: DISCOURAGEMENTS 95

XVI.--BRETHREN OF THE MILITIA OF JESUS CHRIST 103

XVII.--CLOUDS 111

XVIII.--LAST DAYS 119