He uses emotion to break down the resistance of a sinner, but when once the surrender is made reason takes command of the illumined soul.

He was asked on one occasion if he did not regard emotion as a dangerous thing.

"Not when it is organised," was his reply.
The only concession he seems willing to make to the critics of the Salvation Army is in the matter of its hymns.

He confesses that some of those hymns are crude and unlovely; but examine this confession and you find that it is only the language which causes him uneasiness.

Approach him on the subject of dogma, the dogma crudely expressed but truthfully expressed in the worst of those hymns, and he is as hard as Bishop Gore or Father Knox.
He has been too busy, I think, to hear even a whisper from the field of modernism, though exaggerated rumours of what is taking place in that field must occasionally reach his ear and confirm him in his obscurantism.
Perhaps it is all to the good that he should be thus wholly uninterested in the speculations of the trained theologian.