And then, few, very few, it is to be feared, will be any better of the _Holy War_.

For, to be any better of such a terrible book as this is, we must at all costs lay it, and lay it all, and lay it all at once, to heart.

We must submit ourselves to see ourselves continually in its blazing glass.

We must stoop to be told that it is all, in all its terrors and in all its horrors, literally true of ourselves.

We must deliberately and resolutely set open every gate that opens in on our heart--Ear-gate and Eye-gate and all the gates of sense and intellect, day and night, to Jesus Christ to enter in; and we must shut and bolt and bar every such gate in the devil's very face, and in the face of all his scouts and orators, day and night also.