Produced by Louise Davies, Rose Mawhorter, Steven Turner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcription Notes: All obvious punctuation errors have been corrected. Both alms-giving and almsgiving appeared in the text. Almsgiving has been retained. Both grey-green and grey green appeared in the text. Grey-green has been retained. Both countryside and country-side appeared in the text. Country-side has been retained. Both lawsuits and law-suits appeared in the text. Lawsuits has been retained. Both unheard of and unheard-of both appeared in text. Unheard of has been retained. Both any one and anyone both appeared in text. Anyone has been retained. Both swineherd and swine-herd appeared in the text. Swine-herd has been retained. Both lay workers and lay-workers appeared in the text. Lay-workers has been retained. Both Bernard di Quintavelle and Bernard di Quintavalle appeared in the text. The variation has been retained. p 1. Appenines has been corrected to Apennines. p 16. delapidated was corrected to dilapidated p 66. Appenines has been corrected to Apennines. p 116. amplication has been corrected to application. p 116. nomed was corrected to named * * * * * THE RED-HOT LIBRARY. EDITED BY BRAMWELL BOOTH. No. I. BROTHER FRANCIS OR, LESS THAN THE LEAST. BY BRIGADIER EILEEN DOUGLAS. [Illustration] 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