THE TEMPTER: HIS HISTORY AND NATURE 1. Satan's Fall and its Effects 2. The Hopelessness of his Warfare 3. The Limitations of the Tempter 4. The Restraint of the Divine Decrees CHAPTER III THE TEMPTER: HIS CHARACTERISTICS AND METHODS 1. Satan, The Deceiver 2. The Fact of his Personality 3. His Experience and Wisdom 4. The Methods of his Might 5. The Soul's Safety {xii} CHAPTER IV THE UNIVERSALITY OF TEMPTATION 1. The Common Lot 2. Enduring Hardship 3. The Sufferings of the Saints 4. Satan in the Sanctuary 5. The Sacrament of Temptation CHAPTER V THE SPIRIT OF SOLICITUDE 1. True and False Anxiety 2. Worry Versus Faith 3. The Cure of a Doubting Spirit 4. God's Sympathy CHAPTER VI OUR PREPARATION FOR TEMPTATION 1. A Double Weapon 2. The Spirit of Vigilance 3. Prayer and Temptation CHAPTER VII TRAINING THE INNER LIFE 1. Environment and Character 2. Educating the Memory 3. Guiding the Imagination 4. The Practice of Constancy 5. The Practice of Calmness 6. The Practice of Patience 7. The Practice of Diligence {xiii} CHAPTER VIII THE STAGES OF THE BATTLE 1. The Satanic Suggestion 2. The Response of the Natural Heart 3. The "Inferior" and "Superior" Wills 4. The Fatal Consent CHAPTER IX IN THE HOUR OF BATTLE 1. Realizing God's Friendship 2. The Divine Example of Humility 3. Instant in Prayer 4. A Holy Perversity 5. Scorning the Tempter 6. Staying not the Hand 7. The Final Phase of Victory CHAPTER X THE TESTS OF VICTORY AND DEFEAT 1. The Test of Common Sense 2. The Test of Doubt 3. Signs of the Soul's Victory 4. Spiritual Safety, Spiritual Victory 5. The Truest Test CHAPTER XI THE SCHOOL OF THE HOLY GHOST 1. The Teaching of Temptation 2. The Bulwark of Love 3. The Lesson of Humility 4. The Lessons of Consolation 5. How to Learn our Lessons {xiv} CHAPTER XII THE RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY 1. Hastening to Repent 2. A Tranquil Sorrow 3. A Spirit of Reparation 4. The Work of Amendment 5. The Gainsaying of Satan CHAPTER XIII THE GROUND FOR CHRISTIAN COURAGE 1. Members One of Another 2. The Church's Treasury of Grace 3. God's Interest in our Victory {1} CHAPTER I THE WARFARE OF THE SOUL I. _A Personal Issue_ The spiritual warfare is intensely personal. Any consideration of it is a consideration of definite personalities, divine, angelic, human, Satanic,--God, the Angels, the Soul, and Satan. We speak commonly of great principles being at stake in this warfare, often forgetting that it is not possible for a moral or spiritual principle to exist apart from a person.