,the ,heart-,cry of ,jesus ,,by ,,byron ,j4 ,,rees1 ,author of ,christlikeness1 ,hulda1 the ,pentecostal ,prophetess1 and ,hallelujahs from ,portsmouth1 ,nos4 #b and #c4 ,,dedication4 ,,to ,,my ,,master1 ,,even ,,christ4 ,,introduction4 ,,the ,,need ,,of ,,the ,,day4 ,the saying1 ,necessity is the mother of ,invention1 finds nowhere a more vivid illustration of its truth than in the publishing enterprises of the modern ,holiness movement4 ,the onward movement of the ,holy ,ghost along ,pentecostal lines1 convicting of depravity1 creating a clean-reading public1 and endueing with power both pulpit and pew1 has resulted in a constant and growing demand for full-salvation literature4 ,tens of thousands of pulpits do an active business on both the wholesale and retail plan1 with science and philosophy as stock in trade4 ,famishing congregations are proffered the bugs of biology1 the rocks of geology1 and the stars of astronomy until their souls revolt1 and they demand bread and meat4 ,,the ,,need ,,being ,,supplied4 ,the great soul-cry is being met and answered by the publication and distribution of soul-feeding1 spirit-inspiring1 health-giving ,holiness books and papers4 ,god is raising up writers and editors from whose pens pour melted truths1 to the edification and blessing of thousands4 ,,the ,,purpose ,,of ,,this ,,book4 ,in this little book we have a production in which the author has made little attempt at the elucidation of doctrine or the waging of controversy1 but in great simplicity and directness he has presented the truth with a view to helpfulness1 desiring to introduce really hungry souls into the ,canaan life1 and provide a well-loaded table of rich provisions for those who are already in the ,land4 ,,readers ,,will ,,be ,,refreshed4 ,we believe that there is a warmth1 fervor and glow about the pages of this volume which will be most refreshing to many1 many readers4 ,may the ,holy ,spirit put ,his seal upon it and give it an extensive circulation4 ,,seth ,c4 ,,rees4 ,,providence1 ,r4 ,i41 ,,november #ae1 #ahih4 ,,preface4 ,,what ,,is ,,sanctification8 ,no one who accustoms himself to the observation of spiritual tides1 winds and currents can be ignorant of the fact that the devout men and women of the present are earnestly inquiring1 ,what is sanctification8 ,what does holiness mean8 ,they are demanding of the pulpit and of the church editor something more than the time-worn and moth-eaten excuses for not teaching a deeper work of grace4 ,the seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to the modern ,baals are insisting that1 if ,god's ,word teaches entire sanctification for the disciple of ,christ obtainable by faith now1 they must possess themselves of this heavenly grace4 ,,the ,,author',s ,,desire4 ,it is with the purpose and hope that some seeking heart may be helped that these pages are penned4 ,the author has purposely avoided all controversial matter4 ,we would not assume the role of the doctrinaire even were we capable of it4 ,not controversy1 not theology1 but to save souls1 as ,lyman ,beecher said when dying4 ,,the ,,need ,,of ,,speed4 ,this book has been written in the midst of laborious and unceasing revival work4 ,for this reason there has been no time to polish sentences nor improve style4 ,the object has been to get the truth to the people in plain language1 and to do it with despatch1 for the time is short1 and men are being saved or damned with electric speed4 ,,the ,,buzzard ,,and ,,vulture4 ,the buzzard and the vulture will find food if they look for it1 but with them we are not concerned4 ,we are1 however1 terribly in earnest to help hungry souls to a place of blessing and power4 ,may ,god take these leaves and make them leaves of healing1 if not for nations1 at least for individuals4 ,,byron ,j4 ,,rees4 ,,november #ad1 #ahih4 ,,contents4 ,,dedication ,,introduction ,,preface ,,christ',s ,,prayer ,,chapter ,i4 ,a ,word in the ,prayer ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,some ,errors ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,those for ,whom ,christ ,prayed ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,christ's ,prayer ,answered ,,chapter ,v4 ,christian ,unity ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,fearlessness ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,responsiveness to ,christ ,,chapter ,,viii4 ,soul-,rest ,,chapter ,,ix4 ,prayerfulness ,,chapter ,x4 ,success ,,chapter ,,xi4 ,growth in ,christliness of ,life ,,experience ,,christ',s ,,prayer3 ,,sanctify ,,them ,,through ,,the ,,truth2 ,,thy ,,word ,,is ,,truth4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,a ,,word ,,in ,,the ,,prayer4 ,,christ',s ,,words4 ,all who really love ,christ love ,his words4 ,they may not always fully understand their meaning1 but they never reject any of them4 ,the very fact that any word has been on the lips of ,christ and received ,his sanction1 gives it a sound of music to all who are truly disciples of the ,nazarene4 ,,mother',s ,,words4 ,the words that your mother used frequently--are there any words quite the same to you8 ,she may be resting under the solemn pines of a silent cemetery1 but1 to this hour1 if anyone uses one of her favorite words1 instantly the heart leaps in answer1 and the mind flies back to her1 and the fancy paints her as you knew her in the garden or at the fireside or by the window4 ,it lies in the power of a single word to make the eyes fill and the throat ache because of its association with the voice of a queenly mother4 ,a ,,man',s ,,testimony4 ,thus it is with ,christ and ,,his words4 ,it matters not where we meet the word1 if it is ,christ's we are touched and made tender4 ,an aged man stands in a prayer-meeting in a bare and cheerless hall1 and says in broken and faltering voice1 ,the dear ,lord has blessedly ,,sanctified my heart1 and like a flash the room lightens1 and the whole place seems changed and made cheery4 ,the heart cries1 ,that is my ,master's word1 and the entire being is attentive and interested4 ,,jesus' ,,life ,,dear4 ,yes1 to the really regenerated soul everything connected with ,jesus is dear4 ,the place of ,his birth1 the land of ,his ministry1 the garden of ,his agony1 the mount of ,his crucifixion1 the ,olivet of ,his ascension1 all these are illumined with a peculiar and special light4 ,the mind dwells lovingly on ,his parables1 ponders deeply ,his sayings1 lingers tenderly over ,his words4 ,,we ,,welcome ,,the ,,word4 ,we will ,,not therefore shrink from the ,word of our ,lord3 ,sanctify4 ,it may have been stained by the slime of some unworthy life1 or soiled by the lips of men who prated about sanctification1 but knew nothing of its nature2 yet1 for all that1 since the word is ,christ's we hail its enunciation with gladness4 ,,christ',s ,,burden4 ,the high-priestly prayer of ,christ was distinctively for the disciples4 ,indeed1 ,he ,,says3 ,i pray not for the world4 ,that is to say1 the disciples need a peculiar and special work of grace1 one which must follow1 not precede1 conversion1 and therefore not to be received by the world4 ,in this prayer the loving ,master revealed to ,his immediate disciples1 and to those of all ages and climes1 the burning desire of ,his heart concerning ,his followers4 ,the petition ascends from ,his immaculate heart like incense from a golden censer1 and it has for its tone and soul1 ,sanctify them through thy truth4 ,his soul longed for this work to be completed quickly4 ,during the last days of ,his ministry ,he talked frequently of the coming ,comforter4 ,he admonished them to tarry until an enduement came to them4 ,he knew that unless they were energized with a power1 to which they were as yet strangers1 their work would be worse than futile4 ,,he ,,prayed ,,for ,,sanctification4 ,it is for the ,,sanctification of the disciples that ,christ prayed4 ,he did not ask that they might fill positions of honor and trust2 ,he knew that there is no nobility but that of goodness4 ,it was more important that the early preachers should be holy men than that they should be respected and honored4 ,he did not pray for riches for them2 ,he knew too well the worthlessness of money in itself4 ,he did not desire for them thrones1 nor culture1 nor refinement1 nor name4 ',tis only noble to be good4 ,true hearts are more than coronets1 ,and simple faith than ,norman blood4 ,so ,jesus prayed that these men who had for three years been ,his daily and constant companions should receive an experience which should make them ,,intensely ,,good2 not goody-goody1 which is very different1 but heartily and wholly spiritual and godly4 ,,the ,,men ,,we ,,love4 ,the men whose names are brightening as the ages fly1 were not men who were always free from prejudices and blunders4 ,they were not men1 as a rule1 from university quadrangles nor college cloisters4 ,they were not the wise1 nor the erudite1 nor the cultivated1 nor the rich4 ,they were the good men4 ,brilliant men tire us2 wits soon bore us with their gilt-edged nothings1 but men with clean1 holy hearts1 fixed convictions1 bold antipathies to sin1 sympathetic natures and tender consciences never weary us1 and they bear the intimate and familiar acquaintance which so often causes the downfall of the so-called great in one's estimation4 ,,the ,,personal ,,touch4 ,we may forget an eloquent sermon pilfered from ,massillon1 but we will never forget a warm handclasp and a sympathetic word from an humble servant in ,god's house4 ,jesus never went for the crowds--he hunted the individual4 ,he sat up a whole night with a questioning ,rabbi2 talked an afternoon with a harlot who wanted salvation2 sought out and found the man whom they cast out of the synagogue1 and saved a dying robber on an adjacent cross4 ,we do not reach men in great audiences generally4 ,we reach them by interesting ourselves in them individually2 by lending our interest to their needs2 by giving them a lift when they need it4 ,,sanctified ,,fishermen4 ,jesus with divine sagacity knew that if these untutored fishermen were to light up ,europe and ,asia with the torch of the gospel they must have an experience themselves which would transform them from self-seeking1 cowardly men to giants and heroes4 ,,the ,,carnal ,,mind4 ,while the true ,christian loves ,christ and ,his words1 while his higher and more spiritual nature says ,amen to the ,lord's teaching1 yet it must not be forgotten that the carnal mind which remains1 even in the heart of the regenerate1 is enmity against ,god4 ,there is a dark ,,somewhat in the soul that fairly hates the word sanctification4 ,theologians call it inbred sin or original depravity2 the ,bible terms it the old man1 the old leaven1 the root of bitterness1 etc4 ,whatever its name it abhors holiness and purity1 and though the regenerate man loves ,christ and ,his words1 he does so over the vehement protest of a baser principle chained and manacled in the basement dungeon of his heart4 ,,george ,,fox4 ,the devout of all churches recognize the existence of an inner enemy who bars the gate to rapid spiritual progress4 ,george ,fox1 the pious founder of the ,friends' ,society1 said in relation to an experience which came to him3 ,i knew ,jesus1 and ,he was very precious to my soul1 but ,i found something within me which would not always keep patient and kind4 ,i did what ,i could to keep it down1 but it was there4 ,i besought ,jesus that ,he would do something for me1 and when ,i gave ,him my will ,he came into me and cast out all that would not be patient1 and all that would not be sweet1 and that would not be kind1 and then ,he shut the door4 ,,sin ,,in ,,believers4 ,john ,wesley preached a sermon on ,sin in ,believers which is extant and widely read4 ,all churches recognize it in their creeds1 and all have provision in their dogmas for its expulsion before entrance into heaven4 ,the ,catholics provide a convenient ,purgatory2 other denominations glorify ,death and ascribe to it a power which they deny to ,christ2 while still others rely on growth to cleanse from all sin and get us ready for the glory-world4 ,the ,bible1 however1 with that sublime indifference to all human opinions and theories becoming in divine authority1 reveals a ,,salvation ,,from ,,all ,,sin ,,here ,,and ,,now4 ,the word sanctify means simply to make holy 7,l41 sanctificare sanctus1 holy1 ficare1 to make74 ,the work of sanctification removes all the roots of bitterness and destroys the remains of sin in the heart4 ,,unreasonable ,,antagonism4 ,what sound sense can there be in antagonizing a blessing which is nothing more or less than cleanness--mental1 moral and physical cleanness4 ,the kind of character that would wittingly fight holiness would object to a change of linen4 ,a ,,church ,,in ,,jersey4 ,the eagerness with which truly devout people welcome the preaching of full salvation is refreshing4 ,it was the writer's privilege to hold an eight-day meeting with a church in ,central ,new ,jersey4 ,the church was in excellent condition1 for the pastor1 a godly and earnest man1 had faithfully proclaimed justification and its appropriate fruits4 ,nearly all the members were praying1 conscientious and zealous ,christians4 ,when1 at the first meeting1 which was the regular ,sunday morning service1 the experience of sanctification was presented1 over one hundred persons arose1 thus signifying their desire for the precious grace6 ,,open ,,the ,,altar6 ,the language of the child of ,god is1 ,does ,god want me sanctified8 ,then open the altar for ,i am coming4 ,he does not tarry2 he does not higgle and hesitate2 he makes for the straw pile if in a ,new ,england camp2 the saw-dust if down ,south2 the altar rail if in a spiritual church2 to his knees at any rate1 for ,god's will he desires and must have4 ,thank ,god he can have it6 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,some ,,errors4 ,,the ,,bear-,,skin4 ,satan is very busily engaged in destroying and misrepresenting ,god's best experiences4 ,he slanders the work of ,god in order that ,his children may not come into their inheritance4 ,the bear-skin frightens the would-be seeker and keeps him out of the ,canaan land4 ,,rosenthal4 ,darkness hates light4 ,the ,prince of ,darkness dreads truth and light1 for he knows that if ,god's children ever see sanctification as it is1 there will be a general stampede for consecration4 ,if the public really believed that ,rosenthal would play the piano in ,infantry ,hall on a certain evening1 and that there would be no charge for admittance1 ,south ,main street would be black with people hours before the doors were opened4 ,if the church really believed that ,god would let them into an experience where sonatas and minuets and bridal marches and ,mondnacht and the ,etude in ,c sharp minor would be heard all the time1 and free of charge1 all the bishops and the big preachers and little evangelists and exhorters and ministers would be besieged by a grand eager throng of people1 crying with one accord1 ,what must ,i do to be sanctified8 ,lord1 hasten the day6 ,,the ,,devil ,,stirred4 ,when a man is awakened and says1 ,what is sanctification anyway8 then the devil bestirs himself to silence the soul's questionings4 ,blessed is the man who will not be satisfied with anything short of ,thus saith the ,lord4 ,hound the lies of hell to their covert2 run down the false reports1 and determine the truth4 ,a ,,chimera4 ,one of the lies which ,satan is fond of circulating is that sanctification is a life free from temptation4 ,when this is announced among those who are awakened on the subject1 immediately there is a great cry1 ,i don't want to hear any more about sanctification4 ,one would think by the excitement aroused that people are actually afraid lest they should by some manner of means be deprived of the privilege of being tempted4 ,let all such allay their fears4 ,jesus was tempted even on the pinnacle of the temple1 and we will never be above our ,lord1 and may well expect temptation until we pass from this world-stage to the other land4 ,no responsible ,christian student teaches any such chimera as a life without temptation obtainable now4 ,a ,,difference4 ,personally1 we have never heard anyone make such a claim4 ,what we do teach1 and1 better still1 far better1 ,,what ,,god ,,promises1 is an experience where we need not ,,yield to temptation4 ,there is a difference1 vast and important1 between being tempted and yielding to temptation4 ,a ,,tempted ,,preacher4 ,a man is en route from ,new ,york to the ,west via the ,pennsylvania ,railroad4 ,the express stops at a junction in the mountains4 ,he leaves the car and walks up and down on the platform enjoying the view4 ,near the station is a park4 ,beautiful flowering shrubbery1 shell walks1 ivy-clad piles of rocks1 splashing fountains1 majestic shade trees and well-kept turf make the place attractive4 ,beyond the pretty village a wooded mountain rises toward the bluest of skies1 enticing to a stroll amid the beauties of a forest4 ,the preacher is strongly tempted to stop over a day and enjoy a brief rest4 ,then he thinks of his word1 given in good faith1 to be in a certain place at an appointed hour2 he remembers the souls which ,god might save through the sermon which he is expected to preach the next evening4 ,he is tired and jaded and worn4 ,would he not be justified in telegraphing that he would not come until a day or so later than expected8 ,it is a stout temptation2 but when the black-faced porter shouts1 ,all aboard1 and the bell rings he walks into the hot and dirty car and continues his tiresome journey4 ,does not the reader see that a temptation to rest is very different from stopping and breaking an engagement and disappointing an audience8 ,a ,,charming ,,companion4 ,on life's express we are all liable to temptation4 ,we are solicited to tarry1 but we are so intent on our destination1 and especially are we so charmed with our travelling ,companion1 that we bid farewell to fountain1 and gravelled walks1 and towering mountains and push on to that city4 ,,who ,,teaches ,,fanaticism8 ,another misrepresentation1 the circulation of which ,satan delights to further1 is that sanctification is an experience in which we can not sin1 and when through this idea men lift their hands in horror and desist from seeking this precious grace1 all hell chuckles with real satisfaction4 ,but who teaches such fanaticism8 ,life is always a probation4 ,the will is free4 ,the ,bible teaches this truth1 and we believe it4 ,the holiest saint on earth may1 ,,if ,,he ,,choose1 sin and go to hell4 ,everything hangs upon the choice4 ,thank ,god we ,,need not fall4 ,falling is possible1 but not necessary4 ,,not ,a ,,day-,,dream4 ,a third evil report is that sanctification is an impracticable day-dream1 unfit for everyday life and the common round of duties4 ,it is1 so it is said1 all very well for ministers1 and class leaders1 and superintendents of ,sunday-schools1 and people who are not very busy in life to get sanctification1 but it will not stand the strain and tension to which it would be subjected in some lives4 ,but ,god is no respecter of persons1 and what ,he will do for one of ,his children ,he will do for all4 ,and then1 if we only knew it1 sanctification is just suited to the life of trial and perplexity4 ,,billy ,,bray ,,and ,,carvosso4 ,if there is a man to be found who has to labor hard all day and has a life full of care1 sanctification is just the experience he needs4 ,read the life of ,mrs4 ,fletcher1 and see how sanctification can help a woman with multitudinous domestic cares4 ,study the lives of ,billy ,bray and ,william ,carvosso1 and remember that it was sanctification which helped these men in their difficulties4 ,if there is a soul anywhere filled with unspeakable sorrow1 shivering alone in the dark1 the brightest light that can come to that stricken soul is full salvation4 ,no matter how sharp the thorn1 nor how galling the fetter1 sanctification turns the thorn into oil1 and the fetter into a chain of plaited flowers4 ,,clans4 ,it is said by some that sanctification makes people clannish4 ,clannish is a word with a rather offensive taste on the tongue1 and is altogether too harsh a word to apply to that congregative instinct that makes pure-minded persons crave the fellowship of kindred spirits4 ,there is nothing intentionally exclusive about the holiness movement4 ,if a man is shut out it is because he shuts himself out2 if he does not feel at home in a full salvation service it is because he has not yet obtained full salvation4 ,,browning ,,clubs4 ,men who share great truths and principles in common find in each other's presence and fellowship great help4 ,admirers of ,browning form ,browning ,clubs2 foot-ball men gather themselves into associations2 ministers meet in ,monday meetings2 ,christians organize churches2 is it to be thought strange if people who are sanctified wholly delight to meet for conference and mutual help8 ,,the ,,splitting ,,of ,,the ,,church ,a few uninformed persons say that holiness splits the church4 ,but this is false4 ,when men love ,god with all their heart and their neighbors as themselves1 nothing can separate them4 ,if1 however1 people of different sorts and kinds1 some saved and some unsaved1 are in one organization1 it will not require anything much to make them differ in opinion4 ,the real ecclesia1 the genuine church1 is not so easily split4 ,one of our most brilliant and spiritual holiness writers has remarked in pleasantry that the anxiety of some in regard to the splitting of the church would lead one to think that there was something inside which they were afraid would be seen in case of a cleavage4 ,,keep ,,to ,,the ,,bible4 ,keep to the ,bible idea of sanctification4 ,let not the adversary dupe you and frighten you from its quest and obtainment4 ,begin now2 seek1 search1 pray1 consecrate1 believe1 and soon the blessing will fall upon your waiting soul4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,those ,,for ,,whom ,,christ ,,prayed--,,sanctify ,,them4 ,,converted ,,men4 ,the men for whom ,christ prayed were converted men1 and were living in justified relation to ,god4 ,in proof of this statement1 let the reader study the context carefully4 ,a ,,cloudless ,,sky4 ,in the sixteenth chapter of ,st4 ,john1 the one immediately preceding the sacerdotal prayer1 the conversation which is recorded would be impossible were the disciples conscious of guilt4 ,one can not read those sublime verses without the irresistible conviction that the disciples' sky of soul-consciousness was blue and cloudless4 ,there is no hint in ,christ's discourse that these men are of the world1 but rather it is taken for granted that they are children of ,god and heirs of the kingdom4 ,a ,,specific ,,statement4 ,it is the sheerest folly for one to maintain that the conversion of the disciples did not occur prior to ,pentecost4 ,if words mean anything1 ,jesus made a specific statement to the contrary4 ,rejoice1 says ,he1 that your names are written in heaven4 ,in ,his prayer ,he says to ,his ,father3 ,they have kept ,thy word2 they are ,thine2 ,i pray for them1 ,i pray not for the world4 ,notice the distinction which ,he makes between them and the world4 ,these men are picked men4 ,they are very different from the great unpardoned1 sinful throng outside the kingdom--they are ,,christians4 ,,the ,,chamber ,,of ,,blessing4 ,a very good evidence of the genuineness of the conversion of the disciples was their painstaking care to follow out minutely the directions of their ascended ,lord4 ,he had prayed for their sanctification2 they desired it4 ,he had spoken of a coming ,comforter1 and they eagerly awaited ,his advent4 ,he had said1 ,tarry in ,jerusalem until ,his arrival1 and they conscientiously met in an upper room for a ten-day prayer-meeting4 ,farewell6 friends2 farewell6 memory-haunted synagogues2 farewell6 sacred temple2 farewell6 long-bearded priests2 farewell all6 we must go to prayer3 our ,lord said that we should be sanctified4 ,and thus in long line the one hundred and twenty file up the stairs to the ,chamber of ,blessing4 ,there is no lightness1 no jesting1 no quibbling1 no bickering2 all are serious1 terribly in earnest1 intent on the promise of the ,father4 ,there is ,peter1 impulsive and eager1 whole-hearted and enthusiastic2 there is the meek and quiet ,mary1 who sat at ,jesus' feet at the old home in ,bethany2 there is the child-like saint1 the devout and spiritual ,john2 there is the repentant woman of ,magdala2 and there are many others who betake themselves to that sacred place--the upper room4 ,one all-engrossing thought fills their minds4 ,the promise of the ,father which ye have heard of me4 ,the promise of the ,father6 ,the promise of the ,father6 ,o1 when will ,he come8 ,we would know more about our departed ,lord4 ,he is gone from us4 ,our hearts are torn and bleeding and lonely4 ,jesus said1 ',he shall testify of me4' ,would that ,he would come now6 ,,why ,,only ,,the ,,few8 ,but why are there only one hundred and twenty8 ,was it not into ,jerusalem that ,christ entered riding over a cloak-carpeted way amid the deafening shouts of ,hosanna8 ,did ,he not teach and instruct and heal hundreds1 if not thousands1 in and about ,jerusalem8 ,was ,he not lionized at times by an admiring public8 ,yea1 truly2 but one may admire ,christ and yet not love ,him4 ,there are many who at some hard saying refuse to walk with ,him4 ,thousands who have a keen appreciation of loaves and fishes shrink from leaving all and following ,jesus4 ,a great concourse is drawn and held spell-bound by a naive1 graceful1 eloquent1 artless preacher who uses lilies1 and the grass of the field1 and the sower of seed1 and the sparrow in the air to enforce his truth4 ,but one may be interested1 and yet not be saved4 ,,the ,,aesthetic ,,element4 ,in some people religion appeals to the aesthetic nature1 and to that only4 ,they festoon the cross with flowers1 but never think of dying on it4 ,they are charmed by ,gothic churches filled with dim1 religious light4 ,the waves of music from the great2 sounding organ awe their souls and fill them with a pensiveness which they mistake for repentance4 ,pointed arches1 sculptured capitals1 fretted altars1 swinging censers1 burning candles1 white-robed choir-boys1 errorless order in church service--these auxiliaries influence them so strongly in their sense of the beautiful that they think1 ,surely ,i love ,god4 ,why1 of course ,i love ,god4 ,but to love ,god involves something practical4 ,it means something more than mere profession4 ,it means rugged self-denial1 ,spartan heroism1 perhaps the loss of an arm or the plucking out of an eye4 ,base must have been the soul which was not attracted by ,one who spake as never man spake2 low-minded the man who did not see in ,him imperishable beauty and refinement of soul2 but ah6 discipleship means far more than that4 ,christ had flown up to heaven4 ,who now will prove his love for ,him by obeying ,his commands8 ,who will tarry in ,jerusalem awaiting the coming ,spirit1 and then1 the ,comforter having come1 be ready to ,go into all the world1 discipling all nations8 ,answer3 ,all who are truly children of ,god4 ,the preaching of sanctification is the touchstone by which the genuineness of conversions can be tested4 ,the truly living hunger and thirst after righteousness2 the dead do not bother their heads about a second blessing4 ,,the ,,steamer ,,puritan4 ,let us illustrate3 ,it was fifteen minutes until the schedule time for the ,puritan of the ,fall ,river ,line to leave her ,new ,york pier4 ,the evening was warm1 and the usual crowd filled the decks4 ,many had come on board to see their friends off for ,newport1 ,bar ,harbor and the ,pier4 ,passengers and their friends sat in groups and chatted1 talked about the trip1 the weather1 the situation at ,santiago1 the flowers they held1 the concert by the orchestra4 ,it was impossible for an observer to determine just who were passengers and held tickets1 and who were merely bidding farewell to their friends4 ,suddenly an officer in gold-braided cap and blue uniform appeared1 and cried out with an authoritative voice and a look of command1 ,all ashore who are going ashore6 ,all ashore who are going ashore6 ,immediately there were hasty hand-clasps and hasty good-byes1 and a large part of the company marched quickly down the stairs and across the gang-plank4 ,those who were left held tickets and were going through4 ,,the ,,stampede ,,for ,,shore4 ,in a revival of religion it is often a matter of considerable difficulty to determine the genuinely converted4 ,in the confusion of large altar services1 and the crush of great congregations1 who are the saved8 ,no man can tell4 ,many are moved by sympathy for their friends4 ,others are charmed by the congregational singing and the music of the organ4 ,many see that the revival is bound to go1 and1 like ,pliable1 they are swept along for a time with it4 ,but there appears in this mixed company a man with the stamp of divine authority upon his brow1 the gold braid of full salvation on his helmet1 the dialect of ,canaan on his tongue and the air of official appointment about his person3 ,without holiness no man shall see the ,lord6 ,all ashore who are going ashore6 ,all ashore who are going ashore6 ,immediately there is no small stir4 ,some leave the boat by way of the gang-plank carping at the words of the officer and arguing as they go2 some in great haste vault the balustrades and railings and leap for the pier2 still others climb out the windows of staterooms and run screaming toward the nearest ladder which will enable them to leave the good ship ,zion4 ,gradually quiet is restored4 ,the company is smaller1 and of whom is it composed8 ,the genuinely converted4 ,what are they doing8 ,they are asking the nearest officer how soon the boat leaves for ,new ,england4 ,when can ,i be sanctified wholly8 ,o1 pray for me6 ,i want the blessing now6 ,they are going through4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,,christ',s ,,prayer ,,answered4 ,,god ,,listens4 ,when ,christ opens ,his mouth1 ,god bows down ,his ear4 ,i know that thou hearest me always4 ,the disciples did not wait long until they were baptized with the ,holy ,ghost4 ,christ's prayer found audience and the answer was not long delayed4 ,,heart ,,cleansing4 ,the baptism with the ,spirit which was administered to the one hundred and twenty effected their sanctification4 ,the cleansing of their hearts was one of the effects of the out-pouring of the ,spirit4 ,sanctification and the baptism with the ,spirit are therefore coetaneous--they take place at the same time4 ,,peter',s ,,proof4 ,this is proven by an inspired statement made by ,peter4 ,referring to the ,gentiles he says that ,god put no difference between them and us ,jews who were sanctified at ,pentecost1 purifying their hearts by faith4 ,,the ,,manner ,,of ,,cleansing4 ,there need be no confusion as to the manner of cleansing4 ,jesus prayed1 ,sanctify them ,,through ,,thy ,,truth4 ,it is by means of the truth preached of and read1 that we first hear of a full deliverance from all sin4 ,it is through the truth that we learn of ,god's willingness as well as ,his power to sanctify4 ,if it had not been for ,,the ,,blood1 ,jesus could never have guaranteed the coming of the ,comforter2 the blood is the procuring cause of all the blessings which we receive4 ,everything comes through the atonement4 ,,faith is the human condition necessary for the cleansing of the soul2 so that1 in a very important sense1 we are sanctified by faith4 ,,the ,,divine ,,omnipotent ,,holy ,,ghost is the immediate agency of heart-cleansing4 ,he is the baptizing element administered by ,christ the ,divine ,baptizer3 ,he shall baptize you with the ,holy ,ghost4 ,,fire6 ,it would be well for us to notice some of the characteristics of the ,pentecostal anointing4 ,john the ,baptist1 minister of the gospel and preacher of genuine regeneration1 said of ,jesus that he should baptize with the ,holy ,ghost and fire1 thus using a most powerful symbol to characterize the nature of the work of the ,holy ,ghost4 ,everyone is familiar with the action of fire2 it burns everything combustible with which it comes in contact4 ,,consealed ,,serpents4 ,we submit that no one can tell just how much there is in the heart that needs to be consumed4 ,there are things dormant in the unsanctified heart of which the man never dreams4 ,there are serpents coiled in balls1 and vipers spitting poison1 and centipedes1 and fat blinking toads1 and vampires1 and lizards1 and tarantulas1 that we never suspect of being in the soul4 ,but they are there4 ,,the ,,embryos ,,of ,,crime4 ,it is ,god's mercy that says1 ,be ye holy1 for ,he knows that unless we get cleaned out and purified the inner reptiles will poison us to death4 ,every unsanctified man carries in his bosom the seeds of all possible crimes1 the embryos of all black actions4 ,there are times when we half believe that something of the kind is true4 ,did you ever stand by the cage of a lion and watch his restless pace and feel that you had something in you kindred to him8 ,many a man has gazed into the green eyes of a wild beast and trembled1 feeling a similarity of nature4 ,every son of ,adam feels the beast stir in him at times1 until ,pentecost eradicates the bestial principle4 ,,smouldering ,,embers4 ,the embers from which hell-fire is kindled smoulder in the unsanctified heart4 ,it is dangerous to attempt to build a ,christian character over a latent volcano4 ,a once active volcano becomes inactive4 ,the lava cools1 the ashes settle1 and the smoke drifts away4 ,an enterprising farmer covers a considerable space of the once fiery volcanic field with fresh earth carted from a fertile valley4 ,all goes well for a year or two4 ,the garden prospers1 the vegetables are most encouraging1 and the produce is abundant4 ,but one morning the farmer notices that smoke is issuing from the crater at the summit of the mountain4 ,the sky blackens and red flames flash amid the clouds of smoke4 ,the land is shaken with earthquakes4 ,suddenly1 right in the middle of his verdant field1 a great red-lipped chasm opens and blue flames leap upwards and surge toward the sky4 ,his crops are blasted with the fierce heat of the flame1 and the work of years is wrecked in a moment4 ,,blue ,,flames ,,of ,,gehenna ,no permanent ,christian life can be built upon the foundation of an unsanctified heart4 ,for a time the graces of the ,spirit may seem to grow1 but in some sad hour the surface will split open and the man will leap back aghast at the blue flames of ,gehenna1 which singe his brows and blacken his cheeks4 ,,the ,,prophet ,,and ,,prince4 ,an old white-haired prophet and a gay young prince are in conversation4 ,the aged man bows his head upon his staff and weeps4 ,for what are you weeping1 old man8 ,ah1 ,i am thinking of the black and dastardly crimes you will commit when you have once become king4 ,is thy servant a dog1 a ruthless town whelp1 that he should do such things8 ,,prophecy ,,fulfilled ,but years roll on and the young man is king1 and his hands are stained with crime1 and the old man's predictions come true4 ,god had given the aged saint a view of the boy's breast1 and he saw the embryonic seeds of sin which1 if allowed to remain1 would sprout and produce a fruitage of evil deeds4 ,,the ,,broken ,,flower ,the secret of the downfall of many a brilliant character is a bosom sinfulness little expected to be in existence4 ,no man saw the black and ugly thing but it was there4 ,a lady had a tall and graceful plant4 ,the flowers were white and beautiful and all the town said1 ,what a fine flower6 ,one day a storm swept across the garden4 ,one plant was injured2 it was the one which people had admired and praised4 ,filled with grief1 the lady stooped to examine the stem1 and found that it had been pierced by a worm-hole4 ,the insect had worked silently and secretly4 ,no one saw him cutting into the heart of the tall and magnificent flower1 but in a storm1 under a test severe and protracted1 the stem snapped and the choice beauty of the garden was a thing of the past4 ,,the ,,worm ,,in ,,the ,,heart4 ,it is the worm in the heart with his relentless and resistless tooth1 which weakens the character4 ,under severe and protracted temptation the will snaps and yields1 and the beautiful life is a wreck and fit only for the dump of the ,universe4 ,,stumps ,,and ,,roots4 ,there are many roots1 hidden roots1 which bury themselves deep in the soil of the heart4 ,they extend far below clear cerebration1 twisting and twining themselves in the fringe of consciousness4 ,it takes the fire of the ,holy ,ghost to follow them deep into the ground and destroy them4 ,it used to be a pastime of the boys in eastern ,ohio to pile great heaps of brush upon huge stumps in newly-cleared land4 ,all the long ,october day they would toil1 raising a stack of dry limbs upon the stump which needed to be removed4 ,in the evening when twilight came and the stars shone out1 they would light the brush and watch the flames greedily devour the pile4 ,in the morning when the lads returned to the scene of the fire1 no sign of the stump was to be seen4 ,looking closely they saw great holes as large at the top of the ground as a man's body1 and tapering to a small point as they went deep into the earth4 ,the fire had found the huge roots1 and had tracked them into their retreats and consumed them4 ,,fire ,,of ,,pentecost4 ,we pile the brush of time and talents and money and name and self upon the altar1 and the fire of ,pentecost1 which ,god sends as ,he sent to ,mount ,carmel of old1 will destroy not only the brush1 but the roots of sin1 one and all4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,,christian ,,unity4 ,a ,,common ,,platform4 ,one of the results spoken of by ,christ in ,his prayer1 and brought about by sanctification1 is ,christian unity--that they all may be one4 ,there is but one remedy for sectism and bigotry1 and it is found in the answer to ,christ's petition4 ,when ,pentecost comes to us we are all lifted upon one grand common platform and shake hands and shout and weep and laugh and get so mixed up that a ,presbyterian can not be distinguished from a ,methodist1 nor a ,friend from an ,episcopalian vestryman4 ,,false ,,unity4 ,we have heard much about the organic union of churches4 ,many great and good men have looked forward with sanguine hopes to the day when we should do away with denominations4 ,in a few cases two churches of different sects have united and worshipped in one congregation4 ,but the causes of such unity are frequently far from gratifying4 ,in ,d----the ,methodists and ,primitive ,methodists clasp hands and join forces because they can thus make one preacher do the work which two formerly performed4 ,in ,k----the ,baptists and ,presbyterians unite because the thirteen members of one church and the seven of the other feel lonely in their great refrigerators and are inclined to make friends and preserve life4 ,the cold is most intense4 ,in the far ,north the weather is sometimes so severe that wild beasts1 ordinarily hostile both toward each other and man1 crowd close together near the campfire of the explorer4 ,with many churches it is unite or die6 ,the mallet of the auctioneer threatens the steeple-house1 the young folks are off golfing or hiking1 and the gray-beards1 lonely and terror-stricken as they see church extinction approaching1 favor a union of forces with some other church4 ,in the church magazines of the next month appear sundry articles on the broad and liberal spirit of the nineteenth century church4 ,a large catholicity is taking the place of the old fogyism of former days1 scribbles the hack-writer4 ,,the ,,milksop',s ,,theory4 ,in a few cases large congregations have united4 ,when we behold it our hopes rise1 but they are doomed to early blight by a careful study of the situation4 ,the cause of denominationalism is the tenacious clinging to faith and doctrines4 ,whether or no we ought to all believe precisely alike about non-essentials1 one thing is sure1 the man who does not cleave to some faith1 heart and head and brain and blood1 is worthless in ,christ's army4 ,milksops may be ornamental1 they are certainly not militant1 and ,god wants soldiers4 ,the man who does not know what he believes1 and the man who says it does not matter what one believes if one is only sincere1 are more despicable than the ,yankees who burned witches in ,salem4 ,better that a man be narrow than that he be so broad as to take in the devil and all his angels4 ,out upon our folly when we barter away the truth of ,god for a flimsy1 tissue-paper bond of so-called fellowship6 ,,christian ,,oneness4 ,there is a unity1 however1 and to it ,christ referred1 which does not consist in uniformity of creed but in oneness of heart4 ,when we are truly sanctified the non-baptizing ,quaker1 and the trine immersionist1 and the ,high ,church ,episcopalian1 and the foot-washing ,tunker1 and the ,methodist1 and the ,baptist1 and the ,congregationalist all unite in one far-reaching melodious chorus1 ,,holiness ,,unto ,,the ,,lord6 ,,distinctions ,,obliterated4 ,sanctification destroys sticklerism for non-essentials and the lust for fine distinctions in dogmatics4 ,it slays the doctrinaire and makes a red-hot revivalist out of him4 ,the purified soul takes the ,bible for his credo and loves ,god's children of whatever name with a generosity that overtops every inadequate consideration4 ,the sanctified are united by a common cause and a common experience4 ,opinions may differ as to ecclesiastical polity or the mode of baptism1 but the white cord of sanctification is the bond of perfectness which makes them one bundle4 ,yale and ,cornell are rivals with their eights and shells on ,american ,hudson1 but men from both colleges join forces to beat the ,britishers at ,henley4 ,holiness people of every church unite to push holiness4 ,,the ,,spokes ,,and ,,the ,,hub4 ,when the glorious grace of full salvation is experienced1 love for ,christ is increased and intensified4 ,everyone wants to magnify ,him and live close to ,him3 and as we get close to ,him1 the ,hub1 the distance between us1 the spokes1 is lessened4 ,,the ,d4,d4 ,,and ,,the ,,negro4 ,a ,d4,d4 and a negro meet on a ,mississippi ,river boat4 ,they fall into conversation4 ,the doctor speaks of the ,lord4 ,the negro's eyes fill and he says1 ,you know my ,savior8 and they shake hands and weep and shout4 ,why this community of feeling between men of such diverse stations in life8 ,both possess the blessing of entire sanctification4 ,,various ,,sects ,the writer has had the privilege of preaching in churches of different denominations in the work of special evangelism1 but never has he known the falling of ,pentecostal fire to fail to burn up sectarianism4 ,it is no easy matter to find out from the preaching of our holiness preachers under what denominational flag they sail4 ,full salvation obliterates the fences which separate the people of ,god and makes them really one in ,christ ,jesus4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,fearlessness4 ,,peter ,,the ,,fearless4 ,there was a man among the one hundred and twenty upper room believers in whom ,pentecost effected a most apparent and almost spectacular change4 ,it was ,peter4 ,we remember him as the man at whom the young girl pointed her finger and laughed4 ,we recall that he was so cowardly that he denied his ,lord on the spot1 swearing that he did not know ,him4 ,behold this same ,peter on the day of ,pentecost4 ,he is charging home the murder of ,christ4 ,fear is gone1 and gone forever4 ,he faces men and does not flinch an iota4 ,carnality1 the source of cowardice1 has been removed1 and the weakling is turned into a ,lord ,nelson for bravery1 and a ,savonarola for faithfulness to men's souls4 ,,shall ,,we ,,tremble8 ,fear of man is one of the most illogical things in the world4 ,men sell the blood of ,jesus and hope of heaven and eternal happiness because of what people say4 ,think of it1 afraid of a man who will die and be hurried under ground before he rots6 ,frightened at a thing dressed in a long black coat and a white cravat with a golden-headed cane and a tall hat and a frown2 a thing which will stop breathing some fine day and the worms will eat6 ,shall ,i tremble when an ecclesiastical ,leo utters a roar8 ,shall ,i halt and stammer because a top-heavy lad from a theological seminary1 hopelessly in love with himself1 scowls at the word sanctification8 ,,queer ,,courage4 ,there are some who bolster their courage by saying ostentatiously1 ,i don't care what folks say1 but their very vehemence shows that they ,,do care a very great deal4 ,we boys all remember how we used to whistle when we passed a graveyard after dark to show we weren't afraid2 and how hard it was to keep our mouths puckered and how shaky our legs felt6 ,,afraid ,,to ,,break ,,step ,the folks we are afraid of are afraid of us4 ,what a situation6 ,a great regiment of people marching straight down to hell1 everyone afraid to break step for fear the others will laugh6 ,that is precisely the condition of nearly every sinner4 ,,courage ,,of ,,thermopylae ,sanctification takes away the shrinking timidity and puts in a courage like that at ,thermopylae4 ,there was once a young man who1 previous to his sanctification1 was so timid that he frequently stayed away from church for no other reason than that he feared ,god might ask him to testify4 ,he enjoyed meetings and loved to hear preaching1 but the very idea of testimony would frighten him almost ill4 ,now he frequently addresses many hundreds and never feels the slightest embarrassment4 ,,unmask ,,pruriency4 ,the ministry is sadly in need of a blessing which will give it courage to attack sin of all kinds and degrees4 ,we need men who will rip the mask off the putrid face of corruption and pronounce ,god's sentence upon it2 who will lift up the trap-door of the cess-pools of men's hearts and bid them look within at their own slime and filth2 who will cry aloud and spare not1 though the infuriated cohorts of bat-winged demons snarl and shriek4 ,,speak ,,plainly4 ,there will be a day when men will curse us because we have not preached more plainly4 ,you can call a spade a spade or you can designate it as an iron utensil employed for excavating purposes1 but if you want folks to understand what you are driving at use the shorter term4 ,,shooting ,,over ,,men',s ,,heads4 ,there is too little plain ,anglo-,saxon preaching4 ,we shoot far over the heads of our congregations and do not even scar the varnish on the gallery banister4 ,we dwell on the points of distinction between ,calvinism and ,arminianism when the greater part of our people do not know the difference between an ,arminian and an ,armenian1 and some good old sister thinks we are preaching on the cruelty of the ,turks4 ,here ,i am discussing ,the ,dangers of ,imperialism and ,the ,anglo-,american ,friendship1 while men are starving for the ,bread of ,life6 ,brethren in the ministry1 let us be less anxious about the syllogistic accuracy of our sermons and be more eager to help men live right and quit sin and go to heaven4 ,,the ,,pulpit ,,cannon4 ,there are many sins which few men have the courage to antagonize in public4 ,theoretically the pulpit is supposed to cannonade all sin of every variety and species1 but1 alas1 it is usually too cowardly4 ,the ,spirit-filled man fears no one from ,sandow down to ,tom ,thumb1 from a plug-hat ,bishop to a little pusilanimous dude preacher4 ,,ghastly ,,crimes4 ,it is not that ministers are unawares of the prevalence of black and ghastly crimes1 but that they dare not speak openly against them4 ,too many are contaminated with evil and involved in guilt for the preacher to voice with impunity the truths which burn in his soul4 ,he knows only too well that if he dares assert his manhood and exercises the prerogative of ,christ's minister1 the retribution will be swift and terrible1 viz3 ejectment from his pastorate6 ,,murder ,how ominous is the silence concerning murder4 ,and yet the land is swarming with crimson-handed murderers and murderesses4 ,many of them are members of our best churches and move in the most select society4 ,some of them read with animation the responses in church service and repeat the ,lord's ,prayer with the greatest gusto4 ,a few--not many1 we devoutly trust--talk about sanctification4 ,poor1 deluded1 hoodwinked souls6 they are blinded by ,satan4 ,their hands are red with blood1 and their hearts are black as hell4 ,were they to ever approach the heaven of which they sanctimoniously prate1 they would be met at the gate with the curse of murdered infants who never saw the light4 ,,infanticide ,if there is a pitiable sight in all ,god's great universe1 if there is a scene over which angels shed tears and demons shriek laughter1 it is an old cruel-eyed mother1 who has seared her conscience and sinned away all noble womanliness and blasted her own soul1 whispering into the unsoiled ears of her daughter the way in which to murder her own offspring2 and if there is a hot hell1 such a mother will make her bed in it4 ,,poodle-,,dogs4 ,the duties and cares of maternity are too irksome1 and so the women who might be the mothers of ,john ,wesleys and ,fenelons and ,metchers and ,inskips and ,cookmans are petting poodle-dogs and rat-terriers4 ,,the ,,vitriol ,,of ,,wrath4 ,how many preachers dare speak in clarion tones what religion and science concur in asserting concerning vice8 ,but know ye by these presents1 all of ,adam's race1 that what depraved humanity pronounces all right and harmless1 the ,almighty ,god who whirls the worlds will corrode and scald with the burning vitriol of ,his wrath1 and woe6 woe6 woe6 to the man or woman with whom is found sin4 ,,gilt-,,edged ,,frauds4 ,any tyro knows who drowned ,morgan1 but the clergyman who opens up on ,masonry is a curiosity4 ,why1 how can the ministers say anything when they are the chaplains of these gilt-edged frauds called lodges8 ,it does not take much calculation to show that an institution which spends three dollars in giving away one has no right to exist4 ,some of the more weak-minded and puerile of the clergy are doubtless in fear lest their tongues should be torn out by the roots and their hearts buried in the rough sands of the seashore4 ,brave men are not so easily scared4 ,,bologna ,,sausage4 ,secretism in itself is suspicious4 ,solon said that he wanted his house so constructed that the people could see him at all hours and thus know him to be a good man4 ,a system which is so built that the public is kept in the dark is entitled to the attention of a ,pinkerton4 ,bologna sausage made in a factory at the door of which is a huge sign1 ,no ,admittance1 may be all right1 but you can not make people think so4 ,,the ,,entertainment4 ,there are few preachers so foolish and illogical as to believe that the entertainment plan is the best way to raise money for church work1 yet scarcely one of them declares his honest straight-forward conviction about it4 ,now and then a ,hale1 more daring than the rest1 writes a remonstrative article for the ,forum1 but the great mass keep quiet4 ,a ,pentecostal ministry will wheel its guns into position and load and fire into the supper and festival crowd notwithstanding the voices of objectors4 ,,heroism4 ,whatever may be the matter under consideration the sanctified man dares anything right4 ,god is with him1 and he feels ,his presence4 ,right is right1 and by the grace of ,god he will stand by it though all the world howl and roar4 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,responsiveness ,,to ,,christ4 ,a ,,coal ,,and ,a ,,flame4 ,among the results of the coming of the ,comforter is an increase in warm personal love for ,jesus4 ,conversion plants divine love 7agape7 in the heart1 but sanctification quickens and intensifies it4 ,conversion drops a coal into the breast2 the fuller grace fans it into a flame4 ,,sounding ,,strings4 ,there is a place in experience where ,christ's voice sets the whole being vibrating4 ,the soul is so in tune with ,him that the cadences of ,his tones fill the soul with a tremor of glee and gladness4 ,if you sing the scale in a room where there is a piano the corresponding strings of the instrument will sound4 ,thus it is with ,jesus and the sanctified soul4 ,when ,christ speaks the heart answers spontaneously4 ,,regeneration ,regeneration does much for us4 ,but there is that even in the heart of the regenerate which is antagonistic to ,christ4 ,the whole man does not say instinctively1 ,thy will be done2 yet there is something within to which the ,lord can appeal4 ,consult ,peter4 ,he tells us of exceeding great and precious promises by which we become partakers of the ,divine nature4 ,we take a part 7partakers7 of the divine ,shekinah into our hearts4 ,we are not only adopted but born of ,god1 and by a divine heredity we possess ,his character4 ,,samuel4 ,we see this beautifully illustrated in the case of ,samuel4 ,given in covenant to ,god from his birth1 and early taught the word of the ,lord1 he possessed the changed heart and the attuned ear4 ,when ,god's voice fell out of the skies that night something in ,samuel heard what aged and mitred ,eli could not hear4 ,eli had the theory and reasoned out who the speaker must be1 but the heart of ,samuel awoke intuitively at the sound of that voice4 ,,the ,,voice ,,from ,,the ,,sky4 ,as ,jesus taught in the temple ,god spoke1 and many whose ears were dull because their hearts were hard and unchanged said1 ,it thundered4 ,others saw that something extraordinary had occurred and admitted that an angel spoke to ,him4 ,but the disciples whose names were written in heaven1 and who had regenerated hearts1 knew it was the voice of ,god4 ,,the ,,flinty ,,world4 ,but while the child of ,god is in sympathy with ,god he must be sanctified wholly to be fully1 constantly and completely responsive to ,christ4 ,jesus wants a bride who will live ,his life with ,him and enter into all ,his plans and sorrows1 ambitions and trials1 aims and purposes4 ,there are many people who are glad ,jesus died for them who know nothing about suffering with ,christ4 ,yet the ,bible is filled with allusions to it4 ,the ,heavenly ,bridegroom wants a companion who will understand ,him4 ,this cold1 hard1 flinty1 wicked world does not4 ,he came unto ,his own and ,his own received ,him not4 ,he knocked at the door of ,his own vineyard and the husband-men said1 ,come1 let us kill the ,son4 ,the divine ,lord hungers for some one who will not misjudge ,his purposes nor impute to ,him base motives4 ,,the ,,unappreciated4 ,we have all seen people who were never appreciated4 ,those who were near to them by blood and kindred always thought them strange and visionary4 ,what a sad thing if ,christ's bride does not appreciate ,his aims for the world1 ,his sorrow over perishing souls1 ,his heart-ache over dying men6 ,the fellowship of ,his sufferings--what can it mean8 ,it means that we mourn over the sin in the world which makes ,christ weep2 sob over the evil that makes ,him hang ,his fair head and groan4 ,it means that ever and always we shall look at things from the ,christ standpoint4 ,,the ,,sheep ,,and ,,the ,,shepherd4 ,my sheep know recognize my voice1 says the ,shepherd4 ,he states the principle that sheep always hear when ,he speaks4 ,lambs may be at times mistaken as to the voices that cry in the soul1 but ,christians whose experience entitles them to the designation1 sheep1 do not err as to the speaker4 ,watch a good shepherd collect his flock at evening4 ,every sheep knows him4 ,it is getting dark1 and the quiet animals are busily feeding in the fragrant clover1 but the tender cadences of the voice of their guide and protector pierce their delicate ears and enter their gentle hearts1 and the white flock comes bounding toward the shepherd4 ,a sportsman in golf suit and plaid cap and with a fine baritone voice may call earnestly1 but a stranger will they not follow4 ,the shepherd holds the key to their confidence1 and no one else can unlock the door to their love4 ,,christ ,,has ,,the ,,key4 ,christ has the key to our hearts4 ,he stands in the dusk of evening in the falling dew and sends ,his sweet voice out across the billowing fields of clover1 and all ,his sheep leap toward the ,good ,shepherd4 ,,the ,,cow ,,and ,,the ,,sunset4 ,sanctification brings out the power of appreciation in the soul4 ,what ,god does for you fills your soul with gratitude1 and you can get blessed any time of day or night by simply reflecting on the mercies and lovingkindnesses of the ,lord4 ,the natural human heart does not appreciate ,god1 and sees nothing especially lovely in ,him4 ,a cow and the man who owns the cow may stand side by side and look at the same sunset4 ,the cow sees a big splotch of crimson and gold2 the other sees one of ,god's sky-paintings1 and is inspired to holy living and self-denial and fidelity to the ,master4 ,you must have a sunset nature to appreciate a sunset1 and you must be sanctified wholly to see in ,christ a beauty and loveliness which no ,murillo and no ,raphael and no ,del ,sarto have yet put on canvas4 ,,the ,,lovely ,,christ4 ,o the lovely ,christ6 ,how the heart aches to go to ,him6 ,we get so homesick for ,jesus4 ,people are so dull and uninteresting and vapid and stupid--so precisely like ourselves--we get weary of the world and its emptiness1 and yearn to fly away to be with the spotless ,christ and live in that ,undiscovered country1 from whose bourne ,no traveller returns ,some day1 thank ,god6 the ,bridegroom will step out upon the balcony of heaven and look at us and speak to us in a tone inaudible to all but ourselves1 and our souls will bound with rapture and the earthen vessel will crumble and we will spread snowy pinions and wing our flight up to the presence of our soul's ,king6 ,,chapter ,,viii4 ,,soul-,,rest4 ,,an ,,effect4 ,one of the beatific effects of the cleansing of the heart from all sin is soul-rest4 ,it always accompanies the glorious experience of entire purity4 ,,facial ,,inscriptions4 ,this poor tired world of ours needs rest4 ,study the faces of the people you meet in the streets1 in the markets1 in the cars1 in the churches1 and there is one word ,,not written on them1 and that word is ,rest4 ,you will find many other words written on them4 ,on some faces you see ,selfishness in crabbed1 crooked letters2 on others ,lust in bold-faced type2 on others ,gluttony2 on others1 ,self-,conceit2 on others1 ,craftiness2 and on through a thousand unworthy legends2 but the one thing which makes life worth living is not found except among the sanctified4 ,,vampires ,,and ,,bats4 ,it is wonderful how elusive rest is4 ,you may search for it all your days and grow gray and haggard1 and sit down in the evening of life with the vampires circling about you and be forced to confess1 ,i have not found rest6 ,you may retire from business and say1 ,i will spend my declining years in peace1 but as the sun goes down the bats come out and flap the black skinny wings of the sins of other days in your affrighted face4 ,if you are a student you may drop your books like ,dr4 ,faust and hurry to the country1 but the imp of restlessness will dog your steps and snare your pathway and you will carry home with you a ,mephisto who will never leave you4 ,,the ,,seeds ,,of ,,anarchy4 ,some ,christian people seek rest in changing preachers1 but there is nothing in that to bring it4 ,you may leave the minister who thumps the desk and listen to a man with a nasal twang1 but you are still restive and unsatisfied4 ,you think the reason your peace of soul is disturbed is that ,mrs4 ,garrulous talked about you1 or that the weather is rainy and disagreeable1 or that the meetings are dull1 or that people are selfish4 ,the real reason is that you have a restlessness in your heart characteristic of inbred sin4 ,you possess the seeds of dissatisfaction1 and lawlessness1 and anarchy1 and nothing but holiness of heart will expel them4 ,,the ,,ocean ,,depths4 ,down in the unfathomed depths of old ,ocean there is no movement1 no disturbance4 ,gigantic ,majesties and ,kaiser ,wilhelms and ,oregons and ,vizcayas plow and whiten the surface2 tempests rage and ,euroclydons roar and currents change and tides ebb and flow1 but the great depth knows no ripple4 ,it is said that down there the most fragile of frail and delicate organisms grow in safety4 ,in the depths of the sanctified heart there is no storm and no breaker4 ,trials may come and leave white scars2 billows may beat and surges may roll1 and water-spouts and tornadoes may make the upper sea boil with anguish and sorrow and grief1 but deep in the heart there is calm4 ,there the delicate graces of the ,spirit thrive and luxuriate4 ,great1 soulless1 iron-keeled1 worldly institutions and sharp-prowed cutters may ride over your sensibilities1 but the inner placidity is unbroken4 ,,the ,,eternal ,,sabbath4 ,god's plan is to rest us so we can work for ,him with ease and success4 ,he institutes an everlasting ,sabbath in the spirit that we may be ceaseless in sanctified activities4 ,if a man is always jaded and tired he can not take hold of his work with much enthusiasm4 ,,spiritual ,,poise4 ,there is no mistaking the man or woman who has found the second rest4 ,there is a poise of spirit and a sweet serious balance of soul which can not be counterfeited4 ,the preacher who appreciates spirituality sees no sight more beautiful than the serene1 calm faces of auditors from whose souls the tempests have been cast4 ,life's toils and distractions and disappointments have all been negatived by the power of the all-conquering ,christ4 ,a ,,scene ,,at ,,allentown4 ,these words are being written in the city of ,allentown1 ,pa41 where the writer is spending ten days in a series of ,pentecostal services4 ,last evening we saw a symbol of the rest ,christ gives4 ,we strolled along the east bank of the ,lehigh ,river about half an hour after sunset4 ,all the western sky was beautiful with an afterglow4 ,the water of the river1 silver near the shore and golden toward the west1 was as still as the face of a mirror4 ,the trees on the shore leaned over perfect pictures of themselves4 ,the hills1 which fell back gracefully from the valley1 were covered with cloaks of gold and vermillion and emerald1 and not a leaf stirred in the evening air4 ,far up the river the tiny bell of a canal-mule tinkled drowsily4 ,on the veranda of a little cottage a young mother crooned a lullaby to a slumbering child1 and a little bird in a thick grove called1 ,peace6 ,peace6 ,,calm4 ,if ,god can make so beautiful a scene in the physical world1 what can ,he not make in the spiritual8 ,thank ,god6 ,he can excel anything the natural eye ever beheld4 ,he can hang the soul with paintings and turn the ,river of ,life clear as crystal through it1 and fill the chambers of the heart with lullabies and the song of birds crying1 ,peace6 ,if there are times when we are awed and charmed by ,all the beauty of the world let us remember that what we see is only a type of the grandeur and glory and splendor ,he will put in our spirit-nature if we but permit ,him to sanctify us and cast out the storms and tempests4 ,,the ,,pain ,,of ,,sympathy4 ,while we may possess and enjoy the second rest here and now1 we need not forget that another is promised to us4 ,we get weary physically sometimes here4 ,the days frequently seem long and trying4 ,there are hours and hours of labor1 and nights and nights of toil1 but1 thank ,god6 we can say at each sunset1 ,i am one day nearer rest4 ,for while a sanctified man is always at rest spiritually1 he can not rest physically to much satisfaction4 ,in his dreams he can see the white1 drawn faces of the doomed1 and hear the wild uncouth shriek of the tormented4 ,he remembers with horror that one hundred thousand souls are rolled off into ,eternity while the earth makes one revolution6 ,he thinks of cheerless homes1 and torn and bleeding hearts1 and wives waiting for the sound of unsteady steps1 and children friendless and hungry1 and figures leaping from bridges1 and shaking hands holding poison1 and maniacs behind the bars glaring with wild eye-balls through dishevelled hair6 ,and he leaps from the couch with the cry1 ,o the pity of it all6 ,and he can not be still1 he can not be idle1 but is constrained to do his utmost by word and pen to save a sinking1 gurgling1 drowning humanity4 ,,when ,,it ,,is ,,all ,,over4 ,but one day it will all be over4 ,soon we shall all have preached our last sermon and prayed our last prayer and spoken our last word4 ,our lives will soon have passed into history4 ,that blessed hour will soon be here in which we shall lay down the silver trumpet of ministry and take up the golden harp of praise4 ,hallelujah1 it is coming6 it is coming6 ,praise the ,lord6 ,,chapter ,,ix4 ,,prayerfulness4 ,,delight ,,in ,,prayer4 ,the precious grace of entire sanctification brings to the heart a prayerful spirit4 ,prayer becomes the normal occupation of the soul4 ,one is surprised to discover that while it was formerly difficult1 if not irksome1 to pray at times1 now one prays because it is delightful and easy4 ,,de ,,renty4 ,many of us have been surprised to read in the biographies of pious men and women that they frequently spent hours in prayer4 ,but the sanctified man understands all that now4 ,he can readily believe that ,de ,renty heard not the voice of his servant1 so intent was he gazing into the ,father's face4 ,he does not doubt that ,whitefield in his college room was prostrate upon the floor many days1 praying for the baptism with the ,holy ,ghost4 ,j4,w4 ,,redfield4 ,the writer remembers of reading when just a child the thrilling life of ,john ,wesley ,redfield4 ,there was nothing which struck the boy-reader with greater force than the prayerfulness of the man4 ,it awed him1 and made him long to enjoy such an experience as would make prayer so delightful4 ,in the golden experience of sanctification he found that prayer was delightsome and blessed4 ,such is the uniform testimony of all who have been cleansed from depravity and anointed with the ,holy ,ghost4 ,,prayer ,,has ,,its ,,answer4 ,god means true prayer to have audience4 ,we can not understand how ,god can vouchsafe to us such tremendous effects as ,he asserts shall follow prayer4 ,we can not defend prayer philosophically2 but either he that asketh receiveth1 or the ,bible is misleading and untrustworthy4 ,,true ,,prayer4 ,but what is true prayer8 ,in the first place1 it is prayer which says1 ,thy will be done4 ,if we pray selfishly1 asking amiss1 we can hope for no answer4 ,we will get no hearing4 ,we must ask with the thought1 ,what is the ,father's will8 ,what does ,he consider best8 ,,desperation4 ,true prayer must be earnest4 ,it was the ,,importunate widow that was heard1 and it is the importunate seeker that never fails of an answer4 ,if when sinners1 backsliders1 or believers come to the altar they would pray with earnestness and desperation1 there would be a far larger ,,per ,,cent4 of them who would go away fully satisfied4 ,god never gives great blessings to indifferent people4 ,when ,he sees a man in an agony of desire and longing1 then ,he hastens to gladden his heart with an answer4 ,,faith4 ,prayer must be full of faith4 ,james makes this clear to us4 ,let him ask in faith nothing wavering4 ,god cannot bestow a blessing upon us if we doubt ,him4 ,if a neighbor doubts your character1 how much of your heart do you let him see8 ,if a fellow-preacher imputes selfish motives to your acts1 how often do you go to him and pour your heart out to him8 ,but those who believe in us--how frequently we run to them1 unlock our hearts and tell them all6 ,it is thus with ,god4 ,if we believe ,his word1 if we are sure of the veracity of ,his promise1 and are confidently expecting an answer1 ,he will not1 can not disappoint us4 ,,the ,,forgiving ,,spirit4 ,there must be in us a forgiving spirit if our prayers are to be heard4 ,forgiveness of our enemies precedes blessing for ourselves4 ,if ye forgive men their trespasses1 your heavenly ,father will also forgive your trespasses4 ,if ,i am bitter in my heart toward any creature1 ,god can not but be deaf to all my cries4 ,if ,i nourish hatred1 or meditate revenge1 or plot the downfall of any man1 my prayers are vain2 yea1 all my hope in ,christ is futile6 ,,gossiping ,,preachers4 ,o that ,god may send us all the prayerful blessing6 ,it is better that we pray than that we discuss politics or talk shop1 or gossip or jest4 ,if we preachers and evangelists at camps and conventions would pray more instead of getting in groups and talking about a world of nothings1 our sermons would mean full as much to those whom we address4 ,,unbroken ,,connection4 ,sanctification makes it possible for us to pray without ceasing4 ,the indwelling ,paraclete keeps the heart in a constant spirit of prayer1 so that at all hours and in all places prayers ascend4 ,communication is kept up between the heart and the throne of ,grod4 ,no snows break the wires4 ,no floods wash away the poles4 ,from the pulpit1 from the sidewalk1 from the counter1 from the railway coach1 from the sick bed1 an ever-steady stream of prayer is kept up4 ,they may befoul our names1 but they can not stop our praying4 ,they may cast us out as evil1 and may deny us pulpit privileges1 and take away our salaries1 but prayer and praise they can not stifle nor hinder4 ,,incense ,,and ,,thunder4 ,the prayers of ,god's people are sweet to ,him4 ,with much incense burning in a golden censer 7,rev4 viii4 #c7 they float to ,his throne4 ,but notice the effect of the prayers of saints4 ,not only is there a silence of an half-hour but voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake are observed in the earth4 ,the children of ,god1 if they but pray and believe1 can pull spiritual fire and earthquakes down upon earth and effect great things for ,god and ,his ,church4 ,,chapter ,x4 ,,success4 ,,success ,,intended4 ,nothing is clearer in the ,acts of the ,apostles than that the disciples after ,pentecost had success in gospel service4 ,everywhere they went ,god rained fire upon their ,word and sanctioned the truth which they preached by tremendous moral and spiritual upheavals4 ,b4 ,t4 ,,roberts4 ,bishop ,roberts has put the matter of success very succinctly3 ,if the lawyer must win his case and the doctor cure his patient in order to be successful1 the minister and worker must save souls if they in their calling are to be said to be successful4 ,but alas1 saving souls is precisely what we are not doing4 ,thank ,god6 there is here and there a man who stands out as a soul-saver4 ,but the average minister is not distinguished for revivalism so much as proficiency in making a church social a blooming success4 ,,fallen ,,samsons4 ,we all want to seem to succeed4 ,we shun and dread the appearance of failure4 ,when a church begins to rot instead of grow it is natural for us to do our utmost to find out some way of excusing the retrogression without admitting our failure to reach men with the gospel4 ,there are evangelists1 who in the palmy days of their power had wonderful1 heaven-gladdening revivals1 who have ceased to wield the sword of the ,lord and of ,gideon1 and1 in order to cover their spiritual nakedness1 are forced to resort to finger-raising1 card-signing methods for stuffing and expanding the big revival4 ,there is no more sobbing1 no more desperate praying1 no more shouting2 all is decent and in order1 as well it may be1 for all is dead4 ,,question ,,of ,,evangelism4 ,honor to soul-saving6 ,show us the man who wins men to our ,master1 that we may clasp his hand and look into his face4 ,right here hangs all the discussion about evangelism4 ,if the evangelist gets men soundly and scripturally converted and sanctified1 let us bid him ,godspeed6 ,if he only amuses them and deals in paltry three-cent sensationalism1 away with more of the same sort of stuff which we already have in so many pastors6 ,,the ,,divine ,,recipe4 ,one thing is certain3 ,god intends success and only success for ,his people4 ,if1 as ,his children1 we fail1 it must be because we have not followed the divine recipe for power and accomplishment4 ,it was because the one hundred and twenty obeyed ,christ and tarried at ,jerusalem that ,god used the early ,church to whip the ,roman ,empire4 ,,how ,,to ,,succeed ,how to ,succeed1 used as the title for a book1 will make any book sell1 though it be as dry as a patent-office report4 ,people want to know how to succeed in the world4 ,how strange then that ministers and churches who are brilliant and conspicuous failures should shun the preaching of ,pentecost--the one cure for failure and the sole guarantee of success4 ,,empty ,,comfort4 ,how many times some of us have sighed over our inefficiency6 ,how frequently1 in default of apparent results1 we have been forced to console ourselves with the thought that we are sowing seed and that there will be an abundant harvest at no distant date6 ,thank ,god6 there is success for us all4 ,pentecost will give it to us4 ,,john ,,the ,,baptist4 ,we do not mean by success financial opulence4 ,a man may be a success and yet as poor as ,john the ,baptist lunching on dried locusts and honey-comb4 ,one may be as wealthy as ,croesus and yet be an awful failure4 ,a church may be rich and increased with goods and incur the ,laodicean curse4 ,,padded ,,statistics4 ,neither does success mean a great and highly-trumpeted statistical report to lug to conference4 ,some of our most inspiring successes are all right on paper1 but in reality they are stuffed and padded scandalously4 ,no1 success in ,christian work is to turn many to righteousness1 save souls1 and secure the sanctification of believers4 ,if we do not see such results following our labor1 we have either missed ,god's plan as to our selection of a field or we are not living in the present enjoyment of the ,pentecostal ,baptism4 ,,the ,,epochal ,,experience4 ,the preachers and evangelists who have won great successes in the calling of sinners to repentance have almost without exception testified to having received an enduement or anointing subsequent to their conversion4 ,the ,caugheys1 the ,moodys1 the ,whitefields1 the ,wesleys1 the ,foxes1 the ,earles1 though in some instances they have not believed in holiness according to the ,wesleyan view1 have all had an epochal event after which their work and works were effective and startling4 ,,the ,,effect ,,of ,,pentecost4 ,pentecost coming to a mission-worker will fill his heart with enthusiasm and energy1 and give him a host of jewels washed from the mire and shining like meteors4 ,the same experience coming to a mechanic will fire him with a love for ,jesus and a solicitude for souls that will make him pray and fast and weep and work for his fellow-laborers1 for his neighbors1 and for his friends4 ,the ,spirit coming to a gifted singer will cause her to consecrate her voice1 like ,rachel ,winslow in ,sheldon's ,in ,his ,steps1 so that with holy melody she will reach hearts hitherto hard and untouched4 ,,the ,,passion ,,for ,,souls4 ,one of the conditions of success in soul-saving is a passion for the salvation of immortal men and women4 ,full salvation always brings this1 and as long as a worker lives in its plentitude and enjoyment he is consumed with a burning1 longing1 panting thirst for souls4 ,,the ,,gigantic ,,landslide4 ,the ministers of early ,methodism and early ,quakerism were not of the sort who congregate in groups and discuss the relative desirability of various appointments4 ,they did not spend their leisure in jesting1 punning and guffawing1 but in praying1 studying1 and working1 for even their vacations were turned into days of toil4 ,they spent their all in one endeavor--to save men from a yawning ,pit and a lurid ,hell4 ,nowadays we live in perpetual relaxation and recreation4 ,smooth1 insipid preachers talk to shallow1 giddy audiences1 and the whole thing is on a gigantic landslide4 ,lord1 save6 or death and damnation are sure4 ,,the ,,uncertain ,,faith4 ,there can be no successful denial of the assertion that real soul-absorbing earnestness in religion is dying out4 ,we sometimes mock at the ,herculean labors of men like ,owen1 and ,baxter1 and ,calvin1 and ,edwards4 ,but though these men were perhaps more or less legalistic and at times a little narrow1 yet one thing is sure1 they made religion the business of life1 and went at it with zest1 enthusiasm1 and determination4 ,your modern ,christian has certain intellectual difficulties2 is not fixed in belief concerning ,socinianism2 does not like the old idea of the ,atonement2 in fact1 is in a state of fusion so far as his belief and faith are concerned4 ,men do not give their life's blood for matters in which they have only a half-faith4 ,but when one is convinced that men are dying in the dark and that their salvation depends in a measure on one's activity and fidelity1 then one is hot with zeal and fire from hat to heel and set to working for ,god and eternal souls4 ,,weeping ,,over ,,chorazin4 ,this is the explanation of the zeal of men who are burning for ,jesus4 ,this is the reason men so frequently wear out in short order after they are sanctified4 ,they are dipped in fellowship with ,christ's sorrow1 and beholding ,him weeping over modern ,capernaums and ,chorazins their hearts are melted at the sight1 and they speed away to preach the gospel of the lovely ,son of ,god4 ,,sanctified ,,success4 ,no wonder success comes to the sanctified man4 ,indwelt by the ,shekinah1 filled with the ,holy ,ghost1 his whole being energized with power and force1 whatsoever he doeth prospers4 ,,chapter ,,xi4 ,,visits ,,of ,,angels4 ,,descriptive ,,psalm4 ,the ninety-first ,psalm is a painstaking description of the blessings and benefits bestowed upon the man that dwelleth in the secret place of the ,most ,high4 ,without doubt the entire chapter should be taken as a photograph of the sanctified man4 ,among other things1 this fortunate and favored person is told that he is to have angelic guards and ministers who will protect him and keep him in all his ways4 ,,god',s ,,own4 ,the sanctified are in a peculiar sense ,god's own1 and all the resources of heaven are pledged to their protection4 ,all the fire companies of the firmament will turn out to extinguish a fire if it kindle on ,god's saints4 ,if need be1 ,jehovah will empty ,his balm jars but the wounds of warriors shall be healed4 ,angels are detailed for our protection3 heavenly visitants hover near us lest the fires of affliction destroy us4 ,,understanding ,,christ4 ,the moment the soul is sanctified1 it begins to understand ,christ in a new and delightful sense4 ,it is given unto it to not only sit at ,his feet in the temple1 but to groan with ,him in ,grethsemane4 ,it understands ,him1 and1 in suffering1 is as ,he is in this world4 ,a ,,dark ,,hour4 ,it was a dark1 dark hour for the ,master4 ,he had been praying a long while1 perhaps for several hours4 ,the place was one familiar to ,him4 ,many a night after a long1 wearisome day of teaching in the temple1 ,he had labored painfully up the slope of the ,mount of ,olives in search of the quiet of the ,garden4 ,here the ,savior had ,his oratory4 ,sometimes the disciples were with ,him2 at other times ,he was alone4 ,a ,,night ,,of ,,crisis4 ,but this night was a night of crisis4 ,the old olive trees1 in all their centuries of life1 had never witnessed so intense a struggle as that which took place on the night of ,his passion4 ,alive to all the pathos of the hour1 awake to all the gravity of the situation1 sensitive to the slightest breath1 ,he prays to the ,father with that desperation in which the flight of time and the doings of the world are all forgotten4 ,,uncertainty4 ,there was much about the hour which made it a painful one4 ,there was1 first of all1 an uncertainty concerning the will of the ,father4 ,with a great cry the lonely ,christ fell to the ground3 ,if it be thy will let this cup pass1 nevertheless let thy will1 whatsoever it is1 be done4 ,evidently ,he was not at that time really sure what the plan of the ,father was in regard to ,him4 ,a ,,bitter ,,cup4 ,uncertainty is a fearful test1 when it comes to the soul of a man of great and energetic purpose4 ,so long as there is no doubt about the course to be taken1 so long as the plan is plainly revealed1 it is easy for a courageous man to advance4 ,but to such a one uncertainty is like a shock to the body1 palsying the form and changing a strong arm into a nerveless1 useless stick of bone and tissue4 ,a cup may be very bitter1 salt with the brine of tears and hot with the fire of vitriol1 and yet1 if all the ingredients in that cup are known to him who drinks it1 grief has not reached its superlative4 ,socrates' duty was plain to him4 ,hemlock was in the cup1 and he knew it4 ,but the liquor with which ,god fills the tumblers of ,his people is brewed from a thousand elements4 ,a ,,test4 ,to trust in the dark1 to believe in a rayless midnight1 to cling to a thread well-nigh invisible1 to say ,amen to ,god when one has no idea of the greatness of the meaning of ,his will1 that is the supremest test of loyalty4 ,,the ,,night ,,picket4 ,the night picket stationed far out from the camp has need of much greater courage than the soldier in battle ranks rushing on toward the enemy4 ,the man at the lonely picket post1 cloaked in darkness1 is guarding against uncertainty4 ,he can not tell at once whether a dark object is a dangerous spy or a browsing ,brindle4 ,sounds must be noted and sorted lest the enemy steal up to the slumbering army and destroy it4 ,the snapping of twigs1 the low whistle of a bird1 the groan of the wind1 the murmur of a waterfall must all be listened to with care4 ,,evil ,,tidings4 ,it is suspense and a nameless dread and fear that sap many a mind and heart4 ,moments of breathless expectancy of evil tidings are like years in the life1 bringing ashes to the hair1 lines to the cheek and listlessness to the eye4 ,,the ,,palled ,,face4 ,be sure you are right1 then go ahead1 said ,tennesseean ,crockett2 but supposing that one can not be sure of anything except the love of ,god1 supposing that one looks out through the tangled limbs of the olive trees of a ,gethsemane to a sky studded with pitiless stars1 supposing that the future is obscure and the present black as ,styx1 supposing that even the face of the ,father ,himself is palled and curtained--then must one be content to trust and only trust4 ,,three ,,disciples ,there was another cause for pain in the ,garden4 ,the three disciples1 whom ,he had chosen to accompany ,him in ,his dark and lonely vigil1 slept as ,he prayed4 ,we can bring ourselves to overlook the negligence and apathy of ,nicodemus and ,lazarus and ,simon the leper and ,zaccheus and the crowds who had merely heard ,him preach4 ,we are willing perhaps to excuse eight of the twelve for their drowsiness--perchance they did not apprehend the full meaning of the hour to the ,master4 ,but there were three disciples to whom ,christ had ever laid bare ,his heart4 ,with ,him they stood in the death chamber in the house of ,jairus4 ,to them it was given to behold the vision splendid on the mount of transfiguration1 and these alone ,jesus chose to enter into the fellowship of his ,garden sufferings4 ,,no ,,excuse4 ,these men did not nod and sleep ignorant of ,christ's need of them4 ,with that tender confidence with which a truly great and colossal man sometimes honors his friends1 ,he had said1 ,my soul is exceeding sorrowful1 even unto death4 ,he had warned them with the words1 ,watch and pray lest ye enter into temptation1 and yet they slept6 ,,our ,,own ,,affairs4 ,it must have been a keen disappointment to ,jesus to find ,his most trusted friends so indifferent to ,his needs4 ,is there anything in life sadder than the discovery that our own affairs are really only our own affairs8 ,we had thought that they were our friends'1 as well as our own4 ,we had supposed that our griefs were theirs also1 but when ,grethsemane comes into our lives1 and we writhe and twist among the gnarled and knotted roots1 when we turn with blanched1 tear-sprinkled faces to our chosen ,james and trusted ,peter and beloved ,john to gasp in their ears the story of our agony1 we hear only the heavy breathing of sound sleepers4 ,,cold1 ,,harsh ,,fact4 ,if there is a sharper pang than this1 man's heart has not found it4 ,we are by nature social beings4 ,we crave fellowship and love and sympathy1 and it is so hard for us to realize that our choicest friends are really asleep to our heart cries and heart interests4 ,the cold1 harsh fact can be believed but slowly4 ,even the ,lord seemed to find it hard to convince ,his own heart that the ,john who had leaned at supper upon ,his breast1 was resting while his ,master was sweating blood4 ,he prayed awhile and then1 as if to see whether it was indeed true that no one watched to help ,him1 ,he came and found them sleeping4 ,sad1 cruel disappointment1 and yet is it so rare that any one of us has not felt its sadness and cruelty8 ,,an ,,angel4 ,but while men forgot the ,nazarene and ,his troubles1 ,grod did not forget4 ,the ,father was not negligent nor careless4 ,there appeared an angel unto him from heaven strengthening him4 ,the night was not too dark for the angel to find ,jesus1 and the night of our troubles is never too thick and black for the angels to find us4 ,the paths of the ,garden may be grown up in weeds1 the rough1 scabeous limbs of the trees may hang close to the ground1 the driving clouds may hide the moon and stars1 but some celestial messenger will search us out and find us4 ,,in ,,many ,,forms4 ,god has many angels1 and they come in many forms4 ,sometimes the solitary sufferer sees only a tiny flower1 but love is in the flower1 and he knows he is not utterly forgotten4 ,it may be only an hand clasp1 but warmth and sympathy are in it1 and behold it is straightway an angel strengthening him4 ,perchance it is a letter with a foreign postmark1 but in it is nectar and ambrosia for a drooping spirit4 ,or the angel may come enveloped in a text of ,scripture or flying on the wings of the music of some old hymn1 such as3 ,fear not6 ,i am with thee4 ,oh1 be not dismayed1 ,for ,i am thy ,god6 ,i will still give thee aid4 ,in whatever role the angel may come1 ,god sent him1 and his mission is one of blessing and encouragement4 ,,heavenly ,,visitants4 ,we can well afford to suffer in the darkness1 alone and uncomforted1 if angels will but visit us4 ,john ,bunyan can well be content in ,bedford gaol1 if ,god but puts a dream in his head and heart that will last in the memories and characters of men1 when the sun is a burned-out cinder and the stars are dying ash heaps4 ,we can well be satisfied to have sorrows unutterable and griefs inexpressible1 if heavenly visitants will but come to us4 ,,chapter ,,xii4 ,,growth ,,in ,,christliness ,,of ,,life4 ,,making ,a ,,botch4 ,one may have a clean1 pure heart and yet be far from possessing a matured ,christian character4 ,a man may love ,god with all his heart1 and yet not be wise in his selection of the things that will always please ,god4 ,frequently the preacher may come down from the pulpit having made a horrible botch of his attempt to serve ,god in the ministry4 ,he may feel the fact keenly1 and be even more conscious of it than any of his hearers4 ,and yet that preacher may have a heart as white as ,gabriel's wing and a soul full of love to ,god and man4 ,but as time goes on1 and he lingers repeatedly at the feet of ,christ in prayer1 ,god will show him how he can serve ,him more effectively and without the objectionable features4 ,,unjust ,,criticism4 ,the fact that purity is not maturity has given rise to misapprehension on the part of many people4 ,indeed1 many of ,god's dear children have been misjudged and condemned because they did not have in addition to pure hearts sound and solid judgment4 ,as soon as a man professes the blessing of perfect love1 the sharp-eyed critics of the neighborhood look out for perfect sense1 and perfect manners1 and perfect life1 and when the subject of observation fails to meet the expectation of the aforesaid critics1 there is a great hue and cry that ,sister ,a4 or ,brother ,b4 has not got what is professed1 when ,god knows they ,,have got ,,just what they profess--namely1 perfect love1 full salvation4 ,the ,lord has never guaranteed a perfect head to any man that breathes4 ,we will make mistakes as long as we hang around this old world1 and it is injustice to exalted spirits who have this precious grace1 and an insult to the ,god who gave the grace1 to condemn sanctification because those who profess it are not angels1 but simply men and women cleansed and filled with the ,spirit4 ,,repeating ,,mistakes4 ,but while ,god makes allowance for our weakness and our frailty1 we ought not to expect ,him to indulge us in avoidable and needless errors4 ,we made a mistake4 ,very well4 ,we knew no better than to make it4 ,but now that we do know better1 we have no business repeating it4 ,and right along here comes a great expanse of territory which holiness people need to cover4 ,here there is infinite room for advancement and progress4 ,,the ,,imitation ,,of ,,christ ,thomas ,a',kempis wrote a wonderful book on ,the ,imitation of ,christ4 ,the failure in so many quarters in becoming ,christlike is due to the false method pursued4 ,first1 get a ,christlike heart1 and then let that heart govern your life and actions4 ,work ,,out your own salvation1 said ,paul1 for it is ,god that worketh ,,in you4 ,precisely6 ,god puts a holy heart into a man's breast1 and his business from thence on is to bring his life into line with the heart4 ,the old life-habits may cling to him for a time1 but it is the business of the sanctified soul to free itself from all that ,jesus would not do were ,he on earth4 ,imitation of ,christ comes after sanctification1 and not before4 ,you simply can not imitate ,jesus if you have a reptile heart in you4 ,if you have a filthy mind you will talk smut and think smut in spite of yourself4 ,you may hide your bad self from the world1 but your wife1 or your husband1 or your family1 those who are acquainted with you intimately1 know that you are base and coarse4 ,,dante4 ,a glutton may stand and look at the thin1 austere1 ascetic face of ,dante and say within himself1 ,i will be a ,dante1 but all the world knows that in a few hours he will be gourmandizing as swinishly as before4 ,and men look at the beautiful ,jesus held up in ,unitarian pulpits and resolve to act like ,him1 and go right on being selfish1 and proud1 and deceitful1 and devilish4 ,there must be a moral miracle1 there must be a spiritual upsetting and overturning1 before a carnal heart can begin to imitate the pure and spotless ,son of ,god4 ,,kindness4 ,after we are sanctified1 we ought to imitate ,christ in kindness4 ,how kind ,he was6 ,where did ,he abuse anyone8 ,he preached the truth1 but ,he never maligned any of ,his auditors4 ,,the ,,little ,,things ,it is the little things that make up the mosaic of life4 ,our friends know us1 not by the speeches we deliver1 nor the sermons we preach1 nor the books we write1 but by the tones of our voices1 and the letters we pen1 and the words we use in daily life4 ,introduce kindness into a discordant family and how ,eden-like the home becomes6 ,why are we not as considerate and polite to those who are all the world to us as we are to strangers and neighbors8 ,christlike kindness would fill our hearts with thoughtfulness for those about us4 ,it would bid us carry a torch to many a darkened life1 and incite us to share the burden pressing upon many an aching shoulder4 ,,true ,,humility4 ,christ had great charity for the faults of those with whom ,he was associated4 ,how ,he bore with the dull and almost stupid disciples6 ,how ,he bears with us in our worse and more inexcusable blockheadedness6 ,and1 if ,he is so charitable and patient with our faults1 how ought we to be with others8 ,there comes a time in our lives when we are simply astonished that people pay any attention to us at all4 ,we are so conscious of our short-comings1 and so keenly aware of our mistakes1 that it seems to us that surely no one is quite so blundering and fallible as we are4 ,how easy it is then to bear with one another6 ,,looking-,,glass ,,humility4 ,we ought to work humility out into our lives4 ,jesus lived an humble life--a life of the truest and deepest humility4 ,not a humility conscious of itself and ever gazing at itself through the fancied eyes of others1 but a humility that was real and unaffected4 ,a ,,christlike ,,man4 ,the writer has in mind a man of deep and earnest piety1 a scholar1 a successful preacher and author4 ,with all his learning and scholarship he is as humble as a child1 and one can not look at him without feeling1 ,there is a ,christ-man4 ,often as the pen flies quickly across the page1 or as the lips are moving in the delivery of a sermon1 or as an altar service is in progress1 the slight1 thin figure of that man flashes to the brain1 and the eye grows dim and the heart-prayer rises1 ,lord1 make me an humble man4 ,there are so many great men1 eloquent men1 learned men1 dignified men1 but so few humble men4 ,god1 increase their number in the land6 ,,activity4 ,another thing in ,jesus' life which sanctified people ought to learn to imitate was ,his activity4 ,his days1 and even ,his nights1 frequently1 were filled with service4 ,after long days of teaching and preaching1 ,he would seek out some quiet nook and spend the still and lonely hours of night in prayer to the ,father4 ,,the ,,individual ,,vision4 ,men who come into close touch and communion with ,christ are impelled irresistibly to earnest and ceaseless service4 ,they see needs which no one else seems to see4 ,they hear the plaintive voices of dying men1 and the tearful cries of despondent women1 and the helpless moans of unloved children4 ,they have visions which others never understand1 and dream of things with which their dearest friends can not sympathize4 ,they have given their all that they may know ,christ1 and ,he has rewarded them by disclosing ,his heart to them4 ,they know why ,his face is tearful1 and ,his voice is filled with sadness4 ,they know why ,he is a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief4 ,they are baptized into a baptism of love for souls1 and compassion for the sorrowing1 similar to that in which ,he is plunged4 ,it is for this reason that men hear the voice of ,god calling them away from the hearth-stone out into the desolate earth4 ,,st4 ,,telemachus4 ,st4 ,telemachus heard the voice of ,god1 and straightway followed the sphere of westward wheeling stars1 and journeyed on to ,rome muttering1 ,the call of ,god6 ,the call of ,god6 ,not on a foolish errand did he go1 for1 after his visit to the ,eternal ,city1 gladiatorial combats ceased4 ,,he ,,that ,,warreth ,brethren1 be true to ,christ4 ,let not even those who love you best draw you from a steadfast purpose to spend your life and all for the ,galilean4 ,flee ease and luxury and comfort1 and impose hard tasks upon yourselves4 ,your friends may seek to hinder you with cries of1 ,rest6 ,tarry6 but like ,christian in ,bunyan's dream stop your ears and go quickly on your journey4 ,,the ,,home ,,coming4 ,some day your little service will be complete4 ,your sun will set4 ,the west will be filled with beauty1 and the birds will twitter softly in the trees as you trudge the last mile into the ,city2 and as the shades deepen1 and the air grows chill1 the ,master ,himself will meet you1 take you to ,his heart1 wipe the tear from your cheek1 the dust of the road from your brow1 and the sorrow from your heart1 and lead you to the court1 where with those whom you love1 and those who love you1 ,eternity will be spent in the light of ,his pure and shining face4 ,,experience ,,the ,,value ,,of ,,testimony4 ,it has pleased ,god to place in our hands two weapons by which we are to overcome ,satan--the blood of the ,lamb1 and the word of our testimony4 ,it was the narrated experiences of the people of ,god1 and the modest declarations of the saving power of ,christ1 which convicted me of my need and led me to seek the grace of ,god4 ,very briefly1 therefore1 ,i will sketch ,god's dealings with my own soul4 ,,early ,,prayer4 ,i was born ,september #cjth1 #ahgg1 at ,westfield1 ,indiana4 ,my parents were both ministers in the ,society of ,friends1 and ,i can not remember ,when ,i first began to pray1 for my mother taught me to go to ,god with everything1 even when a very small child4 ,when ,i was five and a half years of age we moved to ,walnut ,ridge1 ,indiana1 where there was a ,friends' meeting of more than ordinary size and activity4 ,it was here that my conversion took place4 ,i remember the event as distinctly as if it were yesterday4 ,,conviction4 ,i always prayed at the family altar1 and that was an institution which was never neglected for anything in our home1 and ,i had never omitted my evening devotions2 but one summer day while playing by myself under the trees in the front yard1 a great fear came upon me lest ,i had never had a change of heart4 ,though less than six years old1 ,i had sat in the gallery behind my father as he preached too often to be ignorant of the necessity of the new birth4 ,it was a perfect day1 but conviction settled upon me more and more deeply1 and a dark shadow seemed to take the brightness from everything4 ,unable to endure the heartache any longer1 ,i ran into the house and sat down with my father and mother1 waiting in silence for some time4 ,finally ,i asked them if ,i had ever been converted1 told them ,i wanted to be1 and immediately we knelt in prayer4 ,how ,i did weep1 and how badly ,i felt6 ,i can see the back of that little sewing-rocker now swimming in my tears4 7,i wonder where that rocking-chair is now6 ,the last ,i knew it was in ,california1 having left us at an auction--an occasion not unfamiliar to most of preacher-families47 ,they told me to pray1 and ,i prayed with all my heart4 ,if ever there was a little boy who felt that he was a great sinner1 ,i was the boy4 ,i remembered all the things ,i ever did that ,i knew were wrong4 ,my boyish wickednesses1 things that seem a rather absurd lot now in the light of the sins of the average lad of six that ,i know to-day1 caused me great pain4 ,soon peace came1 and what happiness6 ,when ,i went out doors again the very birds twittered with increased gladness1 and the sky seemed a far deeper blue1 and the grass and flowers rejoiced with me in my new-found experience4 ,,retrogression4 ,would ,god ,i had retained my simple faith in ,jesus6 ,but it was not long before ,i wandered away from ,christ1 and the life of prayerfulness and obedience4 ,for years my religious experience was most unsatisfactory4 ,i was under frequent convictions1 and knew that the ,spirit was striving with me persistently1 but ,i hardened my heart and would not yield completely to ,god4 ,as ,i look back at those years of restlessness and rebellion1 ,i recall with gratitude the forbearance and long-suffering of a now sainted mother4 ,how she carried her proud1 stubborn boy on her heart1 and how she held onto ,god's skirt and tugged away until ,he answered4 ,,the ,,striving ,,of ,,the ,,spirit4 ,during the winter of #ahia-ahib ,i became almost wretched on account of conviction4 ,the ,holy ,ghost fairly dogged my steps and whispered in my ear at every turn4 ,there were many things which ,he used to convict me of--my unfaithfulness and aridity of soul and life4 ,my junior year at ,oak ,grove ,seminary is distinctly remembered as a time of continuous conviction and unrest4 ,now and then ,i would find peace and comfort for a time1 but they remained only for a time4 ,i kept up secret devotions very carefully4 ,i never missed my daily prayers1 but my life was inconsistent and ,god-dishonoring4 ,the lives of real ,christians rebuked me1 and the mockery of my empty profession haunted me like a spectre4 ,,reclamation4 ,in the summer of #ahib ,i began to seek ,god earnestly1 and was not long in finding pardon and reclamation4 ,no sooner was ,i at peace with ,god than ,i began to hunger for holiness4 ,o1 how my heart longed for full salvation6 ,i saw much about me that was an indication that there was an experience enjoyed by some of which ,i was not possessed4 ,my mother's calm1 victorious life1 and her constant unwavering ,christian faith1 convicted me4 ,i was proud and selfish1 and hypersensitive and ambitious4 ,she was restful1 contented1 loving1 meek4 ,how frequently ,i gave way to some temptation1 and how mortified ,i was to be so humiliated by the ,adversary4 ,,hunger ,,for ,,holiness4 ,many of the members of my father's church at ,portsmouth had an experience of freedom and liberty which ,i craved4 ,in ,july my father1 my mother1 and ,i spent a couple of days at ,douglas camp-meeting4 ,i remember so well every incident of the trip--my deep unrest as we entered the grounds1 my aversion to certain boisterous persons who said ,bless the ,lord so frequently1 my disrelish for food1 my dislike of taking a front seat in the audience4 ,two old sisters sat facing the preacher one evening4 ,their faces were full of joy1 and they seemed to overflow with joy and spiritual exhilaration4 ,i inwardly said1 ,i wish ,i had an experience like they seem to have4 ,i made up my mind ,i would seek4 ,i can not recall a word of the sermon4 ,i do not think ,i heard it at the time--my mind was so full of an inward struggle4 ,,candidate ,,for ,,sanctification4 ,when the call was made1 ,i went forward and consecrated myself and all my hopes and desires and longings and all to ,god4 ,how in the world ,i had ever acquired so low a desire ,i do not know1 but my chief ambition had been to be a professor of science in some college4 ,but the ,lord put me through a series of questions3 ,will you be my property henceforth8 ,yes1 ,lord4 ,are you willing that people should call you a 'holiness crank'8 ,yes1 ,lord4 ,supposing ,i should ask you to shout1 would you8 ,i would do my best at it4 ,will you give up all your plans and be a one-horse preacher of holiness if ,i want you to8 ,ah1 here was a rub1 indeed4 ,preaching was precisely what ,i did not relish4 ,anything rather than that4 ,i had visions of small salaries1 and country churches1 and long1 cold rides4 ,i had seen the life of the preacher ever since ,i could remember4 ,i debated the question4 ,then ,i answered1 ,yes4 ,the audience was singing3 ,here ,i give my all to ,thee-- ,friends and time and earthly store4 ,soul and body then to be ,wholly ,thine forever more4 ,they told us seekers to raise our hands if we meant it4 ,i meant it1 so up went a hand4 ,instantly faith got an answer1 and the witness came1 and ,i knew that ,i was sanctified wholly4 ,a ,,dull ,,scholar ,but ,i was a dull scholar1 and had to learn many lessons after my ,jordan-crossing4 ,owing to my failure in definite testimony1 my experience suffered partial eclipse1 and my last year at ,oak ,grove was more or less dark and unhappy4 ,i was much helped1 however1 by the reading of holiness books sent me by a sanctified music-teacher1 who had interest enough in me to write me real ,fenelon letters and keep me supplied with holiness reading4 ,during the summer of #ahic ,i was more fully established in the grace1 and in the autumn began to preach4 ,,the ,,abiding ,,christ4 ,i have frequently erred in judgment1 and made most stupid blunders1 but the perpetual spring experience of full salvation has been my greatest comfort and blessing4 ,the abiding ,christ gives zest and spice to life1 and makes the ministry of holiness delightful and joyous4 ,,god ,,always ,,answers4 ,god has blessed my ministry1 and given me success4 ,it is all of ,him4 ,what a wonderful ,god we have6 ,he never leaves us4 ,i have called upon ,him when preaching1 and ,he has always answered4 ,i have cried to ,him in hours of loneliness and discouragement1 and ,he has replied like a flash4 ,i stood by a cot and watched a saintly mother slip away to the undiscovered bourn1 and ,he did not fail me4 ,hallelujah6 ,he can not only sanctify1 but ,he can preserve1 sustain and keep4 ,whatever may come to us1 ,christ will not forsake us4 ,as we look down the vista of years to come1 and remember that life is swift and serious1 we can only lean hard on the ,son of ,god and push on1 confident that ,his promise1 ,lo1 ,i am with you alway1 can not fail4 ,praise the ,lord6 ,,the ,,end4