W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

about fifty to one hundred pages each and are all bound in paper and sell for only one dime per copy. Therefore
you see you can actually command a splendid library with the small sum of two dollars and a half. When I
graduated from college, having been a student twenty-one years (from five to twenty-six years of age), I
proceeded at once to ransack all of the world for books and gathered up a library at the cost of one thousand
dollars, much of it consisting of costly works sent from Germany and England. The Lord, in His mercy, as let
me write forty-eight books and booklets. I honestly believe that if these had been put into my hands instead of
the one thousand dollar library, they would have done me more good than that wagon load of books. While
many of my books are large, containing three to six hundred pages and substantially bound in cloth, the twentyseven
booklets, about which we now give you a word of information, cost but a dime per copy and therefore
amount in total cost to but very little; the whole sum necessary to secure the entire library would probably be in
the neighborhood of $1500. God, in His mercy, blessed me with splendid educational facilities, so that I read
English fluently at the age of six, and after years of toil actually used the New Testament scriptures in thirteen
languages and dialects and the Old Testament in all of the important classical languages. I have been an
assiduous student all my life and lost comparatively no time sowing wild oats in the realms of Diabolus, like
most people, and having spent fifty-three years preaching the Gospel and teaching not only the Bible, but the
entire collegiate course, I am certainly very anxious to give the rising generation the full benefit of my seventythree
years on the earth and all the additional remnant which God, in His infallible providence and
superabounding mercy, shall add to my preceding years, which already begin to render me somewhat an
example f human longevity.
The booklets are:
(1) ”SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES” When first written this produced a general and wide-spread
sensation among the scholars of Christendom, who had acquiesced in the conclusion that all of these gifts had
left the world when the Apostles went to Heaven. Consequently this book was really a sunburst on the spiritual
people of the different denominations who seized it with universal avidity and devoured it with insatiable
voracity, seeing clearly and confessedly its pure Biblical orthodoxy, and at the same time recognizing the
glorious feasibility of receiving and appropriating these gifts and graces like the people of the apostolic age. We
all must have the nine graces, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, faith and
holiness, (Gal.
5:22) in order that we ourselves may be saved. Therefore you see that the nine graces are an absolute sine qua
non, which none of us under any circumstances can afford to forfeit as we must get to Heaven whether other
people do or not.
Meanwhile the nine gifts of the Holy Ghost, wisdom, knowledge, faith, gifts of healing, the workings of
dynamite, discernment of spirits, prophecy, languages and interpretations, constitute the Christian's panoply by
which we conquer Satan's host and rescue the lost millions from sin, death and endless woe. You see, then, if we
have not the graces we will lose our souls, while if we do not utilize the gifts, though with the graces we get to
Heaven, we will have no stars to shine in our crown for the angel to admire through the ages of eternity and, as
some say will have to go bare headed
(2.) ”VICTORY” -- This book has received a wonderful circulation and God has everywhere set His seal
upon the truth. Bound in cloth it only costs twenty five cents but in paper it ranks as a dime book along with the
twenty-six dime booklets in paper. It means just what it says, “Victory over the world, the flesh and the devil.” It
tells you the Lord's secret of getting it and keeping it, its circulation has gone up to forty or fifty thousand and it
is still going to the ends of the earth. It was published early in the Holiness Movement. I have known many
preachers to attribute their sanctification to reading it. Like all of these small books it is characteristic of
'multum in parvo, “much in little,” and evidently adapted to laboring people.
(3.) ”HOLY LAND” This book is the size and price of the two preceding, twenty-five cents, bound in cloth,
and in paper one dime. It gives you an account of my first journey to the Holy Land.
It has received an extensive circulation and been read by myriads great delight. Children and young people are
especially carried away with it.