A Presentation of Perfection - Media Sabda Org

The demonstration is complete. The standard is God's, not mine. O brothers and
sisters in Christ, seek the sanctifying grace! Do not face the fate of those who reject
the light and grope in darkness without Christ and without the Spirit, and end at last
in eternal light! [40]
Like the first two 1932 articles discussed, the last article also stressed the work of the Holy Spirit.
In fact, the piece is called, "A Man Filled with the Holy Ghost." Stalker started the writing by
reminding the people that if they did not have the Holy Spirit in His fullness it was their own fault.
He said the Holy Spirit would not come in His fulness to anyone that would not pay the full price
of self surrender.
Stalker also said there were three main characteristics about the person filled with the Holy Ghost:
(1) they carry comfort; (2) they see things that other people do not see; (3) they say things that
nobody else says. He said there were no other words that can comfort like the words of a sanctified
Christian. Also, that a person filled with the Holy Ghost saw victory wherever they were and were
bold in speaking the truth even if it cost them their head.
Here were a few sentences he used to summarize his thoughts about the work of the Holy Ghost:
A man filled with the Holy Ghost is not filled with a lot of inventions, not filled with
a lot of ideas, not filled with a lot of contradiction, not filled with a lot of boasting
in his education, not filled with a lot of stuff handed down. I wonder how many of
you could be chosen as men full of the Holy Ghost, or as a woman full of the Holy
Ghost. [41]
1933
This year Samuel Brengle, Andrew Johnson, and Joseph Smith wrote for the Revivalist. These
men all wrote articles that talked about different aspects of the doctrine of holiness, yet they all
attempted to share the goodness of sanctification.
In January an article was printed by Brengle called "Hallelujah." In this writing Brengle talked
about his personal experience of getting sanctified. Brengle told the readers that for several years he
had sought the blessing. He said he would have peace for awhile and then would fall back into doubt
and despair. Finally, on January 9, 1885, at 9 o'clock, sitting at his study table in Boston, he got the
real blessing.
There were several things that happened that caused Brengle to seek holiness:
I was a student of theology in Boston University, and had been stirred again to seek
the blessing through the testimony of a fellow student, one of the quietest and least
noticed students there, but whose testimony was clear and definite. Then Mr. Moody
came to the city and preached a sermon on the baptism with the Holy Spirit that
opened up a whole unknown realm of experience to me which made me very hungry.
Then one of the professors gave a classroom lecture on the doctrine and experience