Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

the one may immediately and almost simultaneously follow the other, and this will be the case where
faith in God is perfect."
We need not repeat what he says of that experience of "purity," "strength," and "power" which he
had after he "consecrated himself anew to God in a more specific and solemn manner." This does
not harmonize with the view of those who insist that "separation and consecration" are about all there
is of sanctification, and that there is no "experience" of sanctification which follows such act. Nor
does it agree with the teaching of others, that the one consecration made at regeneration is always
as full as we can make, and is sufficient to bring God's largest blessing.
3. This experience implies that Dr. Upham received "the baptism of the Holy Ghost," and was the
subject of his "ethical and "abiding fullness" of grace and blessing; that he received something more
than a mere "emotional" or ordinary blessing of the Spirit, which is more or less "evanescent." He
says: "There was no intellectual excitement, no very marked joy, when I reached the great rock of
practical salvation. The soul seemed to have gathered strength from the storm which it had passed
through on the previous night, and, aided by a power from on high, it leaped forward, as it were by
a bound, to the great and decisive mark."
4. He implies that there is nothing in a sound psychology contradictory to the theory of
sanctification. This "high proficient in mental science," this profound philosopher and acute
metaphysician, the author of an able work on metaphysics, failed to see anything in the psychology
of the subject to contradict his interpretation of Scripture, or his experience touching this matter. Nor
do we believe that any rational or well-established psychology tends in the least degree to nullify this
theory of sanctification, when the latter is properly understood and the former is rightly applied. We
hope to show this more fully in another chapter.
We have devoted this large space to the record, analysis, and application of Dr. Upham's
experience because we believe that, with intelligent and thoughtful men, the testimony from
consciousness of one such "high proficient" in such matters is worth more than the unsupported
hypothesis of a thousand mere theorists.
We are sorry that Dr. Boland seems to speak slightingly of Dr. Upham, as "one of Dr. and Mrs.
Palmer's converts." This record of his experience from which we have quoted indicates that he was
converted to the theory of entire sanctification in this life before he met them and other Methodist
friends to whom he refers. But if they had convinced him of the truth of this theory, he would only
have been in line with the eloquent Apollos, who seems to have been led to embrace the doctrine of
the Spirit's fullness of blessing under the tutelage of Aquila and Priscilla, a spiritual and
well-instructed layman and his wife. Dr. Buckley, in his Centennial Address at Baltimore in 1884,
speaks in the highest terms of Mrs. Palmer. While we might not be able to agree with her in all that
she said and did -- we read her works nearly forty years ago -- we honor her memory as that of one
of God's most saintly and useful servants. And the gifted Miss Frances E. Willard was a beneficiary
of Mrs. Palmer's Teaching and evangelistic labors.
The Rev. Asa Mahan, D.D., LL.D., a well-known journalist, teacher, and author, and the first
President of Oberlin College, Ohio, was one of the ablest, most pious, and most notable men of his