Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

The experience of this Episcopal brother is very much like that of his Presbyterian, Quaker, and
Methodist brethren:
1. He was sure of his conversion and "found a good deal of comfort" in what he calls his "justified
state."
2. But he found that through his own efforts -- his prayers and tears -- he could not rid himself of
his remaining depravity, which seemed to show itself specially in an irritable temper.
3. That when he ceased trying to save himself from it, and looked to God to do it for him, he
found instantaneous and complete deliverance through a divine power within.
4. That he could say years after that time that "the light has been burning steadily from that day
to this," and that he was "conscious that the blood cleanseth, and the Holy Ghost abides."
5. All this blessed deliverance and happy life he attributes to "the baptism of the Holy Ghost," in
which, he thinks, was involved his "reception of [instantaneous] sanctification."
The following extracts are taken from the recorded experience of Mrs. Anna M. Hammer, of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in Newark, N. J.; written by herself in July, 1887, with some of our
comments. We note:
1. The clearness of her conversion. She says: "I have no doubt as to my conversion, that I was
born again."
2. That after her conversion she entered on a gay and fashionable life, "from which she keenly felt
all the way through that her spiritual life was suffering."
3. That under God's afflicting hand she was drawn "nearer to the Lord," and her "Christian life
grew sweeter and deeper."
4. That she received a baptism or "anointing" of the Spirit "for service," which did not involve
entire sanctification or "the baptism of the Holy Spirit as a distinct second experience." It seems that
this was an emotional or charismatic fullness of the Spirit, that was comparatively superficial and
evanescent.
5. That "finally a great hunger of soul came upon" her, and she found that "there were in the
corners of her heart things known only to herself and God," and she "realized that nothing short of
the 'anointing which abideth' would satisfy her soul and fit her fully as a worker for God."
6. That after three days of agony and tears the baptism which brings an ethical and abiding
fullness came upon her. Seven years after that she says, "From that hour my Christian life has been
victory."