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To the further questions, "Have there been no lapses? has the witness never been clouded? has there never been a time when there was a consciousness of not pleasing God' during those sixteen years and more? Dr. Levy replies: 'A determination to be honest with myself and true to God compels me to acknowledge that twice, perhaps thrice, has the light been withdrawn, and I have walked mournfully before the Lord.' But he assures us that those periods of darkness were of short duration. He says: "There was no effort, as in his early experience, to patch up or mend what had become soiled or broken. Faith again laid hold of the precious promise, 'If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.' The answer came. The witness was renewed. The communion was restored." The following is very plain and encouraging to the faint-hearted: "And now, understanding better than before how he may be blameless, and yet not faultless, he has a keener sense of his own weakness, and of Christ's power to save to the uttermost. The devil tempts, but He delivers. The world brings tribulation, but He overcomes the world for him. Dark clouds often appear, but He sets a bright light in them, or stretches over them the rainbow of his peace. Men frown, and friends grow strange and cold, but for every frown or slight He gives a fresh smile. The happy art has been discovered, how to be at peace amid war, to possess sweetness amid bitterness, to be strong amid weakness, to be rich amid poverty, to be indifferent to the opinion of others amid the deepest concern for their souls, to be dead amid the bliss of life. 'O Lord God of hosts, blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee!" Dr. Levy's experience strikingly illustrates the teachings of Fuller, Judson, Gordon, Murray, Meyer, and other well-known and most spiritual and useful Baptist ministers. May it prove helpful to the many believers whose experience is not satisfactory! We are profoundly convinced of the substantial if not the literal truth of this record of it. *************************************
SCRIPTURAL SANCTIFICATION: An Attempted Solution of the Holiness Problem By The Rev. John R. Brooks, D.D. Chapter 21 MODERN METHODIST TESTIMONY -- FISK, OLIN, FOSTER, PECK -- -- MISS WILLARD, CARRADINE -- -- ANDERSON, AND SCHOOLFIELD -- We will first give the testimony of Dr. Tillett's distinguished namesake, the eminent Wilbur Fisk. In the following extracts, Dr. George Prentice, his biographer, very truly and justly characterizes him, and gives us some most important facts touching his experience and life. He says: "Dr. Wilbur Fisk, the charming, inspiring, and subduing preacher, the founder of institutional education in American Methodism, a man combining the distinctive charms that endear to us the beautiful characters of Fenelon and Channing, Jonathan Edwards and John Fletcher, lived more than a score of years in the faith and exemplification of the sublime doctrine of Christian perfection as taught by Jesus Christ, St. Paul, and St. John. He prized that great tenet as one of the most important distinctions of Christianity. "His experience, which left its radiant impress on his daily life, was signalized by an overwhelming effusion of the Holy Spirit, depriving him of physical strength for several hours. It occurred at a camp meeting at Wellfleet, on August 10, 1819. As he was passing one of the Boston tents, a lady invited him to stay in that tent. She then told him that on the way down an assurance had been given her that Mr. Fisk would receive the blessing of a holy heart at that meeting. Dr. Fisk says: 'Her words thrilled through me in an indescribable manner. I wept, I trembled, I fell. But Satan drew a veil of unbelief over my mind. They prayed for me, but all was dark; my heart was [seemed] harder than ever. (A clearer revelation of his depravity which preceded this baptism.) Thursday morning we had a familiar conversation concerning heart holiness. About the setting of the sun, word came that souls were begging for prayers in Brother Taylor's tent (the celebrated "Father Taylor," of the Seaman's Bethel). I went immediately in, and behold! God was there. We united in prayer, when one after another, to the number of four or five, were converted. We rose to sing. I looked up to God, and thanked him for answering prayer, and cried, "Lord, why not hear prayer for my soul?" My strength began to fail while I looked in faith. "Come, Lord, and come now. Thou wilt come. Heaven opens, my Saviour smiles. Glory! glory! Oh, glory to God! Help me, my brethren, to praise the Lord." The scene that was now opened to my view I can never describe. I could say: "Lord, thou knowest that I love thee! I love thee above everything ... Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me praise his holy name."'
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the gospel was first preached. Rede
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with tongue and pen as if in the gr
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extravagances of some unbalanced mi
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all depravity in this life, and tha
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elief of the truth." Peter tells th
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"separate and consecrate," and to h
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"Strengthened with might by His Spi
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mind" -- are removed and nothing is
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Job was one of the finest character
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Peacemaker. Hence, probably, peace
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given before. And yet, as all admit
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(2) There seems to be today a large
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It is believed, however, that there
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The ignorant and captious part of t
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to what Joel prophesied about. The
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the Spirit that had been promised b
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"An influential and constantly incr
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pollution, and weakness, as well as
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Now, with these concessions and exp
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a fuller measure of the Spirit when
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Dr. Mudge would explain the case of
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Truth and candor require admissions
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his theory and ours seems to be tha
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that time. In a letter to the write
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Dr. Steele continues: "That the Eng
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these Paul is believed to teach tha
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prayers; remembering without ceasin
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3. The use of the aorist indicates
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in their history, indicated by the
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then adds, "that we might receive t
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In controverting the above, Dr. Gor
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this "renewal," "sanctification," o
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standards on this subject." And we
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Bishop Ninde comes the nearest to t
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the man whom the Rev. Dr. D. C. Kel
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Peter's case illustrates the meanin
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consciousness of repentance; (3) co
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Let the doubting reader weigh well
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We are profoundly convinced that th
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witnesses, to testify, not merely f
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divinely inspired, is but the Bible
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give many passages of his writings
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(3) Another reason is the greater u
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"'Then kneel right down here and pr
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Presbyterian minister's wife, who h
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Pentecost came after our Lord's ful
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wondrous love, ought it not to make
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is, however, more or less of strife
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may see what Israel needs, and then
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President Finney made the same comp
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teacher with power to teach his or
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whole spirit, and soul, and body be
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