Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

conversion ... My heart had entered into new and higher existence. This was as evident as transition
from darkness to light."
5. This was abiding, and gave him easy triumph over temptation:
"My mind remains in the same state, with scarcely a shadow of variation. This is one remarkable
fact in my new life -- it is even and sustained. I have been tempted, vilely tempted, but the adversary
has found no response; I have had an easy and direct victory over all assaults. It is not with me as it
was aforetime; faith brings me instant victory, almost without a conscious effort.
6. His experience was not colored by his creed. On the contrary, his creed and prejudices were
very much against this experience. He says:
"Eventually, when the work of holiness began to be more talked of, and extensively professed,
from the fact that I had failed to obtain it, and because of indiscretions in the lives and language of
some who professed it, and from heresies in the instructions of some who taught it, and particularly
because I was myself somewhat spoiled with false philosophy, I imbibed a strong antipathy against
the whole subject. This opposition of mind, unacknowledged to myself increased, and became more
settled and deadly. Finally I could have no patience to have the subject introduced. My whole mind
recoiled at it. I felt contempt for those who professed it, and even carefully refrained from naming
it in my prayers ... I once said to a dear friend who was conversing with me on the subject, and
urging me to seek it (she was one who I believed enjoyed it): 'If my enjoyment of it requires a
profession, I do not desire it. I do not feel that I could receive it on such terms, or with such
involvements.' So dark had I become -- so dreadfully prejudiced."
"These facts ought to be seriously pondered by other prejudiced ones, and should give his
testimony great weight.
7. This "high proficient both in philosophy and spiritual experience" -- this profound philosopher
and divine, who has for half a century made metaphysics a "specialty" -- sees nothing in this theory
of instantaneous and entire sanctification that is contrary to a sound psychology. And he has, in a
profound and elaborate work, written in his riper years -- Philosophy of Christian Experience -- most
ably applied the principles of psychology to this experience of sanctification. The opinion and
testimony of this St. John of Northern Methodism, this expert in "clearly unfolding difficult and
profound subjects," this most eminent of the bishops of our sister Church, whose broad charity and
warm sympathies come out to us, ought to have weight with all our thinking people. And the more
so because, while progressive on many lines of religious thought, Bishop Foster is regarded as
conservative and safe on this question, having persistently made effort to restrain the more impulsive
and less thoughtful advocates of this theory from unsound interpretation of Scripture and unsafe and
fanatical practices based on such interpretation.
Probably next to Queen Victoria of England, Miss Frances F. Willard is the most widely known
and best beloved woman of the English-speaking world. She has well been called the "uncrowned
queen of America." And her dominion was not limited to this country, for wherever Christianity has
gone her name and fame and good works are known. She has probably done more for the cause of