Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

lay my head upon my pillow until I felt a sense of acceptance with him; while every day I have felt
his presence in my soul. Evidently the blessing on June 1, of last year, was not a recovery from
backsliding."
These brief extracts from Dr. Carradine's recorded experience -- we wish we had space for longer
ones -- clearly indicate that it comes fully up to the Wesleyan standard. It was subsequent to
regeneration, was instantaneous, was certified to by his consciousness, and was abiding in its effects;
and it was remarkable for its intensity and the extent to which it excited his emotional nature.
Fearing that it might prove misleading and discouraging to others, he reminds his readers that it was
exceptional in those respects. He cites the case of Dr. Lovick Pierce, "who said that for minutes he
felt that he could live without breathing, so unutterable was the calm in his soul." He also quotes
from the experience of Dr. Thomas C. Upham, who says:
"I was then redeemed by a mighty power, and filled with the blessing of perfect love. There was
no intellectual excitement, no marked joys when I reached this great rock of practical salvation; but
I was distinctly conscious when I reached it."
Dr. Carradine then adds:
"This is the point I make: that to lay the emphasis upon the emotional feature is misleading. It is
as unwise here as it is in conversion to demand certain exalted states as the criterion in such a case.
The instant we make an overwhelming rapture the standard experience, that instant we grieve and
discourage many, and make it difficult, if not impossible, for them to secure the longed-for blessing."
We are profoundly convinced of the truth of this last statement.
The following is from the Rev. T. H. B. Anderson, D.D., one of the strong men who have helped
to plant Southern Methodism on the Pacific Slope, and who has several times represented that
section of the Church in the General Conference. He was very much opposed to -- was indeed bitter
against -- the "second-blessing" theory of sanctification. When Dr. Carradine went to San Francisco
to hold a series of meetings, Dr. Anderson solemnly covenanted with a ministerial friend that he
might hear Dr. Carradine preach, but that he would do "nothing more." He would not encourage him
in his peculiar methods -- least of all would he yield to the influence of his meeting. The following
extracts show what followed. Dr. Anderson says:
"1. I was known to be bitterly opposed to the 'second-blessing' theory of sanctification. I
prejudiced many minds against it ... I was opposed to it all; and more, fought it publicly and
privately. God forgave me, and I rejoice that I stand where, for the first time, I can understand
Christian experience.
"2. That I had been converted there was no doubt, in my mind; that I feared God, I knew; that I
was doing all I could, my almost day and night work was proof. What more did I need? There was
unrest, a lack of continuous peace, of uninterrupted joy. My friends, I loved passionately; my
enemies, not any too well. Plainly, my feet were weary, my heart ached, and my present experience