Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

But other physicians and patients after the analysis are undecided -- have doubts about the value
of this medicine -- and some may bitterly oppose its use; but on seeing others cured by it, they are
induced to try it for themselves, with the result of having all such doubts removed and such
opposition give way, followed by hearty recommendation of it to others. Other physicians and their
patients still, having been brought up in other schools of medicine, have inherited strong prejudices
against this remedy and all who prescribe or use it. But, from the testimony of those who have tried
it and from observation of remarkable cures, as well as their later analysis of it, they are induced to
test it in their own cases with most favorable results. Now, would not the testimony from experience
of these different classes of thoroughly cured men have more weight than that of ten times as many
others who testify solely from their analysis of the medicine?
It is easy to apply this illustration to the matter in hand. Men of great ability, superior learning and
piety, and wonderful spiritual insight certainly the equals of those on the other side after examining
and analyzing certain passages of Scripture, have decided that they offer to the believer a thorough,
instantaneous, conscious, and permanent cure for the disease of selfishness or spiritual depravity,
and that this cure is ordinarily effected subsequently to regeneration. In addition, they have accepted
this offer, and by experiment and in their experience found that their interpretation of that offer is
correct.
Others of the same Church who had "doubts" about such interpretation or have "bitterly opposed"
those who so interpreted that offer, as well as great and most spiritual men and women of other
Churches, who inherited prejudices against such theory of interpretation, most gladly add their
emphatic testimony to the soundness of such interpretation and the genuineness of such experience
of cure.
Can any reasonable man hesitate for a moment in deciding whose interpretation and testimony
to accept? How long should we listen to mere theorizers who say water will not quench our thirst,
that food will not satisfy our hunger, and that a well-tried medicine will not cure our disease when
universal observation and experience, where these things have been tried, most emphatically
contradict such theory?
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