Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

In speaking of the love which resulted from this baptism, he says:
"It has banished all fear that has any element of torment, and so, according to John, has perhaps
the right to style itself perfect. But, since the treasure is held in an 'earthen vessel' and its
manifestations must be guided by a fallible judgment, there can be no guarantee that it shall always
appear perfect to those who observe its workings."
This last is an important point that should restrain criticism of thoroughly good but apparently
inconsistent men. We will give one more extract from this remarkable record of Dr. Mudge's
experience. Under the heading, "Thirty Years with Jesus," he says:
"It was in August, 1860, that I took Christ for my complete Saviour, freely surrendering to him
my whole heart: and so, although there had been a Christian life the usual mixed, unsatisfactory
character for four years previously, it is only these thirty years now finished that can really be called
with full appropriateness a walk with Jesus."
We must be excused for making the following comments before passing to the last item in this
answer:
1. Dr. Mudge's experience was up to the time of this baptism for four years -- "of the usual mixed,
unsatisfactory character"!
2. That not until after the sudden coming of our Lord as the "Empowerer" into his life could that
life "be called a walk with Jesus."
3. This increment of strength enabled him to go steadily forward, growing in grace, and kept him
from backsliding. He says: "Each year without exception has been an improvement upon its
predecessors. There has never been anything that could be called a period of lapse or backsliding."
4. [After his baptism of the Holy Spirit], His experience was of the most scriptural and
satisfactory nature -- good enough for the most exacting man.
5. Before men quote Dr. Mudge to justify their living on a low plane of experience, they ought
to see to it that they get up where he is.
(5) If Dr. Mudge's experience was really defective in the respects noted by him, we might
confidently point to that of others equally able, eminent, scholarly, and pious as an offset to his. We
give that of the Rev. Dr. Daniel Steele, of Dr. Mudge's own Conference, and whom he calls "the
distinguished author and theological teacher," and whom another calls "the Fletcher of America."
He says:
"After seventeen years of life's varied experiences on seas sometimes very tempestuous, in
sickness and in health, at home and abroad, in honor and dishonor, in tests of exceeding severity,
there has come up out of the depths of neither my conscious nor unconscious being anything bearing
the ugly features of sin. I testify that it is possible for believers to be so filled with the Holy Ghost