Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

that they can live many years on the earth conscious every day of a meetness for the inheritance of
the saints in light, and of no shrinking back because of a felt need of further inward cleansing, -from
an instant translation into the society of the holy angels and into the presence of the holy God.
This was my daily experience since 1887 -- seventeen years."
And he says it has continued so to this year -- ten years longer, twenty-seven in all. Unlike Dr.
Mudge, he did not feel or see anything in his heart "like pride, ambition, or "selfishness" "calling for
further purification or repression."
The Rev. Dr. Mahan is better known and more distinguished than Dr. Mudge, and was, we think,
as well able to analyze and interpret his experience. He tells us that the old and very proud, willful,
and fiery self, that gave him so much trouble during the eighteen years of his pre-Pentecostal
experience, never but once for fifty years, and that only "for an instant," revealed itself to his
consciousness. Let the reader turn to Dr. Mahan's experience in Chapter 17.
And it should be remembered that the testimony of these eminent men and thousands of other
saintly men and women is positive, while that of Dr. Mudge and others is of a negative character.
The former say we know what God has done for us when we performed the conditions prescribed.
That of the latter, so far as it bears against our theory, is as to what has not been done for them,
because, it is insisted, they failed to perform those conditions. The reader remembers the Irishman
who was laughed out of court because he protested against a verdict of guilty on the testimony of two
reliable eyewitnesses, alleging that he could produce twenty witnesses who would testify that they
did not see him commit the crime -- witnesses who may have been blind, or twenty miles away from
the scene of the crime. The testimony of two witnesses to the fact that a certain medicine cured them
and kept them in health is worth more than that of thousands of others who neglect to take it in the
quantity or for the length of time it was prescribed.
4. It is objected that the sacred writers did not divide those to whom they wrote into classes - the
merely regenerate and the wholly sanctified.
(1) Did not the apostles classify them in this way when selecting the deacons of the church at
Jerusalem? They directed the "brethren" to select men "full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom" for that
office. Does not this injunction indicate that there was another class in that church who were not "full
of the Holy Ghost " -- had not received the Pentecostal baptism?
(2) For whom did Paul pray in the prayers for entire sanctification which Bishop Hendrix says are
recorded in all his Epistles except one? Of course it was for those who had not been sanctified
"wholly." Suppose his prayers recorded in First Thessalonians were answered in case of part of that
church and not in case of others, because of obstacles in them, which was most probably the case.
In his second Epistle, did he not have to address two classes? They would have been in that church
at any rate.
(3) When Paul in the first chapter of First Corinthians said, "I thank my God always on your
behalf for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; that in everything, ye are enriched
by him ... so that ye come behind in no gift," was he addressing the same class whom he, in the third