Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

feeling will sooner or later break in on your consciousness, and you will rejoice with exceeding joy,
and all the fruits of the Spirit will begin to show themselves."
The writer's experience harmonizes very nearly with the above from these two most spiritual and
successful pastor-evangelists, one of the Methodist and the other of the Baptist Church.
7. Who should seek it? What classes? After what has been said, this seems almost a needless
question; yet it may not be amiss to answer it. The Rev. John McNeil, a Presbyterian divine, says:
"Some have the idea that this blessing of the fullness is only for a favored few, for such as have
some special work to do for God, but not for ordinary folk, 'for auld wives and wabsters' in their
homespun. Surely this is one of the devil's champion lies! Alas! alas! that it has found such credence!
The infilling is what makes this promise true, 'He that is feeble among them at that day shall be as
David, and the house of David shall be as God' (Zech. xii. 8), so that 'one man of you shall chase a
thousand.' (Josh. xxii. 10.) This means defeat for the devil, so no wonder he strives to keep us back
from the fullness ...
"Mothers in the home, 'with thronging duties pressed,' need the 'fullness' to enable them to glorify
Christ as surely as the apostles needed it; the washerwoman needs it as well as the pastor, the
tradesman as well as the evangelist. To live the Christ glorifying life in the station in which God has
placed us, we individually need to be filled with the Spirit. 'They were all filled' (Acts ii. 4), men and
women, the one hundred and twenty in the upper room, the rank and file as well as the apostles. 'Ye
shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, for the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all
that are afar off.' ... They all received because they all needed. Do not we all need? Why then should
we not all receive? And if we do not receive we will suffer loss, the Church will suffer loss, the
world will suffer loss, and, above and beyond all, Christ will suffer loss."
Hence Joel prophesies that God would "pour out his Spirit upon all flesh" -- nations and all
classes in those nations "old men" and "young men," "sons and daughters," "servants and
handmaidens," because all peoples and classes needed this spiritual baptism to fit them for
prophesying, or in other ways glorifying God and blessing men.
8. How shall we keep it? We have space to answer this question only in general terms. And the
obvious answer is that the conditions of continuance in this higher life are those performed on
coming into it continued self-surrender, consecration, and faith. Of course the former habits of
watchfulness and prayer, the reading of God's word, and the reducing of its lessons to practice in our
lives, should be carried into this higher life. These, however, will not be half so irksome as they were
in our mixed life. Perfect love will make these duties and services comparatively pleasant.
As answering more or less directly and fully this and one or two others of the questions asked in
this chapter, we give the following extracts from the experience of two "elect ladies" of well-known
piety and intelligence. They are taken from Dr. Steele's Love Enthroned. The first is that of a