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SCRIPTURAL SANCTIFICATION:
An
Attempted Solution of the Holiness Problem
By The
Rev. John R. Brooks, D.D.
Chapter 25
CONCLUDING APPEAL
In the preceding chapters we have tried to show that there is something better for Christians than
what they, as a rule, received at regeneration. We have tried to show, too, that this blessing may
come soon after conversion, if not realized at that time. Also that, while we may gradually grow into
the frame of mind or state of heart out of which sanctifying faith springs, yet the subjective work of
sanctification -- the baptism which brings unmixed purity and perfect instantaneous, being followed,
however, on condition of continued consecration and faithfulness, by more rapid growth in objective
holiness -- improvement in thought, action, and life. We would devote these closing pages to an
earnest appeal to our readers to reduce to practice the lessons we have sought to give.
1. Our appeal is to the pulpit, our brethren of the ministry, with whom we have a fellow-feeling,
and in whom and in whose success we feel a profound interest. We are persuaded that ministers of
all Churches agree substantially with Andrew Murray, that throughout the Church of Christ there is
universal complaint of the feebleness of the Christian life, and that there are tens of thousands of
souls longing to know how to lead a better life. They find in God's word promises of perfect peace,
of a faith that overcomes the world, of a joy that is unspeakable, of a life of ever-abiding communion
with Christ, hidden in the hollow of God's hand, and in the secret of his pavilion. But, alas!
thousands say they know not how to obtain it.
(1) We ask, who are to point these feeble and fainting thousands to the true Source of their
spiritual refreshment and strength, but those who are specially called to this work of the ministry?
And who can so successfully lead these hungry and thirsty souls beside the still waters and into the
green pastures of full salvation as those who have themselves drunk of these waters and tried these
pastures? Can one effectively testify to the value of what he has not himself tried? Can any one carry
a soul on his faith and prayers farther into the kingdom of grace, into the experience of salvation,
either at his conversion or afterwards, than he himself has gone? Has a defective faith or a low
experience the procreative energy and the reproductive power that a perfect faith or an experience
of full salvation has? Has the faith of a servant, or even that of a son, the power to reproduce itself
in the lives of others as has the faith of a fellow -- the faith of one that has uninterrupted communion
and full fellowship with God?
Where was the missionary spirit of Judaism? Why were the spiritual results that followed the
preaching of the apostles before Pentecost so meager? Why the wonderful manifestation of power
on that day under the ministry of Peter, producing, it is believed, greater spiritual results than had
followed the ministry of our Lord and all the apostles and other disciples up to that time? Why did
Jesus urge the apostles to tarry at Jerusalem until Pentecost, assuring them that after that time they
could do greater works than he had done? Why was the ministry of Wesley, and Caughey, and