Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

may see what Israel needs, and then give us so much of the meek and lowly and loving spirit of the
Master that we will, in a loyal and unselfish spirit, do what will please him and save men!
2. We would appeal to the presidents and faculties of our colleges and universities, especially to
our theological professors. We would most heartily commend to them the epignosis -- the "certain
knowledge of God," or the "full assurance of faith" -- that comes with this wonderful baptism, as the
infallible remedy for all doubt and unbelief. This was notably the case with that rare scholar and
saint, Wilbur Fisk. And it will work a perfect cure for scientific skepticism in case of themselves and
their pupils. We most heartily commend it, too, to all theological students as the source of their
greatest power in the ministry. Without it, no matter how superior their intellectual equipment, they
will be comparatively weak and inefficient.
The well-known Professor Tholuck has been called "The Spiritual Primate of the Established
Church of Germany." We are told that "to his influence, more than to any other cause, must be
assigned the reintroduction into the German universities, and into the German mind, of the principles
and spirit of the evangelical faith." The following from a writer in the New York Christian Advocate,
published a few years ago, gives the secret of his wonderful success in this most important work:
"It was not simply in the lecture room, the pulpit, and the printed page that he won victories for
the Master. Personal intercourse with the student was his marked characteristic. His house was the
home of the undergraduates. He was not satisfied unless some were at his table. But how came he
to have such a passion for the souls of the young men that he was called the 'Student Professor,' the
'soul-loving Professor Tholuck'? How came he to have a spirit so rare? He began his manhood as an
unbeliever, and wrote his oration on leaving the gymnasium [high school] on 'The Superiority of
Mohammedanism over Christianity.' Under the influence of Neander he was converted. He
afterwards received what he called 'a baptism of fire' (the baptism with the Holy Ghost). When he
had been a professor fifty years, he said: 'Nothing fills me with more adoring wonder than to think
how the "Spirit of Fire" has ever been with me since I received the baptism of fire from above.'
"When he went to the University of Halle, only five out of nine hundred students believed in the
divinity of Christ. They had been converted by the influence of a Christian craftsman, and they were
called by the other students 'the idiotic orthodox.' Hegel, who had imbibed some Christian principles,
gave Tholuck this parting charge: 'Deal a deathblow to the bold rationalism prevalent at Halle.' It was
a mighty task, as the whole faculty was against him, and, with the whole body of the students, had
petitioned against his appointment at Halle. But he had earnestly prayed to be sent there, and went
with the 'baptism of fire' upon him. God enabled him by his sermons and personal influence to
revolutionize the university, to convert the faculty to his side, and lead thousands of students to
Christ, and become a mighty power in the spiritual life of Germany.
"It was his custom to walk for his health two hours a day, and he would select a student to walk
with him and talk about Christ. A great number of the pupils date their new life from these
never-to-be-forgotten walks with the ardent, holy professor. One student was a Jew -- wild, unruly,
dissipated. Tholuck could only see him before six in the morning. He often visited him at that hour
and in prison. One day he received a note from the wild student with these words: 'Tholuck is