Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

Do not these facts loudly and eloquently appeal to college professors and theological instructors
of all our Churches in all sections of our land? We commend to those of our own Church the
example of the cultured and seraphic Fletcher when he was president of Lady Huntingdon's college.
The Rev. Joseph Benson, well-known commentator, in giving an account of in visit to Trevecca,
says:
"Here it was that I saw -- what shall I say -- an angel in human flesh? I should not far exceed the
truth if I said so. Prayer, praise, love, and zeal -- all ardent elevated above what one would think
attainable in this state of frailty were the elements in which he continually lived. Languages, arts,
sciences, grammar, rhetoric, logic, even divinity itself, as it is called, were all laid aside when he
appeared in the schoolroom among the students. And they seldom hearkened long before they were
all in tears, and every heart caught fire from the flame that burned in his soul."
The historian says:
"Closing these addresses, Fletcher would say: 'As many of you as are athirst for the fullness of the
Spirit of God, follow me into my room.' Two or three hours were spent there in such prevailing
prayer as seemed to bring heaven down to earth."
Oh for more Tholuck's and Fletchers in our colleges and "schools of the prophets" We appeal to
the laity of all our Churches. As we have seen, this theory and experience of the baptism of the Holy
Ghost are not confined to any denomination. On the contrary, cultured men and women of all the
leading Protestant Churches and some saintly Catholics have embraced this theory and found this
experience. Their teaching and testimony have been given in this volume those of Catholics,
Lutherans, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, and others. We
appeal to the members of all these Churches to weigh the testimony of those of their communions
who have studied this question and tested its truth by experiment.
We beg you to try this blessed way of peace and rest and brightness for yourselves. Experiment
in this blessed science of full salvation, and see for yourselves that God is abundantly "gracious,"
and fills his children with all his fullness of fire and power. You want to be happy and useful. God
calls you to a life of joyous fruitfulness. Jesus has made provision for your heart to be full of joy and
your life full of fruit. Do not slight this provision. With this baptism of the Spirit comes this perfect
peace, and abundant power to work for Christ and souls. Discard all technical terms, and seek by
consecration and faith this fullness of love and this induement power. Pray every day the prayer of
Paul found in Ephesians iii. 14-20 until the answer comes, remembering the assurance of complete
success, given in the twentieth verse -- success through or "according to the power that worketh in
us."
You want to be useful as well as happy, and doubtless feel that you fall far below the measure of
God's requirement. You need this baptism of love ad power to that end. As one has well said:
"This Spirit baptism will not make all believers evangelists; it would make all influential
witnesses for Christ in the field where God has called each to live and work. It would anoint the
mother with power to train her children for the service of God. It would anoint the Sabbath-school