Consequently, they have no faith to lay hold of it. If it does not belong to all, they don't know to whom it does belong. Of course they cannot lay hold of the promise by faith. A fourth want is that persistence in waiting upon God for it that is enjoined in the Scriptures. They faint before they have prevailed, and, hence, the enduement is not received.
Multitudes seem to satisfy themselves with a hope of eternal life for themselves.
They never get ready to dismiss the question of their own salvation, leaving that, as settled, with Christ. It is amazing to witness the extent to which the Church has practically lost sight of the necessity of this enduement of power. Christians and even ministers go to work without it. I mourn to be obliged to say that the ranks of the ministry seem to be filling up with those who do not possess it. If so, let the report of the Home Missionary Society, for example, be heard upon this subject.