The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-03-31

a SERIES OF meetings of an extraordi-
nary kind, at least for this latitude. was
concluded last Sabbath night, after hav-
ing been conducted for more than a week
In the Broad Street Methodist church of
this city, by the Rev. Mr. Inskip, revi-
valist of peculiar type
His special mission is to preach the
doctrine of entire sanctifcation, or, as
he sometimes designated it, complete
holiness or perfect love" Mr.. Inskip,
who is northern man, has been striving
to instruct southern Methodists in his pc
cullar views, and to call them to the
blessed state of perfection which he seems
to be perfectly sure he has attained. For
this purpose he has been on a mission to
Augusta, Ca, to Charleston and Spar
tansburg, S. O., and perhaps to other
southern cities, and on his return north
ward has given to Richmond the benefit
of one of his revivals
His means and methods are not unlike
those which we have seen others employ.
but his aim is to deal rather with Chris
tians than with the unconverted, and in
duce them to seek and profess sanctifica-
ton. Heinvites to the altar, by the most
urgent appeals, ministers and other Chris
tan professors whose conversion he does
not doubt, that they may obtain at once,
by e an act of faith, the blessing of per-
feet sanctifcation He declared in one
of his appeals, that minister by the
simple act of going forward, T. e., to the
altar, and there protesting specification
would do more for the conversion of sin
ners than he could do in forty years by
the preaching of the gospel only as a
converted man. He denies that sane
LITIGATION is a progressive work of
grace" but represents to his hearers that
it may be attained in an instant, or, as
he expresses it, in the sixtieth part of a
second, by believers asking this special
grace of God. Heis very careful to tell
those who obtain this unspeakable bless
ing not to attempt too much explanation,
but to profess that great thing has been
done for them; and if they do not openly
profess their sancti6cation they will be
sure to lose it. He quoted freely from
Wesley Fletcher, Watson, Adam Clarke,
&c, to sustain his views; and he even
gave to Edward Payson and James Brain
ard Taylor the credit of having attained
to sanctifcation notwithstanding their
Calvinistic faith.
Whatever chese good men may have
believed concerning the possibility of
obtaining complete sanctifcation in this
life, they were free from much of the
fanaticism which has been manifested in
connection with these services and the
doctrine as it has been presented here
ought not to go unnoticed and uncon-
demned by the religious press or reli-
gious teachers.
Some were persuaded to fall in with
these teachings good people, no doubt,
anxious to obtain the utmost that can be
hoped for in this life. 1t cannot be
healthful, and must do harm to urge peo-
pie, young and old, amid the greatest ex-
element, to rise up and profess to have
! obtained in an instant entire sanctifca-
ton
We are glad to learn that the Metho-
dist ministers of this city, with some ex-
ceptions perhaps, are not in sympathy
with the teachings Of Mr.. Inskip, and
protest against their being accepted as an
exponent of orthodox Methodism.