The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-21

To make believers know from experience. the
strength OF sin, the necessity of mortifying
grace, aud Of the abundance of pardoning grace,
and to keep them exercised ia prayer and
humiliation in the faith aud hope of deliver
snce from body OF sin and death through
Christ
Believers must work while IL Is called today,
and their day LISTS as long as life lasts. They
stand in continual nesd of the grace of the
spirit for subduing remaining corruption, and
this need lasts as long a. life lasts. The neces-
sty Of prayer for the spirit of holiness lasts as
long as life lasts. The warfare against sin lasts
as long as life lasts. Il is evident, therefore.
that the truly sanctiied soul is not selfcom-
placent and idle soul. Asglf-satsfied soul may
be sanctimouious. but is Lo. a sanctifed soul.
1t lis indeed true that without holiness no
man shall see the Lord" vt the same time 1t Is
true that our hope and expectation OF seeing the
L5rd and of the enjoyment of everlasting hap
piness must be based upon Christs finished
work in orr behalf. and not uaoa our personal
holiness. II Is not upon that we are TO depend
for acccptance in the beloved, or for institea-
ton IN the sight Of God. TIE glory of our SAL
walton belongs not 81 US for any aeaievments III
the liae OF saaeiificsiion but wholly 70 linn
who diei for rs. and ~ his death msde our
Justification aud sanctiGestion possible
In answer 10 tie iatimatiou that some per
sons claim for themselves or others that they
have attained 10 Il degree OF sanctifcation iden-
teal with snlessness. so that they are living
from day to day periees. ia the sense OF san
tilted and Ei!iless life, reply. saouid De gao
IL they could prove their claim wei. founded.
But am morally sure that they cannot 90
not believe that Ia the religious lie they are IN
sdvaaee OF tie patrarchs and prophets and
aDostles. not single one of whom made any
snch claim for himself, bnt each one OF whom
ives. nevertheless distinguished for real rather
than pretended godliness. And l do believe
that there has never been in cur world since
Adams day bit one man of whom the record
could be made. lie was holy, harmless, unde-
filed, separate from sinners, knew no sin,
neither was guile found in his mouth. Believers
ofeyery age OF the world are called holy ana
saints or sanctificd ones, the meaning being
that they are separated aud appointed to a holy
life aud holy service for the glory of holy be-
ing. and nre experiencing Emancipation rom
the power and dominion OF sin, ana SO being
fitted for the holy employnents and holy en-
joyments OF heaven of everlasting holiness.
All this Is true but not that any of them attain
10 a completed and perfected holiness of nature.
character and life prior TO their death. Then,
however, IL seems to me, they are changed, as IN
the twinkling OF an eye; changed the corrupti.
Bile putting on interruption, the mortal putting
on Immortality" changed from state OF I'M
perfection TO one of perfection; renewed after
the image OF God here, there. Veal, with open
10
Lord, are changed Into the ZANE image from
glory to glory even as by the spirit OF the Lord :"
Not as though i had already attained"
says Paul. .either were already perfect
but 1 follow efter ii that / may appre-
bend that fer which also I am appre-
bended Of Christ Jesus One thing I
do-forgetting etc. AID Just So brethren, ii is
for us TO do. The grand ideal placed before us
is perfect holiness: that ideal was incarnated
and embodi. d in the person Of our Lord Jesus
Christ. It IL for us to strive to become
like Christ: to put on Christ; to have Christ
form within US the hope OF glory; for us to
live is Christ. The more largely we resemble
him i'll all respects, the more truly and largely
are we sanctiied. Lit us study and initiate our
model! "He,oved, now are we the sons of God.
and it doth not yet appear what we shall be-;
but we know that when He shall appear, we
shall be ike Him. for we shall see him as He is,
and every man that hath this hope in him pur-
fe,h himself, even as He is pure. That is
sauctiication."
This glorious hope revives
Our COURAGE by the way,
While each in expectation lives
And longs 10 see the day.
Aud the'dawn OF that day follows the dark
ness OF the night of death and the grave, the
day OF total and eternal freedom from sin.
Here at this cred feast, our blessed Lord 8
gracious presence is being felt by us; here and
now we are to make progress in the divine life;
here the work OF inward renovation is to be
helped onward; here godly sincerity, meekness
and humility are 10 ener. ze the purpose, on
our part, 10 make our spirit and conduct agree
with our professions here every type and form
of sin, indoenes, sactimoniousnsss. concet,
selfshness and pride is TO be repentad OF and
forsaken. and olr souls ia contriiion to address
themselves under a fresh inspiration and i'm
pulse from Christ's felt presence to the work of
decentralization. Theory is to be converted to
practical use.