The Newtown bee., 1893-01-13
REV MR DELzELL ON sAScrIrIcArros.

REV MR DELZELL ON sANcrIrIcATIos. Report ofa Sermon at the Congregational Church. Last Sunday Morning Ex- plained.
 The audiences at the Congregational church have been increasingly large of late and on Sunday morning last, there was specially good number for threat ening day. Rev Mir Delzell preached on ''Sanctification," giving forcible dis course. His text was from John 17:l7, 'Sanctify them through thy truth" The text, the preacher explained, is rendered the more sacred by its own surroundings, having been spoken in prayer on the night of the Saviour's agony, His hands spread forth and His eyes being ''lifted up to heaven.'' Rev MT DelzelI quoted a verse of poetry which he had not thought of for D years, and spoke of memories il awoke. The verse was as follows:
 "What stars have faded from our skyl
 What hopes untolded but to die,
 What dreams so fondly pondered OCT,
 Forever lost, the hues they wore.''
 So environment has much to do with the force of thought, word or an act. Sanctiication is doctrine SADLY sUSPICIONED AND SADLY NEG LECTED
 in the pulpit. and like many other holy themes has been abused even in propo, 1 tion to its sacredness.
 If taken as presented in the Scriptures it is simple subject; simple if left free from speculation and the dissection of the critic. It only needs to be practiced | in order to be understood. Specification defined: ''To sanctify is to consecrate to religious use what had before pertained to the common life, without the idea of sin." Godet. It is to set apart also to special sa- John l7 :l9. The Father sanctified Jesus John 10 :36. In the Old Testament sane ! tification is ritualistic act; in the New Testament, it is elevated to the sphere oi the spiritual and pertains to the will o1 l man primarily.
 | CONSIDERATION IS THE HUMAN SIDE of sanctification, while sanctification it self is the divine side. God accepts tht gift of the person set apart to Him 1T consecration and begins to work into tn, character His own divine holiness. | A process of sanctification may go or from the seed of the new birth (JOh: 3:3) if the mean ns of grace are used. Blu sanctification has seed of it's own iron which to grow on to perfection.
 In state of justification the affections are divided. As in the state before justi fication the whole being is of and for tn, world, so after justification the affections are divided about half and half. Real Rom. :l4 24 to show this. But the
 BLESSED LIFE OF SANCTIFICATION lies still beyond this state, so that tn, "wretched man. is delivered from tn, body of this death'' through Jesus Chris our Lord; Rom. :24-25. This describe, the death of the body also to sin. Nov the affections are not divided, but are al on the heavenly side, and ''There is nt more condemnation (sense oD to then who walk not after the flesh but after tn, Spirit," Rom. S:l.
 Specification is attainable instantane ously in it's germ and life principle by tn offering of ones body, Rom. 12:l, whicl is the death to sin. Consequently tn dominion of sin is destroyed by sanctifi cation, even as the guilt of sin is destroy ed by justification. And even the love O sin is eradicated. There are many wit nesses to the fact that
 THE POWER OF GOD
 has taken from theu nicotine and alec holic capacities.
 Persons who are still controlled large ly by the love of money, pleasure. etc. cannot but judge this position harshly and it must be tried in order to be under stood.
 It does not mean sinlessness, in tn sense that one does not sin, but in th sense that one is cleansed from all sil 1st John :7. It does not mean perfec ion in any sense, except in the sense { total surrender of ones will to God, la, . ing upon the altar for sacred use and s; cred use only, body, soul and spirit.
 The same subject will be continue next Sabbath.