The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-07
THE HOLINESS MOVEMENT
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST rAoE).

heart ana with all shy soul and with al
thy mind How clearly does this i'm =
press the being perfected In love. How
strongly imply the being saved from sll
sin! For as long as love takes up the
whole heSrs what room Ia there 10: sin
therein? Is Is Divine evidence and
conviction, secondly, that what q cd hath
promised he il able to perform. Admit.
ting, therefore, that with men 1t ie i'm
possible to bring clean thing out of
an unclean,' to purify the heart from ell
sin and TO fill it with all holiness, We.
this creates no difficulty in the case.
seeing with God al things are possi-
blo.' And surely no one ever imagined
1t was possible to any power less than
that OF the Almighty" Again: "But
does God work this great work In the
soul gradually or instansaneously?
perhaps IL may be gradually wrought
in some. ImeHn in this sense they do
not advert to the particular moment
wherein sin ceases to be. But 1t Is in
initely desirable. were IL the will OF
God, that It should be done instsntane-
ously; that the Lord should destroy sin
by the breath of His mouth in o mo-
ment. in the twinkling Of an eye. And
80 he generally does. plain fact of
which there Is evidence enough to sat-
isfy any unprejudiced person. Thou.
therefore, look for 1t every moment.
look for 1t in the way above described,
look for 1t, then, every day, every
hour. every moment. Why not this
hour, this moment? Certainly you may
look for 1t now, II you believe 1t Is by
faith. And by this token you may surely
know whether you seek 1t by faith or
by works. II by works, you want some
thing to be done frst before you are
sancti6ed; you think I must be or do
thus or thus. Then you are seeking by
works unto this day. If you are seek
Ing by faith you may expect 1t as you
are; and II as you are, then expect Is
now. Is Is Of Importance to observe
that there Is an insepsrable connection
between these three pointa-expect 1t
by faith. expect 1t as you are, expect 1t
now. To deny one OF them Is to deny
them all; 10 allow one is to allow them
all Do you believe we are sancNfed
by faith? Be true then to your
principle and look for the blessing lust
IS you are, neither better nor worse-as
q poor sinner that has still nothing TO
pay. nothing to plead but Christ died.
And II you look for 1t as you are, then
expect 1t now. Stay for nothing"
The Episcopal address OF 1924 signed
by Bishops McKendree, Heddiug, George
soule and r berts contained the follow
Ing languages:
If Methodists give up the doctrine OF
entire esnctihcation, or suffer Ii to be-
come dead letter we are fallen peo-
Pile. 1t is this that lays the axe a. the
root of the Antinomisn tree In all IT'S
forms and degrees CT growth; it is this
that infames and diffuses life. rouses to
action, prompts to perseverance, and
urges the soul forward to every holy
q nd f,,l
Meshodists lose sight OF this doctrine
they fall by their own weight. Their
success in gaining numbers will be the
cause OF their dissolution" Were
these words prophetlc?)
The doctrine was reiterated by the
General Conference OF the united
churches in 1892.
We quote from DR.. Lovick Pierce in
sermon to the General Conference Of
the M. E. Church, South: "Just SO far
es our church has ceased be believe in
entire modification and to seek after Is
as the only phase of religion revealed
in the New Testament that saves us
from all sin, just 80 far we are cor
rupted and God.forsaken church, and II
Is useless to try to sustain ourselves on
what we have been"
We quote from DR.. VIM. Arthur 1.-THE
IL VIZ 4Oukuc VI AkeJ. meth
odism WAS not in ira original life more
marked by seeking justification by
faith then by seeking sanctification BY
faith"
Now we quote from an article written
by w. F. Tlllett D. D., and published
in the Sunday-school Magazine OF Feb
ruary, 1896:
The real question at issue among
Methodists concerning sAnctifcItion
seem to us to be this: Does the Bible
teach, and Christian experience confirm
the doctrine that there is, subsequent
to regeneration, q second radical and in
stanJRneous work of divine grace within
and upon the moral nature OF the re-
generate believer which must take place
before death IN order TO his complete
salvation from sill sin? The solution
Of this, the only real point at issue, will
carry along with It the solution OF all
other Inn porssnt points. That the prim-
live and generally recognized "Wes-
leyan Methodist doctrine OF sanctifca-
lively admits OF easy and abundant
proof, by an appeal to Wesley Fletcher,
Watson and others. An Influential and
continually increasing majority OF mod
ern Methodists, however. ans yer this
question negatively, feeling that they
,nereby deny nothing that is essential
to that high and lofty ideal of Bible
holiness which 1t is the part Of sll true
and genuine Methodisss to believe, ex-
perience, practice and preach. They
feel that the doctrine of instantaneous
ssnctification tasks that Scripture proof
which alone can justify Its being re-
garded as o part, least Of all an essen
ial part OF the true Bible doctrine Of
holiness
II is plain thht the Primitive Metho-
dist Church was holiness movement
TO "spread Scrip,ural holiness" through