The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-18

anu my words OF him also shall the Son OF
Man be ashamed. when he cometh in the glory of
Holiness to the Lord" EXODUS, $3.50 49, -
man; but the end thereof are the ways OF deathn
Proverbs XIV, -.
IAN the ways of man are clean in HE own
eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits."-Proy-
cribs, xvt,2.
Every way of man lie right in his own eyes.
ont the Lord pondercth the hearts. Proverbs
xxi.2.
III thou sayest, Behold. we knew 1t not; doth
he that kecpeth thy soul, doth not he know 1t?
an shall not he render to every man according
"Thcrc is n generation thar are pure I'm their
own eyes, and set is no. washed from thu ir filth
ness"-PrOveros, Xxx, 70.
The common understanding of the
word holiness has deprecated and
been lowered to suit the imperfect ex-
perience of believers. The word means
purity, and has an idea of completeness
in itself, precisely like the words round.
ness, fuliness, Wilderness, etc There
has been misguided effort made by
many good people, intent on working for
the Lord in such way as to disarm
prejudice, to represent that all the Bible
means by holiness is, to be wholly the
Lords.
we urgently call the attention of every
believer in and seeker. for. holiness to
the serious mistake herein contained TO
be wholly the Lords is to be wholly
given or consccrated to Him; to give up.
10y distinct act of the will, every
thought, desire, interest, occupation, or
possess ion, so far as we can see, and in
the correct sense, beyond that, into the
possibilities which we cannot see, and to
stand by that act of conservation to the
death But, reader, do not start when
we say it-that is not holiness. We might
go still farther, and assert that all this
may exist, and at the same time holiness
not even be begun in the soul.
Let us make this so clear that the
merest babe in Christ can see the distinc-
ton, and apprehend the difference. Men
receive ideas best through the parable of
illustration, and we will therefore consid-
er one of the Biblical facts bearing ON
the subject. Read the last two chapters
i'll Exodus, and notice the minute care
exercised in preparing every detail of
the Tabernacle, with its pillars and
posts, curtains, affairs, candlesticks,
shutters, pots, bowls, tongs, etc. Read
OF the golden plate for the priest with
its deep inscription, holiness to the
Lord, and read how all these things
were set in order by the hand of Moses
and his followers. Here we hnNe--pre-
figured the enumeration ,of things that
appertain to the believer in his service,
MS time, talents, ironey.s position, wife,
children, friends, interests, desires, and
will; all Of which he must set in order
before the Lord, just rs Moses did with
the Tabernacle. Next we read that
Moses took of the amounting oil and
anointed the Tabernacle the altar, and
all It's vessels, the priests and their robes,
mitre, inscription and MI; aud when this
amounting was performed, the Lord said
these things should he holy. God told
Moses, 'Thou shalt anoint : = and sane
tify" Mark we'll the words We have
here the distinct act of setting apart to
the Lord, to be wholly ssthe Lords, each
and all the articles previously cnumera-
ted; and the parallel is found when the
believer, having scanned his soul to the
best of his knowledge and ability, in the
light of Gods word, then, and not till
then, deliberately gives up all, and
solemnly sets all apart to be wholly the
Lords. In this transaction the believer
performs all that was implied when the
Lord commanded Moses to anoint and
sanctify the Tabernacle At this stage
i'll the transaction the tabernacle of the
body anu the soul become holy Just so
far as the vessels and garments became
holy when Moses anointed them; they
are simply set apart to God. Now. we
submit to the plain common sense of
every honest mind, that the tabernacle
and its contents were in no wise altered
as TO their nature by this act. They
were altered in their surrounding circum-
stances. They belong now to God, and
to God alone, hut their nature was not
changed. Nor was there any change in
the interior of the Tabernacle Even af-
ter the altar had received the oil, not only
Moses, but Aaron and other Leyites,
could enter without hindrance into the
most holy place. There was difference,
and difference of fact, too but the fact
was intangible, lying in the realm.of will
and of thought, and there was no mani
Hesitation to any one. But now one more
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