Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-20
ABOUT SANCTIFICATION.
Rev j.. e. Bristowe Replies to Elder
p. d. Gold.

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p. d. Gold.
DEAR ARGUS - Htfs
In your columns recently we
read an article copied from Zion S
Landmark in which the editor
answers an inquirer in regard to
the much mooted question OF
Sanctification, aud, I suppose,
in so doing he has conferred a
very great favor upon many of
his readers.
In reply. the editor says: II
met one of these men recently
who told me that if a man com
mitted one single sin after he be-
came a child of God, he was
thrown back where he was be-
fore he became a Christian, and
that it was impossible for man
to.serve two masters-God and
the devil"
The truth of this. if I UNDER
stand the editor, he admits, and
attempts to evade its force by
quoting two other passages of
Scripture, viz: I John i: 18, IF
we say that we have no sin, We
deceive ourselves. and the truth
S not in u.s." and Eccl. vii: 20.
"For there is not a just man upon
earth, that doeth good, and sim
meth not" These texts do not
answer the question satisfactory
to any honest inquirer after
truth. They only describe man
apart from the grace of God in
Christ. He says God has a
sanctified people. Heb. x:14, ;,
but it is God that sanctlfies. Jude
1. There is no ability in man to
sanctify himself as these men
claim" 4E
This is a mistake. 1 have heard
scores of them testify, and I
never heard one of them claim
anything of the sort. They give
God all the glory.
He says that to be sanctifled or
preserved blameless unto the
coming of the Lord Jesus, is a
wonderful deliverance form evil, !"
etc.. yet such would say they
are sinners to the end of life" )"
What strange reasoning. Sup !
pose a man was once profane,
repents, and for ten years has not
uttered a profane word, should
continue to avow himself pros
fame, ask would he not be liar?
He might say he once was pro-
fame, but not noW-so with the
thief and the drunkard
If Paul was sinner to the end
of his life, he was not a Christian
at the end, and hence could not
receive the crown of life which
he said was laid up for him.
Whatever Job, Isaiah, Daniel,
Paul and John thought of them
selves as men. does Elder Gold
believe they were unholy men as
individuals? David said in the
Seth Psalm, 2.verse: Preserve
my soul for l am holy" Did he
lie because he professed to be
holy?
p Sin is generated in the heart
of nan-not in the head. God
demands only the heart. because
out of it are the issues of life
and death. Honest mistakes are
not sins. We can never rise above
mistake in this world. Sin and
holiness are antagouistic. "With>
out holine SIS no man shall see the
rd"-Heb. xii: IA. BLESSED
are the pure in heart''-Matt. y:8.
Are none pure?
I submit this proposition with
out fear of successful contradic-
ton: If the grace of God in
Christ Jesus cannot save me from
all sir in this life, then it is a
farce and a failure-not if it has
not saved me, but if it cannot. /
am sick-the doctor prescribes
a medicine that will cure me if I
take it, but I refuse to take it
and die, who is to blame, myself.
the doctor, or the medicine?
Where there is no law, there
is no transgression. The trans
gression Of the law is sin and
the soul that sinneth it shall
die 1.-The blood of Jesus Christ
His Son cleanseth US from all
SIM" Where 3 Here or in pur-
gatury ..Whosoever tcommit-
teth sin transgresseth also the
law: for sin is the transgression
of the law"-I John iii: 4. who
soever. abideth in Him sinneth
not: Whosoever sinaeth hafhsndt
seen Hin. neither known Him.
1 John iii: 6. He that comm it,
teth sin is OF the devil'-p John
iii.8. READ also the ninth and
tenth verses ls $3.50 10
These and athousand more
such texts must be explained Or
expunged from the Bible, and
the truth of consciousness oblit-
Grated or man CAN live, and is
under su preme obligation to live
above sin in this life. ? Iss~ ss- -
J. E. BRISTOwE.
Goldsboro, N. c.. Aug. Is, '96.