The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1897-01-17
A MESSAGE TO
MINISTERS OF GOD.
Some Timely Advice to Preachers
of the Word.
4 WARNING TO THOSE WHO sCoFF
AT sANCrIFICATIoN-THE FACT
THAT YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED
THIS GLORIOUS WORK OF GRACE
Is DEMONsTRATIvE PROOF
THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING OF
IT.
rY W. y. GoDpEY.

Fall on your faces in the dust. @.
preachers, aud weep with me- T. would
do me good to die to prevent this whole
some wreck of our train. If God needs Il
martyr to stop the preachers from their
bloody work of discolAraCing the eynnri
ence OF sanetiticatiop, l put in the first
bid Many of my brnthers and sisters
ENJOY experience far in advance of mine.
but don t turn crioic- rejoice with
them and pass on.
Why thought sancSiiication was the
cop. In that you are much mistaken.
Sanctiiicat'on, along with his elder
brother, regeneration, constitutes the
foundation rather than the finish. God
lays the ground suhstrtum in these
lightly works of His Holy Spirit, ON
which He builds u superstructure which
VIII tower higher and higher through all
eternity. am surrounded by saints
whose experiences ue years ahead of
mine, in which ! rejoice, for they nrc
guides to my slippery feet. MS | run this
heavenly race. Preachers, never forget /
must challenge you to meet ne mt the
Judgment seat of Christ. II you in any
way. by speech or pen or influence. dis.
courage II soul in Christian experience.
you are helping the devil TO damn that
$ohl BE sure you never do any more
work for satan. Don't be uneasy: he
WI! TO II himself. When people claim
an experience that you have not, stand i'm
awe, tread lightly, for it is holy ground;
drop on your knees and ask them TO pray
for you.
twenty three years ago nm old sanctified
woman, Ignorant of theology, hut full of
the Holy GhYst, led me into tile unutter-
able sweet experience, which carried me
IN u fiery chariot through all the storms
ANA trmpcst' of these years, and given
| everlasting sunshine in my heart 1t is
Gpu sweetest and best gift to- my poor
! soul. 1T has given IL heaven in which to
| 20 to heaven. | WAS an idiot in reference
| To 1t till received it, To be sure. in
telectunily apprehended the doctrine, but
my spirit was utterly idotic with refer
ence to it, Brother, be right sure that
you no not pull amy one back. If you
| can't help them forward run away and
| hlde ana cry 10 God for grace I warn
| you, BRETHREN by the prayers OF Gods
| holy people. DO You know the so.called
holiness people live on their knees i'm
touch with the Almighty?
bloody Mary said she feared the prayers
OF John Knox, the sanctified founder of
the Presbyterian Church, more than all
the armies of Europe. Well She might.
for he prayed her OIL the throne of Eng
land, till She dropped into hell Then
| EiZnbeth, the friend of protestants, took
her place. Consequently the British EN-.
pirc aud the United States have become
the wings of the Apocalyptic Angel. ny-
ing to the ends of the earth with the ever
lasting Gospel.
y few years ago one OF the greatest the
oiogianS Americn ever produced was i'm.
mortalizng himself traversing the coun-
try and delivering his learned lectures
against the experience of entire sanctifi-
cation received here and now hy faith.
and assuring the people that they could
never get rid of sin till death Knocked it.
out OF them. In the progress of his lee
lures he engaged in II certain city on the
atlantic. The sanctiiied people of tina
city, of course, were crying to God to pro-
tect His cause against the impending evil.
They also wrote 10 Capt. Carter, OF Ches-
ter, Pa, and DrS. Collins and M'Donald,
OF Boston, to cooperate with them in
prayer. The eloquent ID. d. appeared,
delivered one lecture on another subject.
ana was then To proceed against sanctiii-
cation. lie took sick, got worse, and died
| without delivering IL single anti.holiness
lecture
VAS called to hold IL meeting in Ken
lucky for the >anctiiication of Christians.
y scholarly pastor at the place resolved
To antagoniZe me with all his might, and
punished an appointment at hi, church
on the Sunday was to begin, Uniting
,'!i the holiness people to come aud hear
MN utterly dcmoish sanctiicntion
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