Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-03-25

med trim ming just like the ball
ance OF you folks need trim ming;
and you will find that all the fel-
ows that have got the blessing
don't mind the trimming. The
second blessing people are right
in heart; some of them are wrong
IN the head There are black
sheep in that flock as we'll as in
your flock.
Some second blessing people,
SO called, haven't got the right
spirit, and maybe don't live right.
| can say this such folks haven't
got the second blessing, and if
they ever had it they have lost
it. And [ can say that some of
the croSG that is everlastingly
fighting the second blessing folks
may have had the first blessing
when they commenced the fight,
but they have fought aud fought
until they have lost the first
blessing.
You have got to have a clean
heart if YOU have clean life, and
God desires both; and yet some
of You worldly gang in the
church are whining: & just can't
live without sin [ just have to
sin every day ; | am jIst poor
worm OF the dust, aud poor hu
man nature is so frail that I just
can't live without sin. /"
Well, now, just tell me what
sin is it you are compelled toI
commit every day? Just sit down
and write it ont on a piece of pa
per and look at it, and see which
Of the commandments you have
got to break every day of your
| life.
The fact is there are lots of
you folks that profess to make a
full consecration, who know that
there are tempers, carnal pas
sions. and a thousand things un>
expelled from your nature which
keep your Lord from full and
absolute supremacy in your
hearts. And yet you profess to
have turned the whole thing over
to him.
On, brethren aud sisters, you
have got to turn loose, laying
every thing on the altar, and
sweep out into theocean of Gods
infinite love. Thank God that I
ever did that. Some Of the sweet
est memories Of my lie and the
profoundest experiences of my
Christian character are connect
ed with these holiness brethren.
Never shall I forget an associa>
ton with holiness preacher
down in a Georgia town a few
years ago. That brother had
preached this great blessing
with all the earnestness and
power of his soul. The tidal
wave of salvation was sweeping
over the people. He was urging
full aud uncompromising con-
secration Of all to God, and that
accompanying supreme act of
faith which procures the down.
/ pour of the Spirit in all his full
ness. We we're walking alone
after one of the services had
closed, and turning to me, he
said:
'sSam, why in the world,
brother, don't you turn loose
everything that lies between you
and Gods fulness, and lay hold
on this great blessing?"
l said: Brother P, every~
thing that stands between me
and my God and the uttermost
which he can do for me is not
worth more than nickle. |
wouldn't give a nickle for any,
thing under the burning sun that
I wouldn't turn loose in second
that stands between me and Gods
fulness. y
Brother P said:
"Then, Sam, you are just
within one nickel Of the bless
ing"
I replied, "Well,a nickel shan't
split such an important mat
ter"
When I got back to the church
at the next serv ice the meeting
had commenced, and this brother
was praying as I entered the
, church and knelt down, and he
truly had hold of the horns OF
the altar. Such praying I never
, heard since I was born in the
: world. The very windows ot
heaven seemed open. [ felt the
very presence Of my God
; heaven and earth came together
r It was time of heart searching,
heart-emptying, beart~surren'
/ dering and heart filing. At tha
/ N Getting, in that solemn ane
7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS hour,
l turned loose the willows that
a overhung the banks and sWep
4 out into the very midst of the
: ocean of Gods infinite love; and
/ the joy Of that moment linger:
/ sweetly aud ineffaceably tosday
: Its memory and power have
swept over the lapse of years
:: and it has been @my solace in ;
e thousand sorrows. my strength
; in thousand struggles, my sta
g of hope through THOUSAND
u nights, and like a sheen of glory
# will canopy with it's light an'
a peace ana triumph my dyint
e hour. Thank God, there is waite