It took four thousand years for the sacred Scriptures to fully unfold — "to import God into knowledge," in the phrase of Dr. Bushn...

Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her fine essay on “Primitive Christian Experience,” uses the following language: “The advant...

  "I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness...

 CONCLUDING NOTES. 1. In verse 3 an important variant reading is found in the Vulgate and in many Latin fathers. Instead of "confesseth...

The moral sense of mankind makes a distinction not in degree, but in kind, between forging a note, and falling asleep in a prayer meeting, o...

I was born into this world in Windham, N. Y., October 5, 1824; into the kingdom of God in Wilbraham Mass., in the spring of 1842. I could ne...

Andrew Murray writes: It is because the presence of the Spirit as the indwelling teacher in every believer is so little known and recogni...

QUESTION: Explain (1) Rom. 8:36, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long" (2) I Cor. 15:31, "I die daily." ANSWER: ...

QUESTION: I have difficulties with Heb. 12:14, "Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see ...

QUESTION: Is not the participle "purifying" in Acts 15:9 in the Aorist? If so, should it not be translated "having purified?...

QUESTION: Explain I Peter 3:19, Christ preaching to the spirits in prison. ANSWER: We have several times answered this extendedly. We now on...

QUESTION: What does Wesley mean when he thus cautions professors of Christian holiness, "Beware of that daughter of pride, enthusiasm....

QUESTION: We recently heard a Methodist preacher say that John and Charles Wesley were Freemasons. Is there any foundation to this statement...

QUESTION: In what sense are the meek to inherit the earth (Matt. 5:5)? ANSWER: This is quoted from Ps. 37:11, and is thus translated in the ...

QUESTION: What are the doctrinal standards of the Methodist Episcopal Church? ANSWER: For the laity the twenty-five Articles of Religion fou...

We may compare the kingdom of God to a three-storied temple founded on Christ, the corner stone. The first story is a basement partly unde...

QUESTION: Our Methodist preacher is saying that Wesley did not teach entire sanctification as a second definite work. What do you say? ANS...

QUESTION: Would not I John 1:9 alone, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from al...

QUESTION: Does not Acts 2:39 teach that the three thousand were entirely sanctified at Pentecost? ANSWER: Acts 15:9 is an undoubted proof te...

Christian experience, especially in its higher phases, abundantly testifies to the certitude of the inward revelations of the Comforter. The...