"But may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, soul and body, be preserved entire without blame, in the co...

Do not imagine that the sudden subsidence of ecstatic joy is the withdrawal of the abiding Comforter. You retain him by faith and not by f...

The author ... after passing his eightieth birthday was so violently prostrated by pneumonia that he and all his neighbors thought the time ...

The higher life has deeper roots than the ordinary Christian life. It is rooted in the soil of the divine word, and, like the century enduri...

There are two enemies to the fullness of the Spirit — baptized worldliness, and fanaticism run mad on the subject of holiness. Let us consid...

Faith is the point of contact between that battery and human souls. Whatever be the form of our religious activity, it is faith that is at t...

The difficulty with average Christians is that they faint beneath the cross on the via dolorosa , the way of grief, and never reach their Ca...

A friend of the writer, travelling abroad, became sick in Paris. He sent for the most eminent physician in the city, who, after a careful di...

Let me illustrate the difference between law-service and love-service by the conscript and the volunteer soldier. The impulse which thrust...

Having chosen the higher path, do not be discouraged by the obstacles in the way of your entering and walking therein. You are not to remove...

Satan, who seeks to plunder the Gospel of that element which gives it the highest efficiency in its warfare with his kingdom, blinds the eye...

The Holy Spirit, [even] in his most intense illumination, does not insure infallible moral judgments. John Newton, while master of a slave...

Growth in grace, while accompanied by increasing power to abstain from actual sin, has no power to annihilate the spirit of sin, commonly ca...

We are exhorted to grow in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Some tell us that we find the true philosophy of Christian growth b...

How may I consecrate all to the Lord, and yet retain the control over all? How, for instance, can I surrender all my property to God and sti...

An exhaustive discussion of the relation of a completely sanctified soul to the possibility of sinning, involves the theory of temptation. ...

We find in some honest minds a theoretical difficulty which constitutes a stone of stumbling in the way of their seeking full salvation. It ...

The chief effect of Spirit-baptism is to secure strength of impulse and continuity of effort in the worker himself. Love makes all toil for ...

It is generally supposed that the copious effusion of the Spirit upon the believer to his utmost capacity will render him like an electric b...

Not only does the natural man, devoid of spiritual illumination, strongly drift toward Unitarian views of Christ; but the Christian Church, ...