shells" on
American Hudson, but men from both colleges join forces to beat the
Britishers at Henley. Holiness people of every church unite to "push
holiness."
THE SPOKES AND THE HUB.
When the glorious grace of full salvation is experienced, love for
Christ is increased and intensified. Everyone wants to magnify Him and
live close to Him: and as we get close to Him, the Hub, the distance
between us, the spokes, is lessened.
THE D.D. AND THE NEGRO.
A D.D. and a negro meet on a Mississippi River boat. They fall into
conversation. The doctor speaks of the Lord. The negro's eyes fill and
he says, "You know my Savior?" and they shake hands and weep and shout.
Why this community of feeling between men of such diverse stations in
life? Both possess the blessing of entire sanctification.
VARIOUS SECTS
The writer has had the privilege of preaching in churches of different
denominations in the work of special evangelism, but never has he known
the falling of Pentecostal fire to fail to burn up sectarianism. It is
no easy matter to find out from the preaching of our holiness preachers
under what denominational flag they sail. Full salvation obliterates
the fences which separate the people of God and makes them really "one
in Christ Jesus."
CHAPTER VI.
FEARLESSNESS.
PETER THE FEARLESS.
There was a man among the one hundred and twenty "upper room believers"
in whom Pentecost effected a most apparent and almost spectacular
change. It was Peter. We remember him as the man at whom the young girl
pointed her finger and laughed. We recall that he was so cowardly that
he denied his Lord on the spot, swearing that he did not know Him.
Behold this same Peter on the day of Pentecost. He is charging home the
murder of Christ. Fear is gone, and gone forever. He faces men and does
not flinch an iota. Carnality, the source of cowardice, has been
removed, and the weakling is turned into a Lord Nelson for bravery, and
a Savonarola for faithfulness to men's souls.
SHALL WE TREMBLE?
Fear of man is one of the most illogical things in the world. Men sell
the blood of Jesus and hope of heaven and eternal happiness because of
"what people say." Think of it, afraid of a man who will die and be
hurried under ground before he rots! Frightened at a thing dressed in a
long black coat and a white cravat with a golden-headed cane and a tall
hat and a frown; a thing which will stop breathing some fine day and
the worms will
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