Faultless--"I
was alone in the Twilight"--Cleansing a Crisis, not a
Process 49

CHAPTER XII.

Consecration: What is it?--(1) Sanctification--(2) Surrender--(3)
Transference of Ownership--(4) Enthroning Christ 72

CHAPTER XIII.

Claiming--(1) Prayer--(2) Laying on of Hands--Claiming and
Asking--Through Faith the Blessing Made Ours--Objections
Against This 87

CHAPTER XIV.

How Does it Come?--Aorist Tense: "Were Filled," Refilled, A
Crisis--Imperfect Tense: "Were being Filled," A
Process--Present Tense: "Full," the Normal Condition--Deacons
"Full of the Holy Ghost"--Illustration of Water
Trough--Illustration of Service Pipe 91

CHAPTER XV.

Its Effects--(1) Courage--(2) Fruit of the Spirit--(3) Reach the
Masses--(4) Persecution 104

CHAPTER XVI.
May One Know that he is Filled?--(1) From the Testimony of the
Word--(2) The Witness of the Spirit--(3) Signs
Following 117

CHAPTER XVII.

May One Say that He is Filled?--Testifying to
Forgiveness--Testifying to Full Salvation 120

CHAPTER XVIII.

May One Lose the Blessing?--By Disobedience--By Neglect of the
Word--It will be Found Where it was Lost 122

THE

SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE

BY THE LATE

REV. JOHN MACNEIL, B. A.

INTRODUCTION BY THE

REV. ANDREW MURRAY

_Be filled with the Spirit_--Eph. v. 18

Chicago

THE BIBLE INSTITUTE COLPORTAGE ASSOCIATION

250 LA SALLE AVENUE

_Copyright 1896 by
Fleming H. Revell Company._

PREFACE.

I have written only for the "babes." The "full-grown," the "perfect," who
may read will kindly bear this in mind. A wide and more or less intimate
acquaintance with the Churches of Australasia has shown me the need for a
simple, homely talk, such as this little book professes to be. Many, oh! so
many of God's dear children are living on the wrong side of Pentecost,
living on the same plane as that on which the disciples were living before
they "were filled with the Holy Ghost;" and thus by their lives practically
making the sad confession, "We did not so much as hear whethe