The doctrine of entire sanctification sustains such an important
relation to the perfect salvation that Christ has purchased for the
children of men that it cannot be overlooked or neglected without
serious loss to the soul. Perhaps there is no essential doctrine of
the Bible that is so little understood, and about which so much
confusion exists in the minds of many good people, as this one. The
design of this book is to throw light upon the subject.
There are very few preachers who have such clear views concerning
the doctrine and experience of entire sanctification as has the
writer of this book entitled, "Holiness and the Human Element." Most
of the confusion and perplexity which has arisen in relation to the
experience has been occasioned by a failure to understand the
intimate relation existing between the physical, the mental and the
spiritual natures with which we are endowed. In analyzing Christian
experience in its bearing on this threefold nature, the author has
made the clearest of distinctions, and by so doing has cleared away
much of the fog and uncertainty that has settled around that phase
of the subject. The author has been enabled to show what holiness
really does for soul and for body, and has placed the standard just
where it is found in the Word of God. If the standard of holiness is
raised too high some will be discouraged and give up; if it is set
too low some will be inclined to live in sin; hence the importance
of having a standard that is neither too high nor too low, such as
has been presented by the author of this volume.
I regard this book as a valuable contribution to holiness
literature. I have read the manuscript carefully and have been
profited and strengthened by its perusal. Part of this work has been
printed in the columns of a religious journal, and some who have
read it there have expressed a conviction that the articles should
be put into permanent form for general circulation.
The book is not only designed to help ministers of the gospel in
their work of preparing sermons, but is intended to give every
person assistance in building up a stalwart Christian character and
attaining to that perfection without which no man shall see the
Lord.
I heartily commend this volume to holiness people of all
denominations, feeling assured that it will prove to be a means of
making them stronger in the divine life and of helping them all
heavenward.
REV. J. T. LOGAN |