A Challenge to Holiness

The evidence is before you. Did the Early Church teach holiness? Is holiness a heritage of the whole Church? Every great crisis in Bible history was an effort on God's part to bring the world back to holiness: every great revival of religion contributed something to holy living.

It was the message of holiness that the fire-baptized disciples preached. It was the baptism with the Holy Spirit that made the martyr-age of the Church so glorious. The places of martyrdom became such holy recruiting places where so many were converted to the hated faith that the Roman emperors were forced to forbid the public execution of the holy saints of God.

The young people of this generation have received from their fathers the clear, definite preaching of the doctrine of holiness. Will the children of the holiness movement he as faithful in giving this truth to the world and as consistent in living holy lives before all? They cannot afford to fail. Arise! On with the work of holiness until all have heard the message "Holiness unto the Lord."