HOLINESS

BY

THOMAS COOK,

Author of "My Mission Tour in South Africa,”

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PREFACE.

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T one of our Theological Institutions the students asked their Tutor in Theology to

give them a definition of Scriptural holi

ness. The Professor replied that the holiness he found in the Bible seemed to him to be not so much a definite experience to be reached immediately, as "an eternal approximation towards an unrealisable ideal." "But," he continued, "there is, beyond doubt, an experience attainable by faith, which some describe as holiness, and which has brought to many Christians a great spiritual uplifting so as to mark an epoch in their spiritual life. This was taught by Wesley and the early Methodist Preachers, and the teaching was intimately associated with the early successes of our Church." He advised the students to make themselves familiar with the works of Wesley and Fletcher, and to use their own judgment as to which aspect of the subject they would preach, and concluded with this testimony:"In my last Circuit an Evangelist conducted a series of Mission Services in the Church over which I had pastoral charge and emphasised the definite view of