Standards of Life and Service

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sons ought ye to be

in all manner of conversation; Because it is writt

pose as revealed towards His people. Therefore, when we enforce the doctrine of personal Holiness, there is no

ble about Holiness, they recognize that it is a state of being cleansed, filled with the love of God, and kept by the indwelling Holy Ghost. They see it as a very desirable thing and a possible e

ney with just enough religion to make them want to save their souls from going to Hell, in contradistinction to the experience of the saintly man o

want it; but I am not quite prepared for this, or to give up this, that, and the other. I thin

e words of Peter's because they show us a direct command: 'Be ye holy, for I am holy'. They fit in also w

of you; and to have His Holy Spirit day by day, filling your heart with love and keeping you in Divine fellowship.

ot put it as strongly as that; but I do, from deep conviction, say this to you, that every Salvationist, and other persons who, in Meetings of this kind, are taught that the will of God is that they shall be delivered from all sin, that they shall live

despiseth that calling despiseth not man, but God. Therefore, I beg of you not to imagine that, with clear light as to

went to a draper's shop, and asked for so many yards of material, you would not be satisfied by his guessing the quantity-you would want it measured by the yard-stick, the proper standard of measurement. So with weights. If y

easure and compare ourselves, and Peter gives us just such a standard when he says, 'As

u would know that the standard was altogether out of your reach, and could not be realized. But, if you are a Christian at

only the standard that exists in the Divine mind, but the world rightly expects that we, as Christian men and women, shall be holy. I know the world is very often disappointed, and t

that word, 'conversation', has a much broader meaning in old English than the sense attached to our common use of it, gene

and have God's smile upon it. Your eatings and drinkings, your speakings, your workings, your dressings, your courtings and marriages, also many other things, s

for I am holy'. It is this-we cannot live up to the true standar

selves Christians, that they make the mistake of supposing that they can keep the holy law of God with an u

a good deal with some of us. Do you think it is the absence of wicked surroundings and temptations from evil men and women? Not only that. Do you think it is the possession of things that produce unfailing pleasure and satisfaction? Not only that. It is jus

. Now, I ask you, do you really mean that? Do you honestly want that for yourselves? Because, unless you can put yourselves in line with th