The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"Carpenter, Minnie Lindsay Rowell
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The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"
Carpenter, Minnie Lindsay Rowell
Lee, Kate; Salvation Army
Another valuable document traces for us Kate Lee's seeking after
sanctification. After having lived in the enjoyment of this blessing for
nearly thirty years, she was asked by the editor of 'The Officer' to
write her experience. The following article appeared in that magazine
three years ago:--
Soon after I was converted I realized a great need in my heart. I
had turned my back on the old life, and my face was toward God. I
had started to travel the upward way. For the first few weeks I
went with a rush, the joy of the new life within buoyed me up. I
felt as though I was walking on air. I did not feel any strain of
the upward tread. But soon I began to feel the tension of the
daily struggle, the weary march. There were obstacles in that way
that impeded my progress. My circumstances were against me, and
the influences surrounding me had a tendency to draw me from
Christ.
I began to stumble and fall. The tempter was soon at my side
suggesting, 'You're not converted; it's all a delusion; you
would not feel as you do; you would not fail as you have done,
if you were really a child of God. Give it up, it's no use trying,'
he argued. And, worst of all, I knew sin still existed in my
heart. How often passion had broken my peace. How many times
bitterness and evil had manifested itself in my nature. Was I
mistaken? Had I ever been converted? Was it all a delusion?
Just then God in His love and pity came to my heart; gave me a
revelation. He not only showed me myself and my sin, but showed
me my need. I needed something, and as I sat in a holiness
meeting I realized that need was sanctification. For months the
word sanctification was to me a heavy burden; a torture. I could
not really grasp its meaning. I read and re-read the theory of
sanctification, going from one authority on the subject to
another, only to turn away still more puzzled. I then set myself
to seek publicly and was several times found at the holiness
table, pleading for the blessing that I failed to understand.
Again and again I came to the altar, and, as far as I
understood, laid my all there. But as soon as the test came,
without realizing that I did it, I took from off the altar the
sin I had laid there, or the gifts that I had surrendered to
God.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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