Reader, are you a B. A.? This little book is only for those who possess
that degree from the King's College. If you are not "Born Again," please
put it aside, for this is our starting point in considering the Fullness
of the Spirit as the birthright of every believer. If you have not been
born again you have no right by birth to this, the chiefest of New
Testament blessings. Your first concern is to become one of the children
of God, and then you may enquire as to your inheritance. If you _are_
born again, ask that you may read with the anointed eye and with an
unprejudiced mind, for the amount of prejudice that exists against this
subject is saddening in the extreme. In nothing that he ever wrote does
John Bunyan's masterful genius flash forth more clearly than when, in
"The Holy War," he places that old churl, Mr. Prejudice, with sixty deaf
men under him, as warder of Eargate. Nothing that even Emmanuel may say
can reach Mansoul while Prejudice and his deaf men keep that gate. "There
is nothing about this in the Standards of our Church." "I have not met
with this truth in my favorite authors." "It is quite new to me, and I
never will believe it," etc., etc. These and such like, are illustrations
one meets with of how well Prejudice keeps his ward! In the name of the
Lord let us displace him, and determine to give what of God's truth may
be set forth in the following pages a fair field, no favor being asked
for. Deep-rooted prejudice is one of the causes of the appalling
spiritual poverty that abounds--yes, appalling when we consider the
treasures within our reach!
CHAPTER II.
_EVERY BELIEVER'S BIRTHRIGHT._
On every hand a lack of _something_ is being felt and expressed by God's
people. Their Christian experience is not what they expected it would be.
Instead of expected victory, it is oft-recurring, dreaded defeat; instead
of soul satisfaction, it is soul hunger; instead of deep, abiding heart
rest, it is disquiet and discontent; instead of advancing, it is losing
ground. Is this all Christ meant when He said, "Come unto Me"? Is this
life of constant disappointment the normal life of the Bible Christian?
To these sad questionings the Divine Word answers with an emphatic "No,"
and the testimony of an ever-increasing number of God's children answers
"No."
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