Enoch's ways were pleasing in His sight. What a blessed testimony. Who can
Chapter 9 WITNESSES
Acts 1:8 -- But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
My Dear Comrades,
Have you grown tired of my subject? I hope not. From my youth until this very day the subject of Holiness has always had an unspeakable charm for me. To pray and hear, and sing and believe, and testify to the power of the Precious Blood to cleanse from sin, and fill with love, and keep from falling, has been among the most precious privileges of my fife. The charm is as fresh to me today as ever. I trust you feel as I do.
A devout Saint of old sang in words that always thrill my soul when I hear them:
"I'll carve His passion in the bark;
And every wounded tree Shall droop, and bear some sacred mark
That Jesus died for me. And men shall wonder as they read,
Inscribed through all the grove, How Heaven itself came down to bleed,
To win a mortal's love.
Is not that beautiful, my Comrades? Ought not we Salvationists to be anxious to sound out, by our lips and lives, to the sons and daughters of men, at every opportunity the glorious fact, that Jesus Christ died not only to save men and women from open and deliberate sin, but to purify unto Himself "a peculiar people, inwardly as well as outwardly clean.
Has He wrought this deliverance for you, my Comrades? Or are you deterred from seeking it by doubts as to His ability to effect this purification of the heart? Let me call a few witnesses, who will testify to its realization in their own experience. I am sure you will listen to what they have to say.
I will begin with the Saints of the Bible. Hear them. To begin with we read that: --
1. Enoch walked with God three hundred years. God Himself testifies that Enoch's ways were pleasing in His sight. What a blessed testimony. Who can question that Enoch had a Pure Heart?