Praise Papers - A Spiritual Autobiography (1895) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SPIRITUAL BIOGRAPHY. Psai.ms Lxvi, 16 ? " Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul." MY testimony would not be complete should I not continue the history of my spiritual life, whose beginning is recorded in the preceding " paper." Having had a clear and satisfactory conversion, I started out to live for God with all my heart. I tried to live faithfully, and pushed on from the Red Sta of deliverance from the guilt of sin, and soon reached the SINAI OF CHRISTIAN where I received the law of divine requirements for God's people, felt its obligations, vowed to obey it ? indeed,. loved it. Onward I moved, eating daily manna, following the guidance of the Holy Spirit, occasionally looking back, sometimes murmuring on account of the way; at times conferring with flesh and blood, even making provision for the flesh. I was a very babe in Christ, even carnal. But I moved on, learning some lessons, having more joy than sadness, more rest than anxiety; and, in about three years, came to KADESH-BARNEA, where two holy spies, a Caleb and a Joshua?namely the Word of God and some old copies of the Guide to Holiness?found in the attic of my father's house, reported to my heart the good land, cheered and urged me to go up and possess it. Bxit ten other spies of unbelief in the camp of the Lord said:" You are not able to go up and possess it. You are only a boy; you are too young to live in the Canaan of perfect love." I sought help in the camp of the Church where I belonged; but no one knew the way, and some were ready to cast stones. My pastor sent me to Watson's Theological Institutes. That was giving my hungry heart the stone of doctrine for the bread of experience. I struggled against doubt, caught a glimpse of holiness; then le...