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LOVE ON FIEE, 
 
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 SOUL AND BODY WORK. 
 
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 -BY- 
 
 
 G. HAINES. Evangelist. 
 
 G. HAINES, 
 PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR, 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 
 
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 COPYRIGHTED 1567, BT G. HAINES. 
 
 PRINTED BY 
 
 MORNING STAR PUB CO., 
 1887. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER. PAGE, 
 
 I. Origin of Good and Evil, - - - 5 
 
 II. Man's Relation to God, - - - - 9 
 
 III. Fall and Redemption of Man, 14 
 
 IV. Salvation by Christ, 19 
 
 V. The New Birth, - - - 24 
 
 VI. Trinity of Faith, 27 
 
 VII. Faith and Works, 33 
 
 VIII. Following Jesus, 37 
 
 IX. Entire Consecration, 41 
 
 X. Holy Ghost Fire, 46 
 
 XI. Purity of Heart, 50 
 
 XII. The Extent of Salvation, - - - 54 
 
 XIII. Purification, 57 
 
 XIV. The Anointing Power, - - - - 61 
 XV. Holiness, 66 
 
 XVI. Preservation, 69 
 
 XVII. Soul and Body Work, 72 
 
 XVIII. Sickness an Enemy, 76 
 
 XIX. Cause and Cure of Sickness, - 82 
 
 XX. Affliction and Sickness, - - - - 86 
 
LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 CHAPTER . PAGE 
 
 XXI. The Great Physician, - - - - 89 
 
 XXII. Our Duty in Case of Sickness 92 
 
 XXIII. Responsibility, 101 
 
 XXIV. Why not Accept Healing 
 
 Now? 105 
 
 XXV. Healing from a Desire, - - - no 
 
 XXVI. Healing by the Word, 116 
 
 XXVII. Healing by Inspiration, - - - 121 
 
 XXVIII. Trances, 126 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 ORIGIN OF GOOD AND EVIL. 
 
 God is love. His infinite nature de- 
 mands that all finite accountable beings 
 should glorify Him; and His goodness 
 strongly invites us to become partakers of 
 His wonderful grace. He created an in- 
 numerable company of holy angels, and a 
 great central world called heaven, in which 
 they might eternally dwell with Him. 
 
 God's supreme majesty made Him the 
 sole ruler of the angels and their home. 
 Do you not wish we had such a home on 
 earth? If so, then let us unite in praying, 
 "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in 
 earth as it is in heaven." Matt. 6:10. But 
 alas, there came a time when one of the 
 leaders of the angels dared to presume 
 against the prerogative of God; and as- 
 sumed that, inasmuch as his power had 
 never been tested, he himself might be 
 equal, if not superior to God. In the great 
 and decisive battle that tested his strength 
 God threw him out of heaven, at which 
 
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 time he transformed himself into "that old 
 serpent, called the Devil." Rev. 12: 7-9. 
 Ever since that overthrow and transforma- 
 tion he has been the incessant enemy of 
 man, of angels and of God. As the poet 
 has said: 
 
 " Pride still was aiming at the blessed abode, 
 Men would be angels, and angels would be gods; 
 A striving to be gods angels fell, 
 A striving to be angels man rebelled. " 
 
 Thus it was by presumption, pride, and 
 rebellion, that the devil was originated, and 
 by his subsequent acts has caused the fall 
 of the human race, and all the misery 
 known to mankind. 
 
 God's love led to the creation of other 
 worlds than heaven, one of which (this 
 earth) became the abode of man. The 
 creation of man, like the creation of angels, 
 was designed for the glory of God. He 
 will protect all beings from evil whom He 
 creates, as long as they are true to Him. In- 
 asmuch as all evil is from the hand of 
 Satan, and all good from the hand of God, 
 it became necessary that the Creator be- 
 come the protector of His creature man 
 for good, and his safeguard against evil, 
 that he might fill the vacancy caused by the 
 angels that fell. 2 P. 2: 4. Good and evil 
 
ORIGIN OF GOOD AND EVIL. 7 
 
 existed before the creation of man, as well 
 as subsequently, and will continue to exist 
 while the probation of man lasts. There- 
 fore he must ever choose the right and re- 
 ject the wrong. In fact, his eternal weal or 
 eternal woe depends on his own choice. 
 
 u The tree of life" planted by God him- 
 self "in the midst of the garden of Eden," 
 and afterwards seen in heaven by John 
 (Gen. 2:9; Rev. 22:2), typifies Christ, 
 who is to be obtained and retained only by 
 entering into and meditating upon the 
 things of God. u The tree of knowledge 
 of good and evil" represents man's natural 
 goodness in his fallen state, or the natural 
 man out of Christ. 
 
 Presumption, or going outside of God's 
 will to think or act, is eating of the forbid- 
 den fruit, which leads to the disfavor of 
 our heavenly Father, to death, and finally 
 to hell. O, beware of the tree of knowl- 
 edge of good and evil, and eat only of the 
 tree of life in the midst of the paradise of 
 God. Beware of human philosophy and 
 reason, the wrong use of which have robbed 
 heaven, desolated the earth, and peo- 
 pled hell. Surely "God hath made man 
 upright, but they have sought out many 
 
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 inventions." Eccl. 7:29. Yea, "Vanity 
 of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of 
 vanities; all is vanity." Eccl. 1:2. 
 
 It is true, "The fool hath said in his heart, 
 'There is no God.'" Ps. 53: 1. But the god- 
 ly "delighteth in the law of the Lord; and 
 in His law doth he meditate day and night." 
 Ps. 1:2. If you would he godly, and not as 
 the fool, do not presume in reference to any 
 thing the Lord has not taught; but meditate 
 much on that which He has revealed by 
 His word, and by the Holy Spirit. If sons, 
 "Ye have an unction from the Holy One, 
 and ye know all things. The anointing 
 which ye have received of Him abideth 
 in you, and ye need not that any man 
 teach you: but as the same anointing teach- 
 eth you of all things, and is truth, and is no 
 lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye 
 shall abide in Him." 1 John, 2: 20, 27. 
 
 "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask 
 of God that giveth to ail men liberally, and 
 upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 
 
 But let him ask in faith, nothing waver- 
 ing. For he that wavereth is like a wave 
 of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. 
 
 For let not that man think that he shall 
 receive any thing of the Lord." James 
 
 1:5-7- 
 
MAN S RELATION TO GOD. 9 
 
 Therefore, as long as you maintain your 
 cleansing by faith in the blood of Christ, 
 and are led by the Lord, it is impossible for 
 you to presume in reference to the things 
 you do not know. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 MAN'S RELATION TO GOD. 
 
 We value things according to what they 
 cost, and by the time we hope to keep 
 them. God could have created millions of 
 worlds of fine gold, or precious diamonds, 
 without pain to anyone, and without sacri- 
 fice to Himself, but the redemption of a lost 
 world cost Him " the brightness of His 
 glory, and the express image of His person" 
 — the Bright and Morning Star — the only 
 begotten Son of God. Yea, God laid on 
 Him the iniquity of us all, and forbade men 
 and angels to save Him from the ignomini- 
 ous death of the cross. How great the 
 sacrifice on the part of God, and how inex- 
 pressibly great the suffering of His Son 
 when He cried, ^ Eloi, Eloi, lama sabach- 
 
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 thani? which is, being interpreted, My God, 
 my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" 
 Mark 15: 34. How forceful the poet's words 
 concerning the sacrifice the Father made in 
 the giving of His Son to die for us: 
 
 " Could I with ink the ocean fill, 
 And were the skies a parchment made, 
 And every stock was made a quill, 
 And every man a scribe by trade, 
 To tell the love of God above, 
 Would drain the ocean dry, 
 Nor could the scroll contain the whole, 
 If stretched from sky to sky." 
 
 Yes, God is love; otherwise He would 
 not have given His only Son to suffer and 
 die in man's stead. But you ask, what is 
 man that God was so mindful of him? 
 Surely he must have been very precious in 
 the sight of God, or He would not have 
 ransomed him at such a wondrous cost. 
 Let us look prayerfully into this matter and 
 see if we can not know ourselves, and under- 
 stand our true relation to the Creator. God 
 made man to do His will in earth as it is 
 done in heaven, and for nearly six thousand 
 years the Creator has been King and Ruler 
 of the w r orld. His Son was born a king; 
 of a kingdom not of this world. Man 
 was created in the image and likeness 
 of God. It is said, "The proper study 
 of mankind is man." But this is not 
 
MANS RELATION TO GOD. II 
 
 enough, for man without God is like 
 a train of cars detached from the engine. 
 Hence, the proper study of mankind 
 is man and his relation and responsi- 
 bility to God. Man, like his Creator, is a 
 trinity. He has a spirit, a soul, and a body; 
 i Thes. 5: 23. These natures in Adam, 
 prior to the fall, worked as harmoniously as 
 the three persons of the God-head. The 
 spirit, soul, and body, when adjusted to the 
 will of God, are like a set of measures 
 within and filling each other. The spirit 
 dwells in, and fills the soul, while the soul 
 dwells in and fills the body. The body is 
 the house of the soul, and the soul the 
 house of the spirit. 
 
 As a wise king rules his kingdom, so the 
 spirit of man should rule his soul, and the 
 soul the body. This world is man's king- 
 dom. Gen. 1 :26. As the world is his king- 
 dom, it having been created and fitted up 
 for him, so the body is the soul's kingdom, 
 and the soul the spirit's kingdom. A king- 
 dom without a king or ruler is like an army 
 without a commander, not prepared to de- 
 fend itself against foes, much less conquer- 
 ing its enemies. 
 
 The mental or intellectual man is the 
 
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 soul which occupies the body and has 
 hands, feet, eyes, ears, and five senses within 
 the senses of the body. The heart of the 
 soul is the will, which dwells in the center 
 of its realm, which center is within the 
 physical heart, the king of the body. The 
 will is the king of the soul. Derange or 
 destroy the will and both soul and body 
 are dead as to the great end for which thev 
 were created. The soul possesses all the at- 
 tributes necessary to perpetuate its existence 
 endlessly, independent of the body, which 
 dies when separated from it. 
 
 The moral man is the spirit that dwells in 
 the soul, and is either of Christ or of Satan, 
 because man is either a Christian or a sinner. 
 When God created man He placed His 
 likeness in his soul and His spirit in his 
 heart; thus God dwelt and reigned in the 
 heart of the soul as "King of kings and 
 Lord of lords." Rev. 19: 16. It is no mar- 
 vel that the sweet singer of Israel said of 
 himself, " I am fearfully and wonderfully 
 made." Ps. 139: 14. But alas! man has 
 fallen from under the hand of God into 
 the hands of Satan, who rules him soul and 
 body, as a tyrant king with an iron rod. 
 When man fell the image of Satan was 
 
man's relation to god. 13 
 
 stamped on his soul, and the image of God 
 was removed therefrom. Satan has taken 
 such complete control of the human heart 
 and will, that when one would do good, 
 evil is present to prevent it. Rom.' 7: 21. 
 Yea, Satan has, with his poisonous fang, 
 touched every human soul, and sown the 
 seeds of disease and death in every human 
 body. The poison of his sting brings moral 
 death to the soul, physical death to the 
 body, and damnation to both. "The wages 
 of sin is death; but the gift of God is eter- 
 nal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." 
 Rom. 6: 23. In order to be saved the heart 
 of man must be unreservedly surrendered 
 to God. " My son, give Me thine heart." 
 Prov. 23:26. "Ye shall seek Me and find 
 Me when ye shall search for Me with all 
 your heart." Jer. 29: 13. Christ or Satan 
 dwells in the heart of man, according as 
 his will is. If a man wills to be saved there 
 is no power that can prevent it; if he wills 
 to be lost, there is no power that can save 
 him. Salvation comes by saying, "Thy will 
 be done "- — damnation by saying, My will 
 be done. Let God in the heart, and He 
 will soon drive out all your and His ene- 
 mies. Let Satan in your heart and he will 
 
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 soon drive out all your friends and the 
 friends of God. 
 
 By conversion " the carnal mind " is re- 
 moved from the heart, and the holiness of 
 God enters it to cleanse and reign therein. 
 Satan is cast out to make room for the birth 
 of Christ in the soul. The birth of Christ 
 within does not sanctify you wholly, but 
 you should seek to be as soon as born of 
 God. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN. 
 
 Praise the Lord for man's salvation. Oh, 
 how complete and glorious it is. u As in 
 Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made 
 alive." i Cor. 15: 22. The life received 
 by faith in Christ brings back to us all we 
 lost in the fall. Then let us "Give thanks 
 unto the Lord, for he is good ; for His 
 mercy endureth forever." 
 
 The image of God, in which man was 
 created, was blotted from the soul of Adam 
 when he ate the forbidden apple. All his 
 
FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN. 1 5 
 
 posterity inherited from him a predisposi- 
 tion to sin — all his children's teeth are set 
 on edge. Ezek. 18:2. All of Adam's 
 children that have arrived at the age of ac- 
 countability have followed the footsteps of 
 their father and have eaten of the forbidden 
 fruit ; therefore every soul must have the 
 touch of the blood of the Lamb of God 
 who taketh away the sin of the world. 1 
 John 1 : 7. The salvation wrought out by 
 the Lord Jesus Christ covers all the natures 
 of man — spirit, soul and body. It not only 
 casts Satan's image out of the heart, but re- 
 stores the image of God and makes it a fit 
 temple for the Holy Ghost to dwell in. It 
 cleanses the triune man. Matt. 6: 23; 8:16, 
 17; 10: 7. Mark 3: 14, 15; 5: 8; 6: 13; 
 16:15-18. Luke 4:40; 6:19; 10:17; 13:11- 
 17. "The very God of peace sanctify you 
 wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit 
 and soul and body be preserved blameless 
 unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 Faithful is He that calleth you who also will 
 do it." 1 Thes. 5:23, 24. 
 
 God is omniscient. There is no increase 
 of knowledge with Him. All His laws are 
 in force until fulfilled. Unlike man, He 
 never repeals a law on account of imperfec- 
 
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 tion. When He first planned the scheme 
 of redemption it was as perfect as at pres- 
 ent, and will be as perfect in the day of 
 judgment as in the beginning — no more so, 
 no less so. Eighteen hundred years ex- 
 perience in saving sinners has taught God 
 nothing; neither has the cleansing of the in- 
 numerable host of sinners lessened the 
 cleansing power of the blood of the ever- 
 lasting covenant. 
 
 "Dear, dying - Lamb, thy precious blood 
 Shall never lose its power 
 Till all the ransomed church of God 
 Are saved to sin no more." 
 
 The blessed Redeemer went about doing 
 good to all men everywhere; preaching the 
 Gospel to the poor and rich alike, healing 
 the sick and casting out evil spirits "with 
 His word." Matt. 8:16. It is the grand 
 privilege of God's ambassadors of the pres- 
 ent day to accomplish the very same things 
 "in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, " 
 and by the very same power they had at 
 Pentecost. 
 
 'Tis the very same power, 
 The very same power; 
 'Tis the very same power 
 That they had at Pentecost. 
 'Tis the pow'r, the power, 
 'Tis the pow'r, the power; 
 'Tis the power that Jesus promised should come down. 
 
FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN. l*J 
 
 We have the same Christ to send us, the 
 same great commission to preach, and the 
 promise of the same power the Apostles 
 had, and any failure to accomplish the same 
 things will be wholly on the human side. 
 The commission given to the Apostles was 
 to hold good to the end of the Gospel dis- 
 pensation — the end of time. 
 
 Hell was not prepared for man, but " for 
 the Devil and his angels." Matt. 25:41. 
 Nevertheless, all who die in the service of 
 Satan must pass an eternity in his home, 
 where the cankerworm of sin never dies,, 
 where the fiery torment is never quenched, 
 and where the smoke of the torment of the 
 damned ascends forever and forever. No 
 one need hope for the salvation of Christ 
 unless he complies with the Gospel of the 
 grace of God, in which this salvation is 
 freely given to all mankind. Friendly read- 
 er, how is it with thy soul? If Jesus should 
 come to-day with ten thousand of His 
 saints, with " the voice of the archangel, 
 and with the trump of God," would it be 
 well with thy soul? If not, then flee; flee 
 to-day to the Rock that is cleft to take 
 thee in. 
 
 How far short of his privileges and du- 
 
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 ties man has come. He is constantly leav- 
 ing undone the things he should do, and as 
 constantly doing the things he should not 
 do. In the way of excuse for neglect and 
 wrong-doing, some argue that some other 
 way than the one marked out in the Gospel 
 of God's dear Son will do quite as well. 
 Such thoughts are suggested by the Devil. 
 
 A constant watch the devils keep: 
 
 They eye us night and day, 
 And never slumber, never sleep, 
 
 Lest the}' should lose their prey. 
 
 If the Gospel of the Son of God was 
 preached and practiced by Christ's ambas- 
 sadors of our day, as it was preached and 
 lived by the blessed Master and His holy 
 Apostles, Satan's empire would tremble 
 from center to circumference, and the king- 
 doms of this world would soon be trans- 
 formed into the kingdom of our Lord and 
 Savior Jesus Christ. Instead of preach- 
 ing the whole Gospel of Christ many have 
 changed it to suit the religious dogmas of 
 the day in order to please the itching ears 
 of lukewarm professors. In so doing they 
 check the work of God's grace, and hazard 
 the souls of men. Oh, let us preach the 
 whole Gospel and nothing but the Gospel, 
 and live out the same — for then, and not 
 
SALVATION OF CHRIST. 19 
 
 until then, will this wicked world be 
 brought to the feet of the blessed Re- 
 deemer. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 SALVATION BY CHRIST. 
 
 "Oh, horrible! A hell here! The flames 
 around me! The fire within me! Burning, 
 agonizing, dying! A hell to go to hell in! 
 My God! But I have no God. I have re- 
 jected Christ, and he who rejects Him re- 
 jects the Father. Is there no hope for me?" 
 "None but in Christ." "Then I am lost! O, 
 hell, why did I choose you rather than 
 heaven? O, Devil, why did I take heed to 
 you, in preference to taking heed to God?" 
 
 "There is life for a look." "Where? How? 
 When? Tell me, oh, ye who can, how I may 
 escape the fire of hell, to which I am fast 
 hastening?" "He that believeth on the Son 
 hath everlasting life." "Ah, that's the trou- 
 ble. Believe on Jesus — He whom I have 
 spurned, defied and resisted all my life? No! 
 no! After spending a lifetime, that was 
 
 given me to love, worship and obey Christ, 
 2 
 
20 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 in the service of Satan, the common enemy 
 of God and man, then to throw the snuffings 
 of a misspent life in the face of so good, 
 gracious and holy a being as God's Son, I 
 can not do it." "Then you are lost! Forever 
 lost!" "I know I am. Lost without hope, 
 plea, or remedy." "No! no! no! There is 
 hope, plea, and a remedy in Him whom 
 you reject. "\ am the way, the truth and 
 the life.' Look and live." ' O, the flames of 
 hell! My conscience, how thou dost goad 
 me! Why have I so long stood against 
 Him who still offers pardon and deliver- 
 ance? Save me, good Lord, or I perish!" 
 
 "Hark! I hear a sound as of a chariot from 
 afar. Nearer it comes. Ah, I see its lone 
 occupant now. How pale he looks! His 
 sweat is like great drops of blood. His 
 hands and feet have imprints, as though 
 cruel spikes have been thrust through them. 
 His body is bruised and scarred, as though 
 He had been terribly beaten and maltreated. 
 O, God, I know who it is! It is Christ, 
 who died that I might have life. He suffered 
 this that I might escape the flames of hell, 
 and rise on wings of love to a mansion in 
 heaven. I will praise Thee for this coming 
 to me, if I am damned, O, thou Christ, the 
 Holy One." 
 
SALVATION BY CHRIST. 21 
 
 "But I have come to save thee." 
 
 "Not me?" 
 
 "Yes, thee." 
 
 "But I am lost." 
 
 "I came to save the lost." 
 
 "Then, truly, Thou didst come to save 
 me." 
 
 "I did." 
 
 "But, dear Savior, I have nothing to give 
 — no merit of my own, nor none to recom- 
 mend me to Thee for so great a salvation." 
 
 "Be quiet, my child; my gifts are free to 
 those who accept them as such. Will you 
 take salvation now?" 
 
 "I will. I do. I am Thine. Oh, glory ! 
 hallelujah!" 
 
 The sinner is in that broad and easy road 
 that leads to the open mouth of a yawning 
 hell. Jesus has made provisions to arrest 
 him, by the Holy Ghost, in his mad career, 
 turn him about towards heaven, and put a 
 desire in his soul to run with patience the 
 Christian race to glory. 
 
 Conversion includes justification, which 
 is a change of state; and regeneration, which 
 is a change of nature. The first is a work done 
 for us; the second a change wrought in us. 
 God is the author of both. 
 
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 When God pardons a sinner He changes 
 his heart; so that the love of sin, as well as 
 the guilt of it, is taken away. Thus we see 
 when a sinner is converted he is justified 
 and renewed; his sins are blotted out and he 
 is made a new creature in Christ Jesus. 
 God. through love to man, not only pardons 
 and changes his heart, but He adopts him as 
 His child, puts him into His Church, and 
 sends the Holy Spirit to bear testimony 
 with his spirit that he is a child of a King, 
 an heir of a mansion, of a robe and a crown. 
 
 Repentance is essential to salvation. No 
 thief or murderer can enter heaven. There 
 is no other way to heaven but by Jesus. 
 You may try for another, but alas, it will be 
 a failure. Christ is the only source of sal- 
 vation. If you go into one's house, you 
 want to enter by the door and not at the 
 window or through the roof. There is great 
 danger of being shot or kicked out as a thief 
 if you do. So in entering the Church of 
 Christ, if you would be recognized by God 
 and the angels, you must enter through 
 Christ — the door. The recording angel 
 keeps the register and no man can deceive 
 God. Earth's records do not save any. You 
 may deceive the world and yet live in hell, 
 but it is impossible to deceive God. 
 
SALVATION OF CHRIST. 23 
 
 Every man must stand before God in the 
 general judgment and render an account of 
 the deeds done in the body. All must 
 answer for themselves, and stand or fall ac- 
 cording to their relation to Christ. If they 
 have repented of all sin, and accepted Christ 
 as their Savior, they stand justified before 
 God and will be saved; if not, they will be 
 lost — eternally lost. So all must repent or 
 perish. 
 
 "Time enough yet," cries the oarsman, as 
 his friend on shore warns him of the rapids 
 below, into which he soon glides and is 
 lost. "Time enough yet," shouts the inebriate, 
 as he nears the awful gulf of a drunkard's 
 hell. "Time enough yet," cries the sinner, as 
 he dashes madly down into the flames of 
 the damned. 
 
 "Too late," howls the demon, as his victim 
 struggles to escape his fingers of death, 
 "Toolate,"ejaculatesthe lost soul, as an angel 
 reaches forth a helping hand. "Too late," 
 wail all the unsaved sinners, as the flames 
 of hell sweep over them forever and they 
 are lost from earth, heaven, God, angels and 
 the redeemed. Reader, is the above your 
 photograph. 
 
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 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE NEW BIRTH. 
 
 Salvation from sin is the free gift of God, 
 through the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 
 It is to be obtained not by acts of righteous- 
 ness which we have done or may do; (for 
 "All our righteousness are as filthy rags." 
 Isa. 64: 6.) but as a wholly unmerited gift 
 of an independent king to an utterly un- 
 worthy and wholly dependent subject. 
 
 Grace first contrived the way 
 
 To save rebellious man, 
 
 And all the steps that grace displays, 
 
 Unfold the wondrous plan. 
 
 In order to salvation, one must believe 
 himself to be a helpless and lost sinner, 
 Jesus Christ to be the Son of God and only 
 Savior, repent of his sins and turn to the 
 Lord who will delight to have mercy, and 
 to our God who will abundantly pardon, 
 Isa. 55:6,7. 
 
 Before conversion the sinner has his back 
 to Christ, to heaven, to angels and to God 
 — his face to sin, to sinners, to devils, and 
 
THE NEW BIRTH. 25 
 
 to hell — but when converted he turns his 
 back on the latter and his face to the form- 
 er. Friendly reader, how is it with thee? 
 Is thy back turned to Christ, thy best 
 friend? Let thy heart answer in the secret 
 chamber of thy immortal soul. Remem- 
 ber that if thy heart condemns thee, God is 
 greater than thy heart and will condemn 
 thee, too. i John 3: 20, 21. When one 
 is born from above, God sends the Holy 
 Spirit into the heart as a witness to the 
 work done, and as an infallible guide to the 
 new-born soul. Rom. 8: 14-16; John 
 16: 13; 1 John 5: 10; 1 Cor. 3: 16; 6: 19. 
 "Ye must be born again," said the Master. 
 At the spiritual birth, "the carnal mind" 
 (which always is at " enmity against God") 
 is cast out, and the spiritual mind, which is 
 life and peace, is imparted to the soul. 
 Rom. 8: 6-8. This new spiritual life [is 
 the body and blood of Christ, which the 
 dear Savior said we must eat of and drink, 
 in order to have spiritual life. John 6: 53. 
 This spiritual nature escapes with the soul 
 at death, and becomes the spiritual body; 
 which the soul inhabits until the final resur- 
 rection, at which time it will receive a glo- 
 rified body. I Cor. 15: 44. The new birth 
 
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 is the beginning of the existence of this 
 spiritual body within us, and is as real as 
 was our natural birth, or the birth of the 
 human nature of Christ. If true to God 
 and our own souls, we will persevere until 
 the carnal nature is cast out of both soul and 
 body, so that the child Jesus born within 
 may grow, until we are filled with all the 
 fullness of God. 
 
 Turning from all sin with a full purpose 
 of heart to forsake it, and turning to God 
 with full purpose of heart to serve Him, 
 constitutes evangelical repentance. The 
 evidence of such repentance is confession 
 of sin to God, and making restitution to 
 those whom we have wronged, to the 
 fullest extent of our ability. We are sorry 
 to say that the latter evidence is too fre- 
 quently wanting. See Luke 19: 8. This 
 means far more than to join church, and 
 live as thousands are living, with no spirit- 
 ual life, no power. 
 
 We will close this chapter by quoting three 
 golden invitations that fell from the lips of 
 Him who spake as never did man: "Him 
 that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast 
 out." John 6: 37. "In the last day, that 
 great day of the feast, Jesus stood and 
 
TRINITY OF FAITH. 27 
 
 cried, saying, 'If any man thirst, let him 
 come to Me and drink.'" John 7: 37. 
 "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are 
 heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 
 Matt. 11:28. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 TRINITY OF FAITH. 
 
 Faith, like the God -head, is a trinity in 
 unity. In it we have asking-faith, receiv- 
 ing-faith, and overcoming-faith, following 
 each other in the order just named. Ask- 
 ing-faith is given first. God gives this 
 with each of His promises. He creates the 
 desire in the heart of the sinner to come to 
 Him. Except the Father draw the sinner 
 he will not come to Jesus. John 6: 44. 
 The desire to come, the knowledge as to 
 how to come, and the asking-faith — all are 
 of God. Asking-faith, and the knowledge 
 how to ask, accompany each gift bestowed 
 on man. 
 
 The way of eternal life has been made so 
 plain and easy that they who neglect it are 
 left without a single excuse. In the judg- 
 
28 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 ment day all these will be as speechless as, 
 and share the fate of, the man who had not 
 on the wedding garment. Matt. 22: i2 r 
 13. As the king furnished each invited 
 guest with a wedding garment, so the Lord 
 offers to furnish the garment of salvation 
 to each one who desires and asks for it. 
 
 Every desire created in the heart by God, 
 is a promise given by the Holy Spirit, and 
 points to man's need. When man is true to 
 God He will give him desires covering all 
 the needs of both soul and body. The 
 knowledge given with each desire shows 
 our need of the things desired. When God 
 gives a desire for a certain thing, He will 
 grant the thing desired. He never tantal- 
 izes His children with a blessing He does 
 not intend to give. Matt 7: 7-1 1. 
 
 To obtain the thing desired we must be- 
 lieve the desire is of the Lord, and ask for 
 the witness to this end. God's witness to 
 man is His will spoken in the soul by the 
 Holy Ghost. To get a desire cashed at 
 heaven's bank we must accept it as coming 
 from God, and ask for the witness to that 
 effect. In thus accepting a desire we make 
 up our minds to ask God to cash His check 
 at sight. Getting the consent of the mind 
 
TRINITY OF FAITH. 29 
 
 to ask, is the submission of the human will 
 to that of the divine. It is marvelously 
 strange that a great portion of the desires 
 created by the Lord, or checks on the bank 
 of heaven, are neglected or thrown away. 
 How utterly foolish would he be thought 
 who would reject or throw away a check 
 for $100,000, signed by all the officials of 
 the First National Bank of our city! How 
 much more foolish is he who rejects or 
 throws away a check on the bank of heaven 
 for eternal life, when it is presented as a 
 gift and signed by the Father, Son and 
 Holy Ghost! 
 
 To ascertain whether a desire is from the 
 Lord we must ask for the witness and hold 
 on to God with all faith and knowledge 
 received until we hear the voice of God 
 speaking in the soul. Whatever the still, 
 small voice whispers in the soul is the will 
 of God and should be our guide. 
 
 The conscience in the Holy Ghost always 
 speaks of our need of Christ. The Word 
 says, " My God shall supply all your need 
 according to His riches in glory by Christ 
 Jesus." Phil. 4: 19. 
 
 To obtain the knowledge of God and the 
 asking-faith from the desire, we must ask 
 
30 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 without doubting (" He that doubteth is 
 damned." Rom. 14: 23.) for the witness, 
 which is the word spoken by the Holy 
 Ghost in the soul. When we ask God, 
 from one of His given desires, with all the 
 knowledge and faith accompanying it, if 
 He will grant the desire of the heart, He 
 always answers back in the desire — "Yes." 
 When we hear the voice of God speaking 
 in the soul, our faith leaps from the desire 
 into the witness or word of God, and brings 
 forth taking-faith, which enables us to re- 
 ceive the gifts offered by our heavenly 
 Father. 
 
 Taking-faith is received with the witness 
 from God from a given desire. Every wit- 
 ness given by God is accompanied by tak- 
 ing-faith, which is much stronger than ask- 
 ing-faith. In asking-faith we believe from 
 a desire; while in taking-faith we believe 
 in the word of God. There is great differ- 
 ence between belief for a thing and faith in 
 that thing ; the latter is much the strongest. 
 In the former we have the desire with- 
 out the evidence, while in the latter we 
 have both. Belief for a thing grows out of 
 a felt want, and without internal evidence 
 from God; while the latter has not only the 
 
TRINITY OF FAITH. 3 1 
 
 external promise accompanying the desire, 
 but the internal witness or Holy Ghost, 
 bearing witness with our spirit that the 
 thing desired is granted and awaits our 
 taking. "What things soever ye desire, 
 when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, 
 and ye shall have them." Mark 1 1 : 24. 
 
 Having received taking-faith, together 
 with the knowledge as to how to use it, 
 we should take the gift as coming from 
 the God-given desire; therefore from God. 
 In receiving God's gifts our faith becomes 
 stronger than Satan's power of resistance. 
 If our taking-faith is weaker than Satan's 
 power it may be made more perfect and 
 powerful. The trial of our faith, or per- 
 fecting of it for greater power, is holding 
 on to God and persevering through opposi- 
 tion until victory is obtained. 
 
 To obtain power to receive God's bless- 
 ings, and to do His will on earth as it is 
 done in heaven, we must have perfect faith. 
 When our faith is finished, by the trial of it, 
 it will embrace "love, joy, peace, long-suf- 
 ering," etc., and these rest upon us until the 
 power is perfected within, when we should 
 at once take the gift sought. We take the 
 power, from time to time, as w r e are able to 
 
32 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 receive it, and the Holy Ghost gives the 
 knowledge of it and tells how to use it. 
 
 Overcoming-faith will enable us to keep 
 and use, to the glory of God, the gifts and 
 graces He has so graciously given. This 
 faith is as necessary to the Christian as ask- 
 ing-faith or taking-faith. Without it no one 
 could retain or use the blessings received of 
 the Lord. " He that overcometh shall in- 
 herit all things; and I will be his God, and 
 he shall be my son." Rev. 21: 7. Over- 
 coming-faith is received with the gift taken 
 by asking-faith, which grows out of the de- 
 sire given by the Lord. Asking-faith, when 
 properly used, secures taking-faith, which, 
 when used aright, secures overcoming-faith. 
 We do not get over-coming-faith until we 
 take the things desired of the Lord. God 
 does not give one a thing he does not need. 
 The promise is, " My God shall supply all 
 your need." We do not need overcoming- 
 faith until we have received something from 
 the hand of God, Satan desires to take away 
 from us. Rev. 12: 7-1 1. 
 
FAITH AND WORKS. 33 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 FAITH AND WORKS. 
 
 All we need is freely provided by God. 
 The body and soul need many things to 
 save them from death and hell, and to pre- 
 pare them for life and heaven. These wants 
 are all met through faith and works. Both 
 are essential. Faith and works should har- 
 monize. As soul and body should agree in 
 all things, so ought faith and works. Faith 
 without works is dead. So is the body with- 
 out the soul. God made provisions in the 
 atonement for soul and body, so He has for 
 faith and works. The soul and body are 
 saved through these channels. Faith is the 
 master, works the servant. In all things 
 the master should rule. As the soul should 
 rule the body, so ought faith to rule works. 
 When this is done, and faith is^made perfect 
 through the truth, soul and body will be 
 saved up to the standard of truth, as revealed 
 in the Bible. We are saved "by grace 
 through faith, and that notjof ourselves; it 
 is the gift of God." Eph. 2: 8. 
 
 According to our faith so is our salvation. 
 
34 LOVE AND FIRE. 
 
 Man gets what he believes for. God has a 
 channel for everything. Man must seek 
 each needed want through God's channel to 
 possess it. All things are yours if rightly 
 sought for. Faith produces works. Believe 
 right and you will act right. The world is 
 full of unbelief. It is the damning sin of 
 the age. Devils believe more than some 
 professed Christians. "Lord, increase our 
 faith! 1 ' 
 
 Every spiritual blessing man enjoys comes 
 through faith. "By faith we live" (Gal. 
 i: 20.), "stand" (2 Cor. 1: 24.), "walk" 
 (2 Cor. 5: 7.), "conquer" (1 John 5: 4.), 
 "endure" (Heb. 11 : 27.), "are sanctified" 
 (Acts 26: 18.), "are healed" (Mark 
 16: 17.), "and preserved to the end" (Heb. 
 10: 38.). There is no other way of prevail- 
 ing save through faith in God. 
 
 By faith, Peter walked on the angry 
 waves of the Galilean Sea to go to Jesus. 
 It was a wonderful walk. The life of faith 
 is a life of wonders. Our lives should be a 
 constant and close walk with God, hence a 
 life of wonder. Is it such with us? If not, 
 we are not walking with God as we should. 
 If our lives have nothing wonderful in them, 
 nothing to distinguish us from the world, 
 
FAITH AND WORKS. 35 
 
 we certainly are not in line with the won- 
 der-working God. 
 
 The life of faith is above and beyond the 
 ordinary and natural life of man. Peter's 
 walking on the water was beyond his nat- 
 ural powers. Before this, no one (save 
 Christ) had ever walked on the water. 
 Thus it is, that those who walk close with 
 God are enabled to have an influence, and 
 perform deeds not possible to those who do 
 not walk with Him. "Enoch walked with 
 God," and "God took him" because he 
 walked with Him. Gen. 5: 24. 
 
 The walk of faith is a triumphal one. By 
 it we may have power to bring this world 
 to Christ. As Peter walked on the angry 
 waves of the sea, so we, by faith, may walk 
 on the angry waves of sin and not sink, but 
 bring Jesus across the angry waters of 
 death to perishing sinners that He may 
 take them in the "life-boat." If Christ calls 
 you, step out on His promises. Peter had 
 no power to support himself on the raging 
 sea; nevertheless he walked in perfect 
 safety as long as he kept his eyes on the 
 Master, but began to sink as soon as he 
 looked away from Him. So it is in the 
 
 Christian life; we must step out on the 
 
 3 
 
36 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 naked promise of God, trusting in it to the 
 very letter, remembering that He has said 
 in His immutable Word, "My grace is suf- 
 ficient for thee," "I will never leave thee, 
 nor forsake thee." 2 Cor. 12: 9; Heb. 
 
 There is a great difference between the 
 faith of many and the faith of the Son of 
 God. T.he faith we need is independent of 
 ours. Such faith sympathizes with the 
 poor, sick and distressed of our land. There 
 are two kinds of faith. Nearly everybody 
 has the general faith; but the faith not of 
 man is the faith we want. The reason why 
 so little faith is exercised is because we have 
 not the faith of the Son of God. When we 
 get this faith we will see great changes. 
 
 The presence of the Holy Ghost in the 
 soul gives the faith we need. It comes from 
 God — is of God. When we get it we will 
 have the same faith Jesus had. Faith is 
 taking God at His word. Then we can 
 laugh at seeming impossibilities and cry, "It 
 shall be done." The prophets made the ax 
 swim and the fire fall, by faith. "According 
 to your faith be it unto you," is a universal 
 law of God in bestowing gifts to His chil- 
 dren. "All are yours," on condition you 
 
FOLLOWING JESUS. 37 
 
 receive them by faith. Are you believing 
 for all God has done for you? 
 
 God's universal law is, that no blessing 
 outside of those given in common to all men 
 is available without the exercise of faith. 
 Therefore, salvation from sin, or any of its 
 effects on the spirit, soul or body, is received 
 purely on the condition of a living, active 
 faith in the atonement made once for all. 
 In fact, Christ is "made unto us wisdom, and 
 righteousness, and sanctification, and re- 
 demption," by our exercise of faith in Him, 
 "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who 
 healeth all thy diseases." Ps. 103: 3. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 FOLLOWING JESUS. 
 
 God is able to save to the uttermost. He 
 who can raise the dead, as he did Lazarus, 
 can make alive those dead in sin, or heal 
 those who are sick. Now give to God the 
 things that belong to Him. Withhold 
 nothing that is due Him. Many have 
 vowed and have not paid their vows. 
 
 Glory to God, He is able to keep us. He 
 
38 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 kept the three Hebrew children, amidst the 
 flames of the furnace, and He will keep us 
 if we trust in Him. Daniel was delivered 
 from the lion's den, M©ses from the wrath 
 of Pharaoh, and David from the murderous 
 thrust of Saul. Fear not, but trust the liv- 
 ing God. 
 
 The Devil trembles when he sees 
 The weakest saint get on his knees. 
 
 We were created for the glory of God. 
 Let us be true to Him, so that our words 
 and acts shall not surrender us to the Devil. 
 Give up the Devil's trappings. Step over 
 the line and trust. 
 
 Many cripple themselves through neglect 
 to testify to the salvation God has given 
 them. Honor God with your every-day 
 walk and life. If we do not, we dishonor 
 Him and hazard our own salvation. "These 
 are they which came out of great tribulation, 
 and have washed their robes and made them 
 white in the blood of the Lamb." Such, 
 only, shall enter the kingdom of heaven. 
 
 God sees us through and through. See 
 Him out on the barren mountain of sin seek- 
 ing the lost. Behold, this is the day of 
 salvation. Ho! every one that thirsteth, 
 come and drink of the water of life. Haste 
 to Him now. 
 
FOLLOWING JESUS. 39 
 
 Heaven has millions of gifts for the saints 
 of God. Have no hobby, but take them 
 all. Be a whole Christian. Take the word 
 of God. Everything of God is of revelation. 
 We may have an experience that the gates 
 of hell cannot prevail against. O, how 
 many have they prevailed against! While 
 we want the gifts of God, we need to be es- 
 tablished in Christ's church — not my church, 
 nor your church, but His church. "Upon 
 this rock I will build My church, and the 
 gates of hell shall not prevail against it." 
 Matt. 16: 18. 
 
 Christ's church must receive the whole 
 Gospel. They who deny any part of the 
 Gospel turn themselves out of the church. 
 If you do not understand God's church, 
 keep your hands off of it, for you would 
 better dig your own grave and bury your- 
 self than attempt to steady the ark. He 
 who rejects the ark, which is Christ in the 
 saved, is liable to be stricken dead, as were 
 Ananias and Sapphira. You may fight 
 creeds, but you must never fight the Church 
 of God; he who does it fights against God. 
 It is death to do this. 
 
 The bride is the church of the first born. 
 If we are converted to God we are espoused 
 
4-0 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 to Christ, and when sanctified we are mar- 
 ried to Him. If we are married to Christ, 
 and lust after the things of the earth, we 
 commit adultery. The Holy Spirit wants 
 to bring us back to chastity and purity. 
 We may serve God in righteousness and 
 holiness all the days of our life if we will 
 let the Son make us free. "If any man 
 keep My sayings he shall not taste death." 
 
 "Behold what manner of love the Father 
 hath bestowed upon us, that we should be 
 called the sons of God." So we sustain the 
 same relation to God that Jesus does. For, 
 beloved, now are we the sons of God, and 
 if sons, then heirs — heirs of God and joint 
 heirs with our Lord Jesus Christ. The 
 glorious liberty of the sons of God is at 
 hand. 
 
 Prepare to see His wonders, and see face 
 to face and know as we are known. "He 
 that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself 
 even as He is pure." Christ came to take 
 away our sin and sickness. Let us press 
 through the crowd of unbelief as did the 
 woman who touched the hem of Christ's 
 garment and was made whole, and get 
 healed of sin and all its contaminations. 
 Let us do it now, for Jesus' sake. Amen! 
 
ENTIRE CONSECRATION. 41 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 ENTIRE CONSECRATION. 
 
 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, 
 that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, accept- 
 able unto God, lohich is your reasonable service. Rom. 12: 1. 
 
 To be wholly and holily consecrated to 
 God means a great work. Many do not 
 comprehend, but think it a small matter. 
 The above text indicates that the body, as 
 well as the soul, is to be a "holy" sacrifice; 
 that is to say, a pure one. To be conse- 
 crated to God, as were the Hebrew chil- 
 dren, means something. They were ready 
 to live or die for their Master. The conse- 
 cration required is that of the Apostle Paul, 
 when he said: "What mean ye to weep 
 and to break mine heart? fori am ready not 
 to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusa- 
 lem for the name of the Lord Jesus." Acts 
 21: 13. 
 
 As Christ died once for ail, so should we 
 die to self and enter into an everlasting 
 union with Him. When our all — spirit, 
 soul and body — are laid on the altar of God, 
 
42 LOVE NO FIRE. 
 
 Christ sanctifies the gift and makes us holy 
 as He is holy. 
 
 Bible consecration means death to the 
 world, death to the flesh, and an entire ex- 
 communication of the Devil from both soul 
 and body. It means just what the dear 
 Savior said when he prayed, "Thy king- 
 dom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it 
 is in heaven." Matt. 6* 10. Supreme 
 love to Christ, and this only, will enable 
 one to make such a consecration. The He- 
 brew children had this love to such a degree 
 that they were willing to burn in the fiery 
 furnace if it would please God. When our 
 lives are "hid with Christ in God," then it 
 is that He can and will trust us. Col. 3: 3. 
 When thus consecrated we can pass through 
 fiery trials victoriously. 
 
 In the natural and spiritual world life 
 comes through death. The seed is cast into 
 the earth and dies, and from its death springs 
 new life. So, also, we must die to sin, that 
 we may have a new life in Christ Jesus. 
 Rom. 6: 11. In religion, to go down in 
 the valley of humiliation is to get ready and 
 to go up on the mount of spiritual transfig- 
 uration. "Whosoever shall exalt himself 
 shall be abased; and he that shall humble 
 
ENTIRE CONSECRATION. 43 
 
 himself shall be exalted." Matt. 23: 12. 
 As a hill or mountain begins at every val- 
 ley, so spiritual exaltation must begin at 
 every valley of humiliation. The deeper 
 the valley, the higher the exaltation. Here 
 we have natural law in spiritual life. 
 
 Bless the Lord for full and free salvation. 
 It is for all — none need be without it. The 
 floodgates of salvation to me have been 
 thrown open wide and my soul is basking 
 in ineffable glory. Hallelujah! But alas, 
 alas, multitudes are still walking in the 
 broad and downward road that leads to 
 eternal death and endless hell. O let us 
 plunge into the fountain filled with blood, 
 be cleansed from all sin, that God may use 
 us in rescuing the perishing. Jesus went 
 down into the garden of Gethsemane, pros- 
 trated Himself on the cold ground, agonizing 
 for us until His sweat was, as it were, great 
 drops of blood. He went to the death-line 
 and prayed, " Father, if it be possible let this 
 cup pass." It could not pass; therefore He 
 passed over the death-line, and voluntarily 
 gave Himself a living sacrifice for us all. 
 
 The Devil tried to persuade Jesus to not 
 sacrifice Himself, but He thrust him aside, 
 plunged into crucifixion and death, went 
 
44 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 into the grave, rose triumphantly from it, 
 conquering the Devil, death, hell and the 
 grave, thereby securing eternal redemption 
 for us on the easy terms of His everlasting 
 Gospel. Are we willing to yield to death 
 to sin for Him who has done such great 
 things for us? The old man of sin must 
 die within us that we may be made alive 
 to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
 We do not get the salvation Jesus died 
 to obtain for us until we receive the Holy 
 Ghost. The sealing comes after pardon, 
 and is the inheritance of the believer. Could 
 you conceive of a more exalted position than 
 to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus? 
 This is the position He calls us to. Do not 
 put off your great privilege in Christ; for, 
 behold now is the day of salvation. Having 
 surrendered all to Jesus we are introduced 
 into the holy of holies, where all is peace 
 and joy in the Holy Ghost. Come, then, 
 to-day; for the night of death may over- 
 take you this hour, and then it will be too 
 late. Too late — too late will be the cry; 
 Jesus of Nazareth has passed by. See what 
 wonderful power Peter had on the day of 
 Pentecost when he charged the Jews with 
 having slain the Lord of Glory. Where 
 
ENTIRE CONSECRATION. 45 
 
 from, and how did he get such wonderful 
 power? He got it from heaven, and by 
 tarrying, by praying and believing it would 
 come. 
 
 a < " 'Twas while they all were praying, 
 And believing it would come, 
 Came the power, the power, 
 That Jesus promised should come down." 
 
 So, also, we should tarry until we receive 
 the Holy Ghost; then the same mighty 
 works shall be done by us. If this should 
 cause some to be put in jail it would doubt- 
 less be the salvation of the prisoners and of 
 many others. Lord, give us this sin-slaying 
 and soul-saving power until all the socials, 
 broom-drills, wheelbarrow-entertainments 
 and all other works of the Devil are de- 
 stroyed. God can take a worm and thrash 
 a mountain. He can cause the Jordan to 
 divide to let us enter the land that flows 
 with milk and honey. When fully saved 
 we can and will reach others. Men and 
 women are sinking to destruction every day 
 because we do not reach out and save them. 
 
 Rescue the perishing, care for the dying; 
 Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save. 
 
46 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 HOLY GHOST FIRE. 
 
 It is coming. Like the thunder's roar it 
 may be heard. Yon vivid light, to one not 
 acquainted with its destructive power, 
 might be termed beautiful. But our opin- 
 ion of it does not change its character in 
 the least. On it comes. Death is in its 
 track. Like perdition, it swallows up all 
 it overtakes. See its darting tongue of 
 fire. No mortal being can check or turn 
 aside its onward course. My God, the 
 great prairie is on fire! We are fifty miles 
 from any known place of safety, and be- 
 fore one- tenth of that distance can be 
 reached the flames will overtake us. Swift 
 horse, run, run for your life, for the angel 
 of death is on our track! But why go far- 
 ther? You are already exhausted. I can 
 hear your loud panting, and see the white 
 foam bursting from your exhausted body. 
 
 Must we die? Is .there no hope? Stop, 
 horse, we can't outride the maddening 
 
HOLY GHOST FIRE. 47 
 
 flames. Let us use the only known rem- 
 edy. Let us fight fire with fire. O, for a 
 match, a coal, a torch, a little fire. But I have 
 none. Give me fire. Ever so little — so it 
 is fire. I must have fire. 'Tis fire or 
 death. My God, give me fire. I will give 
 you my watch, money, horse, farm, yea, all 
 I have, for fire. Vain offer. God's favor is 
 not to be bought by man's possessions. 
 
 Try it again. O, for fire! Great God, I 
 give myself to Thee; wilt Thou for Jesus* 
 sake, send me a little fire? Ah, that flash 
 of lightening dazzles me. But see, O, see 
 where it struck, the grass caught fire! 
 Glory to God, we have got fire. I thank 
 Thee, O God, for heaven-sent fire. It has 
 saved me. Roll on, thou nearing flames, I 
 fear thee not. Thou mayest rage like the 
 flames of hell, rolling out to destroy sin- 
 ners, but I am safe. As safe as the soul 
 from which the Holy Ghost fire has burned 
 out all sin; for to such the flames of hell 
 can not reach, nor in such can they find any 
 thing to burn. 
 
 This way, good horse, keep close to me. 
 Let ©ur breath fan on the heaven-sent fire. 
 It is burning faster and faster. Let us fol- 
 low it up close. There, by lying on our 
 
48 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 faces, we will now be safe. But we will 
 trust God for more. The breath of the 
 sea of fire fans on our saving fire. See 
 how it spreads and gathers power at 
 every breath. It is already a great fire. 
 Up, good horse, we may now, in safety, 
 stand on yon burned spot, and shout defi- 
 ance to a million prairie fires. 
 
 Wonderful! Surrounded by a sea of 
 fire. The two have met, yet we are safe. 
 Hallelujah! The fire that threatened our 
 lives is already dying out, and the one in 
 answer to prayer is out-ranking it in bril- 
 liancy and power. Thus God's fire out- 
 ranks Satan's, as His power does the 
 power of the great arch fiend. So now, 
 dear horse, we may pass on our way over 
 this burned district in as great safety as a 
 blood-washed soul can traverse this sin- 
 cursed earth on his way to the paradise of 
 God. 
 
 God's fire can burn out and destroy all 
 sin. Cast all on the altar and it will sanctify 
 the gift. "Be ye clean, saith the Lord." 
 O Lord, let Holy Ghost fire fall on all the 
 people. It is a thousand times better to 
 have the Holy Ghost fire burn all sin out of 
 us than to have the fire of sin burn in us 
 
HOLY GHOST FIRE. 49 
 
 ill hell forever and forever. If we get all 
 sin out of our hearts, hell will not have us 
 at any price. Both sin and holiness will 
 seek its level and its own. 
 
 God is omnific and equal to any emer- 
 gency. When fully trusting in Him one 
 can walk through a den of lions. Satan 
 did not have in the beginning, has not now, 
 and never will have power equal to or su- 
 perior to God. The Devil is to be "cast into 
 the lake of fire and brimstone, where the 
 beast and the false prophet are, and shall 
 be tormented forever and ever." Rev. 20:10. 
 Daniel slept soundly among the blood- 
 thirsty lions, with angels for his body-guard. 
 The Hebrew children walked through the 
 flames of the furnace, and came out with- 
 out the smell of fire on their garments. 
 Likewise may Christians now walk through 
 the flames of sin without being contami- 
 nated with it. Are we fully saved? If 
 not, why? We cannot serve God with 
 perfect acceptability until we are wholly 
 given up to Him, spirit, soul and body. 
 Oh, for the holy fire — sin-killing, carnal- 
 consuming fire! More of this fire, and less 
 preaching of theories, is the great need of 
 to-day. Lord let the fire come on all the 
 
5<D LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 people and destroy all sin. fire! fire!! 
 fire!!! 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 PURITY OF HEART. 
 
 The destruction of the carnal nature or 
 effects of sin is as much the work of God 
 as is the pardoning of the sinner. This work 
 follows the former (if only a second), and is 
 done instantaneously. Upright living will 
 not destroy the effects of sin, neither will 
 sickness, sorrow or death. Jesus alone can 
 do this. He who has the power to purify 
 a soul, can keep it pure. Purity of heart 
 is a holy state, and is to be obtained by a 
 full and complete consecration to God. He, 
 seeing our faith and act of consecration^ 
 applies the cleansing blood, and the work 
 is done. 
 
 We never can grow into a state of purity 
 of heart, because growth implies adding to 
 that which already exists; while this purity 
 is obtained by taking from, or the removal 
 of carnality or the effects of sin from the 
 soul. In the work of redemption, the first 
 
PURITY OF HEART. 5 I 
 
 act is that of giving eternal life to those who 
 are dead in trespasses and sins; the next, 
 the exchanging of carnality for holiness in 
 the soul; and the next the purification of 
 the body for the reception of spiritual 
 power to glorify God. These three experi- 
 ences follow each other in the order named, 
 though it may be but a second apart, and 
 must all be received before God's will is 
 done in earth as it is in heaven. Matt. 
 6: 10. After these are received the work 
 of maturing the spirit, soul and body in all 
 the Christian gifts and graces may, and 
 should be carried on in Christ Jesus forever. 
 It was in a vision, or trance, that Ezekiel 
 saw a holy stream of water running out of 
 the Lord's house. As it ran, it became 
 broader and broader, deeper and deeper, 
 until it was a mighty river, that he could 
 not pass over. Ezek. 47: 1-5/ The life 
 of every Christian should be like this stream, 
 ever growing broader and deeper, as it flows 
 on toward the City of God. The reason many 
 Christian lives flow on so feebly is because 
 there is but little Holy Ghost power in 
 them. The unconverted soul is spiritually 
 dead, and can no more send forth spiritual 
 life than a dry fountain can send forth pure 
 
52 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 water. It is not enough that a fountain 
 have water in it; it must be filled full to the 
 very top before it can flow out in a stream 
 to gladden the earth. So it is with the 
 Christian; he must not only have the Holy 
 Ghost in his soul, but should have it filled 
 full up to the very top, then when God 
 pours in more grace the fountain of living 
 water will flow out and bless others. 
 Friendly reader, how is it with you? It is 
 useless for the sinner to seek purity of heart 
 first. Nothing short of pardon, regenera- 
 tion, adoption, and the witness of the Holy 
 Spirit will prepare one for the reception of 
 purity of the heart. 
 
 All the works of God are perfect. He 
 gave us a perfect Savior, a perfect Gospel, 
 and requires a perfect life at the hand of 
 each of His children. As gold is purified 
 by the fire, so God's children are to be 
 cleansed from the last and least remains of 
 sin by the Fire of the Holy Ghost. The 
 ore must first be found, then dug out, then 
 crushed, then burned in the fire, until the 
 refiner can see his image reflected in the 
 metal— then it is pure. So it is with the 
 sinner; he must first be found (for by nature 
 he is lost), then dug out of the pit of sin, 
 
PURITY OF HEART. 53 
 
 then crushed by conviction, then burned in 
 the crucible of the Holy Ghost until the 
 image of the divine Refiner (the Savior) 
 appears in his heart, then the dross, the sin, 
 is all consumed. Mai. 3: 3. 
 
 Being born of God, the converted soul, if 
 true to Him, soon develops to man or woman- 
 hood, and, through love, is sanctified or marri- 
 ed to Christ. The marriage relation includes a 
 voluntary contract, which can not be made 
 before birth or after death, so sanctification 
 is a voluntary state, entered into between 
 Christ and a free moral agent, and must 
 take place between one's spiritual birth and 
 natural death. Before conversion the soul 
 is dead in trespasses and sins. At death its 
 probation ends. So in either case the soul 
 is not eligible to enter the marriage relation 
 with Christ. As one marries to dwell with 
 his companion, and not to die and be sepa- 
 rated, so should every converted soul at 
 once enter the holy of holies, and dwell 
 with God here on earth, while He wills it, 
 as well as forever in heaven. 
 
54 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE EXTENT OF SALVATION. 
 
 Once I was lost, but now am found; was 
 blind, but now I see. When lost, I was a 
 child of Satan, but when God found me I 
 became His child. I was saved through the 
 sufferings, death and blood of Jesus Christ. 
 
 What did wash away my sin? 
 
 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 
 What did make me pure within? 
 
 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Oh, precious is the flow 
 
 That makes me white as snow; 
 No other fount I know — 
 
 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 
 In my hands no price could bring — 
 
 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 
 Simply to His cross did cling, 
 
 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 
 
 I cheerfully accepted the offer of salva- 
 tion as a free gift from the crucified hands 
 of Jesus — then He took me up in His 
 blessed arms and plunged me deep down in 
 the fountain filled with His own precious 
 blood, and when I came out was whiter 
 than snow. Thus saved, I am to have eter- 
 
THE EXTENT OF SALVATION. 55 
 
 nal life, instead of eternal death; eternal 
 heaven, instead of eternal hell. 
 
 Many, through ignorance of their privi- 
 leges in the Gospel, come to Jesus for par- 
 don and cleansing of their souls, but leave 
 their bodies still in Satan's dominion. They 
 bring the sin-sick soul to Him to be re- 
 generated and sanctified, while they leave 
 the diseased body, which was made so by 
 sin, still in its deplorable condition, and 
 thereby thwart the will of God. A healthy 
 body is often as necessary to God's service 
 as a sanctified soul. For instance, a man is 
 dying without Christ, you alone can win 
 him to Christ. He sends for you, but alas, 
 the Devil is lashing your body with a burn- 
 ing fever, so that you cannot go to the sick 
 man, and he dies and sinks to hell because 
 you neglected to exercise faith in God to 
 keep your body from disease, or, when af- 
 flicted, to go to the Great Physician and be 
 cured. Souls are perishing day by day, all 
 around us, because God has not got active 
 children to reach them. 
 
 This doctrine Jesus taught the Apostles 
 they were to teach to others, and their suc- 
 cessors to others, and so on down to the 
 end of the Gospel dispensation — the end of 
 
56 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 time. This old Gospel cannot be improved 
 on by men, by angels, or God. In the 
 scheme of redemption God gave us His 
 best wisdom, best love, and best gift of 
 heaven. How fearful the blunder when 
 our great city paper said, "The methods in 
 vogue with these emotional brethren, and 
 often alluded to as 'old-fashioned religion,' 
 will in time give way to more quiet, modern 
 and improved flans of saving souls ." 
 
 When the Savior sent the Apostles out on 
 the limited commission "He gave them 
 power against unclean spirits to cast them 
 out, and to heal all manner of sickness and 
 all manner of disease." He also said to 
 them, "Heal the sick." Matt. 10: 1, 8. 
 When He sent forth the seventy He in- 
 structed them to "heal the sick." Luke, 
 10: 9. When the Master gave the Apostles 
 His farewell commission He told them to 
 "cast out devils," to heal the sick, and He 
 would be with them to the end. Mark 16: 
 17-19. We are under the old Gospel dis- 
 pensation — let us walk strictly according to 
 the old paths — the old-time religion, and 
 expect the blessing of the very same power 
 they had at Pentecost. 
 
PURIFICATION. 57 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 PURIFICATION. 
 
 Purity fits man for the reception of spir- 
 itual power. The strength or power of 
 almost everything depends largely on its 
 purity. As steam is the combined strength 
 of fire and water, so is purity the combined 
 strength of the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, 
 i Cor. 12: 8-10; Gal. 5: 22. As will and 
 muscle are necessary to action, so justifica- 
 tion and sanctification are necessary to 
 purity. Purity is the beginning of spiritual 
 power. One can only receive and use 
 power in proportion to the extent of his or 
 her purity. In preparing the Apostles for 
 their great life work the divine Master 
 breathed on them and said, ''Receive ye the 
 Holy Ghost." John 20: 22. After this, on 
 the day of Pentecost, they were filled with 
 the Holy Ghost. Acts 2: 4. All power 
 for good belongs to God. Purification em- 
 braces the whole man, spirit, soul and 
 body. The desire for purity is created by 
 
58 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 the Lord, and if followed out may be 
 blessed to the receiving of purity of soul 
 and body. Thus the whole man is perme- 
 ated and filled with purity — the power of 
 God. Purification of the body is obtained 
 by degrees, because our gifts and graces are 
 all received that way. These degrees 
 should be taken as fast as God gives the 
 desire and knowledge concerning them. 
 "Whosoever is born of God doth not com- 
 mit sin, for his seed remaineth in him" 
 (Jesus being born in him by the Holy 
 Ghost), and can not sin because he is born 
 of God." 1 John 3: 9. Therefore when born 
 of God we should ask for heart purity, and 
 hold on by the rope of faith until we re- 
 ceive it. Receiving heart purity, like con- 
 version, is an instantaneous work, but the 
 coming to it may have been the work of 
 years. The receiving of purity of body, as 
 we shall proceed to explain, is gradual. 
 
 When God created man, He gave him a 
 body as an essential part of his being; and 
 his usefulness and happiness depend on 
 the physical man. Therefore let us pre- 
 sent our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, ac- 
 ceptable unto God, which is our reasonable 
 service. Rom, 12: 1; Matt. 5: 29; 1 Cor. 
 
PURIFICATION. 59 
 
 6: 15; 9: 27; i Thes. 5: 23; Dan. 3: 28; 
 Rom. 8: 23; Phil. 3: 21. To get this over- 
 flow, or power, from the soul into the 
 body our wills must be completely subju- 
 gated to the will of God. That is to say, 
 we must agree to let God forever have 
 complete control of our bodies for His 
 glory — His temple. Our wills must be 
 swallowed up in His will for time and eter- 
 nity. There must be no mental reservation 
 whatever. Having thus submitted our wills 
 to God, we must steadfastly hold on to His 
 promise until we receive the purification 
 sought. 
 
 The trial of faith purifies the soul, and 
 the tried or finished faith causes the power 
 to pass into the body and purify it. When 
 this is done God gives the witness of entire 
 purification, which is the third grace. Acts 
 4: 23-33. ^ * s tne finished work of faith 
 that takes the power into the body. This 
 perfection comes by degrees as we become 
 able to bear it. The trial of faith and the per- 
 fection comes in like manner. 1 P. 1 : 7. 
 When God perfects the first degree of 
 purity, or that which we are able to bear, He 
 gives us the witness of the Holy Ghost to 
 this effect; and so on from one degree to 
 
60 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 another until all the gifts and graces He 
 has for us are received, then it is we re- 
 ceive the witness of the Holy Ghost, that 
 the work of God within us is complete in 
 every respect, and we receive a divine 
 shock from the divine battery, that fills us 
 from finger tips to end of toes. Yea, then 
 it is we are filled with all the fullness of 
 God, and with Paul can say, "I am cruci- 
 fied with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not 
 I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life 
 which I now live in the flesh I live by the 
 faith of the Son of God, who loved me 
 and gave Himself for me." Gal. 2: 20; 
 Col. 3: 3; 1 Cor. 3: 22; Rom. 8: 38. In 
 perfecting the work of purity from spirit to 
 soul, and from soul to body, God carries 
 out the natural law seen in all His works 
 of utilizing and working by means already 
 produced. Thus it is we should advance 
 from strength to strength in faith, from 
 strength to strength in power, and from 
 strength to strength in love. The strength 
 of faith works in the strength of power, 
 and the strength of power in the 
 strength of love. O, the wonderful 
 salvation of the blessed Jesus Christ! 
 "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither 
 
THE ANOINTING POWER. 6l 
 
 have entered into the heart of man, the 
 things which God hath prepared for them 
 that love Him. But God hath revealed 
 them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit 
 searcheth all things, yea the deep things of 
 God." i Cor. 2: 9, 10. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 THE ANOINTING POWER. 
 
 "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 parts of the earth." Acts 1 : 8. 
 
 The anointing power is of God and is 
 given only as man's natures are made pure 
 by the blood of His Son, and it will be used 
 to His honor and glory. When justified by 
 God the spirit of man is a receptacle for di- 
 vine power, which should be secured at 
 once. When sanctified the soul is ready to 
 receive the anointing power, and when 
 
62 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 purified the body is ripe for it. The anoint- 
 ing power enables us to enjoy and use the 
 gifts and graces received from God to his 
 honor and glory. 
 
 Every man, woman and child should be 
 cleansed from all sin and filled with God's 
 love and power. When thus saved and 
 filled ye are holy. a Ye shall be holy; for I 
 the Lord your God am holy. Therefore, fol- 
 low peace with all men and holiness, without 
 which no man shall see the Lord." Lev. 19: 
 2; Heb. 12: 14. 
 
 The triune man, when wholly the Lord's, 
 is cleansed from all sin and filled with di- 
 vine love and power. The spirit is holy 
 when man is born into the kingdom of God; 
 the soul, when freed from the effects of sin 
 and sealed up with Christ in God; and the 
 body when purified by the blood of the 
 Lamb. Thus the triune natures of man are 
 made partakers of the divine nature and 
 have access to unlimited power in Christ 
 Jesus, who has all power for good in heaven 
 and earth. Hallelujah! 
 
 To receive the anointing power in your 
 soul and body the very God of peace must 
 sanctify you wholly. 
 
 The word sanctification, including its de- 
 
THE ANOINTING POWER. 63 
 
 rivatives, occurs in the Bible more than one 
 hundred times. Few words expressive of 
 Christian experience occur as often. This 
 doctrine is taught to a greater or less extent 
 by all the leading denominations of this 
 country; and for so doing we have a thus 
 saith the Lord: "This is the will of God, 
 even your sanctification." i Thes. 4: 3. 
 
 It is a holy state, including spirit, soul 
 and body. 1 Thes. 5: 23. This was Adam's 
 normal state prior to his fall. Can not this 
 blessed state be secured now by all his pos- 
 terity? We know of no reason why every 
 part of man's trinity should not be holy and 
 live to glorify God. All those who are fully 
 sanctified walk, talk and live in harmony 
 with the blessed Savior in all things. They 
 do not become offended at the truth, neither 
 are they moved about by every wind of doc- 
 trine, but are rooted and grounded in the 
 faith of the Son of God. Perfect sanctifi- 
 cation is separation from all evil, and the 
 setting apart of spirit, soul and body to the 
 service of the Master. It is a rending of, 
 and passing through the veil, or religious 
 dogmas of men — an entering in through the 
 door (Christ) into the will of God — a set- 
 tling down and sealing of the entire man to 
 God. 
 
64 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 Sanctification emar\ates from Jesus Christ, 
 (1 Cor. 1: 30.) and is carried on by the Holy 
 Ghost. Rom. 5: 16. God give us a sanc- 
 tification that will make us one according to 
 the Savior's intercessory prayer. This will 
 reach all the affairs of government and each 
 individual of the same. Christ desires per- 
 fect oneness among His people that the 
 world may believe that the Father hath sent 
 Him. John 17: 20, 21. The great truths of 
 the Holy Scriptures should be repeated over 
 and over, until they are riveted on the minds 
 and hearts of the children of men — all men. 
 
 The spirit of a good man craves those 
 things its nature demands; but the spirit of 
 a wicked man craves the things that will 
 eternally ruin it; "For, to be carnally minded 
 is death; but to be spiritually minded is life 
 and peace. Because, the carnal mind is en- 
 mity against God; for it is not subject to the 
 law of God, neither indeed can be." Rom. 
 8: 6, 7. 
 
 No one can be in a justified state and still 
 possess the carnal mind; but he may be in 
 that state and still have the carnal nature, 
 or effects of sin on soul and body. The car- 
 nal mind, which is the heart of the spirit, 
 or king of the body of sin and death within 
 
THE ANOINTING POWER. 65 
 
 us, is Satan himself, and must be removed 
 to make room for the conception and birth 
 of the Son of God within us. 
 
 There is a vast difference between the 
 carnal mind and the carnal nature, or effects 
 of sin on soul and body. The former in- 
 cludes the exercise of the will, while the 
 latter does not. Satan, as king of the spirit 
 of the unsaved, dwelling in the will, or king 
 of the soul, often induces the will to gratify 
 the spirit's nature and thus causes the indi- 
 vidual to sin against God. Justification 
 frees the will from this enemy, the image of 
 Satan in the spirit; pardons the guilt, and 
 arrays the soul's king (the will) against the 
 carnal nature, which inclines to evil, but 
 cannot produce an act, for which one is re- 
 sponsible, only by the consent of the will. 
 Paul did not say to the "babes in Christ," at 
 Corinth, "Ye are carnally minded" (for to 
 be carnally minded is death), but he did say: 
 " I speak not unto you as unto spiritual, but 
 as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." 
 1 Cor. 3: 1. 
 
66 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 HOLINESS. 
 
 God has a holy people. They are the 
 Redeemed of the Lord; have been washed 
 in the blood of the Lamb, and shall not be for- 
 saken, nor their land desolated; but they shall 
 be called Hephzi-bah, and their land Beulah. 
 For the Lord delighteth in them, and their 
 land shall be married. For as a young man 
 marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry 
 thee, and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over 
 the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 
 Even the Gentiles — the children of this 
 world — shall see their righteousness, and all 
 kings their glory; and they shall call them 
 by a new name, which the mouth of the 
 Lord shall name — "The holy people" — 
 while they eat and praise the Lord in the 
 courts of His holiness. These holy ones 
 shall be a "crown of glory" in the hand of 
 the Lord and a royal diadem in the hand of 
 their God. Therefore, go through the gates ; 
 prepare ye the way of the people; cast up 
 
HOLINESS. 67 
 
 the highway; gather out the stones; lift up 
 a standard for the people; say ye to the 
 daughter of Zion, ''Behold thy salvation 
 cometh!" 
 
 Son of man, go speak to the children of 
 thy people, and say unto them, '"Behold the 
 Lord has called you to be holy as He is 
 holy; therefore, He hath set watchmen upon 
 thy walls, O Jerusalem, w T hich shall never 
 hold their peace day nor night, till thou 
 come into the courts of His holiness and 
 art a praise in the whole earth." 
 
 Thank God for "The Holy City," which 
 John saw "coming down from God out of 
 heaven," "that great city, the holy Jerusa- 
 lem, descending from God out of heaven;" 
 and for the "great voice out of heaven say- 
 ing, 'Behold the tabernacle of God is with 
 men, and He will dwell with them, and 
 they shall be His people, and God Himself 
 shall be with them and be their God. And 
 God shall wipe away all tears from their 
 eyes, and there shall be no more death, 
 neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall 
 there be any more pain; for the former 
 things have passed away. And the nations 
 of them which are saved shall walk in the 
 light of it, and the kings of the earth do 
 bring their glory and honor into it.' " 
 
68 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 Glory to God for a holiness which admits 
 us within heaven's jasper w r alls, golden 
 streets and gates of pearl. Yes, holiness is 
 the password, and it alone shall admit us. 
 for though u the gates of it shall not be shut 
 at all," "there shall in no wise enter into it 
 anything that defileth; neither whatsoever 
 worketh abomination, or maketh a lie; but 
 they which are written in the Lamb's Book 
 of Life." 
 
 O, will not holiness be popular then? 
 Think of it! a great city filled with an innum- 
 erable multitude which no man can number, 
 all worshiping God in the beauty of holi- 
 ness. Not an opposer or unholy one there. 
 Where, O, where, then, will these opposers 
 of holiness ("without which no man shall 
 see the Lord") be in that day when Christ 
 comes to make up his jewels? Alas, will 
 they not, with the rich man, lift up their 
 eyes, being in torment — in the flames of 
 hell — and cry for these holy ones whom 
 they once despised, called hard names, and 
 persecuted, to bring them a little water to 
 cool their parched tongues? 
 
PRESERVATION. 69 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 PRESERVATION. 
 
 "The very God of peace sanctify you 
 wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, 
 and soul, and body be preserved blameless 
 unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 Faithful is He that calleth you who also 
 will do it." 1 Thes. 5: 23, 24. In order to 
 be preserved blameless until the coming of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ, the very God of 
 peace must sanctify us wholly. When born 
 of God, the spirit's king is Christ, who is 
 holy, having sanctified Himself that we 
 might be sanctified through the truth. John 
 17: 19; 1 John 3: 9. The soul enters the 
 kingdom of God within us through Jesus 
 Christ the door, and is made holy, for noth- 
 ing unholy can enter there. Likewise may 
 the body be made holy by purification and 
 be kept blameless until the end of our pro- 
 bationary state. 
 
 God hedges the perfect man about from 
 the wrath and power of Satan, so that he* 
 cannot destroy him. Job was thus pro- 
 tected — the Devil could not touch him only 
 as God permitted. Job. i:8-i2;Ps. 23: 
 
70 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 1-4. Jesus said to his despondent Apostles, 
 "Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe 
 in God, believe also in Me. In My Fath- 
 er's house are many mansions; if it were 
 not so I would have told you. I go to pre- 
 pare a place for you; and if I go and pre- 
 pare a place for you, I will come again and re- 
 ceive you unto Myself, that where I am, there 
 ye may be also." John 14: 1-3. This state- 
 ment is a direct promise on the part of the 
 blessed Savior to protect in life, and in the 
 end to bring the Apostles to the paradisical, 
 blood-washed throng. 
 
 Jesus is so faithful, and the atonement He 
 made so perfect, that not a single one of all 
 He has forgiven need fail to reach the beau- 
 tiful land beyond the Jordan of death. 
 Praise the Lord! "Know ye not that ye 
 are the temple of God, and that the Spirit 
 of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile 
 the temple of God, him shall God destroy; 
 for the temple of God is holy, which temple 
 ye are." 1 Cor. 3: 16, 17. "Him that over- 
 cometh will I make a pillar in the temple of 
 My God, and he shall go no more out; and 
 I will write upon him the name of My God, 
 and the name of the city of My God, which 
 is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out 
 
PRESERVATION. 7 1 
 
 of heaven from My God; and I will write 
 upon him My new name." Rev. 3: 12. 
 God's saved ones are temples on the earth, 
 and are to be pillars in His temple above. 
 
 The wall of salvation (Isa. 26: 1; 60: 18.) 
 in which the fully saved are to be preserved 
 blameless unto the coming of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, is composed of three inde- 
 structible walls. The inner wall is "the 
 blood of Jesus Christ" which "cleanseth 
 from all sin." 1 John 1 : 7. Satan can not 
 pass the blood of Christ. Yea, he fears 
 the blood of the divine Redeemer, for it is 
 a swift witness crying from five bleeding 
 wounds against him. The middle wall is 
 the "word of God." Heb. 4: 12. When 
 Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, He 
 smote him each time with "the sword of 
 the Spirit, which is the word of God." 
 Eph. 6: 17. 
 
 The outer wall is composed of fire. "Our 
 God is a consuming fire." The Devil dreads 
 the fire, knowing he is to be cast alive into 
 a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Rev. 
 19: 20. 
 
 God surrounds all whom He wholly 
 sanctifies with the wall of fire, the wall of 
 truth, and the wall of blood; either one of 
 
72 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 which is so strong that Satan can not pass 
 through without the consent of the will of 
 the soul. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 SOUL AND BODY WORK. 
 
 The Gospel of the blessed Savior teaches 
 the only true religion; and is destined to 
 prevail over all other systems. As the Gos- 
 pel of Christ teaches the only true religion, 
 so He is the only Savior. All who reach 
 heaven will get there through and by the Lord 
 Jesus Christ. In His atonement the same 
 provision is made for the body as for the 
 soul. As faith in Christ removes the sin of 
 the soul, so will faith in Him remove sick- 
 ness of the body. The everlasting Gospel 
 teaches that all should look to Christ, and 
 to Him alone, for salvation from sin and its 
 effects on both soul and body. The pro- 
 vision made for the healing of the body is 
 as free and complete as that provided for 
 the healing of the soul. 
 
 An eminent writer says that the provision 
 made for soul and body is the same; and 
 that just to the extent that the soul may be 
 
SOUL AND BODY WORK. 73 
 
 cleansed and kept from sin, so may the 
 body be healed and kept from sickness. 
 The extent of the cure of the soul and body, 
 and the keeping of them pure, depends on 
 the faithfulness of the people in laying hold 
 of and appropriating the means of grace 
 provided. 
 
 If, therefore, with the ample provision 
 made, any are sick who are not delivered 
 and preserved from sickness, the fault is 
 wholly their own; and it is simply because 
 they do not avail themselves of the most 
 abundantly provided and freely offered grace 
 of the Gospel. 
 
 The healing of bodily diseases, through 
 the prayer of faith, is a supernatural, rather 
 than a miraculous gift. The Scriptures 
 make a marked distinction between the gift 
 of healing and that of working of miracles. 
 
 "But the manifestation of the Spirit is 
 given to every man to profit withal. 
 
 "For to one is given by the Spirit the word 
 of wisdom; to another the word of knowl- 
 edge by the same Spirit; 
 
 "To another faith by the same Spirit; to 
 another the gifts of healing, by the same 
 Spirit; 
 
 "To another the working of miracles; to 
 
74 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 another prophecy; to another discerning of 
 spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; 
 to another the interpretation of tongues; 
 
 "But all these worketh that one and the 
 selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man sev- 
 erally as he will." i Cor. 12: 7-1 1; 28-30. 
 
 In no case of Christ and His disciples 
 healing ordinary sickness is it mentioned in 
 the Gospel as a miracle. Nearly all the 
 mighty works that Christ and His followers 
 wrought for the human body and mind were 
 classed under the head of supernatural, 
 rather than miraculous healing. The rais- 
 ing of the dead, curing the lame, dumb or 
 blind from birth, and similar works, are 
 often classed as miracles. But the healing 
 of bodily diseases and sickness, strictly, is 
 never classed among miracles. 
 
 In all cases of miracles and supernatural 
 healing, God's power alone insures the re- 
 sult. There is a diversity of gifts conferred 
 on man, but all by the same Spirit. Whether 
 the cure is reached by a word, or a touch, 
 by anointing with oil, or the laying on of 
 hands, or the prayer of faith, it matters not; 
 it is God's power that works the cure or 
 produces the result. 
 
 The Scriptures teach that the healing of 
 
SOUL AND BODY WORK. 75 
 
 the sick is supernatural, and place it along- 
 side of the healing of the soul, from sin. In 
 the physical and spiritual realm, the healing 
 of disease and sin is the direct power of the 
 Holy Spirit. So that the healing of the 
 sick is as binding on the believer to-day as 
 is the preaching of regeneration and sancti- 
 fication. 
 
 If the term miracle, as applied to the 
 healing of the sick, was discarded, and its 
 treatment placed among the works of the 
 Spirit for the body, the same as conversion 
 and sanctiflcation is for the Spirit and soul, 
 it would be placed just where God intended 
 it to be. "Himself took our infirmities and 
 bore our diseases." So we see that the heal- 
 ing of the body of disease, and the soul of 
 sin rest upon the solid foundation of the 
 atonement, and from this standpoint, and 
 this alone, should be taught and received until 
 the end of life. Christ did not provide a 
 partial, but a complete deliverance for all His 
 people. The atonement was made for the 
 relief of the body as well as for the soul, so 
 that Christ's children may be delivered from 
 "all manner of sickness and all manner of 
 disease" just as completely as they can be 
 "cleansed from all sin." The basis and pro- 
 
76 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 visions are the same for the body as for the 
 soul. Therefore, it is not a partial but a 
 complete deliverance that is provided and 
 freely offered to all His believing children. 
 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 SICKNESS AN ENEMY. 
 
 God has always treated sickness as an 
 enemy. Some people differ with God; 
 they look on sickness as a means of grace, 
 ordained by Him to promote the sanctifica- 
 tion of His people. And yet they will run 
 to a doctor and swallow ever so much medi- 
 cine to be cured. Oh, how foolish it is to 
 claim that all disease is of God, to promote 
 one's salvation, and then swallow medicine 
 to thwart God's plan. Away with such 
 nonsense. The Scripture always speaks of 
 bodily disease as an evil, coming from the 
 Devil as a result of sin. It is never called a 
 blessing, an ordinance of God, or means of 
 grace. The Old and New Testaments alike 
 
SICKNESS AN ENEMY. 77 
 
 teach that all sorts of disease are of the 
 Devil. 
 
 It is true that disease and sickness are 
 sometimes set forth in the Scriptures as a 
 judicial infliction, and as a chastisement or 
 rebuke, and as a reminder of our departure 
 from God. So is sin used to alarm and 
 bring people to Christ. Yet no one will say 
 that wickedness is ordained as a means of 
 grace. This would make Satan our Savior 
 instead of Christ. It is the Devil's theology 
 repeated that we must sin a little daily to 
 keep ourselves humble and in constant need 
 of a Savior. 
 
 All sickness is of Satan, and never of 
 God. It is true that God always tries to 
 overrule it, as He does all sin, for our good. 
 God chastises His children for their wrong 
 doings as a true parent does his disobedient 
 children. Yet no one will claim that the 
 parent made the child do the deed for which 
 he was chastised, or that any good parent 
 will chastise his obedient children. 
 
 The fact of the case is, that God is love 
 and never wilfully punishes any one. He 
 has created man, and for his protection, be- 
 come his governor, which includes both law 
 and a penalty for its violation. The Devil, 
 
78 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 God's enemy, hates whatever God loves, 
 and through revenge is ever seeking to get 
 man to violate God's laws. Therefore the 
 Devil, and not God, is the author of all 
 sickness, sorrow, pain and death, as these 
 are but the natural results of a broken law. 
 
 The Devil knows that God's laws are 
 just, and that the penalty for their violation 
 must be inflicted or all law would be at an 
 end and God's government would totter 
 and fall. So he, by every strategy known 
 to his vocabulary of tricks, is ever seeking 
 to lead man to violate God's law. Satan 
 has two objects in thus leading man. The 
 smaller is, man's affliction and, if possible, 
 his destruction. The greater is, to get God, 
 if possible, through His intense love toward 
 man, to cease executing justice and thereby 
 overthrow His government. This trick the 
 cunning fox tried on God through Adam, 
 and again through Christ in the wilderness. 
 
 God has made certain just and good laws 
 to rule and protect His children on earth, 
 The Devil often gets them to violate these 
 laws. The righteous Judge sees that these 
 laws are executed. Man suffers the penalty. 
 The Devil triumphs. God is defeated. Who 
 is to blame, the Judge, the criminal, or 
 
SICKNESS AN ENEMY. 79 
 
 the instigator of the crime committed? In 
 a moment one man slays another. It was a 
 wilful murder. Twelve honest men, before 
 whom the murderer is tried, so declare it. 
 The judge, in behalf of a violated law, pro- 
 nounces the penalty. The sheriff, to carry 
 out the law, hangs the murderer by the 
 neck until he is dead. The law, "He that 
 sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his 
 blood be shed," has been executed. Two 
 citizens of our commonwealth have been 
 ushered into eternity, and to whom are we 
 to look for redress? Not to the murderer, 
 for he is gone; not to the judge, jurors or 
 hangman, for they did their duty in the mat- 
 ter. Who, then, is responsible for these two 
 lives? 
 
 " 'Our Father, which art in heaven,' is it 
 you?" u No, no, my child! I, through love 
 to them, gave my Son's life to save them." 
 
 "Dear Savior, is it you?" "No; I taught 
 them to love one another, and finally died 
 for them that they might inherit eternal life, 
 and you know no murderer hath eternal 
 life." 
 
 "Was it you, loved Holy Spirit?" "Oh, 
 no; I am the Comforter, sent into the world 
 by the Father and Son, on the one mission 
 of saving and not destroying men." 
 
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 "Devil, was it you?" "Ha-ha! Me! Why, 
 I feel like eating you up!" 
 
 "Murderer, speak from thy home of un- 
 quenchable fire, and tell us what led thee to 
 this rash act of thine?" "Ah, 'twas Satan, 
 the prince of liars! I listened to him, and 
 am here! He is responsible for the loss of 
 the two lives. I was only his obedient tool 
 in the awful tragedy. He is the author of 
 all sickness, sorrow, pain and death ! Destroy 
 him, and you forever stop it all." 
 
 All sickness, sorrow, pain, death and hell 
 are from the same source. The author of 
 one is the author of all. They are all fruits 
 of sin. If you make God the author of any 
 one, you must make Him the author of all. 
 If the author of all, then there is no personal 
 Devil, nor hell, and evil is only good mis- 
 placed. 
 
 The Devil wants to be worshiped. He 
 offered Christ the whole world if He would 
 worship him. One of his strategies to get 
 worshipers is to get people to ascribe his 
 works to God, and in worshiping the au- 
 thor of these acts of his he is worshiped. 
 Thus, Job unwittingly worshiped the Devil 
 by blessing the author of his sickness, and 
 thus every one is worshiping him who 
 
SICKNESS AN ENEMY. bl 
 
 ascribes sickness, sorrow, pain or death to 
 God, when they are all of the Devil. 
 
 If the Devil gets us to recognize sickness 
 or any of its results as of God, he drives a 
 wedge between us and Christ; for if we 
 ascribe to God the sending of these as so 
 many remedial agencies, then Christ is not 
 the only eource of salvation, but the author 
 of these becomes a part of it, and as Satan 
 is the author, he becomes our savior in pro- 
 portion as we recognize his saving virtues 
 in his afflictions. And, be assured, Satan 
 will claim his own at the judgment day, if 
 not before. For the moment you admit 
 anything outside of Christ as a remedial 
 agent, you detract so much from Him who 
 bore our sins and sicknesses on the tree. The 
 Devil wants us to recognize some merit out- 
 side of Christ, so that He is not received as 
 our complete salvation. Anything that 
 claims merit for our salvation outside of 
 Christ is of the Devil. All disease is of the 
 Devil; it is the result of sin. If Satan can 
 get you to say, as he did Job, that the Lord 
 has done what he himself is doing, he has 
 you as he got possession of Job, and oh, how 
 he^did torment the poor man! The Devil 
 wants us to think that all disease comes 
 
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 from God. so that we may worship him as 
 its author instead of applying to God for its 
 removal. Do not let the Devil, dear reader, 
 deceive you any longer, but when sick ascribe 
 it to him and go at once to God and get a cure. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 CAUSE AND CURE OF SICKNESS. 
 
 "The prayer of faith shall save the sick." 
 James 5:15. Are there any sick? Let us 
 see. This world has 1,300,000,000 souls. 
 Of these, one dies each second, and, on an 
 average, the whole of the w r orld's inhabitants 
 every thirty-three years. Go from house to 
 house the wide world over, and we meet 
 sickness on every hand. Why is this? Did 
 God create man to suffer and die? Haste 
 to His Word and see: "So God created 
 man in His own image; in the image of 
 God created He him; male and female cre- 
 ated He them." Gen. 1: 27. Was God 
 ever sick? No. Did He ever die? No, 
 
SICKNESS AN ENEMY. 83 
 
 no. Then neither was man created to 
 sicken or die, and had he never sinned he 
 never would have experienced sickness, 
 sorrow, pain nor death. 
 
 The cause of sickness is sin. No sin, no 
 sickness. This was Adam's experience be- 
 fore sin entered the world, and will be the 
 experience of all when sin is banished from 
 it as it is from heaven. Sickness is not al- 
 ways the fault of the afflicted. It may be 
 inhaled, absorbed, swallowed in food cr 
 drink, or inherited. 
 
 Sin is a violation of God's law; sickness 
 is one of its results. God does not make 
 laws for man that he, by His aid, can not 
 keep; nor does He cause him to break them 
 for the sake of punishing him. Hence, all 
 law-breaking and its results are from an 
 enemy. God is not the author of sin; there- 
 fore sin and its results are of the Devil. 
 Sickness is the result of sin; therefore sick- 
 ness is of the Devil, and never of God. 
 The cure for sickness is the same as the 
 cure for sin. "They brought unto Jesus 
 many that were possessed with devils, and 
 He cast out the spirits with His word, and 
 healed all that were sick, that it might be 
 fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the 
 
84 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 prophet, saying, 'Himself took our infirmi- 
 ties and bore our sicknesses.' " Matt. 8: 16, 
 17. Inasmuch as Christ took our infirmities 
 and bore our sicknesses, we do not need to 
 bear them, because He is our burden-bearer. 
 Jesus can heal the diseases of the body just 
 as easily as He can forgive the sins of the 
 soul. Mark 2: 9. The atonement of the 
 Savior was for bodily infirmities as well as 
 for the sins of the soul. Therefore I preach 
 healing for both soul and body — this is the 
 way Jesus did. He never forgave the sins 
 of a sick, or blind, or lame man without 
 curing his body also. He always treated 
 disease as an enemy. He commanded His 
 Apostles "to preach the kingdom of God 
 and to heal the sick." Luke 9: 2. In the 
 last great commission Jesus said to His 
 Apostles: "And these signs shall follow 
 them that believe. In My name shall they 
 cast out devils." He also said, "They shall 
 lay hands on the sick, and they shall re- 
 cover." Mark 16: 17, 18. There is no 
 statement in the Bible that this commission 
 has been revoked or in any degree changed. 
 Until a change is made by divine authority, 
 we are duty bound to teach just what Christ 
 taught concerning this matter. 
 
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 Jesus has, by the shedding of His precious 
 blood, purchased many gifts for His people, 
 and one of them is that of healing bodily 
 infirmities. It stands on the promises as 
 does that of pardon, or cleansing. They 
 are all based on the death of Jesus. 
 
 Pardon, cleansing and healing are bless- 
 ings promised by a multitude of passages of 
 Scripture. These are among the positive 
 gifts for all who have faith to believe 
 and ask for them. The only hinderance to 
 conversion, sanctification or bodily healing 
 is unbelief. 
 
 Sin is opposed to righteousness; therefore 
 no one need expect God to heal the sinner. 
 This would be to add strength to the enemy. 
 To be healed, we must first seek the king- 
 dom of God and His righteousness. None 
 but true Christians can offer the prayer of 
 faith; therefore, if you desire to be healed, 
 you must come in the way of the divine ap- 
 pointment by the prayer of faith, anointing 
 with oil or the laying on of hands. 
 
 The question has been asked, "Can God 
 replace missing limbs?" To this we would 
 answer, Yes, if He desires to do so. How- 
 ever, such an act would be one of creation 
 rather than redemption. The atonement 
 
86 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 was made to redeem that which had al- 
 ready been created, and forfeited through 
 the fall. Therefore the replacing of missing 
 limbs is not a matter of faith -healing, but of 
 creation. Faith-healing is not miraculous, 
 but supernatural. It is restoring wasted or 
 afflicted parts of the body. 
 
 We understand a miracle to be something 
 outside of and beyond the usual course of 
 nature, or grace; while faith-healing, or the 
 healing of the sick in answer to the prayer 
 of faith, is, or should be, a common occur- 
 rence; for it is in direct harmony with God r s 
 law of grace. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 AFFLICTION AND SICKNESS. 
 
 I am sick. O, these aching pains! How 
 long, O Lord, must I suffer? Is it for Thy 
 glory that I am called to suffer, or is my 
 pain the result of having violated some of 
 Thy laws? Is it Thy will that I should thus 
 
AFFLICTION AND SICKNESS. 87 
 
 suffer? I have searched Thy Word and no- 
 where can I find where Thou hast laid afflic- 
 tion on Thy obedient children. On the 
 other hand, I find that affliction and sick- 
 ness are often sent on those who are diso- 
 bedient to Thy will. Are parents re- 
 sponsible for the wickedness of a wayward 
 son? Certainly not, if they did all they 
 could to bring him up in the fear and 
 admonition of the Lord. Has not God done 
 all He could to save men? Yes. Then 
 He is not in any way responsible for the 
 diseases and suffering of mankind; for they 
 are the result of violating God's laws. Dis- 
 ease, like carnality, may be hereditary, and 
 yet cause the individual to suffer as severely 
 as though he or she had wilfully violated a 
 known law. 
 
 O, how important that we should walk 
 with God, as did Enoch, and learn how to 
 care for our bodies and souls, so that when 
 our stay here on earth has ended our spirits 
 may be safely gathered home to God, with 
 the blest assurance that in the resurrection 
 day our bodies shall be fashioned like unto 
 the glorious body of our Lord and Savior 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 There is a marked difference between 
 
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 affliction and sickness. James says: "Is 
 any among you afflicted? Let him pray. 
 Is any sick? Let him call for the elders of 
 the church," etc. Afflictions are of various 
 kinds. An eighty -year-old saint recently 
 testified: "I am well, but afflicted. God 
 has healed my body of all disease, but I feel 
 the infirmities of old age fast creeping on. 
 Oh, for the resurrected body!" Yes, the 
 resurrected body will always be young and 
 free from infirmities. 
 
 In 2 Tim. i : 8, Paul speaks of the afflic- 
 tions of the Gospel. He suffered much 
 through preaching the word of God. All 
 the Apostles (but one) lost their lives by 
 opposers of the Gospel. If we were as 
 bold as they w T ere, some of us might be 
 added to the long list of Christian martyrs. 
 Paul was writing, as God's prisoner, to Tim- 
 othy, not to be ashamed of the Gospel, the 
 preaching of which had, through wicked 
 men, brought him to prison, but to be the 
 more zealous for God, if it cost him bonds, 
 or even death. 
 
 God knows no compromise with sin, nor 
 should any of His subjects. He who lives 
 godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecu- 
 tion. Therefore, my brethren, count it all 
 
THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. 89 
 
 joy when ye fall into divers afflictions for 
 Christ's sake, knowing that if they have 
 clone these things to the green tree (Christ), 
 it is liable to happen any time to the dry, 
 (yourselves). 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. 
 
 When Jairus' daughter took sick he went 
 out in the city of Capernaum to beseech the 
 Savior to come and heal her. While on his 
 way he was overtaken by one of his ser- 
 vants, who informed him that his daughter 
 was dead, and suggested that he should not 
 trouble the Master, because it was too late 
 for Him to render her any assistance. This 
 messenger had about as little faith in the 
 ability of Jesus to heal as many Christian 
 people of the present day. As soon as Jesus 
 heard that Jairus' daughter was dead He 
 turned to him and tenderly said: " Be not 
 afraid, only believe." Mark 5: 35. How 
 simple the terms of healing for both soul 
 
90 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 and body; "only believe, only believe," 
 that is all — how simple. 
 
 When the Centurion met Jesus he said: 
 " My servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, 
 grievously tormented; but speak the word 
 only and my servant shall be healed" Matt. 
 8: 6, 8. These words are so full of faith 
 that they are worthy to be printed in gold. 
 The Master said He had u not found so great 
 faith; no, not in Israel." 
 
 As a tender father flees to the assistance 
 of his children when afflicted in body or 
 mind, so also does Jesus flee to the assist- 
 ance of all who are afflicted, and never fails 
 to give the needed relief when He is called 
 on in faith. 
 
 The great Physician now is near, 
 
 The sympathizing- Jesus, 
 He speaks the drooping heart to cheer, 
 
 Oh, hear the voice of Jesus. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Sweetest note in seraph song, 
 
 Sweetest name on mortal tongue, 
 
 Sweetest carol ever sung, 
 Jesus, blessed Jesus. 
 
 The reason why some who are healed 
 soon relapse apparently into the same sick- 
 ness, is the same which causes so many, 
 whose conversion is undoubted, to soon be- 
 come cool in love, weak in faith, or lapse 
 into open sin. 
 
THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. 91 
 
 Our bodily diseases, as well as our spirit- 
 ual maladies, are atoned for by Christ. The 
 healed body is as liable to relapse as is the 
 converted soul. According to your faith, so 
 it shall be. If faith in the bodily cure be- 
 come weak, either after or during the prog- 
 ress of recovery, a relapse into sickness 
 would be most natural. "The just shall 
 live by faith." 
 
 When looking to God for bodily healing, 
 all other agencies should be abandoned. 
 The same common sense should be exer- 
 cised as when under a physician. No good 
 physician will take a case unless the patient 
 agrees to follow his directions and take his 
 remedies. 
 
 A failure to take a physician's prescription 
 will not only prevent a cure, but will dis- 
 honor him, and prevent others from going 
 to him to be healed. So it is with Christ; 
 if we do not take the prescription He gives, 
 and as directed, we dishonor Him, prevent 
 a cure and discourage others from coming 
 to be healed. If you take medicine while 
 trusting the Lord for a cure, and recover, 
 to whom are you going to give the credit, 
 God, the druggist, or the physician? You 
 see at once the inconsistency of the whole 
 
92 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 matter. " Ye can not serve two masters.*' 
 No true Christian should charge God with 
 afflicting him. When God does afflict it is 
 useless to run to an earthly physician to be 
 cured. 
 
 If we do not believe that Jesus will heal 
 our bodies, as well as our souls, do we not 
 dishonor Him and His word, and in so doing 
 commit a sin. When the Apostles failed to 
 cast the Devil out of the lunatic child, Jesus 
 rebuked them because of their lack of faith 
 in Him. Matt. 17: 19-21. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 OUR DUTY IN CASE OF SICKNESS. 
 
 ''Good morning, Doctor Calomel." • 
 "Ah, quite well, I thank you." 
 "My cold is getting worse, Doctor." 
 "Very sickly times, I assure you." 
 "O, dear, I hadn't heard of it!" 
 ••The people are dying everywhere." 
 u Ain't you successful in your practice?" 
 "Very; I made $20,000 last year." 
 "Indeed ! But have you lost any patients ?" 
 
OUR DUTY IN CASE OF SICKNESS. 93 
 
 "Only those who have died, and, of course, 
 they could be of no use to me any longer." 
 "Then you doctor to make money?" 
 "True; and so does all our craft." 
 "Doctor, what do you do with a rich pa- 
 tient?" 
 
 "Keep him sick as long as practicable." 
 "If the patient is poor, what?" 
 "Then I let him get well, or kill him off, 
 as deemed expedient." 
 
 "Why do you keep the rich sick?" 
 "The longer the sickness the larger the fee." 
 "You never continue the sickness too 
 long?" 
 
 "Yes; but the estate pays my bill, all the 
 same." 
 
 "But do not you lose by his death?" 
 "It is all considered in his bill." 
 "Why do you kill off the poor?" 
 "To save time to devote to the rich." 
 "Why not get them off your hands by 
 curing them?" 
 
 "None but God can cure diseases." 
 "Then why do you practice medicine?" 
 "For the same purpose that you farm or 
 sell goods." 
 
 "Ah, I see; you make people sick that you 
 may live." 
 
94 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 "Yes; others sick, if not sick, that I may 
 live." 
 
 "Well, Doctor Calomel, what is my bill?" 
 
 "O, wait till you are well, and we'll see." 
 
 "But you say none but God can cure 
 sickness." 
 
 "True. Yet He has created remedial 
 agencies." 
 
 "Yes; but He who put healing virtue in 
 the plant can bestow it direct." 
 
 "Very well; but the unbeliever will trust 
 us when he won't God." 
 
 Are you a Christian? If so, the inspired 
 Word tells, exactly what you ought to do in 
 -case of sickness, when those having the 
 gifts of healing cannot be secured, i Cor. 
 12: 9. "Let him call for the elders of the 
 church." Jas. 5: 14. The Word does not 
 give the sick believer the choice of calling 
 in a physician, patronizing a druggist or 
 calling for elders to anoint him, but in com- 
 manding words, "Let him call for the elders 
 of the church." Therefore, if any of God's 
 children are sick, it is their duty, when no 
 one possessing the gifts of healing is avail- 
 able, to call for the "elders." 
 
 The elders here required are God-made, 
 and differ greatly from those who are only 
 
OUR DUTY IN CASE OF SICKNESS. 95 
 
 made such by man. They are men or 
 women endued with the prayer of faith for 
 the restoration of the sick. They are such 
 persons as are matured in the doctrine of 
 healing and practice it effectually. 
 
 "Let them pray over him, anointing him 
 with oil," is the elders duty. The oil used 
 in primitive times was olive oil, and may be 
 found in almost any drug store. There is 
 no healing virtue in the oil or in the hands 
 laid on, only as God operates through them. 
 In case only one elder can be had, God 
 honors his prayer of faith as much as w r hen 
 more are present. Experience teaches that 
 it is better to be alone while offering the 
 prayer of faith than to have unbelievers 
 present. Matt. 9: 25; 2 Kings 4: 33. 
 
 A believer should be anointed each time 
 he gets sick, unless his faith immediately 
 grasps successfully the promise of healing 
 without it. No believer need be anointed 
 twice for the same disease unless his faith 
 fails before the cure is effected, and he after- 
 ward concludes to try again. If there are 
 any symptoms of the disease after the anoint- 
 ing, the prayer of faith or laying on of hands 
 might be repeated daily until they disappear. 
 God never wants a physician to be called 
 
96 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 and our systems drugged with poisons. He 
 proposes to be our physician, and does not 
 want any rival in the work. If you can not 
 trust the Lord, then you may go to the phy- 
 sician and take your chances, which is better 
 than nothing. 
 
 The Bible speaks of physicians only four 
 times: First, of Joseph getting one to em- 
 balm his dead father (Gen. 50: 2.); second, 
 King Asa trusting them instead of God, and 
 dying (2 Chron. 16: 12.); third, Job declar- 
 ing, u Ye are all physicians of no value" (Job 
 13: 4.), and fourth, of suffering many 
 things of physicians (Mark 5: 26, and Luke 
 8: 43.). Concerning physician see Jeremiah 
 8: 22, Matthew 9: 12, Mark 2: 17, Luke 
 4: 23; 5: 31, Col. 4: 14. Now, in all these 
 you see no command or recommendation to 
 earthly physicians, but rather a leading 
 away from them to the decisive healer, 
 Jesus. Luke may have practiced medicine 
 before his conversion, but there is no ac- 
 count, or even hint, of his doing it after- 
 ward. Of medicine the Bible speaks only 
 once (Prov. 17: 22.), which merely shows 
 there is virtue in it when properly used, 
 which is for sinners who will not turn to and 
 trust God. 
 
OUR DUTY IN CASE OF SICKNESS. 97 
 DIED OF STARVATION. 
 
 "Poor Jones," said a quaint writer, "died 
 of starvation, although worth $50,000. I'll 
 tell you how it was. Jones was always 
 fancying that there was something the mat- 
 ter with him; so he went to a physician one 
 day and had himself examined, and the 
 physician told him he had the kidney dis- 
 ease, and that, besides taking medicine, he 
 must diet himself. Said the physician : 
 'You must avoid all kinds of salt meats, salt 
 fish, potatoes, cabbage and vegetables of 
 every kind.' Jones followed the advice, 
 but found himself no better. He went to 
 another physician, and after being examined, 
 was informed that he must avoid all kinds 
 of fresh meats also. This did not do him 
 any good, as he thought, and he went to 
 another physician, who highly approved of 
 the advice which had previously been given, 
 and further warned him against all kinds of 
 pastry, likewise shell-fish, including oysters 
 and clams. 4 The best thing for you is a 
 milk diet,' said this physician; so Jones 
 lived wholly upon milk. Not feeling him- 
 self any better, he went to another physi- 
 cian, who cautioned him to avoid milk above 
 
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 all things, if he wanted to get well. This 
 reduced Jones to a diet of cold water and 
 fresh air, and, finding himself no better under 
 this regime, he went to another physician, 
 who advised him to beware of drinking too 
 much water and being too much in the air. 
 This last advice cut off the last of Jones' 
 articles of diet, and he died of starvation, as 
 I told you." 
 
 Why did not Mr. Jones do like the 
 woman who ''suffered many things of many 
 physicians," turn to the Great Physician, 
 who never fails to cure, and that too, without 
 money and without price. 
 
 The believer's commission concerning 
 healing of the sick embraces the following 
 duties, viz.: Praying in faith for the afflicted 
 (James 5: 14.), anointing them with oil 
 (James 5: 14.), and the laying on of hands- 
 (Mark 16: 18.). The promise is that they 
 shall be healed and their sins forgiven them. 
 When Jesus healed Peter's mother-in-law, 
 He laid His hand on her (Matt- 8: 15.); 
 when He healed the sick people at Nazareth, 
 He laid His hands on them (Mark 6: 5.);. 
 when he healed the deaf and stuttering man, 
 He put His fingers in his ears, spit and 
 touched his tongue (Mark 8: 32, 33.); and 
 
OUR DUTY IN CASE OF SICKNESS. 99 
 
 when He opened the eyes of the man who 
 was born blind He touched his eyes by 
 anointing them (John 9: 6.). God's glory 
 demands that His children should conform 
 to His methods of curing their bodily in- 
 firmities as well as their spiritual diseases. 
 If disease is brought about by violating the 
 laws of nature, said violation must cease be- 
 fore God will heal the afflicted. This is true 
 concerning both soul and body. In either 
 case there is no promise of help from God 
 until the transgressor turns from the evil of 
 his way. When recovering from sickness 
 by the power of God, the individual should 
 be as careful to observe the natural laws 
 as if the convalescence was brought about 
 by medicinal aid. 
 
 , Have all earthly physicians failed you? 
 Do not be discouraged, but look up to the 
 Great Physician whose skill has never been 
 baffled. His knowledge, skill and power to 
 heal are exhaustless. 
 
 It has been reported that President Gar- 
 field was fed on morphine and whisky, and 
 all ministers excluded, while the Christian 
 world was called on to pray for his recov- 
 ery. If this be true, how could we expect 
 God to heal the dear man? In this the 
 
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 children of Satan point to his death as a 
 test case concerning the power of prayer 
 and say, "It is a failure." God is not re- 
 sponsible for the death of James A. Gar- 
 field, because his case was not submitted to 
 Him as the Scripture requires. A physician 
 can not be made responsible for the recovery 
 of an individual until the case is fully re- 
 signed into his hands and his directions fol- 
 lowed. 
 
 In seeking for bodily healing the afflicted 
 should discard all medicinal agencies and 
 submit the ailment wholly into the hands 
 of God. 
 
 On returning home from a day's toil the 
 author was met by his wife at the door, and 
 exclaimed: "Oh, I am so glad you have 
 come. Mary is very sick; she came near 
 dying a little while ago with an awful spasm, 
 the same as Johnny had when he died. 
 What shall we do?" "Dear wife," I ex- 
 claimed, "we must not distrust Jesus, let 
 happen what will. We trusted two of our 
 children to the physicians, and they both 
 died. Now we will trust little Mary to Jesus, 
 and she shall live." Accordingly, we both 
 knelt before the Lord and offered the prayer 
 of faith for her speedy recovery. Our faith 
 
RESPONSIBILITY. IOI 
 
 was tested. Satan endeavored to bring on 
 another spasm. Again we wrestled with 
 God. This time faith triumphed. Jesus 
 turned back the powder of Satan, rebuked 
 the disease, and it vanished. God triumphed. 
 The Great Physician wrought the cure, and 
 to God be all the praise, now and forever. 
 Amen. 
 
 [The author has received "the gifts of healing," (i Cor. 
 12: 9; Matt. 10: 5-8; Luke 10: 1, 9, 17, 19.), and has laid hands 
 on hundreds of people who, by so doing, were healed of "ail 
 manner of sickness and all manner of disease 1 ' by "the 
 power of the Lord." Matt. 6: 23; Luke 5: 17. A great many 
 people have been healed by sending him their handker- 
 chiefs. Acts 19: 11, 12. Should you desire his help in salva- 
 tion meetings on this line write to him at 334 North Califor- 
 nia street. Indianapolis, Ind.] 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 RESPONSIBILITY. 
 
 Man is responsible for his own sins and 
 sickness to the full extent of his ability to 
 have avoided them. He is responsible if 
 he fails to apply for the remedy provided 
 in the atonement of Jesus Christ. He is 
 also responsible for transmitted sins, and 
 
102 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 transmitted sickness to the full extent of 
 his ability to have avoided them. 
 
 While man is responsible for his inher- 
 ited and transmitted sin and sickness, only 
 so far as he might have known and ap- 
 plied the preventive and cure, nevertheless 
 each violation of God's spiritual and phys- 
 ical laws demands a penalty whether done 
 wilfully or through ignorance. Hence the 
 suffering of soul and body on account of a 
 broken law, known or not known, and the 
 need of an all-powerful restorer. 
 
 Owing to ignorance, one may be holy 
 and die of sickness as the result of sin. 
 The sin of sickness may result from one's 
 own disobedience to natural laws; or it 
 may be like inbred sin, inherited. A great 
 deal of sin is inherited. Thus the sins of 
 the parents are visited on the children to 
 the third and fourth generation. O, what 
 a fearful responsibility rests upon parents, 
 both as to their own health and that of their 
 children! 
 
 God holds us responsible for all the evil 
 we could have prevented. In the atone- 
 ment ample provision has been made for 
 our release from all sin, and for preservation 
 from sickness. 
 
RESPONSIBILITY. IO3 
 
 All sickness is the result of sin. Remove 
 it from the world and sickness will disap- 
 pear. In heaven there is no sin, therefore 
 no sickness. But, says one, the best of saints 
 are often afflicted by disease as much as are 
 sinners. You are mistaken; the best Chris- 
 tians are sick but little, for they trust God 
 for both health and salvation. Says another: 
 "Are not Christian people often terribly 
 afflicted?'' Yes, and often much more so 
 than children of the Devil, for while they 
 have learned to exercise saving faith for 
 their souls their bodies are left for Satan to 
 destroy, which he delights to do. 
 
 If Satan can not destroy your soul, he will 
 take vengeance on your body if you will let 
 him. If he loses the soul he will afflict 
 the body all he possibly can, both to gloat 
 his hatred toward God, and to keep you 
 helpless in Christ's service. Satan boasts 
 of the strength, riches, power and activity 
 of his followers, while he points the finger 
 of derision at the poor, weak, sickly child 
 of God. I tell you a child of God should 
 not be sick. If sick he should go to God 
 and be healed. If sick when saved, Satan 
 will retain him in sickness if possible, and 
 if well, will afflict him through revenge 
 
104 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 and in order to weaken his force ia the ser- 
 vice of his Master. 
 
 By sin and sickness, Satan has succeeded 
 in shortening man's average life from sev- 
 enty to thirty -three years, instead of letting 
 him live out his allotted time of three score 
 years and ten, and then depart this life in 
 peace as a result of old age. 
 
 But you say many get sick who do not 
 sin. Well you can not prove it, for all sins 
 are not open to man. But in order to in- 
 vestigate further we will admit that many 
 get sick who do not sin, which fact proves 
 nothing for you, as all are affected by sin 
 in the soul from birth, and vast multitudes 
 inherit disease as well. The diseases of the 
 parents are inherited by the children for 
 many generations. Your sickness does not 
 prove that you have sinned, neither does it 
 prove that it is not the result of sin. Your 
 sickness as well as your depravity may be 
 inherited. No one claims that depravity is 
 not the result of sin, because they did not pro- 
 duce it, nor have they any right to claim 
 that all sickness is not the result of sin, be- 
 cause the afflicted did not commit the sin 
 that caused the sickness. 
 
WHY NOT ACCEPT HEALING NOV/? IO5 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 WHY NOT ACCEPT HEALING NOW? 
 
 "A loving child, you say?" 
 •'Yes; the most so of all my children," 
 "And you love him in return?" 
 "I do, as only a father can love." 
 "How long has the young man been 
 sick?" - 
 
 "Three years and a half." 
 "Ah! Isn't it awful?" 
 "True, my brother, for his suffering is 
 terrible." 
 
 "Why don't you cure him?" 
 "Oh, sir, I have tried every available rem- 
 edy, but he steadily grows worse." 
 
 "Then you would heal him if you could?" 
 "Certainly; for I love him as my life, and 
 'all that a man hath he will give for his 
 life.' " 
 
 "Does your boy love Jesus?" 
 
 "It is his greatest joy to talk of Him." 
 
 "And Jesus loves the boy?" 
 
I06 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 "Sir, I know He does. Didn't He die for 
 my child?" 
 
 "And no doubt would like you to do all 
 in your power to help him?" 
 
 "To be sure, for His love is greater than 
 mine; I never died for any one." 
 
 "Won't Jesus, then, heal your son if you 
 put him in the Great Physician's hands?" 
 
 "Why, surely He would; for all power is 
 given unto Him on earth and in heaven, 
 and 1 would if I only had the power." 
 
 "Then take him and all your sick at once 
 to Jesus, and have them healed. Surely 
 you are a very cruel father to have your 
 son suffer so long, and a never-failing rem- 
 edy ever at hand." 
 
 "Ah! I stand rebuked, and justly, too; 
 for while I have spent a fortune with earthly 
 physicians, which means might have been 
 used in the salvation of many souls, I have 
 not trusted Jesus, the Great Physician, for a 
 moment with the cure of my son. But I 
 will do so no more. Here, wife, pour out 
 the drugs, and let us get down before God, 
 and receive Jesus as the healer of our boy. 
 Thank God, He heals now — even now! 
 Amen!" 
 
 Jesus loves to heal and to save to-day. 
 
WHY NOT ACCEPT HEALING NOW? IO7 
 
 Why, then, do you wait? Will you be bet- 
 ter prepared to accept His blessings by 
 waiting? Then how foolish and useless to 
 expect to be prepared by waiting or defer- 
 ring to some other time that which you 
 ought to accept now. 
 
 The Devil's time for us to claim deliver- 
 ance never comes. "Wait until to-morrow; 
 you are not quite ready to be saved or 
 healed," is his most frequent argument. 
 Thus time flies, while Satan's time never 
 comes, and the poor sufferer is kept looking 
 to Satan's time instead of to the world's 
 Savior, for his deliverance from the effects 
 of sin. Remember, suffering ones, that 
 "now is the accepted time; now is the day 
 of salvation." This is God's time, while the 
 Devil's time never comes. 
 
 Why so many failures? All around us 
 are those who have apparently embraced 
 Christ's word, and for a time run well, and 
 then fall entirely away. Such cases bring 
 reproach on God's cause. They embrace 
 soul and body. After seeking healing of 
 God and obtaining relief from suffering, 
 they cease believing for a perfect cure, and 
 remain feeble and incapable of active service 
 all their lives. Try to arouse them, and 
 
IOS LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 they say it would be presumptuous to ask 
 for more, or that they are patiently await- 
 ing God's time to finish the work. 
 
 The Devil is a liar. Beware of his angelic 
 guise! His masterpiece is to keep us out of 
 the fullness of our inheritance by a false 
 humility, a presumptuous patience. Oh, 
 how many, through ignorance of Satan's 
 devices, are abiding his time instead of the 
 Lord's. Cruel monster! How I loathe him. 
 Thus day by day and year after year thou- 
 sands of suffering ones are cruelly delayed 
 from obtaining the will of God. 
 
 Christ's work is a finished one. We are 
 to be living epistles of His finished work. 
 This we can never do by a half-and-half 
 fulfillment of His will concerning us. We 
 find no half finished work wrought by Je- 
 sus during His ministrations on earth. "As 
 many as touched Him were made perfectly 
 whole." Then do not wait to become 
 better, but at once lay all on the altar of 
 consecration. Reckon yourselves dead to 
 sin — all sin. Do it now! 
 
 We have a right to claim God's promises 
 as long as He permits us to live. The 
 promises secured by the atonement are not 
 lost to us, simply because we may have out- 
 
WHY NOT ACCEPT HEALING NOW? IOQ 
 
 lived our three score and ten years. If we 
 live beyond this, w T e have as good a right to 
 lay our sicknesses on Jesus, who bare them 
 for us, as we had before that time. There- 
 fore as long as we live in the Lord, we may, 
 and ought to ask Him, if sick, for healing. 
 Healing does not depend on being pres- 
 ent, where united prayer is offered for 
 healing. The healing comes by grace 
 through faith, and not as a result of being 
 present with those offering the prayers of 
 faith. Knowledge of the way of faith heal- 
 ing may be had at faith meetings; and the 
 presence of those who have faith often 
 stimulates our own, so that by this help 
 many are healed, who failed until they 
 learned the way of trusting at faith meet- 
 ings. If God so loved us, that He gave His 
 Son to die for us, " will He not with Him 
 also freely give us ail things." Yes, most 
 assuredly. Then think not thyself of so 
 little importance to the Lord that He would 
 not even work a miracle, if needs be, to 
 keep thee on earth a few days longer. 
 
IIO LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 HEALING FROM A DESIRE. 
 
 In receiving healing from God, the power 
 used must be greater than that used by 
 Satan in putting the disease on you. We 
 need have no fear on this point, because 
 Jesus said: "All power is given unto Me in 
 heaven and in earth." To overcome the 
 Devil, we must be the strongest, which we 
 can not be only as God gives us strength. 
 "Ye shall receive power after the Holy 
 Ghost is come upon you." Acts i : 8. As 
 man yields to the will of God he becomes 
 partaker of the divine nature; and as he 
 partakes of this nature he comes in pos- 
 session of superhuman power. 
 
 Jesus came into this world to destroy the 
 works of the Devil. Why, then, is it not 
 •done? Because the salvation of man, as to 
 both soul and body, depends on his faith; 
 and the faith in God is wanting. God's 
 power to save or heal men works only in 
 proportion to their faith. Matt. 13: 58. 
 
HEALING FROM A DESIRE. I I I 
 
 Therefore we do not wonder that the Apos- 
 tles pi'ayed, "Lord, increase our faith." 
 
 Jesus heals diseases- now on the very 
 same terms as when He was here among' 
 men, viz.: by the diseased coming to and 
 having faith in Him; for, "without faith, it 
 is impossible to please God," much less to 
 obtain His power to heal. 
 
 The different ways of healing set forth in 
 this and the next two chapters are for the 
 purpose of teaching how to obtain a faith 
 stronger than Satan's power in our disease. 
 When God creates w T ithin us a desire to 
 be healed we should take Him at once 
 as our healer. With each desire He gives 
 asking- faith and knowledge as to how to 
 ask. All desires that are from God are 
 so many promissory notes made payable on 
 sight at the throne of grace. 
 
 If we seek healing from the desire only 
 (which contains all things promised on con- 
 dition that we seek until found), we should 
 accept the desire as coming from God, and 
 believe at once for the things desired, and 
 not let go until He opens it up in answer to 
 our petition. Whenever a desire for healing 
 is opened by God in answer to the prayer 
 of faith, whether from the desire, or in the 
 witness, or by inspiration, the more power- 
 
112 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 ful methods of divine healing, we should at 
 once take healing with all the faith at com- 
 mand and give God the glory. 
 
 In obtaining healing from an open desire, 
 the power of God comes out of it and enters 
 the disease. The cannon ball leaps from its 
 mouth and speeds on its way to execution 
 in proportion to the strength of the powder 
 that sends it forth. So it is in healing; the 
 power of God is exerted in our behalf in 
 proportion to the strength of our faith. As 
 Aaron's rod (by the power of God) became 
 a serpent and swallowed up the magicians' 
 serpents, so the power of God, carried by a 
 faith that is stronger than Satan's power, 
 will swallow up disease. 
 
 The desire (in which is God's power con- 
 taining our healing) being opened by the 
 dear Savior in answer to our prayer of 
 faith, gives the opportunity to take the heal- 
 ing at once. It was locked up in the de- 
 sire so you could not get it. Now you can — 
 will you take it? Say, u By the grace of 
 God I will." If you thus decide, you and 
 Satan will have a conflict, and you might as 
 well prepare yourself for the battle. "Put 
 on the whole armor of God that you may be 
 able to stand against the wiles of the Devil." 
 Eph. 6: ii. 
 
HEALING FROM A DESIRE. II3 
 
 It requires grit, grace and great perse- 
 verance to thwart and overcome the Devil. 
 Therefore, we should be as determined to 
 take healing as Satan is that we shall not be 
 healed. Having fully determined to receive 
 healing of the Lord, we should see that our 
 faith has sufficient power to overcome and 
 destroy Satan's works. Have strong faith 
 in God and be bold against Satan, and you 
 will be sure to triumph over him. Two 
 armies are arrayed against each other. One 
 is your disease, carried by the power of 
 Satan according to his will; the other, your 
 healing, carried by the power of God ac- 
 cording to your faith. As the powder car- 
 ries the bullet, so your faith carries the 
 power of God. God deals with man as a 
 free moral agent, and leaves him free to 
 take healing or reject it. 
 
 If, in the battle for healing, your faith is 
 weaker than the will of Satan in the dis- 
 ease, it lets God's power fall below Satan's, 
 and the disease continues to rage. If the 
 power of God and the power of Satan are 
 equal, your healing and the disease stand 
 still facing each other like two gladiators. 
 But if your faith is greater than the will of 
 Satan in the disease, the power of God goes 
 
114 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 above the disease and swallows it up, while 
 your healing in God's power leaps out into 
 the body, giving you health. 
 
 If faith from the desire fails to secure 
 healing, then your faith should be tried for 
 the taking of greater power. The trial of 
 faith is the completion of it for the taking 
 of power, while the development of a fin- 
 ished faith is the using of it for God's 
 glory. Should you fail to receive healing 
 from a tried faith, you should go forth and 
 take it by impulse, for "the kingdom of 
 heaven sufFereth violence and the violent 
 take it by force." Matt, n: 12. You 
 should be determined to conquer or die, for 
 if God does not destroy the disease it will 
 kill you. "All that a man hath will he give 
 for his life." Shout "To arms! To arms!" 
 and close in on the enemy. "Be ye angry (at 
 Satan) and sin not," instinctively becomes 
 your motto for the moment, as you leap at 
 the Devil's throat in the disease, and with 
 all the power your concentrated faith com- 
 mands, try to choke the very life out of him. 
 Have no pity on "Old Satan," but wage a 
 war of extermination on him, and if your 
 faith is stronger than his power in the dis- 
 ease, you will be healed and put him to 
 
HEALING FROM A DESIRE. 115 
 
 flight. Never yield; if defeated once, try 
 again, and continue to try until your faith is 
 sufficiently developed to swallow up Satan's 
 power. While there is life you should 
 never yield to death's demands, for it is an 
 enemy — the last one to be overcome. Enoch 
 and Elijah (by the power of God) tri- 
 umphed over death, without passing through 
 it. God will do as much for us; but in 
 reaching the zenith of our glory we may be 
 called to walk through the valley and 
 shadow of death — only the shadow, thank 
 God! Your desire proves that God wants 
 to heal you. If you have sought to be 
 healed and failed, it is because your faith 
 was too weak to take the necessary power 
 from God to destroy the disease. There- 
 fore try again. There are lengths, breadths 
 heights and depths in faith and in the power 
 of God, unexperienced by you. Go forth in 
 the strength of the God of Israel, and let 
 your motto be: u The sword of the Lord 
 and of Gideon." Judges 7: 18. 
 
Il6 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 HEALING BY THE WORD. 
 
 Having been convinced that Jesus heals 
 bodily infirmities now as in the days when 
 He was here among men, and having re- 
 ceived a desire to be healed, you should 
 firmly believe the desire is from God, and 
 go boldly to a throne of mercy to find grace 
 to help in your time of great need. Should 
 you at any time doubt as to whether your 
 desire or knowledge is from God, you should 
 try the spirit. If of God the spirit will "con- 
 fess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh," 
 but if not of Him he will deny it. I John 4: 
 1-4; 1 Peter 4: 1, 2. 
 
 Those who have spiritual discrimination 
 know that Satan does not always go dressed 
 in his own garments; but sometimes comes 
 as an angel of light, and unless tried as 
 afore indicated, may deceive the very elect. 
 Therefore, in whatever form he presents 
 himself, you may be sure that his object is 
 to deceive — never otherwise. 
 
HEALING BY THE WORD. II7 
 
 When God answers, in the desire, that He 
 will heal you, which He most asuredly 
 will (for if He had not intended to heal 
 you He never would have given you the 
 desire), your faith, received with the desire, 
 leaps into the promise, which, with the an- 
 swer, God throws wide open, and in it is 
 your healing. Bless God, when He answers 
 you in the desire He not only unlocks the 
 promise, which was like a sealed up chest 
 full of useful tools, but gives it to you with 
 all its contents as your own property. 
 
 A desire is as worthless as an uncracked 
 nut in the hands of an infant, unless some- 
 one is found who is able and willing to 
 open it. 
 
 The thing desired is always inside of the 
 desire, as the kernel is in the nut, and to 
 get it out, you, like the child, must hand it 
 over to the author, who will open it and 
 give you its contents. God always has the 
 keys to His desires, and if presented to 
 Him will open every one of them and give 
 you their contents. Then I beseech you to 
 present them all to Him, as soon as received, 
 that He may unlock them and give you the 
 blessings they contain. 
 
 Having entered by grace through faith 
 
IlS LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 into the promise, you must search out your 
 healing among the other gifts, all of which 
 God has graciously given you. Here your 
 faith is no longer in the desire, but in the 
 promise in which you are to seek for the 
 healing until found, when you should take 
 it with a grip of steel, and hold on until 
 healed. 
 
 As soon as the healing is received by the 
 patient, and God says to the one with the gift 
 of healing (if present) to proceed, the healer 
 should in great faith and firmness say (if 
 the patient is possessed of devils): ''Satan," 
 or thou deaf, dumb or blind spirit (as the case 
 may be), "I ccmmand thee in the name of 
 Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, 
 to come out of this body!" Then having 
 cast out the evil spirit, let him lay hands on 
 the person being healed and say, "In the 
 name of Jesus of Nazareth, receive thy 
 healing," or sight or whatever is needed, 
 and steadfastly hold on by faith, and encour- 
 age the patient to hold on by faith until the 
 healing is complete; that is, until the power 
 of God (in the witness taken from the de- 
 sire) enters the body, driving out the power 
 of Satan. Then he should touch the healed 
 or lift him up (if fallen down under the 
 
HEALING BY THE WORD. II9 
 
 power of God), saying, "In the name of 
 the Lord Jesus, receive thy strength," or 
 such other words as the Holy Spirit may 
 give. 
 
 Taking your healing is like lifting the meat 
 out of the open nut and eating it. The nut 
 being cracked (or desire opened), your faith 
 enters into the shell (or desire), and ac- 
 cording to the witness, which is knowledge 
 or power received to take your healing, you 
 lift the kernel, or thing desired, out of the 
 shell, or desire, and apply it where needed. 
 As you enter a burning house, drive out 
 the one who set it on fire, and put out the 
 fire, so the power in the witness, backed b} r 
 your taking- faith, all of and from God, 
 enters the afflicted body and drives out Sa- 
 tan, the author of sickness, and destroys the 
 disease. 
 
 When your healing is received, your tak- 
 ing-faith (received out of the desire) with 
 the witness or word of God (which is 
 knowledge or power) enters into the af- 
 flicted parts, and the power works accord- 
 ing to your faith in healing the diseased 
 parts, the disease and enemy having been 
 cast out by the power of God. As the car- 
 penter w r orks in repairing a burned edifice, 
 
120 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 so your faith backs the power of God in 
 restoring the afflicted members to a normal 
 condition. 
 
 Temptations will last until every fibre of 
 the afflicted parts is healed. When the dis- 
 eased members of the body are fully re- 
 stored, Satan leaves off the temptations, 
 and not before. When the carpenter works 
 to repair, the Devil rages to prevent it. 
 The Devil only roars when cast out, in 
 order that he may get back. Therefore, 
 fear not when temptations come on your 
 soul or body work, for it is a sign you are 
 on the right track, and Satan wants to drive 
 you from it. For if you are on the wrong 
 track, or not healed or saved, he is not go- 
 ing to bother you. 
 
 From this chapter we learn that the wit- 
 ness from within (given for your healing) 
 is the word of God as revealed by the Holy 
 Ghost; and in the witness or word is the 
 power, and in the power is your healing. To 
 take your healing from the word, by faith 
 you take the witness, and in so doing you 
 feel the power in the diseased part of the 
 body, and your health comes forth out of 
 the power felt in the body. 
 
HEALING BY INSPIRATION. 121 
 
 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 HEALING BY INSPIRATION. 
 
 On learning that you may be healed by 
 inspiration — seeing your healing in the spirit 
 before "aking it into the body — and, having 
 received a desire from God to thus have the 
 cure performed, you should believe the de- 
 sire to be from God and ask for faith to 
 cover the disease, and hold on to God until 
 He gives you the witness that your faith 
 does cover it all in the spirit. 
 
 In seeking healing by inspiration you be- 
 lieve from the desire for faith to cover the 
 disease first, instead, as in healing by the 
 word, for the witness. In this you act like 
 a wise man desiring to build a house, who 
 in the beginning counts the cost, and se- 
 cures ample means to complete it before 
 commencing the work of building. The 
 holding on is the trying of your faith until 
 perfected, when you should commence using 
 the tried faith or material, secured by your 
 trial of faith for the edifice or healing in the 
 spirit to be afterwards transferred from it 
 
I22 ; LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 to the body. As the wise man, on ascer- 
 taining that he has ample means, purchases 
 the material and then goes to work to bald 
 the edifice, so you secure, by trials of yaur 
 faith, a perfect faith, to believe for the wit- 
 ness and sight of your healing in the spirit 
 before transferred to the body. 
 
 Having believed from the desire for faith 
 you then believe in the faith for the witness 
 and sight. Or, in other words, having first 
 secured faith to cover the disease, yoa now 
 ask (by the faith received out of the desire) 
 for the witness or your healing in the spirit, 
 which, when perfected, God gives you, 
 and the sight or inspiration of your healing 
 at the same time. Thus you see that Gcd 
 answers yes, to your petition, and with His 
 promise gives you the sight of your healing 
 in the spirit. Now you have three wit- 
 nesses to your healing in the spirit — the de- 
 sire, God's word (as revealed by the Holy 
 Ghost), and your sight. The evidence is 
 not only triple but intensified, inasmuch 
 as knowledge is stronger than belief or de- 
 sire. For in a desire, or the word, you feel 
 for the promise by faith, without sight. 
 while in the latter you see what you are 
 promised before it is taken. 
 
HEALING BY INSPIRATION. I 23 
 
 It is much easier to take a thing that is 
 seen, when promised, than when not seen. 
 For when seen, you know it exists and ex- 
 actly where to reach for it when offered 
 you; while, when not seen, you have only 
 the donor's word without sight or knowl- 
 edge as to its form or location in the desire, 
 and have to go by faith from the promise 
 and feeling in it until realized. 
 
 God always puts your healing and all 
 other gifts to be taken from Him in a de- 
 sire, whether taken from it direct or by His 
 word or the embryo. In taking your heal- 
 ing into the body from the embryo seen in 
 the spirit, you use a triple faith, the ask- 
 ing, taking, and overcoming-faith, which, 
 combined, form a faith more than a hun- 
 dred times stronger than the simple asking- 
 faith, which most people are alone using to 
 take God's blessings for soul and body. 
 
 Having received the desire, word, and 
 sight of your healing, which is the inspira- 
 tion of the word, and may be had in all 
 God's gifts to man (t. e., seen by our spir- 
 itual eyes before taken into our soul or body), 
 it is an easy matter to lay hold through this 
 triune or triple evidence, and transfer the 
 healing from the spirit to the body. 
 
124 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 The inspiration of healing in the spirit is 
 like the inventor's mechanism before made. 
 He has the inspiration of the invention 
 before perfected, so that others can see 
 it. It is the real table or chair in the spirit 
 before made visible, and the inventor sees 
 it, otherwise he would not have known 
 what to make. So it is in the spirit; you 
 see not as a vision or some imaginary thing 
 as in speculation or spiritualism, but the 
 embryo of the healing produced aftewards 
 in the body. 
 
 When you see your healing in the spirit, 
 you should take it w T ith the overcoming- 
 faith given with the sight or embryo, and 
 transfer it to the body. In transferring the 
 healing seen in the spirit by the united evi- 
 dences of desire, hearing and sight, backed 
 by the triune asking, taking and overcoming 
 faith to the body, you use the fire and ham- 
 mer of the word. The chain of evidences 
 is now so complete, and the combined faith 
 so perfect, that you drive your healing, seen 
 in the spirit by the power of God, in your 
 bod}^ with such force that the healing is 
 complete and instantaneous. 
 
 In seeking your healing by inspiration 
 you should remember that you believe, first. 
 
HEALING BY INSPIRATION. I2J 
 
 from the desire for the faith; second, in the 
 faith for the witness and sight; third, trans- 
 fer the healing seen in the spirit by your 
 triune faith to the body. You should further 
 remember that the embryo given you for 
 your healing is a finished work of healing, 
 done in the spirit before being done in the 
 body; and, that in the embryo is the power r 
 and in the power is your healing in the 
 body. And that to take your healing from 
 the embryo, you by faith, take the healing 
 seen in the spirit, and by so doing you feel 
 the power coming out of the embryo enter 
 your body like sheet lightning, and from 
 the power comes forth your healing. 
 
 If the healing is not received on these 
 evidences you should, by trials of faith, per- 
 fect the combined faith which gives chain - 
 lightning power, and if not then taken you 
 may go still further and take it on the 
 impulse of the desire, word, and embryo^ 
 which is like forked lightning. Acts 2: 3. 
 
 In seeking healing you should use the 
 method and degree needed to take it. In 
 simple cases healing might be taken from 
 the desire by simple asking-faith, or if more 
 faith is needed, by a tried faith; or if still 
 greater faith is needed, by an impulse on 
 
126 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 the desire. In more difficult cases you 
 should take it from the witness, tried faith 
 on it, or by impulse on the word. While 
 in the most difficult cases you should take 
 it from the embryo, tried faith on it, or by 
 impulse on the sight in the spirit. 
 
 In summing up "the gifts of healing by 
 the spirit of God," we learn there are at 
 least three ways, and as many degrees to 
 each way, making a total of nine gifts, or a 
 trinity of trinities, by the same spirit, x Cor. 
 12: 9, 10. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 TRANCES. 
 
 A trance is a supernatural state of body 
 and mind. Dr. Doddridge defines it as. 
 "Such a rapture of mind as gives the person 
 who falls into it a look of astonishment, and 
 renders him insensible of the external ob- 
 jects around him, while in the meantime his 
 imagination is agitated in an extraordinary 
 manner with some striking scenes which 
 
TRANCES. 127 
 
 pass before it and take up all the attention." 
 Stockius describes it as, "A sacred ecstacy 
 or rapture of the mind out of itself, when, 
 the use of the external senses being sus- 
 pended, God reveals something in a pecu- 
 liar manner to prophets and apostles, who 
 are then taken or transported out of them- 
 selves."* 
 
 "The same idea is intimated in the Eng- 
 lish word Trance, from the Latin, transitus, 
 the state of being carried out of one's self." 
 — McClintock and Strong's Bib. Cyclo- 
 paedia. 
 
 The reader should bear in mind that one 
 must be in a trance in order to see a vision. 
 Therefore it follows that where there is a 
 spiritual vision, there is also a trance, 
 though it may not be so worded. 
 
 Balaam fell, "into a trance but having his 
 eyes open." Numb. 24: 4. 
 
 Isaiah was in a trance when he had that 
 vision of the Lord. Isa. 6: 1-13. 
 
 Ezekiel was in a trance when he saw a 
 great vision of the idolatry of Jerusalem. 
 Ezek., chapters 8, 9, 10, 11. He was also 
 
 *(This definition is defective in this, that the author con- 
 fines trances to prophets and apostles.) 
 
128 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 in a trance when he saw the vision of dry 
 bones. Ezek. 37. 
 
 Daniel was in a trance when he saw the 
 scenes described in chapters 7, 8, 9, 10. 
 
 Peter was in a trance when he saw "a 
 certain vessel descending unto him," from 
 the heavens. Act. 10: 10-12. 
 
 Paul fell into a trance while he was pray- 
 ing in Jerusalem. Acts. 22: 17, 18. He 
 was also in a trance when he was u caught 
 up into paradise." 2 Cor. 12: 1-5. 
 
 John was in a trance when he saw the 
 wonderful scenes described in the book of 
 Revelation; all of which please read with 
 care. 
 
 God desires His children to stand up and 
 honor the Holy Ghost. Many have the 
 form of godliness but deny the power. 
 Arise and shine in God's will. Will you 
 do it? 
 
 The Holy Ghost is a wonderful person. 
 At times He is very noisy, and at all times 
 when His leadings are followed, signs and 
 wonders follow. Especially in these last 
 days we may expect them. 
 
 In olden times holy men of God spake as 
 they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 
 Peter, in defending his Master's cause on 
 
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 the day of Pentecost, told them that the 
 signs and wonders seen were for them and 
 their children, which reaches down to us 
 and now. There are few such men as 
 Peter in these days. 
 
 Many run from God. They are afraid 
 when the Holy Ghost comes as He 
 often does in meetings. Some of these 
 have no doubt crossed the death-line 
 and are damned. Let us honor the Holy 
 Ghost. Are you going down to hell? 
 Stop! He who honors the Holy Ghost 
 honors God and has life. 
 
 Jesus pronounced a fearful doom on 
 favored Capernaum. O, ye ministers of 
 God, preach the pure and whole Gospel. 
 Jesus did, and was crucified. So it may be 
 with you. Paul preached the truth. He 
 didn't get up a school-boy's essay and read 
 it oft' as many D. D.'s are doing to-day. 
 
 Paul had to be knocked down before be 
 could see the turpitude of his sin. After- 
 wards he had many visions or trances. 
 Pray more and you will see more of them. 
 O, ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in 
 heart and ears, be careful lest ye fight 
 against God. 
 
 Paul was a wonderful man. At one time 
 
130 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 he was caught up to the third heaven. O, 
 the vision he then had! It was so grand 
 thst he forgot whether he was in or out of 
 the body. 
 
 A trance is simply to be overpowered by 
 the power of God. The overcoming power 
 is of the Holy Ghost. Man's power is 
 swallowed up by the power of God. All 
 the displays of the Holy Ghost, whether in 
 shouts, prayer or trances, are of God. 
 
 John was carried away by the Spirit in 
 many trances or visions, in which he saw 
 Jesus, heaven, the angels, and the blood - 
 washed throng singing redemption songs. 
 About all we know of heaven has been 
 revealed through trances. Peter had a 
 trance immediately before God called him 
 to go and preach to Cornelius. Stephen 
 lost his life for telling what he saw in a 
 trance. 
 
 The greatest opposition Jesus and His 
 Apostles had, came from the doctors of the 
 law. They falsely accused them, and like 
 blood-hounds hunted them down to death. 
 Stephen's face shone in the midst of these 
 doctors like the face of an angel. So we 
 may shine, in some degree, as did Jesus on 
 the mount of transfiguration, or as Moses, 
 
TRANCES. 131 
 
 while talking to the Israelites after his forty 
 days' walk with God in the holy mountain. 
 O, thou eternal God, put the shine on us 
 just now, for Jesus' sake! Hallelujah! 
 
 You must be in a trance to see a vision. 
 The natural eyes can not see God; but in a 
 trance you see through your soul's eyes, and 
 may see Him, for your eyes are then His 
 eyes, and not your own. 
 
 Isaiah was in a trance. He was called of 
 God, but not prepared, so God showed him 
 in a vision, his heart, and how to get it 
 cleansed from all sin. He got down and let 
 God sanctify him. O, let us get down at 
 the feet of Jesus and be cleansed from all sin. 
 The live coal represented the anointing and 
 cleansing ®f the Holy Ghost. Isaiah was 
 then ready to go; he had no excuse. Hear 
 him exclaim: "Here am I; send me!" 
 
 He who has been called of God to preach 
 the Gospel, and has ceased to do so, is to be 
 pitied. When one is called, it is for life. 
 Daniel was often in trances. His profes- 
 sional friends ran away from him, but the 
 Lord called him His greatly beloved and 
 told him what to do. 
 
 One of the old saints lay in a trance for 
 three days. Ezekiel, in a vision, saw the 
 
132 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 church as a valley of dry bones. At one time 
 he was carried away in a vision by God, by 
 the hair of his head, and let down at Jerusa- 
 lem. God may have to thus carry some of 
 us about in these days in order to convince 
 us that He is God. 
 
 In olden times the people were not afraid 
 to hold up holy hands and with a loud voice 
 say, "Amen, amen, amen," and bow their 
 faces to the ground. God help the people 
 to get the starch out of their worship so 
 they can shout with a great shout, "Glory to 
 God! I am saved!" In olden times Chris- 
 tians used to praise the Lord for themselves, 
 but now many church members want to 
 hire some one else to do it for them. 
 
 Let us encircle the walls of Jericho the 
 seventh time, and with a shout see the walls 
 tumble to the ground; or, as in the days of 
 Gideon, break the pitchers and see God 
 conquer the enemy without bloodshed. O, 
 the faith required to conquer the world for 
 Jesus! 
 
 In that most wonderful meeting just held 
 by the Trance Evangelist, Mrs. M. B. 
 Woodworth, in Indianapolis, about one 
 thousand persons were saved, several hun- 
 dred healed of all kinds of diseases, and 
 
TRANCES. 133 
 
 from one to ten in a trance at almost every 
 meeting, one of whom remained in that 
 state seventeen hours. Some of them 
 when in a trance had visions of the indes- 
 cribable horrors of hell, with Satan riding 
 on a black horse of death, with spear in 
 hand to strike down all who opposed him. 
 Others saw heaven, the beautiful gates, the 
 gold-paved streets, and some of their 
 friends. Others saw the Savior with His 
 pierced side and the prints of the nails in 
 His hands and feet. 
 
 The Trance Evangelist says: "When 
 called to preach my voice was very weak. 
 The Lord gives me a voice as I need it. At 
 first I could not carry a tune, but now at 
 times I can be heard a mile, My voice at 
 times seems to come from my lips. It is a 
 special gift from God. 
 
 "Since my anointing, which was brought 
 about through the teaching of some 
 Friends, the trances came on. The anoint- 
 ing was like a cloud of glory. At times it 
 seems as though I could fly. The anoint- 
 ing abideth. It is power, and controlled 
 me even before I had what the world calls 
 trances. 
 
 u Oh, it is wonderful how God works! 
 
134 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 We simply put ourselves in His hands and 
 He uses us. What He gives we joyfully 
 use to save the people. We never yet had 
 a house large enough to hold the people. 
 When we have trances people are shown 
 us hanging over the pit of hell, and such 
 need to repent speedily or they are lost." 
 
 The author first attended Sister Wood- 
 worth's meetings in June, 1885, at Koko- 
 mo, Ind., and saw the power of God won- 
 derfully manifested in the conversion of 
 sinners, in the anointing of believers and 
 in trances. 
 
 The house would seat about four thous- 
 and, and was filled nearly all the time, and 
 at times crowds were unable to gain admit- 
 tance. In her short stay of three weeks, 
 there were about 500 converted, 100 baptized 
 and twenty-five in trances. 
 
 In the spring of 1885 it pleased the Lord 
 to have some of his children start a faith - 
 meeting in Chicago, 111., where a great many 
 were healed of all manner of diseases. When 
 children of the same family are all born 
 again, they may draw living water from the 
 same fountain, and be healed of all manner 
 of diseases as when Jesus of Nazareth was 
 on earth. 
 
TRANCES. I35 
 
 The most wonderful demonstration of 
 power seen during the meetings was near 
 midnight on the 2d of July, 1885, when 
 nearly forty persons lay where they had 
 fallen when healed, waiting for strength to 
 arise and shine for Jesus. It took till day- 
 light to clear the room of those healed, so 
 powerful did the Holy Ghost fall upon the 
 people. But glory to God, they all w r ent 
 away healed. Could you see the many 
 crutches left at these meetings you would 
 say: "These signs shall follow them that 
 believe." Mark 16: 17. Praise the Lord! 
 
 While at Chicago the author saw in those 
 gospel faith-meetings in two nights over 
 fifty people fall entranced, (if you prefer 
 the term), under the raining bullets of the 
 Holy Ghost, and scores converted and healed 
 of all manner of diseases. 
 
 It was here we first saw the people fall 
 in great numbers, in answer to our prayer 
 and laying on of hands in faith meetings. 
 Indeed, several times we came very near 
 going down under the mighty power of the 
 Lord. 
 
 During the summer of 1886 we preached 
 twenty-seven times in Louisville, Ky. From 
 one to twenty-five fell at each meeting, 
 
I36 LOVE ON FIRE. 
 
 under the power of the Holy Ghost. Some 
 of them remained in an unconscious state 
 for hours. Seek God's power, if you would 
 see His glory. 
 
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