x. 3-5), while pitying and loving the sinner; to so fill
him with the mind of Jesus that he will feel as badly over a wrong
done to a stranger as though it were done to himself; to help him
to put away the personal feeling and be as calm and unselfish and
judicial in opposing wrong as is the judge upon the bench. Into
this state of heart and mind is one brought who is entirely
sanctified by the indwelling Holy Spirit. Hallelujah!
Dr. Asa Mahan, the friend and co-worker of Finney, had a quick
and violent temper in his youth and young manhood; but one day he
believed, and God sanctified him, and for fifty years he said he
never felt but one uprising of temper, and that was but for an
instant, about five years after he received the blessing. For the
following forty-five years, though subjected to many trials and
provocations, he felt only love and peace and patience and good-
will in his heart.
A Christian woman was confined to her bed for years with nervous
and other troubles, and was very cross and touchy and petulant.
At last she became convinced that the Lord had a better
experience for her, and she began to pray for a clean heart full
of patient, holy, humble love; and she prayed so earnestly, so
violently, that her family became alarmed lest she should wear
her poor, frail body out in her struggle for spiritual freedom.
But she told them she was determined to have the blessing, if it
cost her her life, and so she continued to pray, until one glad,
sweet day the Comforter came; her heart was purified, and from
that day forth, in spite of the fact that she was still a nervous
invalid, suffering constant pain, she never showed the least sign
of temper or impatience, but was full of meekness, and patient,
joyous thankfulness.
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