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THE HIGHER LIFE AND CHRISTIAN PERFECTION.* THAT the prevalent tone of Christian experience and holy living is quite below the level of scriptural standards and privileges; that there is an urgent call for the great body of Christians to rise to a much higher plane of inward piety and its visiblefruits; that none are so high that they should not make it their supreme endeavor to rise higher; that to struggle onward and upward through the strength, holiness and grace already attained to yet higher measures of them, so that receiving grace for grace, they may go from strength to strength toward the goal of sinless perfection whenever and wheresoever attainable; that so there is required the ceaseless effort to get free from sin and overcome indwelling corruption, are propositions which few will be found to dispute, unless, indeed, some Perfectionists dispute the last of them, claiming to have reached *The Higher Christian Life, by Rev. W. E. Boardman. Pioneer Experiences; or, the Gift of Power Received by Faith. Illustrated and Confirmed by the Testimony of Eighty Living Witnesses of Various Denominations. By the author of " Way of Holiness," &c. Introduction by Rev. Bishop Janes. The Rest of Faith, by Rev. Isaac M. See. Autobiography of Rev. Charles G. Finney. Chapter xxvii. Holiness the Birthright of God's Children, by the Rev. J. T. Crane, D. D. The Old Paths; a Treatise on Sanctification. Scripture the Only Authority. By Rev. Thomas Mitchell. Purity and Maturity, by Rev. J. A. Wood. A Plain Account of Christian Perjection, by Rev. John Wesley. (New Series, No. 22.) 25 They are to the eye of true entire sinlessness in this life. Christian insight their own evidence. To emphasize and magnify the "Higher Life" in this sense is simply to recognize and strive to give effect to the principles of our common Christianity; and in this all will or ought heartily to join. It is worth while to mark this distinctly at the outset. For this term "higher life" is constantly used now to denote something quite different, as if it were the peculiarity of a small select circle who make it their watchword, a badge of the chosen few who have reached summits of Christian experience quite above the great mass of the commonwealth of Israel. Theirs are the gifts and endowments to which Christians generally are strangers, and theirs the joys with which a stranger intermeddleth not. The distinctive views of the class we refer to, amid many minor and circumstantial variations, are for substance: 1. That sinless perfection is attainable, and by those who attain the higher life in question, actually attained in this life. 2. That it is gained instantaneously by an act of faith in Christ, which appropriates him for immediate and entire sanctification, in the same manner as for immediate and full justification; and that each is equally, with the other, immediate, equally complete, equally conferred co-instantaneously with the act of faith which receives it; and in equal independence of works, as in any sense either the procuring, instrumental, efficient or meritorious cause. 3. Therefore, that this perfect sanctification is not through any process of gradual growth, striving, or advancement toward sinless perfection, whether in this life or the life to come; but is at once grasped by faith, and held by it till let go by backsliding or apostasy-the latter being regarded by the Higher Life Arminians as liable, by those that are Calvinists as not liable, to occur. 4. This attainment is attended with the constant or ordinary presence of unclouded peace, joy and hope, such as the Bible connects with the highest grades of Christian experi ence. 5. Some, perhaps most, of this Higher Life school, so far especially as it has appeared in Calvinistic communions, maintain |