widespread Protestant Church in the world. Those, therefore, who attack that doctrine should scarcely assume the air of superior wisdom and superior piety which is assumed by those who denounce Mr. Reader - Harris. At any rate, he is in very good company, and he will find that the immense majority of active evangelical Christians throughout the world agree with him.

"We notice that Prebendary Webb - Peploe is reported to have stated that John Wesley deceived himself and deceived others. That a prominent representative of the Keswick sect should speak in such terms of so great a servant of God as John Wesley is sufficiently significant, and needs no comment. We have the highest opinion of the personal goodness and lofty purpose of

PREBENDARY WEBB-PEPLOE,

and all who are associated with him; but we have no doubt that John Wesley understood and interpreted the Scriptures much more correctly than they do; and the results prove, by overwhelming and world-wide evidence, that upon Wesley's interpretation the conspicuous blessing of God has ever rested. It would. be very much more to the point if, instead of attacking John Wesley or Mr. Reader Harris, the Keswick teachers would accept the challenge of Mr. Reader Harris.

"They may not like the blunt way in which he puts it as a layman and a lawyer, but that does not

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touch the essence of the matter. We also challenge them to produce a single passage of Scripture which, honestly and naturally interpreted in connection with its context, teaches that in this world the devil is so much stronger than Christ, that so long as we remain here we must sin. Personal abuse is not argument, whether it takes the form of

ABUSING JOHN WESLEY,

or of abusing Mr. Reader Harris. M.' complains of such terms as 'Keswick teaching,' but it is impossible to avoid that expression, as those who at present control the Keswick Convention exclude from its platform the representatives of the largest Protestant Evangelical Church in the world.

"We are informed that a prominent Methodist preacher was invited a short time ago to take part in the proceedings of the Keswick Convention on the avowed condition that he should not teach the distinctive teaching of Methodism on the subject of Holiness! Of course he declined to be gagged in that way, and did not accept the invitation. If the rulers of the Keswick Convention think that John Wesley, and Mr. Reader Harris, and all the rest of us, numbering many millions, including the Salvation Army as well as every branch of Methodism, are

'DECEIVERS' AND 'DECEIVED,'

they are quite right in boycotting us; but when they

do that they have no right to complain when we speak of them as the Keswick sect.'

"We believe that the Keswick Convention has done a great deal of good. We are quite sure that its organizers and promoters

ARE EMINENT SAINTS,

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full of lofty zeal for God. We regard them all with the most reverent affection, and the milk' which they supply is undoubtedly suited for babes in Christ.' But we wish they would add to their present teaching the strong meat' which St. Paul provides for those who are no longer babes in Christ.' The Keswick teachers ought not to be so angry with fellow Christians whose only offence is

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A DEVOUT BELIEF

that Christ has promised to do for us here on earth more than the Keswick teachers at present believe. It is strange that any theologian should attach such extreme moral significance to mere physical death.

"Why should it be supposed that the death of the body will enable our Divine Lord to save us more fully than He can save us now? We magnify the grace of God by believing that Christ is able to destroy the works of the devil even on earth. However, we are quite sure that Mr. Reader Harris will stick to his guns, as John Wesley did before him; and, if he does that, millions will bless his memory

a century hence, when all these attacks are as completely forgotten as are the still

MORE VIOLENT ATTACKS

which Toplady and other well-meaning clergymen made for precisely the same reason on John Wesley, and which John Fletcher answered so conclusively that from that day to this nobody has answered John Fletcher."

CHAPTER V.

THE REV. F. B. MEYER AND OTHERS.

THE Christian Million lost no time in commencing

a series of articles on "Is Sin a Necessity?" The first was from my own pen, and dealt with the subject from somewhat the same point of view as that of my article, "Sin and its Remedy." The next article was written by the Rev. G. W. Olver, B.A. I append a few quotations:

"May the Christian believer expect to live entirely free from sin?

"Sin is a transgression of law. The law is, 'Thou shalt love.'

"Whatever is contrary to love is contrary to law. The unloving is sinful. As love is the sum and substance of all holiness, so selfishness is the essence of all sin.

"This grace is free for all; but the possession of it comes only to those who 'receive' Him, 'to them that believe on His name.'

"Here is the old-fashioned doctrine of Christian Perfection. Perfect love, entire surrender, simple trust, the indwelling Spirit, conscientious service, and