Dear Brother Warner, It is now about forty years since, after the
most careful and prayerful examination of the Word of God upon the
subject, I embraced the views set forth in my work, entitled
"Christian Perfection." All my subsequent examinations, and all my
observations of facts, from that period to the present, have tended
but in one direction-to confirm and render absolute my confidence
in the truth and supreme importance of those views. Our Saviour
has, Himself, stated definitely the condition on which the world
will come to know, that "he came forth from God." "I in them, and
thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the
world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou
hast loved me." My life-labours are, therefore, supremely directed
to this one end-"the perfecting of the saints." Yours in the hands
of Christ, Asa Mahan, London, Dec. 1, 1874. The experience of Dr.
Mahan, as related towards the end of the work, goes to show that
the reception of this grace was to him what the Old Methodists
would call the "Second Blessing." He was a Professor in a College,
and a successful Minister of the Gospel, and yet but a babe in
grace. He had pointed many sinners to Christ for justification, and
yet often felt as if he would give the world, if he had it, if some
one would help him into the enjoyment of that which he dimly saw
was in reversion for him. However, the time of his deliverance
came, and now for about forty years he has lived and preached on a
higher plane, and has seen a complete revolution of thought on this
subject in the Church with which he is associated.... George Warner
(Editor of the 1875 edition) ASA MAHAN (1799-1889) was
America'sforemost Christian educator, reformer, philosopher, and
pastor. He was founding president of two colleges and one
university, where he was able to inspire numerous reforms, publish
authoritative philosophical texts, and promote powerful revivals
like his close associate Charles Finney. He led the way on all
important fronts while being severely persecuted. He introduced the
new curriculum later adopted by Harvard, was the first to instruct
and grant liberal college degrees to white and colored women,
advised Lincoln during the Civil War, and among many other
remarkable achievements, was a father to the early evangelical and
holiness movements.
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