- Preface
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- Power of the Word
- A New Lifestyle
- Counterfeit Revivals—What's the Difference?
- Why Be Deceived?
- Can God's Law Be Changed?
- Alienated and Reconciled—How Does It Happen?
- Sanctification—Who Does the Work?
- No Room for Boasting
- Counterfeit Sanctification—Is It “Only Believe”?
- Sanctification—Total Commitment
- A Changed Life
- No Longer Condemned
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- This Is the Test
- Why Aren't Miracles Enough?
- Healing Can Be From the Devil
- False “Tongues” Identified in 1864
- Drums, Dancing, and Noise
- Bodies Out of Control
- Nudity
- Confusion
- Order Versus Impressions and Feelings
- Satan's Slaves
- “Inspired” by Drugs
- Pantheism, Spiritualism, and Free Love
- Irrational Behavior
- Pretending
- Claims to Holiness
- Whose Voice Can I Trust?
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- The Contest Following the Revival
- Peril of Confusing the Spirit's Work With Fanaticism
- Easy Ways to Lose the Blessing
- Danger of Light Becoming Darkness
- Spiritual Victory Lost to the Passions for Games
- The Child of God a Laborer With God
- Was the Blessing Cherished?
- A Blessing Turned Into a Curse
- Be Exceedingly Careful
- The Sin of Rejecting Evidence
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- At Battle Creek in Early Days
- Earnest Work at Tittabawassee, Michigan
- A Good Response in Battle Creek
- After Some Hesitancy a Response
- As She Begins Work in Switzerland
- At Christiana [Oslo], Norway
- Determination Indicated by Standing
- Backsliders Reclaimed in Basel
- An Outstanding Experience in Australia
- Non-Adventist Visitors Respond at Ashfield Church
- The Special Call at the Battle Creek College
- Called Forward in San Francisco
- A Similar Work in Every Church
- Response at General Conference of 1909
There's a Science to It
There is a science of Christianity to be mastered—a science as much deeper, broader, higher than any human science as the heavens are higher than the earth. The mind is to be disciplined, educated, trained; for we are to do service for God in ways that are not in harmony with inborn inclination. Hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil must be overcome. Often the education and training of a lifetime must be discarded, that one may become a learner in the school of Christ. Our hearts must be educated to become steadfast in God. We are to form habits of thought that will enable us to resist temptation. We must learn to look upward. The principles of the word of God—principles that are as high as heaven, and that compass eternity—we are to understand in their bearing upon our daily life. Every act, every word, every thought, is to be in accord with these principles. All must be brought into harmony with, and subject to, Christ.TR 66.6
The precious graces of the Holy Spirit are not developed in a moment. Courage, fortitude, meekness, faith, unwavering trust in God's power to save, are acquired by the experience of years. By a life of holy endeavor and firm adherence to the right the children of God are to seal their destiny.TR 67.1