PREFACE
Another book on holiness! Has not everything been said about that blessed Bible truth, that
can possibly be put into print? Are writers not simply threshing old straw when they present again
the lines of truth that converge to form the doctrine, and describe the experience of the second
work of grace?
Perhaps this is true. But just as we need new sermons, and fresh discourses on important
themes, in order that great truths may have the peculiar quality and flavor of the mind and heart
through which they pass, so we need new books on holiness. We cannot have too many, or read too
much, about so important a truth and so necessary an experience as heart purity. Inasmuch as the
Holy Scriptures declare that without it no man shall see the Lord, every person able clearly to
express himself in writing should do his best to spread this needful spiritual possession by the
printed page, as well as by the spoken word.
Another reason why more books on holiness should be written is, that some one will catch
the special intellectual bent of one author, who will have missed the point expressed by some one
else. If the message is inspired of the Holy Ghost, be assured some heart is waiting to be
enlightened thereby.
That this effort shall help some soul to obtain and live the life of heart purity is the sole
reason for the labor of its production. With an earnest prayer for the blessing of the Master to
abide upon each earnest reader of its lines, this work is sent forth.
J. G. Morrison
