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Title: Holy in Christ
Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy

Author: Andrew Murray

Release Date: October 22, 2008 [EBook #26990]

Language: English

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HOLY IN CHRIST:

Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children
to be Holy as He is Holy.

BY
REV. ANDREW MURRAY,

AUTHOR OF 'ABIDE IN CHRIST,' 'LIKE CHRIST,' ETC.

_'I am holy:
ye shall be holy.'_

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY,
CHICAGO, NEW YORK, TORONTO,
Publishers of Evangelical Literature.

PREFACE.

There is not in Scripture a word more distinctly Divine in its origin
and meaning than the word holy. There is not a word that leads us higher
into the mystery of Deity, nor deeper into the privilege and the
blessedness of God's children. And yet it is a word that many a
Christian has never studied or understood.

There are not a few who can praise God that during the past twenty years
the watchword BE HOLY has been taken up in many a church and Christian
circle with greater earnestness than before. In books and magazines, in
conventions and conferences, in the testimonies and the lives of
believers, we have abundant tokens that what is called the
Holiness-movement is a reality.

And yet how much is still wanting! What multitudes of believing
Christians there are who have none but the very vaguest thoughts of what
holiness is! And of those who are seeking after it how many who have
hardly learnt what it is to come to God's Word and to God Himself for
the teaching that can alone reveal this part of the mystery of Christ
and of God! To many, holiness has simply been a