the living." Glory, glory to his name!

It was in the summer of 1890 that the struggle became very desperate. The
convicting hand of God lay heavily upon me. The burden of sin lay heavily
upon my soul, especially the sin of tobacco using. We had no man to teach
us. None seemed to care, nor pity. God, however, was humbling us down to a
final decision. One late October morning on our way to the schoolroom, as
we were teaching at that time, all alone upon the road, God spoke peace to
our soul. Where is the pen to describe the experience of that hour! Mine,
it seems, is utterly helpless. We were conscious of a life, power and
glory, not terrestrial, filling our entire being. The earth was lit up
with a splendor never seen before. In our days of deepest conviction we
would picture to our mind the happiness of angels, but here we had come to
the realization of something that far surpassed all we had imagined of the
heavenly host. We felt like we wanted to sing and praise God forever. Wife
had received a similar experience in her home a few days before. Our home
at once became a heaven. We remembered in pity those who had endeavored to
comfort us in our fears and tell us there was no better way.

Two weeks passed of uninterrupted glory. However, one morning after about
two weeks, when doing some work which went wrong, we were strongly tempted
to speak as we had formerly done on such occasions, but we overcame. The
second time the work went wrong as previously, when the temptation came
stronger than before. We felt something unpleasant within us; however, God
helped us to overcome, and we set to doing the work over, when it went
wrong the third time. This time we were overcome and gave utterance to a
word that brought a sense of guilt. No sooner had we spoken than we fell
upon our knees and did not arise until we knew we were forgiven. By this
experience we became conscious of a foe within us that was going to give
us trouble in the Christian life.

About this time we providentially received a copy of a holiness paper,
_The Gospel Trumpet_, which taught a higher life, namely, entire
sanctification. This came as a light from heaven. We began to earnestly
seek this experience. Before we reached this experience there were a few
other occurrences in our Christian life of which we wish to speak. At this
time we were very ignorant of the Bible. It was our custom to have prayer
at the schoolroom after the children were all gone to th