over and over again, in a thousand different ways, that the Blood
of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin; and they read God's promise
again and again, that He will pour out His Spirit upon them, to
save them from all their idols and filthiness; but they doubt
whether it is strictly true, or anyway, whether it applies to them.
And so, tossed to and fro by doubts about this holy experience, no
wonder that they do not seek to realise it in their own hearts.

"Other Officers are kept back from climbing this mountain by the
idea that the experience is not possible for them.

"They say, 'Oh, yes, it is good, it is beautiful. I wish I lived up
there. How delightful it must be to have peace flow like a river,
and righteousness abound as the waves of the sea, and to be filled
with the Spirit! But such a life is not for me.' They admit the
possibility of Holiness in those about them, and occasionally they
push it on their acceptance; but they fancy that there is something
about their own case that makes it impossible, or, at least,
overwhelmingly difficult, for them to attain it.

"They imagine that there is something in their nature that makes it
peculiarly difficult for them to be holy. Some peculiar twist in
their minds. Some disagreeable disposition. Some bad, awkward
temper. Some unbelieving tendency. Or, they are hindered by
something that they suppose to be specially unfavourable in their
circumstances--their family. Or, there is something in their
history that they think is opposed to their living pure lives--they
have failed in their past efforts, etc.

"Anyway, there is, they imagine, some insurmountable obstacle to
their walking with Christ in white, and, instead of striking out
for the summit of the Holy Mountain in desperate and determined
search, relying on God's word that all things are possible to him
that believeth, they give up, and settle down to the notion that
Holiness of heart and life is not for them.

"Then, other Officers do not reach this experience because they do
not seek it; that is, they do not seek it with all their hearts.

"They do not climb.

"They know that their Bible most emphatically asserts that those
who seek heavenly blessings shall find them. No passage is more
familiar to their minds or much more frequentl