THE BEAR-SKIN.

Satan is very busily engaged in destroying and misrepresenting
God's best experiences. He slanders the work of God in order that
His children may not come into their inheritance. The "bear-skin"
frightens the would-be seeker and keeps him out of the Canaan
land.

ROSENTHAL.

Darkness hates light. The Prince of Darkness dreads truth and
light, for he knows that if God's children ever see sanctification
as it is, there will be a general stampede for consecration. If
the public really believed that Rosenthal would play the piano in
Infantry Hall on a certain evening, and that there would be no
charge for admittance, South Main street would be black with
people hours before the doors were opened. If the church really
believed that God would let them into an experience where sonatas
and minuets and bridal marches and "Mondnacht" and the "Etude in C
sharp minor" would be heard all the time, and free of charge, all
the bishops and the big preachers and little evangelists and
exhorters and ministers would be besieged by a grand eager throng
of people, crying with one accord, "What must I do to be
sanctified?" Lord, hasten the day!

THE DEVIL STIRRED.

When a man is awakened and says, "What is sanctification anyway?"
then the devil bestirs himself to silence the soul's questionings.
Blessed is the man who will not be satisfied with anything short