vowing the tenth or his income to be given to Him. This was such a
change of mind and heart as constituted a real conversion.

When, after the many mercies and many trials that fell to his portion
whilst dwelling with his uncle Laban, and after the lapse of two score
years, he was returning to his father's house, no longer poor and
lonely, but with flocks and herds and wives and children, again he was
encountered by the fear of his brother Esau who was approaching him
with four hundred men. Then it was that there "wrestled a man with him
until the breaking of the day." Note it was the man wrestling with
Jacob--and the man was the angel,--Jehovah, the pre-existent Christ--
and the object of his wrestling was to get the Jacob nature, the old
man, the body of sin, out of Jacob. But Jacob resisted, until by a
touch the Divine wrestler made it impossible for him to resist any
longer. Now he had to cease his wrestling but he could still cling, and
he could still cry, "I will not let thee go until thou bless me."
Jacob's will was now firmly set upon the blessing; he could ho longer
resist the will of the Blesser, but one thing more he had to do, and
that was to tell his name. I am Jacob--supplanter, sinner, and then He
blessed him there; Jabbok means extinguishment, and Jacob's self-life
was extinguished there. He told his name, and in the telling lost it.
No longer the supplanter--but Israel, the prince, the prevailer, the
overcomer, and Israel was now a wholly sanctified man. Beloved, tell
God your name--sinner--seek with fixed determination for the blessing
of holiness, fulfill the conditions, and you also shall prevail, and
your name will be changed from sinner to saint, priest, prophet, king,
having the blessing of entire sanctification, and the Blesser Himself
in the person of the Indwelling Comforter. Praise the Lord!