A “HOLINESS” exchange quotes the statement of a correspondent in another “holiness paper” that “almost all the young men who come into the experience of holiness, and profess to be sanctified, declare that God has called them to preach.” Now neither of the papers alluded to pretend to deny the statement of said correspondent; but the one first mentioned comments in part as follows:— We take occasion, while mentioning the matter, to announce our distinct conviction that almost all the young preachers who are sanctified, and who profess as a first thing after being sanctified that God is leading them straight forth to do the things that are named [certain prominent works], are simply misimpressed. And for the reason that they are misimpressed (doubtless by some tempting spirit), they are unwittingly subjecting themselves to evil misleading in point of mistaken endeavors that will almost surely tend to mischief in God’s work, and will hardly less surely tend to their own partial, if not total, miscarriage in life as to the spiritual prospects that lie ahead. There can hardly be a more preposterous supposition concerning the will of God, or concerning Holy Spirit leadings, than that which would seem to engage an utter novice to do a work for the right accomplishment of which mature knowledge and mature experience are manifestly demanded. Such early and strained eagerness to rush forward with impatient vim in holy work as above indicated, and as evinced by many—and indeed by most—sanctified novices, betrays error of conviction in more ways than one. This comment can not be gainsaid, and it gives emphasis to the tacit admission of the editor, as well as of the editor of the other “holiness paper,” that “almost all the young men who come into the experience of holiness, and profess to be sanctified,” are “simply misimpressed,” are “unwittingly subjecting themselves to evil misleading in point of mistaken endeavors, that will almost surely tend to mischief in God’s work,” etc. We have long known that this so-called “holiness movement”—a holiness that ignores the commandments of God—is a delusion and a snare; but we had not expected to see the fact so clearly demonstrated by “holiness” advocates themselves. It is certainly a dangerous type of sanctification or holiness that is fraught with such disastrous effect upon “almost all the young men who come into the experience” of it. The logic of the admission is that all who escape the delusions connected with it are those who do not really “come into the experience.” Surely, then, it is safe to keep aloof from the deceptive thing altogether. A doctrine that stands so unmistakably condemned by its own advocates is certainly a false doctrine. A “holiness” that admittedly brings forth such fruit is certainly misnamed.