Holiness Doctrine and the Christian Standard Controversy
By Editor
In the article in another column, entitled, A New Road to the Millennium, will be found a notice of a new implement of warfare called a “range-finder,” enabling the gunners to do great execution upon the ranks of the enemy. The reader will conclude, analogically, after reading Eld. Waggoner’s article on History and Trine Immersion, that he has “found the range” on that subject. The nature of that peculiar “holiness,” which is so much and so loudly boasted of in some quarters at the present time, we imagine is pretty correctly estimated in the following remark made by the N. Y. Independent in reference to The Christian Standard, a paper devoted to the modern “higher life” and “entire sanctification” doctrine. The Independent (May 9, 1878) says:— “We are seriously inclined to raise the question whether ‘Bro. Inskip’s’ ‘Holiness’ paper, The Christian Standard, is not the most dishonest paper, as it is religiously the most conceited, in the circle of our pretty large exchange list.” The facts which called out the foregoing remark, with others equally flattering, briefly and mildly stated, are that the Standard has lied about The Methodist, and will not take it back. The Independent further says:— “We take up the last number of this Higher Life paper and turning to the editorial page, we find in one column two editorials on ‘Entire Sanctification,’ to which the editor claims to have attained; and in the next a long editorial on ‘The Pennsylvania Railroad,’ which is on the very face of it an advertisement paid for in money or free passes to the camp-meeting grounds.”