Sanctification by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 30, 1879

Sanctification.

By Editor

LAST week we published the substance of remarks made by Sister White at the Indiana camp-meeting, on the subject of fanatical ideas of sanctification. Eld. Lane gives the following cheering account of the effect of her remarks on the meeting, and on those who had gone astray on this subject :—

“It is well known by the readers of the Review that some two years ago Eld. A. W. Bartlett took extreme views on the subject of sanctification, and that he and several others ran into fanaticism on the subject. This caused the Conference much perplexity, as some sympathized with him and were gradually losing sight of the message, and drawing off from the body. Sister White bore a very plain testimony to Eld. Bartlett and his sympathizers, and to the Conference in general, in regard to the subject of sanctification as held by Eld. B., showing that it was the work of Satan to distract and draw away precious souls from the truth, and lead them into darkness where they would be blinded to their own danger.

“Eld. Bartlett was deeply affected by the straight testimony, and publicly confessed it all to be true, stating that he had often deplored the fruits of the move. He expressed a willingness to surrender his position on the subject of sanctification, and to labor to build up that which his course had torn down.

“The Lord gave victory, and Bro. Bartlett’s heart seems to be again united with the cause of God.”