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The Holiness Revival 
 of the Past Century 
 
 Commemorative of the 
 
 National Holiness 
 Camp Meeting Association 
 
 Its Work 
 
 and the Philadelphia Friday Meeting 
 
 With Chronological Notes 
 from the Writer's Journal,— 
 Supplementary. 
 
 By J. E. A. 
 Author of the People's Hand-Book 
 of the Bible 
 
 1018 Arch Street, Philadelphia 
 
To the survivors, — relatives and Friends of the 
 chief Actors, — Leaders in the wonderful Revival of 
 the past Century, and the Torches they lighted, still 
 burning on, particularly; and to all the lovers of 
 Holiness, 
 
 Is this volume lovingly 
 Inscribed by 
 
 The Author. 
 
TOPICAL INDEX 
 
 FRONTISPIECE 
 INTRODUCTORY 
 
 Book I 
 Chapter I 
 
 THE COOK MAN FAMILY 
 II 
 
 In America. Birth of Alfred. 
 Ill 
 
 Lost at Sea. Alfred's Progress. 
 IV 
 
 Beginning His Ministry. Marriage. Recovers 
 Witness of Heart Purity. Till the Holiness 
 Movement. 
 
 Part II 
 Chapter I 
 
 Origin and Progress of the Holiness C. M. Asso- 
 ciation. Cookmans Gifts, grace and usefulness. 
 
 II 
 
 Closing Days of an Apostolic Ministry. 
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Book II 
 Chapter I 
 
 Life, Marriage, Ministry of J. S. Inskip, till 
 their Sanctification. ''First Buddings" of the 
 Holiness Awakening. 
 
 II 
 
 Rise and Progress of this Radical Work. 
 Ill 
 
 The Revival, — Till Round the World Tour 
 IV 
 
 Round the World Mission. 
 V 
 
 Fought the Good Fight, Finished the Course. 
 
 Book III 
 Chapter I 
 
 The Friday Meeting. 
 II 
 
 Notes from My Journal, etc., — Supplementary. 
 
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INTRODUCTORY 
 
 AND a HIGHWAY SHALL be THERE, 
 
 and it shall be called the way of holiness. 
 
 Is. 35 C. 
 
 It was at the desire of some for a Souvenir 
 account of our Friday Meeting and work of the 
 National HoHness C. M. Association, commemora- 
 tive^ that I undertook the pleasing, hut no easy task 
 —in delicate health, and 
 
 Nearing the gloom of the evenfall. 
 
 But, heing the only attendant from our first Meet- 
 ings for many years ; and like the author of Luke's 
 gospel, having traced the course of all things from 
 the first, so it seemed good for me also, to write. 
 
 And this I've done, as a work of Faith and lahor 
 of love, feeling my dependence on the Spirit's inspir- 
 ing help ; trusting that the simple story, with the 
 names of its Spirit filled Leaders in the foregroimd, 
 as they will be made to appear ; the standard bearers 
 in the Holiness Movement of the past century, 
 which, like a tidal wave from Heaven, swept over 
 our land, leaving its conviction on the mind and 
 heart of men and women, for a higher, holier type 
 of Christly man and womanhood, in the Christ's 
 Holy Church : — 
 
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This, — through the soul's gleam and gloom, 
 (known to authors), — along in the course of prepa- 
 ration, with tears of joy and sorrow mingled, is 
 herewith dedicated to the Head of the Church - 
 triumphant and militant ; with Prayer, that the Work ^ 
 God will honor, in the rekindling of the old time, 
 Pentecostal flame, in not a few of its readers' hearts 
 and lives. — Amen. 
 
 In the preparation of this Memorial, Book I, II, 
 I have used the Life of Alfred Cookman and T. S. 
 Inskip — (the two leading spirits in the Holiness 
 campaign), — so complete in historic, personal and 
 spiritual interest. 
 
 The first, by his life long friend, Rev. H. B. Ridg- 
 away, who has portrayed his subject and ministry 
 as with an ideal beauty of perfection. The second, 
 by his associate friend, Rev. Wm. McDonald. 
 
 The FRIDAY MEETING, NOTES from MY JOURNAL, 
 
 with Personal Experiences, — Book III, brings us to 
 "The End" of our task and happy toil. 
 Philadelphia, November 4, 1913. J. E. A. 
 
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BOOK I 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 THE COOK MAN FAMILY 
 
 In reading the lives of great and good men and 
 women, — the Reformers, persons who have risen to 
 eminence and usefulness, we not only feel a desire 
 to be like them; but (though unconsciously to our- 
 selves, it may be), like beholding as in a mirror, our 
 ideal, we become in some degree, changed into the 
 same im.age. But also, in agreement with the law of 
 cause and effect both in the natural and spiritual 
 world, we are led, naturally and intuitively, to feel 
 an interest in, and desire to know, "The rock whence 
 they were hewn ; to look unto their Father Abraham, 
 and to Sarah, that bare them." 
 
 And this, our author in his Life of Alfred Cook- 
 man, has wisely anticipated in the first five chapters 
 of his biography, prefaced by Bishop Foster's intro- 
 duction, in which he truly says, "The author has 
 left nothing to be added or desired." 
 
 From the ancestral Family Tree, we read of the 
 rising fame of the father, — spreading abroad, both 
 in America and his native land. 
 
 George Grimston Cookman was the first born of 
 George and Mary Cookman, natus Yorkshire, Eng- 
 land, February 21, 1800. The father, a Methodist 
 local preacher, rose to be Mayor of Hull, and his 
 
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home became a centre of Methodist influence. 
 * * * But it appears that the mother was the 
 inspiration of the Cookman home. A Methodist, 
 and persecuted for her Faith by her own family, she 
 learned what it was to hold fast the Faith once 
 delivered to the saints. At the shrine of her self 
 denying piety, was kindled the flame of the future 
 missionary's zeal. (The son's desire was to go as 
 a missionary to Africa.) Here, after showing the 
 contrast between the father and mother, the author 
 adds : — Thus we see in the parent stock, those 
 qualities in transmission, necessary to true greatness 
 and goodness in the son. (I will add here that true 
 goodness, even without talent or genius, is true 
 greatness.)* 
 
 Of himself George writes : "Never was a child 
 more carefully trained by Christian parents, than 
 myself." * * * He became the subject of deep 
 conviction of sin ; every night, fearing the end of 
 the world. At i8, while teaching in Sunday School, 
 he was troubled on account of his evil habits. 
 
 I talk to them said he, about God, but I myself 
 am serving the devil. While under the lashings of 
 conscience, he became tired of life. Tried to drown 
 his convictions in business. He would go into secret 
 
 Vide more, p. , _ 
 
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places, garrets, fields, hedges, seeking for rest, with 
 strong crying and tears. 
 
 (O how like my own sad experience, beginning 
 
 1851!) 
 
 Nine months was he seeking the Lord. 
 
 One Saturday night, for acrimonious words to a 
 relative, this troubled him : Let not the sun go down 
 on your wrath. At 2 o'clock he awoke, feeling him- 
 self ready to sink into the bottomless pit. He cried 
 to God. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of Jesus on 
 the cross. Then a great calm followed, with a whis- 
 pered assurance of sins forgiven. O what a bright 
 morn that Sabbath must have brought ! 
 
 He now gave himself to work for Jesus, feeling 
 with Paul, that woe is unto me if I preach not the 
 gospel. 
 
 In 1821, we find him in America, about his father's 
 business. January 22, '23, he writes : I've been com- 
 posing my first sermon. His first efforts at Hull 
 gave promise of his future greatness. In his attempt 
 to preach one evening in Scott Chapel, he became 
 greatly depressed. But to his amazement, the people 
 told him he did well and helped them. 
 
 In his first forum address, he began to earn the 
 reputation of Prince of platform speakers. 
 
 March 28, 1825, Mr. Cookman left England for 
 America, on the Orient. Among his studies, he 
 
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mentions Butlers Analogy, Baxters Gildas Salvianus 
 and Saints Rest. He writes : "I've been thinking 
 of Baxters warning against settling anywhere below 
 God, But alas ! I find my heart would rest in crea- 
 ture love. — A church, popular favor, etc. One of 
 Satan's devices." 
 
 Sunday, May i6, the Orient sailed up the Dela- 
 ware. Meanwhile, Mr. Cookman had preached and 
 worked among the men, as a missionary. 
 
 II 
 
 IN AMERICA. BIRTH OF ALFRED. 
 
 We next find Mr. Cookman as a local preacher in 
 St. Georges. Then, in 1826, appointed to Kensing- 
 ton and St. Johns Church, his heart still on Africa. 
 But on advice of Bishop George, he seems to have 
 awaited the prospective opening of a mission among 
 the blacks in the South. About this time, we notice 
 him say, I had a good time preaching on Christian 
 perfection. 
 
 Anent the disappointment, the young Preacher 
 philosophizes : The question is, Has the purpose of 
 God been frustrated in the change of my plans? 
 Impulsiveness has been one of my failings, and I've 
 yet to learn that Christly virtue of patience. — It was 
 the ardent temperament of his mother, — the spring 
 of her son's power. 
 
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February, '27, he is back to his native land, and 
 April 2 that year, marries Miss Mary Barton, re- 
 turning with his bride to America the following day. 
 
 This same spring, he is sent to Lancaster, a six 
 weeks' circuit, their residence being at Columbia. 
 Here, January 4, 1828, Alfred, — a healthful, lovely 
 babe, is born, to be a new spring and source of light 
 and joy, in the heart and home of the now happier 
 husband and wife. 
 
 The birth of Alfred changed the purpose of the 
 young wife, — to be a worker together with her itin- 
 erant husband, to that of a nursing mother. She 
 believed there is no higher, holier mission for 
 woman, than to be a housekeeper (R. V. worker), at 
 home ; no greater function, than that of matron. 
 And with the true, womanly instinct, she foresaw 
 that to lose herself in her firstborn, to train him for 
 a Heaven born ministry, was the worthiest ambition 
 that could fill a woman's heart. Though her favor- 
 ite plan was spoiled, a happy thought struck her — : 
 Henceforth, her Alfred was to be her Solomon, to 
 erect the Temple she herself was not to rear. 
 
 Obs. — The suffrag-ette craze in England, headed 
 by a Mrs. Pankhurst, and lesser aspirants in 
 America, had not yet got possession of a class of 
 females, who, in their zeal to right the wrongs in 
 the State, are going about it in the wrong way; 
 hurting their cause also, by their unseemly, mascu- 
 line parading and open acts of violence 
 
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The fact is, the "wrong's" are in part, eharg-eable 
 to women's neg-lect of duty at home; — in not giving 
 heed to the law^ of God, dictated to woman in the 
 Old and New Testaments. 
 
 0 that our home land were blessed with such 
 mothers as Susannah Wesley and Mrs. Cookman. 
 having their children in subjection! But, alas! the 
 boys and girls are let to grow up without that nur- 
 ture, — R. v., chastening, and admonition in the Lord, 
 — the safeguard of a country's peace, the prevent- 
 ive of the evils complained of. 
 
 1 quote the utterances of some in Chicago: — - 
 "Suffragettes cannot accept the Bible literally. It 
 was written by men when women were their chat- 
 tels. The place g-iven to women in our Bible, has 
 kept them out of their rights as the equals of men. 
 The Book needs revising-. It is not up to date." 
 Hear, O Heavens! 
 
 It was at New Brunswick, N. J., spring of '28, at 
 the anniversary of the Young Men's Bible Society, 
 when a Methodist Preacher, small of stature, arose 
 and electrified the audience, reminding of the dehut 
 of Summerfield at such a Meeting in New York. 
 The subject was Christian union. Among the various 
 creeds present, he marshalled the spiritual army : — 
 
 The Methodists were the mounted volunteers, on 
 the borders. Presbyterians, the infantry in solid 
 colum.ns ; Baptists, along the rivers and lakes in 
 their peculiar warfare ; Episcopalians, to inspect the 
 magazines and man the batteries. The artillerymen 
 were the Dutch Reformed, to acquit themselves like 
 De Witt, who swept the sea, and Van Tromp who 
 shook the ocean. 
 
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Then, he warned them against a spy in the camp : 
 — old, gray headed, toothless, crooked, unsavory, — 
 drawing a picture of Bigotry. He hoped, if the 
 Methodists caught sight of him, they would ride him 
 down ; the Presbyterians bayonet him ; the Episco- 
 palians, open a flanked battery on him ; the Baptists, 
 drown him ; the Dutch Reformed, greet him with a 
 round of artillery. Let him die the death of a spy, 
 without honor; and after gibbeting, his body be 
 given to the Quakers to bury deep in silence. And 
 God forbid his ghost ever to rise again ! 
 
 Such a militant array conception, is worthy the 
 genius of a Bunyan. 
 
 In 1829, our itinerant is sent to Talbot circuit, 
 Maryland. He had dreamed in England, of one day 
 preaching to the blacks in Maryland. Here it was, 
 he never found closer friends among both black and 
 white. Frederick Douglas says : Our souls and 
 bodies were precious in Bro. Cookman's eyes. When 
 at our house, we were called to Prayer, inquiring 
 into the state of our souls particularly. 
 
 But what about Alfred? — His mother says, at four 
 years of age, he would be chasing the butterflies, or 
 playing with the little negro boys and girls. Then, 
 (taking after his father), would preach to them, 
 saying, that if good, they would go to Heaven; if 
 bad, to hell when they died. Then, for any who 
 
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wanted to be baptized, he would call for water : — 
 ''Bob Trot, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, 
 Son and Holy Spirit, Amen. God bless you." 
 
 He would go through the order of the Church 
 service, as if already ordained. 
 
 And so, there are, in the ways of children, that 
 which forecasts their future. And the mother sed- 
 ulously directed this trait, so prophetic of Alfred's 
 future pre-eminence. 
 
 His father taught him to "work when you work, 
 and play when you play." 
 
 Next, we trace Mr, Cookman back to St. George's, 
 then to Newark, N. J. ; and his next appointment to 
 Baltimore, in 1834. In the spring of 1836, he is read 
 off for Carlisle, Pa. The Methodists had purchased 
 Dickinson College of the Presbyterians, concentrat- 
 ing the brightest talent of our church, there. J. P. 
 Durbin was President. Geo. Cookman, as the ablest 
 preacher, was sent to represent both the town and 
 school. In the parlor, the pulpit, or Meeting, he 
 shone as the acknowledged conductor. From such a 
 focal point, Alfred received impressions and impulse, 
 religious, social ; and from the local scenery, never 
 to be forgotten. 
 
 Here it was, that one of the earliest of his letters, 
 — to his grandfather in England, dated January, '38, 
 
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displays the neat chirography for which his Letters 
 and MS. have been admired. 
 
 Whether his teacher, Prof. R., had to use the 
 rod on his pupil while here, we do not know. Once, 
 when four years of age, he was whipped for throw- 
 ing a book at his Ma, and at 7, for fighting his 
 brother George. In the revival at Carlisle, winter 
 of 1838, Alfred sought and found the witness of the 
 Spirit, that he was a child of God. 
 
 At the Capital. — In the following spring, Mr. 
 Cookman is sent to Wesley Chapel, Washington. 
 "No minister had ever been there, who won such 
 ascendency over the people, as George Cookman." 
 
 A Senator writes : ''In the Chapel, arose at the 
 desk, a slender figure 5ft. 8in., of a dark complexion, 
 dark hair falling over his forehead ; lean, bony face, 
 wide mouth, round breasted coat, velvet collar, black 
 vest and pantaloons. He made a profound impres- 
 sion, and in a few days was raised to be Chaplain 
 of Congress. The burden of his preaching was 
 Christ Jesus and Him crucified." 
 
 Through all the trials and temptations at the 
 Metropolis, Mr. Cookman knew whence his strength 
 was given ; and the evidence of the great mind, is its 
 reserve force; to keep in store for emergency and 
 time of need. In this, Mr. Cookman was pre-emi- 
 nent. 
 
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It was his custom to take Alfred to the Senate 
 chamber, and receive the attentions of Senators, and 
 in general greetings ; and his youthful heart swelled 
 with emotions of pride, at having such a father. It 
 was while at Washington that he lost the witness 
 of the Spirit ; but soon regained the lost pearl, at a 
 Camp Meeting. 
 
 In 1840, he was changed to Alexandria City, D. C. 
 The only scrap of Alfred here, are the sights and 
 sounds of the slave pens near the Parsonage ; men, 
 women and children behind iron grates and bars, and 
 their piteous cries and tears, made him ever after an 
 open foe to the slave trade. 
 
 It was Mr. Cookman's purpose to visit the land 
 of his birth in the Spring of '41. He was a delegate 
 to the British and Foreign Bible Society, bearing 
 with him also the first dispatches from our new 
 President Harrison's administration ; see his father 
 and look upon his mother's hallowed resting place. 
 
 He was to preach his valedictory in the Capitol. 
 It was an unprecedented occasion : The city was 
 thronged with the elite of America. Everything in 
 the Chaplain's favor. Before the hour appointed, the 
 crowd had filled the Hall, John Quincy Adams in the 
 speaker's chair, facing the preacher.. The space was 
 filled with Senators and representatives. Mr. Cook- 
 
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man knelt in a thrilling prayer ; eyes filled with tears 
 
 and voice faltering, as he gave out and sung alone :— - 
 
 When marshalled on the nig-htly plain. 
 The glittering host bestuds the sky, 
 
 The text was Rev. 2o:n,i2,— on the day of judg- 
 ment. They never before heard it preached with 
 such words of thrilling import. 
 
 Closing, the preacher said ; I go to my native land 
 to press to my heart my aged father, and drop a 
 tear upon my mother's grave. Farewell ; and sank 
 down, overpowered with emotion, his congregation 
 all in tears. 
 
 I think the author says that there was something 
 of the prophetic in the speaker's tone of voic^. 
 And how solemnly prognostic, the third verse 
 
 Once, on the raging seas I rode, 
 The storm was loud, the night Avag dark; 
 The ocean yawned, and rudely blowed 
 The winds that tossed my foundring bark- 
 
 Chapter IH. 
 Lost at Sea. Alfred's Progress. 
 
 Mr. Cookman spent Sabbath, March 2, with his 
 friend, Dr. Suddards, rector of Grace Church, 12th 
 and Cherry streets, receiving the Holy supper at his 
 hands. On Thursday, iith, he boarded the Steamer 
 President for Liverpool * * * * * 
 
 Obs. — O how sad, how solemn, like requiem over 
 Qur dead, to add that here, suddenly, abruptly as 
 
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mysteriously, ends our story of the Life of Bro. 
 Cookman. The curtain falls, and all beyond and 
 back, is veiled in impenetrable g-loom. — Neverthe- 
 less, we do know that he embarked for England, 
 but was landed safe on the Heavenly shore. 
 
 But. reminiscent of the fateful ending- of such a 
 life, the writer feels it to be a sacred treasure, to 
 have the youthful, modest, impressive image of Mr, 
 Cookman, alongside that of Alfred — father and son, 
 in his earthlj^ home. 
 
 The President, nor any of the souls on board, was 
 ever heard of more. — As the time arrived to come 
 into port, the suspense in England and America, be- 
 came painful with all classes, until at 1-a-s-t, all hope 
 died out. 
 
 Not thus was it with the stricken and bereaved 
 wife. She lived months and years, in hope of her 
 beloved's return. The home was daily arranged; — 
 chair at the table ready for him, and everything in 
 order; trusting to. hear the husband's footsteps and 
 see his familiar form at the door, again. 
 
 AVho, with the writer, — capable of entering into 
 such a sorrow as Mrs. Cookman was called to pass 
 through, can refrain from tears of sympathy and 
 sorrow, over such a whelming grief? 
 
 As a storm was raging, the most probable con- 
 jecture was, that the vessel had foundered at sea. 
 
 The tragic ending of such a course, throws around 
 Bro. Cookman's life a charm which served rather 
 to deepen and extend his influence and fame. — It 
 was an overruling Providence, that instead of taking 
 Alfred with him, it was agreed that he should be 
 left with hivS mother, to help take care of the home 
 
and the other five children. — These were Marv^ 
 
 George, Frank, Will, and John E. 
 
 The funeral sermon by John Newland Malht, 
 Washing-ton, D. C, is so rich in imagery, that I feel 
 like g-iving- my readers an extract: — - 
 
 ■'The Rev. Geo. G. Cookman embarked on the 
 Steamer President for his native land. Of the ves- 
 sel and its precious freight, no tidings by wind or 
 wave, have reached us. Elijah was taken to 
 Heaven in a chariot of fire. * * * Fancy can 
 picture the President commissioned from above, to 
 transport Bro. Cookman over life's troubled sea, to 
 the shores of immortality. * * * The Spirit 
 ship sv^ings gracefully down into the whirlpool of 
 the sinking President. An anchor drops wliere slie 
 went down, and one after another of the pas- 
 sengers, is taken on board." 
 
 Mrs. Cookman, instead of revelHng in her hns- 
 band's fame, sunk into the deepest despondency. And 
 not moved by the sohcitations of friends to go and 
 hve with loving relations in England, she would 
 take two rooms and keep her children with her. In 
 the autumn of 1841, friends of her husband gave 
 her a home in Baltimore. 
 
 When the mother would be out on errands of 
 mercy, etc., Alfred is at home in charge of the 
 house. He early showed a genius in habits of order, 
 system, neatness. Would try to comfort the mother. 
 Taught his brothers and sisters, not neglecting Sun- 
 day School, class and Prayer Meeting.— (I don't 
 know whether to call him a ''Chief cook, pot. and 
 bottle washer" at this stage?) He was naturally 
 
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serious and thoughtful. The lassies looked to him 
 for their valentines. 
 
 In the summer of 1842, Mrs. Cookman renewed 
 her cheerfulness, having sought and found the ex- 
 perience of perfect love. 
 
 O bliss of the purified, bliss of the pure! 
 
 No wound hath the soul, Christ's blood cannot cure. 
 
 At seventeen, Alfred manifested a growing in- 
 terest in the affairs of his country and the Church. 
 He was now licensed, and felt acknowledged to be 
 called to the holy ministry. 
 
 At eighteen he says ; I took up the trumpet, fallen 
 from the hand of my father, to preach the everlast- 
 ing gospel. 
 
 He was at this time proficient in Latin, Greek, 
 German, and French. 
 
 In 1846, Mrs. Cookman changed her home to 
 Philadelphia, — Race, between 10 and uth street. 
 
 Chapter IV. 
 
 Beginning His Ministry. Marriage. Recovers 
 Witness of His Sanctification in the Revival 
 OF 1857-8.— Till the Holiness Movement 
 OF 1867. 
 
 Alfred's first appointment was to Attleboro ct„ 
 Bucks. Co. On parting with him at the door, the 
 mother's charge to her son was ; — =My dear boy, if 
 
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you would l)e a useful and happy servant of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, you must seek the blessing of 
 holiness. 
 
 Bishop Hamline and wife's coming to Newtown, 
 on this circuit ; his gentle, dignified bearing, devo- 
 tional spirit, illuminated face, made a profound im- 
 pression on the young itinerant. — He says : — While 
 we knelt all together in Prayer, I felt that I had 
 received the grace of a new and clean heart. 
 
 Of Alfred's respect and love for Bishop Hamline 
 and wife, he writes to them at Evanston, Ills., from 
 Des Plaines, C. M. Aug-. 19, '70. 
 
 At the conference in 1847, against his wishes, he 
 was sent to Delaware circuit, Del. It was through 
 the story telling, joking, etc., at this session, Bro. 
 Cookman's experience, alas ! received a check, which 
 lasted ten years. — There is, at our conferences, a 
 tendency to unprofitable talking. A fellow feeling, 
 makes preachers wondrous kind. Coming together, 
 with a fund of anecdote, the conversation is not 
 always fit to minister grace to the hearers. 
 
 In 1848, his field of labor is at Germantown and 
 
 Chestnut Hill. In 1849-50, Kensington and Port 
 
 Richmond, — his father's first appointment. 
 
 The story of "A man in the house" (on the day 
 the boy chang-es to a man) in the mother's home, as 
 an illustration of both the serious and dramatic in 
 Alfred, comes in here. The alarm was g-iven by 
 him on that nig-ht, — "There's a man in the house!" 
 
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arousing- the sleepers, in dread of facing- a robber; 
 but in turn, to rejoice, not only in the Son and 
 brother's majority, but ready wit, in thus making- 
 the new manhood a subject of still greater interest. 
 
 It was about this time, adds our author, that I first 
 saw Mr. Cookman and heard him preach. He was 
 then twenty-two, of a handsome, pleasing personal 
 appearance ; slight, erect, of a most engaging coun- 
 tenance ; the more attractive, from the dark hair 
 falling down over his neck and shoulders. 
 
 In July, 1850, we in spirit, follow him on the 
 Europa from New York, on a visit to his grand- 
 father and relatives at Hull, England. 
 
 Here is a beautiful T^etter to his mother, dated 
 Europa, July 19, and another from Hull, July 29, to 
 his mother and family, that even a Cowper might 
 well be proud of. 
 
 The welcome, attentions, honors, love tokens 
 Alfred received during this memorable visit, space 
 will not allow us to record. 
 
 His Marriage. 
 
 March 6, 185 1, he was united in marriage to Miss 
 Annie E. Bruner, of Columbia, Pa. 
 
 A few weeks after, we read of his appointment to 
 West Chester. — It was the anniversary of the new 
 charge, and their new Pastor and new wife, found a 
 warm hearted welcome. Parsonage put in order. 
 Tea spread; All things ready for them. (How 
 
happy such a Reception made Air. Cookman and 
 wife feel!) 
 
 Next, through the Itinerant wheel, we follow Mr. 
 Cookman in 1853, to Harrishurg. And from there, 
 to Pittsburgh in 1855. 
 
 In a lady's album, while here, his father had 
 written a Valentine. On the opposite page, Alfred 
 now writes: It is nineteen years since my beloved 
 father pressed this leaf, and I cannot express the 
 happiness I feel, in writing- this tribute to his 
 memory. But alas! the withering- thought, like a 
 scorching Sirocco, sweeps over me, that though he 
 •was, he is not. 
 
 Before this, the sea weed has been his winding 
 sheet, the coral rock his pillow. But if the ocean is 
 his magnificent Mausoleum, the rolling, raging 
 surge his requiem, the floating iceberg his only 
 tombstone, we rejoice that a day has been ap- 
 pointed, when the sea shall give up her dead, and 
 we shall meet him again, where 
 
 Love shall weave her golden chain. 
 Round us forever. — Amen. 
 
 His Letters to his "Dear Annie," children, friends, 
 etc., (of which more than one hundred are given in 
 order, through the volume), both enrich and add a 
 charm to the "Life." They reveal the great, loving 
 heart of their Author, are models of Letter writing, 
 and suggest the versatility of talent in the writer ; 
 while the reader can learn from them, how to im- 
 prove his own. 
 
 From Pittsburg, "Alfred Cookman" was read off 
 for Green Street Church, Philadelphia, — (the 
 
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writer's Church home.) The preparation for the 
 change, occupied till midnight, the people forming in 
 procession, to show their Pastor and family a lov- 
 ing though sorrowful "Farewell" and God be with 
 you. 
 
 At the close of his second year 1858, there were 
 814 members and probationers, his brother George 
 and Annie E. Dickinson from the Friends, among his 
 converts. 
 
 It was in the Revival of 1857-8, that waves of 
 converting and sanctifying power swept over city 
 and land. It was in this pastorate, that Bro. Cook- 
 man regained the experience of perfect love ; such a 
 baptism of heart cleansing, that no arguments or 
 jokes of his fellow ministers, could move him. 
 
 This awakening reached out into the country, till 
 there was not a hamlet that did not feel its power. 
 Religion was the subject of thought and conversa- 
 tion. Workshops, theatre, saloon, highway, seemed 
 to become consecrated places for singing and Prayer, 
 for men and women under conviction of sin. Churches 
 were crowded. Wicked men mourned over their 
 lives. Ministers were clothed with power. They 
 and their people were brought nearer together, and 
 fused into holier bonds of Christian love. Bro. 
 Cookman put himself a])reast of this Revival, to 
 move with it. 
 
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This Pentecostal flame from Heaven, it is be- 
 lieved, was kindled in the heart of J. C. Lanphier, a 
 lay missionary, and spread out from the Pulton 
 Street Prayer Meeting-, New York, begun Wednes- 
 day, September 23, 1857, at 12 M. — For half an hour, 
 only two persons, Mr. L. the leader, and Head of the 
 Church triumphant, were present. Then five more. 
 The next Meeting- 20, and October 7, 40 persons 
 were there. 
 
 After this, they met daily. By January, three 
 rooms were occupied; and in the Spring, largest 
 churches, police and freight department and stores, 
 were opened for the thousands who came to pray. 
 
 As the news flew abroad, daily Meetings were 
 opened in the towns and cities. — C. G. Finney 
 started Meetings in Boston. 
 
 Lanphier had asked the Lord, what wilt Thou 
 have me to do? And God, wanting such a man, in- 
 spired and endued him with such Faith and hope, 
 as began to set this whole land in a blaze of reli- 
 g-ious awakening. 
 
 While at Pittsburgh, among other things in his 
 Consecration of Jesus, we read : — Finding that I can- 
 not use tobacco with a clear conscience, I herewith 
 abstain from it forever. 
 
 After he had lost the blessing, at the Wilmington 
 Conference in 1847, he now writes ; O how many 
 years I've wasted in quibbling over the two experi- 
 ences ! not seeing that I was antagonizing a doctrine 
 that must be spiritually discerned. * * * Mean- 
 while, I had been led into the use of tobacco; which, 
 while affording gratification to the palate, seemed also 
 to help my nervous and social nature. When it was 
 
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thrown away, light and strength were given. Then 
 I would listen to suggestions : It is "one of the good 
 things of God." Our Religion does not require as- 
 ceticism. It is not forbidden in our Bible. Many 
 good Christians use it. — All this, to put conscience 
 to rest and return to the old habit. It was giving 
 carnality, not conscience, the benefit of the doubt. 
 
 From His Pocket Diary, we quote : — 
 January i, 1858. — Our Watch Night was solemn and 
 profitable. 
 
 O that this may be the best day of my life! * * * 
 
 5 — Spent most of the day in Court room as 
 a witness. 
 
 6 — Sixteen at the altar, 3 converted. 
 
 10 — Preached Sunday on entire consecration. 
 
 Administered the Sacrament in the P. M. 
 21 — John Thompson preached. An excellent 
 
 Sermon. 
 
 J. B. Longacres, 1206 Spring Garden, was with 
 Bro. Cookman, a favorite resort. Mrs. Sarah L. 
 Keen, after the death of her mother, still kept up 
 the Holiness Meeting in their parlor, in which 
 Alfred took a leading part. 
 
 It is from Such Meetings, like Bro. Cookman, one 
 comes forth with strength renewed, for holier living 
 and work for the Master. Even so. 
 
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We do not have to go far to find him next, at Old 
 
 Union — the ''Academy," where Whitefield drew and 
 
 thrilled the eager, admiring multitude, a hundred 
 
 years before. His brother George was here a 
 
 worker together w^th him ; and also, blessed with the 
 
 presence of his Dear Mother. 
 
 From a Letter to the wife at Columbia: — "I drop- 
 ped in at the Race Street home. Mother and Mary 
 w^ere g-oing- to Tea at William's. * * * On 
 arriving- at 224 North 5th Street, (Parsonage), I 
 felt such a sense of loneliness, as not to be de- 
 scribed. It would not do. Kneeling in Prayer, I 
 soon felt myself in the best of company, — the room 
 filled with a sense of my loving Savior's presence." 
 
 The irrepressible conflict between freedom and 
 Slavery, was coming to a crisis. And when the 
 question of making slave-holding a test of member- 
 ship came up in Conference, Bro. Cookman, on his 
 knees, poured out his soul to God for light and 
 strength, and then voted "Aye." Here w^as the iron 
 in his nature. He had the courage of his convictions. 
 
 His anti-slavery sermon on Is. Vni:i2, followed. 
 At the close, his face shone with an unearthly light. 
 His attitude on such a subject, made him enemies. 
 To those who opposed, his response was, 'T can 
 afford to forgive them." 
 
 The firing on Fort Sumter, Friday April 12, 1862, 
 had aroused the North and South to war, — booming 
 out the wrathful vengeance of Heaven against the 
 
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evil of slavery ; and the time had come, when the 
 ploughshare was to be beaten into the sword : — 
 God's terrible swift sword, 
 As in Julia Ward Howes 
 Battle Hymn of the Republic. 
 
 Following the footsteps of our Itinerant, we find 
 him, May 1861, at Central Church, New York, the 
 one his father was to serve on his return from Eng- 
 land ; and to share in the joy over the wife and 
 children's homecoming from Columbia. 
 
 Here it is, we first learn of his finding his way 
 into Phoebe Palmer's Meeting, on Rivington Street. 
 
 From Central Church, in 1863, his name is read 
 off for a two years pastorate at Trinity Church, 
 where, as his custom was, he begins a Holiness 
 Meeting. 
 
 In the winter of this year, we find him enlisted 
 as Chaplain with the Christian Commission, in the 
 army of the Potomac, till March 24, 1864. It is 
 noticeable that in this brief episode, seventeen Let- 
 ters from his hand, are given in the **Life." 
 
 Bro. Cookman was a favorite with the children 
 and youth. A Letter, while in New York, to one 
 of his own, will give us some idea of his juvenile 
 talent in this : — 
 
 My Dear little Puss. This is your letter, written 
 by your precious papa. Every day he thinks of you, 
 
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and waits the time when he may take you in his 
 arms again. If you were here tonight, he would 
 not be satisfied with less than a dozen kisses. Your 
 little Brother, Bruner, has been sick. You ought to 
 see his dog. His name is Prince, a happy little fel- 
 low, that barks at Willie, plays with Frank, jumps 
 up on George and follows Brune. T know he would 
 love you. He could not help it. Everybody loves my 
 little darling Puss, but nobody better than her devoted 
 Papa. Be a very good girl, Learn to Jump the rope. 
 Help Grandma to water the flowers. Mind every thir g 
 Aunt B. Says to you. Kiss Mozie and little Alfred 
 for me. Don't eat all the currants and gooseberries 
 before I come. Would you not like me to send you 
 a picture book? Look out, and some of these days 
 Kate will find you one in the postoflice, Now give 
 me a e^oodbye Ki3S, 
 
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The Holiness Movement. 
 
 Chapter I. 
 
 Rise and Progress of the National Holiness 
 Camp Meeting Association — Alfred Cookman, 
 IN Gifts, Grace and Usefulness, — Thro All, 
 Preeminent. 
 
 His Last Meetings, — Urbana and Marthas Vine 
 Yard. 
 
 The transfer of Bro. Cookman to Spring Garden 
 Church, in '65, began a ''New departure," both in his 
 ministry and the Church's life : — The Friday Meeting 
 in that year and Holiness Camp Meeting in 1867. 
 
 ViNELAND. — This initial Holiness C. M. opened 
 Sunday, July 7. 
 
 It was here, after the Meeting, that the National 
 Holiness Camp Meeting Association was formed, the 
 members all upon their knees. Bro. Cookman's 
 Prayer was inspired. It was under the arbor, where 
 Dr. and Mrs. Palmer were. We all felt it to be holy 
 ground ; that God was in this place. — One said : — Bro. 
 Cookman, after such pleading for the Holy Spirit, 
 arose, and reaching himself high as he could, grasped 
 the blessing desired. Then, falling upon his knees, 
 
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gave thanks to God. O the good such praying Faith 
 did my soul ! 
 
 Bishop Simpson was there, and was given both a 
 Bishop and father's joy, over the conversion of his 
 son. 
 
 The Head of the Church mihtant so honored this 
 Meeting, that the misgiving and fears of the Asso- 
 ciation were removed. 
 
 Obs. As the Reformation through Martin Luther 
 was a Revival, — a restoration of the doctrine of sal- 
 vation by Faith throug-h the finished work of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross, and that of sound 
 gospel teaching and experience (from out of a ritualis- 
 tic form of godliness in England), under the Wesleys ; 
 so in this Holiness Movement, we notice history re- 
 peating itself. — It was the outcome of the true Chris- 
 tian calling within, struggling to come to the birth, 
 in the hearts of Phoebe Palmer, J. A. Wood, Mrs. and 
 J. S. Inskip, Alfred Cookman and others, in this 
 Revival. 
 
 And after one has received the witness of the 
 new and clean heart he will learn how Jesus is the 
 Way, the Truth and Life; and made unto us Wis- 
 dom, Righteousness, Sanctiflcation and Redemption, — • 
 our All in All, the life hid with Christ in God, in a 
 sense and degree, not understood before. 
 
 In Him alone to see. 
 
 All I need to cleanse and ke^'p me fully whole. 
 
 After having graduated through the principles of 
 the doctrine of Christ, and found the way into the 
 Sanctum Sanctorum, how much easier is it to live like 
 Jesus would, if in one's place. 
 
 Holiness in heart and life, is the lowest standard of 
 the gospel. The higher Christian life, is the easiest to 
 live. And the pure in heart may think of himself as an 
 
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incarnation of his Master. — the mure real to the 
 writer, after such an experience given him April, 
 19 00. — under Notes from Journal. 
 
 His vacations fotmd Mr. Cookman everywhere in 
 the camp Meetings, losing himself in his favorite 
 theme, entire sanctihcation. — A\'riting to the wife 
 from Pennsgrove X. J., he says : It is as the vesti- 
 bule of Heaven to be here. O what a Meeting we 
 had this morning ! 
 
 My glad soul mounted higher, 
 
 In a chariot of fire. 
 
 And the moon it was under my feet. 
 Here it was Aug. 4, 1S65. that the writers experience 
 (which had suffered loss in the war), was renewed, as 
 the sun rose on the Millville tent. Bros. Inskip, 
 Lawrence, the Stocktons. Henry Belden, were there. 
 
 At one in Maryland, he says : In teaching this doc- 
 trine and experience. O how was I raised in spirit, 
 a marvel to myself ! All through the ground. — 40Q 
 tents, there was not space for those hungering for 
 heart purity. After preaching to them. 19 ministers 
 in the Preachers tent, were sanctilied. 
 
 ^vIanheim Pa,, — Sunday, July 20. "68. — Mr. Cook- 
 man had chosen this spot. — ^A correspondent says :— 
 "Before the time, crowds of people. North. South, 
 East and W'tst. came flocking together. The dust 
 and heat made it almost unendurable, while the 
 fitmosphere was as Egyptian darkness. * * * But 
 10 be at the 8 o'clock Meeting, compensated for all 
 the discomfort. — 500 witnesses testifying that th^.- 
 
blood of Jesus cleansed them from all sin. W. L. 
 Gray then gave out that Bishop Simpson would 
 preach, Bro. Inskip in the P. M., and Alfred Cook- 
 man at 7.30. On the stand,— 'You must abandon 
 your Sermon and tell your experience," was im- 
 pressed on his heart. He obeyed. "The effect was 
 overwhelming; and through the night, Prayer and 
 praise from every tent, were going up to Heaven." 
 
 Manheim it seems, was to be the Pentecostal of 
 these Holiness Meetings: — a Power house to radiate 
 tha.t dynamic, Spiritual impulse, to give the Leaders 
 increase of Faith and love, for "greater things." 
 
 The next after Manheim was at Round Lake, 
 N. Y., Sunday, July 6, '69. — Here, when witnesses 
 were called for. State by State in the Love Feast, 
 Camp Meeting John Allen of Maine, said he had 
 been to 199 Camp Meetings to this time. — John Allen 
 was born 1795. He had at his death attended 374, 
 preached at the last one, and died there. 
 
 There were three Camp Meetings in the following 
 year : — 
 
 Hamilton, Mass., Tuesday, June 21. 
 Oakington, Md., Sunday, June 12. 
 Des Plaines, Ills., Tuesday, Aug. 9. 
 For the year '71, the Committee said we will 
 hold two : — 
 Round Lake, Tuesday, July 4. 
 Urbana, O., Tuesday, Aug. i. 
 
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In all these mountain top assemblages, Mr. Cook- 
 man was present, calling to sinners and saints to 
 repent of sin and consecrate themselves afresh to 
 Jesus, the Captain of our salvation. 
 
 Before starting for Urbana, from Ocean Grove — 
 their home (he showed signs of overtaxing work), 
 his wife said to him, in tears ; My Dear, you will 
 not go to Urbana? 
 
 (She knew how poorly he was.) My dear, he 
 replied, it is God's will. The Spirit of the Lord 
 God was upon him. — L. R. Dunn says : "At our Meet- 
 ing at Round Lake, Bro. Cookman was ill. But 
 his zeal for his Master would not let him rest. 
 * * * To our surprise, he came early to Urbana, 
 and preached with a pathos he never did before." 
 
 From here, in a Letter to his wife, he adds : The 
 table was luxurious. I never knew such at a Camp 
 Meeting. So tastefully spread and served. Such 
 a variety at dinner : — Roast chicken, chicken pot 
 pie, beef, lamb, ham ; every kind of vegetable ; corn, 
 tomatoes, beans, etc., with nice pie and w^atermelon 
 for dessert. 
 
 As preaching is very appetising, and Nothing pays 
 better for brain and brawn than good cookery, may 
 we not think of such a menu, as contributing its part 
 to Bro. Cookman's pathos at Urbana? 
 
 And I will not apologise for adding, that bad food 
 and hunger are responsible, proximately, for many of 
 the crimes committed ; and that many persons are 
 digging their graves with their teeth. 
 
Writing to his Annie at Ocean Grove from Ur- 
 bana, he charges : — Make our cottage, before I come, 
 a thing of joy and beauty forever, will suggest the 
 refined taste, the esthetic element in Mr. Cookman's 
 nature. 
 
 At Urbana, his relations with the Association ceased. 
 
 On Mr. Cs preaching we quote a Cincinnati paper : 
 — "His text was, — Eph. 5:18. Be filled with the 
 Spirit. — An imperfect report, would only mar his 
 utterances, and a perfect one would fail to convey 
 an idea of the glowing elegance of his style, and 
 effect of his appeals to men and women, to be filled 
 with the Spirit. 
 
 On the Spirit and power of Cookmans ministry, 
 one at Des Plaines C. M. testifies : — To my surprise, 
 200 arose for Prayers, inspiring Bro. C to pray as 
 I never heard or expect to hear equaled. The 
 Spirit wrought in him with groans that could not 
 he uttered. In audience with the Deity, he took 
 hold on God, raised from his knees and prevailed, 
 as many will testify in 
 
 the day of judgment. 
 
 It was in this pastorate that the Peninsula Con- 
 vention, Smyrna, Del., was held, Nov. 1870. Mr. 
 Cookman was the presiding genius. 
 
 It was to consolidate and inspire our people to 
 renew their consecration to God. — It was to Bro. 
 Cookmans taste. In his Address he said : — 
 
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The visible church of the Christ, is a body of 
 faithful Christians, in which the pure word of God 
 is preached and Sacraments duly administered. 
 
 After speaking of the lower, he portrays the ex- 
 cellence of the higher life. How the Wesleyan doc- 
 trine of sanctification and witness of the Spirit 
 began with Embury in N. Y., and spread till we now 
 have 2,000,000 of Methodists and 8,000,000 adherents. 
 
 Continuing : — Is the spiritual life in this Confer- 
 ence- up to the N. T. standard? Instead of broth- 
 erly kindness, is there not uncharitableness, back- 
 biting, bitterness felt, if not manifested? Instead of 
 self denial, and taking up the cross, is there not 
 shunning it and disposition to flesh pleasing? In- 
 stead of a Catholic spirit, systematic beneficence, 
 there is a lack of these. For simplicity in dress 
 and style of living, is there not aping to this worlds 
 fashions and follies? In place of words seasoned 
 with salt, there is idle, gossipy, unprofitable talk. — 
 
 (The writer feels it to be in place here to impress 
 Bro. Cs words, — he first heard from Bro. Pepper in 
 our Holy Meeting ; that all such intercourse, is really 
 "Talking with the devil." — It is out of the abundance 
 of the heart, mans mouth speaks, a sure sign of what 
 is there; — self, this world, or My Jesus. Amen.) 
 
 I gave up talking with the spirit of th^ god of this 
 world 1-o-n-g ago, and took up and sing my hungry 
 hearts desire in C. Wesleys lay: — Talk with me 
 Lord, Thyself reveal. 
 
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Such qiiestiuns suggest: — 
 
 1 The necessity of a more Christly form of life. 
 
 2 Of writing on our head, hands, feet, senses, — 
 bodies, sacred to Jesus. 
 
 3 The church raised above its dependence on extra 
 revival Meetings, to preserve its life. 
 
 O brethren ! Successors of Abbot, Bp Asbury, 
 Freeborn Garretson, Jesse Lee, let us take up and 
 forward the banner of hoHness in this Peninsula. 
 
 O brothers ! it is good to be here. Behold, how 
 good it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! 
 
 We part, but Christians never part for the last 
 time. 
 
 We shall meet again, 
 
 Meet neer to sever. 
 Dr. M., Protestant Episcopal, followed : — I have 
 felt the Saviors Prayer answered, — that they all may 
 be one. Why is it that Christians throughout the 
 world, are not united in one body? Is it not for 
 want of the love of Jesus ? We have lived too much 
 as strangers. It is wrong. It is the same many 
 mansioned house. I am in only one of the rooms 
 of Gods building.. 
 
 The tide of joy was now at its height. All sprang 
 to their feet. Bro. C. grasping the hand of Bro. M. 
 on the left and a Presbyterian Pastors on the right, 
 called on all Christians present, to clasp hands and 
 sing : — Say, Brothers will you meet me, with the 
 refrain — By the grace of God Til meet you. 
 
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This Address, says one, was the finest I ever 
 heard. It comprised 2760 words. 
 
 ''Notwithstanding Mr. C. was solemn and dignified 
 in bearing, there w^as a vein of the ludicrous in his 
 nature. He could laugh till he shook all over. I 
 was in the Wednesday Union Prayer Meeting, when 
 an amusing incident caused a suppressed smile over 
 the congregation. Despite his efforts to keep his 
 gravity, with hands over his face, he was shaking 
 with laughter. 
 
 O said he, afterward, I did want to get off the 
 platform to where I could laugh. — A Presbyterian 
 Minister. 
 
 The parting scenes, closing his ministry in Grace 
 Church, were truly affecting. Mr. Hillis, of the 
 Friends, says in allusion to this last Meeting ; I was 
 led to read Pauls charge to the Elders at Ephesus, 
 Acts. 20 : — And they all wept sore, * * * sorrow^- 
 ing most of all * * * that they should see his face 
 no more. Bro. Cookman and all w^ept, and could 
 not proceed for the weeping. And how prophetic 
 the "sorrowing" was, as the sequel proved ! 
 
 Chap. II 
 
 Closing Days of an Apostolic Ministry 
 
 When a star is quenched on high, 
 
 For ages will its light 
 Still travelling downward thro the sky. 
 
 Fall on our blinded sight. 
 
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Prom Grace to Central church, Newark, N. J., was 
 Bro. Cookmans last move. — After returning from Ur- 
 bana and the Meeting- at Marthas Vineyard with his 
 family, in September, he returns to his congregation 
 at Newark. 
 
 But he had gone too far for his bodily powers. The 
 bow had been too long unstrung, not to have lost its 
 wondrous spring. 
 
 While it is better to wear, than rust out, our author 
 dilates on the question, — in application to his subject, 
 very deftly ; seeming to compromise ; leaving Mr. Cs 
 "election," to obedience to his convictions of duty, — 
 his individual consciousness, than against advice of 
 friends. 
 
 He would now throw himself on the sofa, after 
 coming in from pastoral duties, saying ; I think my 
 work may be nearly done: — Rallying again, he would 
 speak of his plans for the future. 
 
 It was observable that his deadness to the world and 
 spiritual mindedness, became more apparent to all. 
 
 In October, he called at his Bro. Johns. It was his 
 last call. 
 
 He said he would love to die in the pulpit, with 
 his armor on. 
 
 Oct. 22. Sabbath evening, was his last sermon; 
 Is 64, — we all do fade a$ a leaf, holding up a faded 
 leaflet. He looked like one transfigured. A lady 
 said, she did not think John Fletcher looked more 
 seraphic. 
 
 The disease, — in his feet and ankles, was mialgia, 
 • — a kind of rheumatism. 
 
 To Bro. Dunn he said ; If the bones of my feet 
 were all teeth, every one with jumping toothache, it 
 would give an idea of what I suffer. 
 
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A'iSTOx OF Heavex. — After one of his paroxysms, 
 as "between sleeping and waking," he felt himself 
 to be inside the Pearly gates, where first, his grand- 
 father welcomed him ; — ''Alfred Cookman, washed in 
 the blood of the Lamb next, his father, then his 
 Bro. George, and his son Bruner ; everyone in turn, 
 then presenting him before the Throne. 
 
 I know said he. what it is to be washed in the 
 blood of the Lamb. Xow, Fve learned what it is to 
 be made perfect through suffering — the allusion to 
 Rev. 7:14. — These are they who have come out of 
 great tribulation, etc. 
 
 His last Letter to Mrs. A. Bruner ends with, — 
 "\\>ary and can write no more." He was now Rest- 
 ing in the "sweet will of God." To the wife, he 
 advised to live a moment at a time ; and after I am 
 gone, if permitted. I will be your guardian angel to 
 conduct you to our Jicaz'cniy home.^'' 
 
 His mother coming in. said ; I feel it to be as the 
 gate of Heaven, here in your room. 
 
 To the wife ; I am the Christs little lamb, nestled 
 
 in His bosom. — To his son George ; "All day I've 
 
 been hovering near the gates of death." On being 
 
 moved to the other side of the bed, he said ; O how 
 
 sweet and quiet it all is ! — 
 
 *At this writing, in tender charge of her daughter. 
 Mrs. Annie C. Halsted. in a comatose state, at 5530 
 Morris St.. Germantown. lies the one to whom these 
 parting words were spoken. — waiting thf^ Masters call 
 — "Come home," to reunite with her sainted husband. 
 
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An effusion of the brain now swept over him, 
 making him insensible to outward things ; and at 
 II P. M., Thursday, Nov. 13, the Spirit of Alfred 
 Cookman w^ent Sweeping thro the gates, * * 
 And thus to the bosom of God, in the prime of life, 
 one of the most saintly and useful men of modern 
 times. 
 
 ^ * * * * * 
 
 The shock felt at the news of his death, was only 
 exceeded by the universal grief, as though one had 
 died in every house. 
 
 After the services at his church, the body was 
 taken to Philadelphia, and next day 17th, to Union 
 church ; the strains of The dead March of Saul, 
 adding to the solemnity, as" the funeral cortege 
 entered. 
 
 Dr. Nevin read the Scripture, Jay Dickerson the 
 hymn. Dr. Pattison the Prayer, Dr. Suddards, A. 
 Longacre, J. H. Alday, made addresses. — 
 
 Dr. Foster of Drew Seminary, then spoke: Alfred 
 Cookman belonged to a royalty. There is the royalty 
 of genius, of intellect, of scientific research, of elo- 
 quence. He was not wanting in these. He belonged 
 to a race whose lips were strangely touched. It was 
 a royalty rarer than these;— the seraphic royalty of 
 Earth. Not Pauline, it was Johannine, — a brother to 
 him who leaned on Jesus' breast * * * 
 
 When the brother prayed that the mantle of Bro. 
 Cookman might fall on us, I said Am^>n. * * * As 
 my little boy brought me the news of his death, know- 
 
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ing- how it would affect me. — he spoke in a low tone, 
 O how it shocked me ! I felt that the most sacred 
 character I have ever known, had gone from us. I 
 have known the men of the church through thirty 
 years, episcopal and lay ; but the most sacred man I've 
 ever known, is the one w^ho lies enshrined in that 
 casket. 
 
 "The life of Alfred Cookman comes back to me like 
 a chime of church bells, embowered among trees in 
 a soft June day. It was not so much what I heard 
 him say or do, that impressed me, as himself. * * * 
 To be with him, was to be blest. With him in preach- 
 ing, the Christ was all and in all. Sweep a circle 
 three feet around the Cross, and you take in all that 
 there was of Alfred Cookman. — DeWitt Talmage. 
 
 After the benediction, the Procession of mourn- 
 ers followed the bier to South Laurel Hill, where 
 
 Rock of Ages, cleft for me, 
 
 was sung, and the body lowered in the earth ; — "Dust 
 to dust," there in repose, to rest from its labors and 
 pain, till the glorious Resurrection morn. 
 
 It is an impressive lesson on the estimate that man 
 places on personal sanctity in his kind, in the forma- 
 tion of character, to add the testimony J. H. Smith 
 in our late Convention at St. Georges, that the savor 
 of such a life and ministry, though without any 
 sounding title even, to it, but simply Alfred Cook- 
 
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man, had, like tlic fame of Jesiis, spread abroad 
 wherever he had come in his late Oriental Mission ! 
 
 And now closing- Book I, as a Souvenir memento 
 of the loving" memory of the author, — voicing also 
 that of the surviving relatives and friends; — we 
 who were favored with the ministrations, and wit- 
 nesses of the last sad rites of sorrowing love over 
 the remains of Alfred Cookman, after the forty and 
 two years in the retrospect, we feel like adding 
 this heart felt tribute, reminiscent of the friend and 
 brother, who has passed on before and entered into 
 that within the Veil. 
 
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BOOK II 
 
 Chapter I 
 
 Life, Marriage and Ministry of J. S. Inskip, Till 
 Their Sanctification at Sing Sing, C. M., 
 in 1864, AND "First Buddings" of 
 THE Holiness Movement 
 
 The man who rose to be the Leader of the Holi- 
 ness Movement in 1867. — John Swanel Inskip, v^as 
 born at Huntinden, England, (the birthplace of 
 Oliver Cromvv^ell), August 10, 1816.* At the age of 
 five years, he w^as brought over to Wilmington, Del., 
 where the Inskip family now resided. 
 
 The lad inherited an impetuous spirit, and so full 
 of fun, that while at school, he was frequently chas- 
 tised. Himself speaks of his teacher's aptitude in 
 using the rattan on his back. 
 
 As he grew up, he tried to persuade himself of 
 his father's belief, who seems to have been skeptical, 
 and was on the verge of infidelity. 
 
 Sunday, April 10, 1832, at Marshalton Pa., he was 
 convicted of sin under the preaching of Levi, after- 
 ward Bishop Scott, and in the evening service, was 
 
 *That was 'The Summerless year." 
 
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converted. He joined the Methodists, and began to 
 exhort sinners to turn to God. 
 
 On hearing J. B. Ayars preach, he became so 
 wrought upon, that through his praying and exhorta- 
 tions, some of the worst characters in the borough, 
 were reformed, and brought to Jesus. 
 
 In 1833, at Goshen, Chester County, he was 
 licensed to exhort. He now, with one McC, a pugi- 
 Hst, and one other, formed a band of workers in soul 
 saving. John then got possession of his father's 
 blacksmith shop, and ere long, they had 80 conver- 
 sions, and organized a society, including two of his 
 sisters. For such harm to the devil's cause, his 
 father broke up the Meeting, disowned and drove 
 his son out of his house. 
 
 Finding himself now adrift in the wide world, for 
 Jesus' sake, the little pilgrim went forth singing, 
 O how happy are they, 
 Who the Savior obey! — 
 
 the very song that Miss Sally Keen heard a chim- 
 ney sweep chanting, and which led to her sanctifica- 
 tion, (as related to the writer). The next day, John 
 was led to go back to the house, where he found 
 his father broken down ; and calling to him, said ; 
 ''John, we must have Prayer." He was brought to 
 Jesus, and soon found peace in believing in the sin- 
 ner's Friend. The wife and childrt-n ~ the whole 
 
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family, followed. "O how happy" was poor John 
 
 now ! And what a happy home it was that day. 
 
 O happy hearts and happy homes, 
 
 Where Christ the King- of triumph comes! 
 
 The shop was after this day of the Lord, chris- 
 tened "Mount Joy and soon a new chapel arose 
 on the spot. 
 
 May 23, '35, John was licensed to preach, and sent 
 to Cecil Circuit ; and soon after, was married to 
 Miss Martha Jane Foster, then seventeen years of 
 age, who became a help-meet indeed, through all of 
 an arduous and soul saving ministry. 
 
 It w^as at Sing Sing, C. M., August, '64, that the 
 wife sought and found the grace of entire sanctifi- 
 cation, and testified to her new experience before 
 all present. At this, her husband was both displeased 
 and mortified. 
 
 Sunday, 28th, on Hebrews 12:1, in application, 
 while exhorting his hearers to lay aside every 
 weight, and Do it now ! repeating the Do it now ! 
 a voice within said, "Do it yourself !" And notwith- 
 standing he had been opposed to the experience, he 
 heeded the admonition as from God; and, coming 
 down, led the way for all who would follow him, 
 into the Cleansing Fountain. 
 
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He dates his sanctification then and there. 
 
 In Book JI, Mr. and Mrs. Inskip, (though asso- 
 ciated with Bro. Cookman). will appear as the 
 insDiring-, leading- fig-ures in the distinctive Evan- 
 g-elistic Holiness Movement. 
 
 August 31, he writes in his Journal: O how my 
 soul rejoices in the Lord. — September 2 — My soul is 
 on fire. With the impulse of this new affection con- 
 trolling, he now found his way into Phoebe Palmers 
 Meeting, and speaks of the wonderful blessing he 
 felt in giving his new experience. 
 
 It was at this period, after having been an in- 
 veterate user of tobacco, — that filthiness of the flesh, 
 II Corinthians 7:1, the Spirit showed him, as He 
 did to Alfred Cookman in '57, that it must be for- 
 ever laid aside. Amen. 
 
 Chapter II 
 
 From the First Buddings of the Holiness Asso- 
 ciation ; — Rise and Progress of Its Work. 
 
 Leaving Mr. Inskip's growing ministry of more 
 than thirty years, (including a Chaplaincy of four- 
 teen months with the army), behind us, we will 
 follow him, with his wife and consecrated band, in 
 the work of The National Holiness Camp Meeting 
 .Association, from its "first buddings" in '66: when, 
 
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after the demoralization brought upon us by the 
 late fratricidal war between the free and slave hold- 
 ing states, — the nation bankrupt in $6,000,000,000, the 
 church in almost a backslidden state ; it was in 
 response to the call and appeal of our Bishops for 
 a Revival of pure Religion ; when, at Red Bank, 
 N. J., Jno. A. Wood* spoke to Mrs. Harriet E. 
 Drake about a Camp Meeting for Holiness. Sister 
 Drake had opened her home for such a Meeting. 
 Bro. Wood then waited on W. B. Osborne, who in 
 turn, hastened to New York to advise Bro. Inskip. 
 It was a new idea to him. — On parting, the two 
 pledged themselves that there would be at least, 
 "two tents." 
 
 June 13, in response to a call, at 1018 Arch street 
 A. E. Ballard, P. E., H. M. Brown, A. Longacre, 
 Osborne, Father Coleman, B. M. Adams, J. S. Heis- 
 ler, R. V. Lawrence, John Thompson, Alfred Cook- 
 man, came together. On motion of Anthony At- 
 wood, it was agreed to hold the Meeting at Vineland, 
 N. J., Wednesday, July 17, '67. — (For this and Des 
 Plaines Camp Aleetings, see Book I.) 
 
 Bro. Inskip gave out, — 
 
 There is a Fountain filled with blood, 
 which after, came into favor with the Association, 
 and given out as Inskip's Battle hymn. 
 
 *x\uthor of Perfect Love, one of the best on Holi- 
 ness ever published. 
 
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On Camp Meetings: Henry Boehm tells us of one 
 at Dover, Del., in 1805, where 1100 were converted 
 and 600 sanctified. At another near, where there 
 were 1320 conversions and 916 professed to be 
 cleansed from all sin. 
 
 The Camp Meeting- never was Intended for 
 Christians only. But this was the first, — initial 
 one, having- for its objective primarily, the teach- 
 ing and enforcing on church members and min- 
 isters, that this is the will of God, even your sanc- 
 tification; that holiness is the lowest standard of 
 the gospel. 
 
 Manheim, Pa., Sunday, July 24, '68. * * * 
 After G. W. Woodruff had prayed, presto, as a 
 flash of Hghtning from Heaven, there arose a sim- 
 ultaneous burst of agony. (I don't remember 
 whether before or after John Thompson preached) ; 
 then of Glory from the congregation, for one hour, 
 beggaring all description. It was the most sublime 
 spectacle they had ever seen at a Camp Meeting. 
 Sinners were awe struck, while others fled. Some 
 said they heard a sound as of a rushing wind — 
 
 O Lord, send the Power, O Lord, send the Power, 
 O Lord, send the Power just now, 
 And baptize every one. 
 
 Round Lake, N. Y., Tuesday, July 6, '69. — The fig- 
 ure of Bishop Peck in the midst of his brethren on 
 the high stand, impressed me. The head so con- 
 spicuous. I did not wonder that some said he might 
 have been called Bishop Bushel. 
 
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The two sermons by W. H. Boole and John 
 Wesley Horne, I shall never forget. They preached 
 with the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven. 
 
 Hamilton^ Mass. Tuesday, June 21, '70. — "It was 
 here the Tabernacle was first erected." 
 
 Oakington, Md., Tuesday, July 12, '70. — The heat, 
 100°, and dust were so great, that Father Coleman 
 prayed that Heaven would kindly mitigate the suf- 
 ferings of man and beast, by sending us rain. A 
 copious shower followed, which in turn, broke up 
 the opening service. 
 
 At Sunday morning Love Feast, Bro. Boole raised 
 
 the assembly by a ringing notice, that at "this very 
 
 hour" in Rome, the doctrine of Papal infallibility 
 
 was being proclaimed. 'T propose that we proclaim 
 
 Jesus Christ to be the only Head of the true Catholic 
 
 Church, and Crown Him Lord of all." We all then 
 
 sung out, 
 
 All hail the power of Jesus' name, 
 Let ang-els prostrate fall. 
 Bring- forth the royal diadem, 
 And crown Hi^n LfOrd of all. 
 
 Round Lake, N. Y., Tuesday, July 4, '71. — Here it 
 
 was, after a season of undue excitement, Bro. In- 
 
 skip said : — Brethren, don't quench the Spirit. The 
 
 Spirit is quenched when we make much noise. I 
 
 know all about it. (How true!) The best way to 
 
 hold out, is to hold in. You soon empty a vessel 
 
 by letting what is in it run out. 
 
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Your strength is to sit still. You grieve the Spirit 
 
 by your talking, when others want to be quiet. I do 
 
 not want emotions to drive me to say Amen, too 
 
 loud. — Do you know what a gush and unction is? 
 
 Like an Artesian well, it just flows. 
 
 How good! Bro. Inskip, you preached in the Spirit 
 on this. — In the multitude of words, there wanteth 
 not transgression. And he who has learned To talk 
 with God, has ceased from talking with the devil, — 
 as so many "Christians" are really doing. Selah. 
 
 Chapter III. 
 
 The Holiness Revival, Till Round the World 
 Tour.— 1880. 
 
 Onward Christian soldiers, 
 Marching as to war, 
 With the Cross of Jesus 
 Going on before. 
 
 March 6, '71, Mr. Inskip resigned the pastorate of 
 Eutaw Street Church, Baltimore ; and with Mrs. In- 
 skip, McDonald, Boole and wives, with Father Cole- 
 man, set out for Sacramento, the Capital of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 En route, after an evening service at Omaha, re- 
 turning to their place of rest, in the darkness the 
 driver mistook the way, and all were plunged into 
 a ravine and hurt ; Father Coleman so much, that 
 he went on crutches the rest of the way. He said 
 
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that the devil meant to kill him, but the Lord Jesus 
 wanted him in California. 
 
 On their journey, they were joined by J. H. Vin- 
 cent, D. L. Moody and Philip Philips, — the singing 
 Evangelist. 
 
 The Meeting opened Saturday, April 22, '71- Bro. 
 Osborne read the Scripture, The Battle Hymn was 
 sung. Sunday was an ideal day, and ''there are no 
 clouds in Summer skies here." — Miners, hunters, 
 gamblers, murderers, ranters, flocked in to disturb 
 or break up the Meeting. It was Bro. Inskip's cour- 
 age and tact, that saved the day ; soothing even the 
 wild beasts into a respectful attention, — subduing 
 the devil's children, even to winning their approval 
 of their Mission. — A wave of spiritual power now 
 began to sweep out from the Tabernacle, hundreds 
 of miles around. 
 
 The first great battle on the Pacific Coast was 
 fought and won. Miracles of grace and mercy on 
 the souls and bodies of mtn and women, were 
 wrought, comparable with what we read in the 
 Acts of the Apostles. 
 
 Suffice to mention the story of Mrs. Inskip's get- 
 ting an aged woman, — at the altar, who had been 
 1-o-n-g seeking pardon of sin ; and found rest, only 
 after she was persuaded to forgive the man who 
 had murdered her son. — Of the opium eater, — even 
 
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to 120 grains a day, and mind bordering on idiocy, 
 on hearing Bro. Booles' story of the case in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., saved from the habit, was so encouraged 
 that he also, was saved. And of the athlete, who 
 sprang up on the platform, gesticulating and ex- 
 horting sinners to repent ; adding, that himself was 
 going to hell ; falling upon the floor, caught and 
 held by Osborne and others, until he found rest by 
 Faith in Jesus' blood. 
 
 Saturda}^ May 5th, dawned beautiful, with a sense 
 of something unusual, as always is the case at these 
 Meetings, and prelusive to a baptism of the Holy 
 Spirit. — None felt like praying or speaking, but in 
 an undertone. The singing was low, like angel notes. 
 After kneeling 20 minutes, a halo of golden glory 
 encircled their heads, — blest symbol and seal of 
 God's approval of His Servants' work. — 
 
 All were melted to tears, and thrilled with holy 
 joy. 
 
 Mrs. Inskip's brother, Charles Foster, who had 
 departed from God, leaving wife and children be- 
 hind in Maryland 17 years before, and living like a 
 hermit in a cabin, came to the Meeting. Bro. Inskip 
 preached. His heart was touched. As he was leav- 
 ing. Sister Inskip sang one of her favorite songs : — 
 
 O who will stand up for Jesus, 
 The lowly Nazarene? 
 
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His ear was reminded of his sister's voice in days 
 of his youth, bringing back to him fond memories 
 of by gone years. * * * He comes back, and to 
 Mr. Inskip, saying: Don't you know me? I do not. 
 Not your brother-in-law ? O Charley, is it you ! 
 — Then, turning to his wife, said : Martha, here is a 
 gentleman who wants to speak to you. The recog- 
 nition was soon mutual, and then brother and sister 
 were in each others arms, and tears of joy flowed 
 freely. 
 
 Foster was reclaimed, returned to his home and 
 died in the triumph of Faith in Jesus Christ. O 
 bless the Lord ! 
 
 The closing exercises, Sunday, May 6, might re- 
 mind one of Paul's parting with the elders at 
 Ephesus. Hundreds were raised up, to walk hence- 
 forth, in newness of life. 
 
 Santa Clara — Here, all the batteries of Taber- 
 nacle were opened upon the promiscuous gathering 
 and back slidden state of the church members. 
 
 The word was quick and powerful. It was a des- 
 perate fight. Father Coleman wrestled all of one 
 night with the powers of darkness. His mind was 
 bewildered ; — an experience like Luther's with Sa- 
 tan, in Wartburg Castle. — As he was to preach, 
 Jesus appeared to him in the door, then a few steps 
 tow^ards him. Then He sat down, smiling on His 
 
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aged disciple. — It was Coleman, who was to deliver 
 the discourse at Santa Clara. The victory and 
 scenes that followed, were wonderful. 
 
 There was a student from the University, wealthy 
 and benevolent, a ''good Christian" and church mem- 
 ber, attended. He fell backwards, — convicted of his 
 inbred sin. Nobody could hold him. Tumbling, 
 rolling over and under the seats, causing a wild, 
 confusing effect in the tent. It was a dramatic 
 scene, so distracting that Bro. Inskip feared their 
 Mission at Santa Clara, would prove a failure. (He 
 had just had his band consecrate to God for all that 
 was to come.) When the young man became 
 quiet, he testified with shining face, that Jesus' blood 
 had cleansed him from all sin. From that hour, the 
 work of the Evangelists began to sweep all before it. 
 
 It ought to be noticed here, that Mr. Inskip 
 proved himself to be g-irded with superhuman en- 
 duements and sublime equipoise, throughout all the 
 Meeting's, and on every occasion. He was a strong 
 man, both in mind and body. (The Frontispiece, 
 even to one not a physiognomist, impresses this 
 most deeply.) 
 
 The parting at Santa Clara, showed how that it is 
 the love, agapa of Jesus that draws, fusing and 
 uniting all true Christian hearts, — to be ''all one, 
 even as We are one." 
 
 San Francisco — Thursday, May 25, Inskip & Co. 
 were on their way to this place — 50 miles off. * * * 
 
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As the terri1)lc pounding went on, the battle waxed 
 hotter, the opposition and prejudice gave way, and 
 many were born again, reclaimed, and others cleansed 
 from inbred sin. 
 
 Salt Lake City. — Monday, June 5th, the holy band 
 w^ere on their way to Mormondom. — The Mormons 
 regard themselves as God's peculiar people, perse- 
 cuted for Christ's sake. Holiness to the Lord, is 
 their motto. But it was like carrying coals to New- 
 castle, to preach the gospel to them. 
 
 It was Bro. Boole's sermon, one hour and fifty 
 minutes long, aimed at the two main pillars of their 
 Creed, that roused Brigham Young and his follow- 
 ing, in the Tabernacle ; and it was John S. Inskip, — 
 like the Town Clerk of Ephesus, who quelled the 
 rising tumult that Boole's wonderful discourse pro- 
 voked, threatening the very lives of the Evangelists. 
 
 ^ ;{i ^ ^ ^ ;)« 
 
 Bro. Inskip's sermon closing, on the day of judg- 
 ment, arraigned the Mormon Bishops, elders and 
 apostles, face to face with the ghosts of their mur- 
 dered victims, nightly walking the streets, haunting 
 the canyons and in their mountains, confronting 
 them at the judgment seat of Christ. — The effect 
 was electrical. But in spite of all this, the preacher 
 was greeted with applause. 
 
Their Alission ended here, the company 1)oarded 
 
 their train Monday, June 20, for New York. 
 
 T. DeWitt Talmage, speaking of this Meeting, 
 says: ]\rormonism never received such a shot as 
 when the Methodists in the Big- Tent, preached 
 righteousness, temperance and judgment to come, 
 in Salt Lake City. The monster sin was speared, 
 and his wounds wrankled. The authority and in- 
 fluence of the leaders was shaken, never to be re- 
 gained. And some who were in bondage to such 
 religious despotism, were now set at liberty. 
 
 Mormon, the last of a line of Hebrew prophets, 
 among a race of Israelites, descendants of Joseph, 
 believed to have emigrated from Jerusalem to 
 America 600 B. C, is said to have written the Book 
 of Mormon. 
 
 But the author was Solomon Spalding (from 1761- 
 1816), who had been a clergyman. Joseph Smith 
 obtained this book, and claimed it as a Revelation 
 from God to himself, and used it as text and au- 
 thority for this new sect. — Webster's Unabridged 
 Dictionary. 
 
 In 1827, Smith professed to have a revelation, and 
 be guided to where the Truth was to be discovered 
 — near Palmyra, N. Y., written on plates of gold. 
 In 1830, he published this book; — (it was the very 
 one Spaulding had written, as a Romance, in Scrip- 
 ture style, and Smith now altered). He, with one 
 Sydney Rigdon, agreed together to palm off this 
 fraud on mankind I * * * 
 
 June 27, 1844, Smith was lynched at Xauvoo, 
 111., by 200 men, while trying to escape out of the 
 jail, pierced by 14 bullets. — Rev. Selah Brown, 
 Gospel in All Lands. 
 
 The above is added as a sample of Evidences on 
 which all Faiths not Christian, rest. — Hand Book 
 of the Bible,, 
 
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Urban A. Ohio. Tuesday, Aug. i, 'ji — It wa- here. 
 Bro. Inskip took harm from coup dc Soldi, — sun- 
 stroke. * * * 
 
 Dec. 31 in that year, he writes : — My precious wife. 
 You will be amazed when I tell you that I am cured. 
 * * * We took tea at Dr. Chas. Cullis. He asked 
 me. why don't you ask God to heal you? 
 
 He then read Tas. 5 :i4. etc. A\'e then knelt in 
 Prayer, and glory to God I He fullilled His word." 
 
 Obs. — Mr. Inskip did not wholly trust and take 
 Jesus as the Savior of the body as well as of the 
 Soul; and so, still clung 10 the doctors. — Dr. Levy 
 at this very season, at Ocean Grove, came out 
 against "divine healing^. ' But after a severe ill- 
 ness, and raised up as from death through the 
 Prayer of Faith, was converted, and told us the 
 story of his miraculous cure, giving- glory to God. 
 And we all praised the Lord together. 
 
 At Landisville Camp Meeting, in '72. Joseph 
 Barker renounced infidelity : — repented and believed 
 the Gospel ; and Francis Hodgson was sanctified, 
 and became as zealous for heart purity as he had 
 been, by word and pen. against it. 
 
 (Barker came and spoke of his new found joy 
 in our Holy Meeting. 
 
 During this year. Bro. Inskip and his band trav- 
 eled 20.000 miles, held 600 meetings, reported 1.200 
 conversions and 3,000 sanctified. 
 
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Till January, '75, they conducted Evangelistic 
 Meetings galore, in many of the different states, 
 North, South, East and West. 
 
 Asbury Lowrey and Bro. Hughes had been chosen 
 to represent the Christian Standard and books ; 
 but the business had been going behind, till it was on 
 the verge of bankruptcy. 
 
 It was at this crisal time, that W. C. De Pau, 
 President of the Association, came to the rescue. 
 Bro. Inskip was chosen to be both Editor and Agent, 
 — a herculean task. He continued in this relation, 
 until discharged from such office and Ministry in 
 '84, to rest from his labors, and his mighty works 
 follow him. 
 
 When he entered upon this new relation, there 
 were $30,000 on the real and $12,000 on the floating 
 indebtedness. At his death, these encumbrances 
 had been cleared off. 
 
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Chapter IV. 
 
 Around the World Tour. 
 
 In foreig-n realms and lands remote, 
 Supported by Thy care, 
 
 Throug-h burning- climes, they pass unhurt, 
 And breathe the tainted air. 
 
 It was in response to invitations from over the 
 sea, and the Letter from W. B. Osborne to Bro. 
 Inskip, — which seems to have been as a Macedonian 
 voice to the Leader and his associates, that moved 
 them to contemplate such a heroic Mission. — In 
 truth, we may think of Bro. Osborne as the man of 
 Macedonia, voicing the purpose of Heaven, (using 
 Osborne for Amanuensis) — in that inspired Epistle, 
 — which, €71 passant, Comes in here : — 
 
 Bombay District, Mar. i, '79. — 
 The purpose of this Letter is an Around the World 
 Tour, with your Tabernacle. * * Start for 
 England next Spring. Spend some months in 
 Britain, then to India by way of Europe, holding a 
 Meeting at Rome. Then to, and from Alexandria, 
 a run of two or three weeks to Jerusalem, and other 
 places in Palestine. 
 
 Return to Alexandria, up the Canal, down the Red 
 Sea to Bombay. After a ten days' campaign, then 
 
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by railroad to the northwest, where a Meeting would 
 please the brethren. * * * On to Lucnow or Al- 
 lahabad. Then to Calcutta, where we have from 
 10-1200 in Dr. Thoburn's church. Thence to Madras 
 and on to Australia. Thence to our old battle- 
 ground in the Golden State. Then, after a spring 
 campaign, across the continent via Salt Lake City. 
 Give the twin relics of barbarism another blow. 
 
 Pray over it, and see if God does not sanction this 
 movement. I believe it would accomplish more for 
 the salvation of the world than any other way. 
 
 May God direct and bless you. 
 
 After waiting upon the Lord, assured it was in 
 His order, Bros. Inskip, McDonald, Wood and wives, 
 took passage June 26, 1880, for Liverpool. After 
 holding Meetings in England, rousing up the 
 churches and people of the British Isle, these spirit 
 filled and baptised men and women embarked Oc- 
 tober 19, on the Hispania via of Gibralter, through 
 the Pillars of Hercules, down the Mediterranean to 
 Port Said; through the Red Sea 1200 miles to 
 Aden, over the Indian Ocean 1664 miles to Bom- 
 bay ; arriving Tuesday, November 16. — Bro. Osborne 
 coming forth to hail them. 
 
 The first Sabbath, they all preached and had 
 some at the altar. — Thence, we trace them to Poonah 
 
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November 23. There, after days in the Big Tent, 
 80 were saved. — December 3, we find them back to 
 Bombay. And here, to their mutual joy, they meet 
 Amanda Smith. It was so hot, the place was like 
 an oven. There were 150 in the tent, seeking the 
 Lord at one time. 
 
 December 22, we in turn, follow the apostolic 
 workers to Allahabad, — "City of God," 900 miles 
 North. They took second class fare. The two days 
 and nights it was so chilly, they did not sleep ; the 
 night watches spent in "beating their feet to keep 
 them warm." 
 
 By January 2nd, '81, 80 souls were given them "for 
 their hire." Thence, to the Conference at Bareilly, 
 and on to Lucknow, — so memorable for the siege of 
 the Residency, in the Sepoy rebellion of 1856-7. 
 
 Here they divided. Inskip, Osborne and wives, 
 for Australia ; McDonald, Wood and theirs to return 
 by way of Rome. January 21, '71, we read of In- 
 skip at Calcutta. 
 
 They were in the Land of Veda 88 days, itiner- 
 ated 2622 miles, held 130 meetings, visited two Con- 
 ferences. 
 
 February 12, the two companies boarded their 
 steamer on the same day; one for Australia, the 
 other, from Bombay for England via Port Said. 
 
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May 19, Bro. Inskip bids adieu to Australia. Dur- 
 ing the eight weeks there, they traveled 800 miles, 
 preached 80 times, with harvest of 2500 souls. Bro. 
 Osborne staid behind. 
 
 June 6, Mr. and Mrs. Inskip had covered the blue 
 expanse 7100 miles between, and arrived at Hono- 
 lulu. Tuesday 14th, they reached the Golden Gate. 
 On Wednesday 29th, they were at Ocean Grove, 
 where a blessed, joyful reception awaited them in 
 the Tabernacle, Dr. E. H. Stokes, contributing a 
 poetic welcome home : — 
 
 And are we yet alive, 
 And see each others face. 
 
 Bro. Inskip and wife addressed them, giving a 
 touching account of their long and perilous circum- 
 navigation of the globe, and their Evangelistic work. 
 
 The other party arrived at Rome March 29; 
 thence, after one week, at London. Whence, after 
 2 weeks, May 11, at New York; and a few hours 
 after, were in their New England home, after hav- 
 ing traveled 30,000 miles by sea and land. 
 
 Like as Osborne's Faith, that such an evangelist- 
 ic world around Mission would, even so I believe 
 it has accomplished more for the Christs coming 
 and Kingdom, — using- his own words, — "Than in 
 any other way." — 
 
 Just as the genius and Faith of Columbus, in the 
 discovery of a new world, opened the way and gave 
 
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a new impulse and fresh start to maritime enter- 
 prise among- the nations; so the Faith and work of 
 Osborne and Inskip proximately, waked and roused 
 up others to go forth in obedience to the Master's 
 call and charge to, Go into all the world and "make 
 disciples of all the nations." Amen. 
 
 Chapter V. 
 
 Fought the Good Fight. Finished the Course. 
 
 And in the twilight of Life's day, 
 Voices are calling, "Come away." 
 
 It was at the request of Rev. J. S. Lame, that Mr. 
 and Mrs. Inskip made them a visit October 21, '83. 
 Bro. Inskip preached. It was where he began his 
 ministry half a century before. It was his last de- 
 liverance from the sacred desk. 
 
 Bro. Lame says that he was elastic and playful as 
 a child. It was my son's twenty-first birthday, and 
 he had received a gift. Bro. Inskip made the pre- 
 sentation speech, flashing with humor and flowing 
 with pathos. — He was gifted in Prayer. At the 
 family altar, the fire and fervor of Elijah fell upon 
 him. Every one of us was named with melting 
 tenderness. The glory of his coming translation 
 must have mantled him. My soul was melted and 
 mind almost bewildered, with the grandeur of his 
 thought and langu:ige. 
 
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As reminiscent of the "Scenes of his Childhood," 
 I would here mention Mr. and Mrs. Inskip's visit 
 to M., the place of his spiritual birth. The Smith 
 shop, and house his Father drove him out of, with 
 a— "Beg-one, you ungrateful wretch, etc.;" the Prayer 
 Meeting in the house and conversion of the whole 
 family to God. O what memories were aroused up! 
 The grove was not there now; the people had all 
 passed away. Everything had changed. The scenes 
 and. visions of his boyhood passed afresh in review, 
 as they were to him, more than fifty years before. 
 It was living over again, one of the most thrilling 
 and Interesting periods of his earthly pilgrimage. 
 And 
 
 How dear to this heart 
 Are the scenes of iny childhood ! 
 
 From Round the World in 1881, he would rally 
 from time to time, and continue his work. 
 
 During the last three months of his life, he with 
 Mrs. Inskip, were at Ocean Grove in their favorite 
 Thorn Cottage. And notwithstanding his powers 
 were failing fast, and disabled from his abundant 
 labors, for which he had been so richly endowed 
 both by nature and grace, he still kept his Chris- 
 tion armor bright in the Master's service. Like our 
 Common Lord Jesus Christ, he gave himself no rest. 
 
 In his last illness, among his many personal friends 
 to visit and pray with him, were A. E. Ballard, P. E. ; 
 Bros. Osborne, Hughes, Wallace. 
 
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The course finished, and fought the good fight, 
 the closing scene of the battle-scarred warrior was 
 peaceful, triumphant. At the Thorn Cottage, his 
 earthly home by the sea, the Angel of Death ar- 
 rived Friday, March 7, '84, to transport the spirit of 
 J. S. Inskip across life's troubled sea, to Canaan's 
 peaceful shore, to meet the thousands already there 
 thro his ministry, with Bro. Cookman, and their 
 companions ; and to welcome thousands more, still 
 on their way. 
 
 March 10, from the house of mourning, after the 
 last parting tribute of loving respect, the funeral 
 procession sadly took its way for Greenwood Ceme- 
 tery, N. Y. ; where "Dust to dust," was laid beside 
 that of the sainted father, mother and son, to rest 
 in certain hope of the Resurrection of the dead ; 
 Bros. Wood, Levy, Hughes, Dr. Buckley and S. W. 
 Thomas, officiating. 
 
 Farewell, Bro. Inskip, honored servant of the 
 Lord ; — Dear Friend and Brother, Farewell. — Part- 
 ing words of his biographer Friend, W. McDonald, 
 over the Shades of Bro. Inskip. 
 
 Servant of God, well done, 
 
 Thy glorious warfares past; 
 
 The battles fought, the victory won, 
 
 And thou art Crowned at last. 
 
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G. M. BRODHKAD 
 
BOOK III. 
 
 Chapter I. 
 The Friday Meeting. 
 
 This Meeting- may be thought of as the radial 
 point of the National H. C. M. Association. 
 
 It looks as if the Holiness Camp Meeting was 
 suggested to Bros. Wood, Osborne and Inskip in 
 '66, — Book II, chapter 2, by the Meeting at 1018 
 Arch street. — 
 
 And if this be true, as Bro. Cookman was its 
 father, we may think of and honor his name as 
 having been in such vital, initial relation to the 
 Holiness Movement, also. 
 
 And how does such a view of the genesis and 
 progress of this "Revival," impress our mind in the 
 Parables of Jesus, in the grain of mustard seed and 
 leaven, — in application to the law of progress in 
 His Coming, Kingdom on Earth and personal ex- 
 perience. 
 
 It was rosy June, 1865, when Alfred Cookman had 
 just led a band of men and women, (who, in spirit, 
 I behold washed in the blood of the lamb), who 
 had been meeting in the home of Mrs. Clifton; 
 then in his Spring Garden Church, up into the front 
 (Preachers') Room, 1018 Arch street. 
 
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From December 27, '74, we have been meeting in 
 Wesley Hall, dedicated Friday before. 
 
 In the retrospect, the time in this (rear) room, 
 seems to me but as a dream when one awaketh ; in 
 perspective, so shortened through the vista of those 
 passing years. 
 
 In the days of Cookman and Inskip, (from '67 
 particularly), our Meeting was at its best. Scenes 
 of Pentecostal power and tidal waves of salvation 
 from above, witnessed to and honoring this min- 
 istry, in the doctrine and experience of entire sanc- 
 tification, w^ere frequent. 
 
 Its Founder was in charge till called to Grace 
 Church, Wilmington. — His helpers were J. and Wm. 
 Stocton, R. V. Lawrence, — The earnest Minister; 
 J. A. Wood, A. Longacre, M. A. Day, S. Pancoast, 
 J. H. Alday. 
 
 It was at Manheim in '68, that the fountains of 
 the great deep were broken up. I do not forget the 
 day of fasting and prayer for this ; and add, that 
 no extraordinary work of God is to be looked for, 
 without use of extraordinary means. Amen. 
 
 Lizzie R. Smith has thrilled our hearts with the 
 Story of her Pentecost, she experienced at Manheim. 
 
 With Manheim, our Meeting received new life 
 blood and impulse, and both it and the Association, 
 were in their glory till the death of Bro. Inskip. 
 
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The loss of such a man, was as when a standard 
 bearer fainteth. And notwithstanding the zeal of 
 some cooled down, like as in the Reformation, and 
 Revival under Luther and the Wesleys, after thcjn, 
 lived on ; so the gospel fire they kindled, unquench- 
 able in its immortality, burned on. 
 
 So Cookman, Inskip and associates started holy, 
 divine fire in multitudes of souls, not only in 
 America, but in Europe, Asia and Africa. 
 
 Bro. Inskip was both physically and mentally, 
 strong. His will, commensurate with his Faith in 
 God, enabled him to become a Leader and Com- 
 mander of the People. On the camp ground, his 
 voice would ring out like a trumpet. 
 
 Alfred Cookman had finished his course in '71, — 
 and was now at rest from his labors. 
 
 I remember his last calls at Adam Wallace's 
 Umbrella tent at Ocean Grove, as a champion fresh 
 from the field of battle, in all the armor of his God 
 — just after Urbana and Marthas Vineyard, his last 
 Camp Meeting's. 
 
 In the conduct of our Meeting, Bro. Cookman 
 would give us a brief Lesson, to direct and inspire 
 our mind thought, — so helpful. Then the witness- 
 ing, voluntary, and as the ''Spirit moved." 
 
 And this I trow, is the divine order. For how 
 else can the Holy Spirit have the right of way in 
 man? — And no one not in, or seeking the grace of 
 
perfect love, is a fit person to preach to the inner 
 circles of the Christ's holy church. For 
 
 Without this holy fire, this sacred chrism, 
 The preaching- is but fine wrought mechanism. 
 
 There has been much love, unity and fellowship of 
 the Spirit in our Meeting, from the first. 
 
 Our reunions in September, and Conventions later, 
 bringing together the consecrated talent of the As- 
 sociation, both ministers and lay ; — Presbyterian, 
 Baptist, Episcopal, "Quaker," have been times of re- 
 freshing from the Lord. 
 
 Many thousands of sinners converted, ministers 
 and church members ''cleansed from all sin," and 
 hundreds raised up and started forth in soul saving 
 ministries, thro this new "Holiness Movement." 
 Glory Hallelujah ! 
 
 In the bright succession, with the leading spirits 
 who have gone on before, but left their impress 
 upon mind and heart of their hearers, dead and 
 living (after those already named), were: Revs. 
 G. Hughes and Lowry, Atwood, Osborne, Gather, 
 Brindle, Stubbs, Meredith, Coffman. Friends Upde- 
 graff, Dougan Clark, Flitcraft. Deacon Morse. 
 
 Of the holy women In Mcmoriam, pass before us 
 in procession : — Mrs. Clifton, Anna Reed, Sisters 
 Purnell and Editha Lewis, Miss Potter, (hiding her 
 name under her nom de plume Juniata), Misses 
 
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Clark and Nettie Vanname, Mrs. Boyle, S. L. Keen, 
 H. W. Smith, Miss Lizzie Sharp, Sarah Boyd, Annie 
 Clement, — of Bethesda Orphans' Home. 
 
 Fond loving memory associates Sisters Purnell and 
 Lewis as our sweetest singers in the sixties ; while the 
 Mrs. Hoffman, Fitch Cranmer, Evangelists, as angel 
 visitors — (tho not so few and far between), so 
 gifted in song, come in to sing for Jesus. And such 
 singers ! Hall Mack & Co., also. 
 
 J. H., Lizzie R., and Amanda and Jennie Smith, a 
 blessed family and name ; McBride, Dolbo, Hyde, 
 Wm. Grum and Mother, Trumbauer, Kenney, Baus- 
 man, Hoose, Goff, Ridout, Hammel, Cavanaugh, 
 Hartzell, Maybury, S. A. Zuber, have been coming 
 from time to time, bringing Jesus in with them. 
 
 Of those chosen to preach to us, I feel like honor- 
 ing the Rev. C. A. Tindley here, — called the black 
 S'purgeon of Philada. 
 
 After the death of Bro. Inskip, our Meeting was 
 in charge of W. L. Gray, Pepper, Thompson and 
 Levy successively; till, through increasing infirmi- 
 ties, the editors of the Christian Standard, Pepper 
 and Thompson, retired. 
 
 Bro. Thompson finished his course at Mountain 
 Lake Park, — his favorite Meeting (which he found- 
 ed), Aug. 3, '99, when his vision — obscured by cata- 
 racts, opened upon a world of light and glory. 
 
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Oct. 5, IQOO, — after our Meeting, was organized 
 the Philada. Holiness Association, Drs. Levy and 
 Pepper Presidents, Sister Kenney Sec'y, Amelia 
 Stewart, treasurer. 
 
 Our reunion *'Love Feast Home Coming," on 
 our return from 13th St. Church Sept. 23, '04, was 
 a day of joy and gladness. Wesley Hall mean- 
 time, had been renovated for our reception. 
 
 At the close, Dr. Levy laid holy hands on G. M. 
 Brodhead, to be his successor ; afterward confirmed 
 by our Resident Bishop McCabe. 
 
 Bro. Pepper had gone to Gainesville, Fla., in 
 December ; and at 76, March 9, '08, was not, for 
 God took him. — We were born the same year, were 
 much alike, drawing us closer together. 
 
 As Pastor, Editor, Teacher, Evangelist, O Bro. 
 Pepper, thro all ; — the toil, trials, dangers, in delicate 
 health, but in the strength which God supplies, you 
 have won a name like the ''brother whose praise is in 
 all the Churches." 
 
 Our new appointee came on, Friday Jan. 6 1905, 
 and the place w^as again filled. 
 
 Dr. B.. like our Founder, brings with him versa- 
 tility of talent, is well rounded out and full of the 
 Spirit. We fell in love with him for his works 
 sake, and are called upon to reconsecrate ourselves 
 to the Captain of our Salvation. 
 
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With this new departure, came also a change in 
 the conduct of our Meeting; — the time given mostly 
 to Preaching. As to the wisdom of this, there are 
 two views : — Some with the leader, thinking to in- 
 crease the interest and attendance thereby. And 
 also. Christian Perfection more popular (in the right 
 sense), in the Churches. — Others, that even in the 
 holiness preaching, there is not that which more 
 inspires the artesian depths of man's spiritual nature, 
 than the clean cut deliverances of its live witnesses; 
 — along with the blessed fellowship and intercom- 
 munion felt in such interchanges. — Nevertheless, the 
 doctrine and experience, — promoting of Holiness, as 
 Bro. B. believes to be the end of such a Meeting, 
 has been well and ably advocated. 
 
 Our new Presidents, Revs. S. B. Goff and John 
 J. Hunt, with Secretary O. R. Heinze and Treasurer 
 F. N. Hoose, are herewith assured of our Prayers 
 and Sympathies. 
 
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NOTES FROM MY JOURNAL.— SUPPLE- 
 MENTARY. 
 
 CHAPTER IL 
 
 7, 4, 1874. — The Methodist Home Journal has been 
 purchased by the National HoHness Camp Meeting 
 Association, and changed to the Christian Standard — 
 at 921 Arch Street. 
 
 II, 2. — Phoebe Palmer died this day, Monday, of 
 Brights disease. Her "Crowning Testimony" is 
 grand. 
 
 Mrs. Palmer was the most consecrated, inspired, 
 richly and variedly endowed woman, evangelist, 
 teacher and writer, I have known. Her Faith in 
 God and sway over mind, were noticeable. 
 
 Her Four years in the Old World, with Dr. 
 Palmer, gave them 20,000 converted and sanctified. 
 She bore the banner of Holiness at the fore, under 
 fire from some, with a steady hand; and was one 
 of them who set in motion the Holiness Movement 
 of 1867. 
 
 The Guide to Holiness was at its best while she 
 lived. Her Way of Holiness, Faith and its Effects, 
 etc., were as Tongues of fire, — inspiring, Gospel 
 Evangels. 
 
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THE AUTHOR'S I.IKENESS 
 
12, 3, '75' — 921 Arch Street has been purchased 
 by the Association to pubHsh the Christian Standard, 
 and for the book business. 
 
 20, Mon. — Wesley Hall is dedicated this blessed 
 day. 
 
 I, 4, '76. — Obliged, — wife and I, to go from our 
 Meeting today, on account of the Press. 
 
 10, 21, '76 — The subject of greatest interest in our 
 city home this Centennial year, hovers around the 
 coming of the Revivalists, D. L. Moody and Ira D. 
 Sankey, opening their commission in the Old Shell 
 depot, 13th & Market st., this day. 
 
 'Their sound" has gone forth round about. The 
 people have heard the Report, and are coming to 
 the Meeting, even from distant cities, towns, ham- 
 lets, to see and hear what God is doing in our 
 midst. — 12000 inside & as many outside, in the 8 
 A. M. & P. M. Meetings, is the report in the daily 
 papers. 
 
 The city is moved by the Praying, preaching, Sing- 
 ing in the depot. The Pentecostal flame is being 
 kindled anew in our hearts. Hundreds are being 
 converted, reclaimed, sanctified. O how the people's 
 hearts have been tuned to singing the Moody & 
 Sankey Hymns ! And we are reminded of the Re- 
 
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vival started l)y J. C. Lanphier in the Fulton St. 
 Prayer Meeting, in 1857. 
 
 7, 18, '80— Miss Maggie A. Potter left us for 
 her Heavenly home Sunday, nth inst. 
 
 Sister Potter is the subject of one of the 
 finest In Memoriams by her Pastor, Enoch 
 Stubbs, I have ever seen. It is in Our Golden 
 Scrap-Book, along with that of Mrs. Editha W. 
 Lewis and Mary B. Cookman. 
 
 While that of Sister Lewis and the Mother of 
 "Alfred" are beautiful, Juniata, on account of 
 our nearer acquaintance, beginning in '67, has 
 an element of loveliness not in the others. We 
 met in the office of the Home Journal and Friday 
 Meeting. She was our best Reporter, and fol- 
 lowed the Pillar of Cloud North, South, East and 
 West, — along with Bro. Inskip and his holy band. 
 Sister Potter was of medium height, modest, 
 humble, if not also retiring in her ways ; classic 
 form and features. The face beautiful from re- 
 flection of inward adornings. 
 
 The flash of her eye was peculiar, lighting up 
 her countenance. Like Mary at the Masters feet, 
 she also had learned of Him. 
 
 Farewell Dear Friend and Sister Potter, we 
 shall meet again. 
 
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12 3, — Mary Barton Cookman went over lifes 
 troubled Sea to rejoin her husband, Saturday morn- 
 ing at dawn, this date. 
 
 It was on a visit to Hull, that Miss Barton met 
 Rev. Mr. Cookman. An ardent, romantic fire of 
 love was kindled, which burned on unquenchable 
 in the hearts candelabrum, thro life and time. — 
 They were married April 2, 1827, and embarked for 
 America next day. 
 
 Mrs. Cookman would tell the sweet story of her 
 love in later years, to the young people about her. — 
 She was convicted of the necessity of the new birth, 
 under the preaching of Leigh Richmond. She was 
 more than a year passing thro the shadow of her 
 husbands death, till in 1843, in Eutaw Street Church, 
 Baltimore, while at the Lords table, (like Susannah 
 Wesley), she also, received the witness of the 
 Spirit ; — in her case, to her sanctification. 
 
 She was as one who waited for her loves return, 
 and to the end of life would say; — (O how sol- 
 emnly pathetic!) ''George went away yesterday; he 
 tarries today; tomorrow, he will return." — Her last 
 days were at the home of her Son, John E. It was 
 at the tea table, she threw up her hands and would 
 have fallen backwards, but for loving hands that 
 bore her up. 
 
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It is a noticeable coincidence in the Cookman Family, 
 that both the father and, son finished their course so 
 early: — George in 1841 and Alfred in 18 71, and so 
 near the same stage. And that their two wives, — 
 Mary B. and Annie B., — ("Annie" now dying at 89), 
 both outlived them so long ; as far beyond their hus- 
 bands funeral, as they lived from their nativity. 
 
 6, 3, '83. — $6.50 more, were added in the Meeting 
 today, to help and cheer Dear Mrs. Inskip in her 
 Calcutta Girls School. 
 
 6, 15, '84. — Our Leader Gray asked Bro. Gather to 
 open with Prayer, Friend Flitcraft and Bp. Taylor 
 to close. Our African Bishop told us he had been 
 two hours with Bishop Simpson, sick since General 
 Conference. He also told us how God had heard his 
 prayer in raising him up from dying, at Pittsburg, 
 26 years ago.* 
 
 10, 7. — Mary D. James, nee Yard, died last week 
 at the home of Mrs. W. L. Palmer, in her chair. 
 This dear Saint was a true and a tried follower of 
 Jesus, through all her life Mission work, of un- 
 daunted courage for the right. When opposed by 
 her husband, who was of another mind, her resort 
 
 * It was in a Conference at Mt. Vernon, Bp. Jaynes 
 presiding, where the California St. preacher was called 
 upon to 1-ead in the Prayer. The story from the pen 
 of Bp. Bowman, is thrilling, — even like that of the 
 raising of Jairus daughter. 
 
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was to God upon her knees before him, — to conquer. 
 She was intimate with the Palmers, and much in 
 their companionship. 
 
 Her "Fifty Years Walk with Jesus," in the Guide, 
 came as heart talks to its readers. — Mrs. James was 
 also related to the late D. James, M. D., of our 
 Green Street Church. 
 
 II, 19, '94. — Spoke first time in Meeting today, 
 since that wonderful experience in our Hospital, — 
 *'My Hospital Days," — Friday Sept. 28 — Saturday, 
 Oct. 13, 1894- 
 
 This, as recorded in my Diary, was, I think, the 
 most triumphant experience of my life, to both body 
 and soul. Never received such a baptism of the 
 Holy Spirit and uplift, before. And it was through 
 the baptism of suffering, such life to me, was to 
 come. 
 
 I took Jesus in with me. Sought the "inner 
 chamber" for Prayer. Preached the Christ to doc- 
 tor, nurse, patient; and expect to have my infidel 
 servant, Francis Chevalier, a star in my crown. 
 
 The mystery of suffering, — the course of grief and 
 sorrow in and through our heart and life, may be 
 likened to the fervid lava tide from the throat of the 
 volcano ; consuming, melting, refining everything in its 
 course;— the materials in its path, purified by fire, 
 never again to return to corruption. And the more fer- 
 vent this fiery baptism, the purer and more enduring 
 the resultant is to be. 
 
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So it is, the love of God is as a consuming, refining 
 fire to soul and body — 
 
 Is this the consecrated dower, 
 Thy chosen ones obtain? * * * 
 
 6, II, '96. — At our ''Home" anniversary today, in 
 allusion to my words on having kept a Journal from 
 the day I set out for God and Heaven at W., New 
 Jersey, Dec, '51, John Thompson said he regretted 
 that he also, had not kept such a life Record. 
 
 3, 4, '97. — Doctor Levy leads now, since Bro. 
 Thompson has gone into the Hospital for the "Cata- 
 racts." 
 
 His theme was "A Vision of Heaven," symbolized 
 by a royal Banquet. How the Spirit helped ug all ! 
 
 June, '97. — Adjourned to The Harvesters Mission, 
 and God has given me great joy over the return of 
 John Carson today. O glory to Jesus ! One more 
 Star for the crowning day. — Bro. Carson had been 
 one of Dr. Peppers standard bearers in Central 
 Church. He told me I was the only one who helped 
 him to rise again. 
 
 9, 30, '98. — Went in heaviness to Wesley Hall, but 
 enabled to speak, perhaps, as never before. A man 
 then bowed at the altar, and two women came. One 
 was converted. 
 
 2, 2, 1900. — Was so helped to speak today, that all 
 were moved and bore witness that it was the Spirit 
 
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speaking in me. All were melted down and brought 
 nearer to one another, in the Lord. O bless the 
 Lord, my soul ! 
 
 4, 6. — The Master of Assemblies was present in 
 person, to inspire Doctor Levy, (he does best when 
 alone). Bro. Dolbo, two reformed debauchees, Clara 
 Boyd, myself and others, as scarce ever seen in our 
 Meeting. O the liberty, life and love that God 
 gave us ! 
 
 5, 27, 1900. — Analysing a passing trial of Faith : — 
 
 1. There has been an absence of joy and sense 
 of Gods presence ; an unutterable longing after Him 
 to hear again the voice of the Bridegroom of my 
 disconsolate soul. 
 
 2. Am led to self examination, through the doubts 
 and fears which assail and harass my wounded spirit 
 and weak body ; which as usual, in connection with 
 other things "common to man," is the occasion of 
 my spiritual conflicts, depression, etc. — But I am not 
 ignorant of Satans devices. 
 
 3. Ive felt let down towards zero, of little ac- 
 count with God or man ; a poor, weak example of 
 the Christ life. — (I had of late, started afresh to 
 illustrate the life of my Dear Lord, in spirit, word 
 and deed) ; as if slighted, given the cold shoulder 
 by some. 
 
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4- Fears of losing the light and joy of the Lord, 
 but determined to wait upon my God in His ap- 
 pointed ways, for His return in renewed clearness 
 of the Spirits witness. I have once more been with 
 Jesus in Gethsemane, — to Calvary, and been reading 
 ''A Dark Day in the Happy Islands/' — "Thou 
 didst hide Thy face, and I was troubled." Why art 
 thou cast down, O my soul | * * * Hope thou in 
 God, for I shall yet praise Him. Ps. 42 15. 
 
 2, 22, '02. — Our Pentecostal Reunion at 13th Street 
 Church. — And what a day! Rain for twenty-four 
 hours, freezing and encrusting the snow. "An awful 
 day." Not such phenomenal weather in my lifes day, 
 — 70 years. Trees being denuded of their branches, 
 — encrusted, and snapping off in city and country. 
 Some bowed down, uprooted and even split — The 
 ground bestrewed with the debris of falling limbs. 
 Business interrupted or suspended, telegraph wires 
 falHng. 
 
 5, 9. — As an illustration of "Many men of many 
 minds," we have had, along in our Meeting, some 
 diversity ; — (which, for the reader also, may prove 
 to be a Junket, or a "spice of life.") 
 
 There was a Father Manks, who seemed to feel it his 
 duty to speak first and sing ; one Of Bro. Peppers 
 "perpetual pop ups." I think he was called a crank. 
 
 Then, from time to time, a little German, who 
 exhorts, preaches, rambles. His odd, original words, 
 making some laugh. Is wholly consecrated to God. 
 Feels he must preach (in his way). Has had a Wagon, 
 opened a Mission. Stones, rotten eggs etc., have not 
 
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discouraged the love of Jesus in my Dear Friend, Bro. 
 Wr. God bless you. 
 
 Next, an old friend, so curt, proverbial in his words 
 and ways. Is the loudest in our company (unless it 
 be Rev. Ts., a Free Methodist, whose Glory to 
 God ! Hallelujah ! ! the deaf do not need a trumpet 
 to hear). To sum up, in his own words, "There is but 
 one J. Ws. in the world." 
 
 A. J. Dolbo, everybody knows. He is of all others, 
 the most explosive, volcanic. A living miracle. Yes, 
 his Autobiography reveals him as a miracle of grace. 
 
 Now and then, a little Bro. C, who thinks God has 
 commissioned him to preach to us, and everybody else. 
 Speaks in a nasal tone. Is combative, seems to be 
 fighting his way to Heaven. Has had Several ''rounds'* 
 with the leaders. 
 
 On such constitutional, congenital idiofeyhcrasies, they 
 may only last till this mortal puts on immortality. 
 
 9, 12. — It was with a soi'rowful heart, that we read 
 of the death of dear Bro; Osbonle, caught and borne 
 on the cow catcher "six miles," dying on the 4th 
 inst. 
 
 We had renewed acquaintance at National Park 
 Camp Meeting, where Dr. Joseph Wardle said 
 to him, I believe you will get to Heaven. I re- 
 spoiided, With many stars in your Crowrl ; little 
 thinking that in less than two weeks, — Sept. 4 at 
 10.30 A. M., Bro. Osborne would have been carried 
 to the skies, there to reunite with Bro. Inskip, — • 
 
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And they, who with their Leader, 
 Have conquered' in the fight 
 
 * 4s * * >|i 4t 
 
 With shoutings each other to greet. 
 Triumphant o'er sorrow and death. 
 
 Rough and original as a quarry stone, Osborne 
 was a great man, if not also a genius. 
 
 He was not only the founder of Ocean Grove 
 Camp Meeting and the moving spirit with Bro. 
 Wood, in the Holiness C. M. (He with Bro. Inskip 
 in '66, had pledged themselves to have at least two 
 tents on the ground, — Bk. 11, C. II) ; But started 
 the Round the World tour also, in i88o. 
 
 3, 6. — Found my way in weakness, to our Meeting. 
 H. C. McBride led us all out and up in the Spirit, 
 on John i6: 24. He set out with telling us all, that 
 there are $200,000,000 in European banks unclaimed. 
 The depositors, books, etc., dead or wanting. The 
 application to the goodness of God and mans needs, 
 — O how instructive, suggestive the Lesson! 
 
 10, 3. — The presence of Amanda Smith in our 
 Meeting today, was as an angel visit ; and her black 
 face only seemed to light up the room, as her words 
 and singing rekindled the gospel fire in our hearts. 
 God bless Sister Smith and her late Orphans Home 
 in Harvey, Ills. 
 
 In allusion to those women in Exodus, who feared 
 God down in Egypt, He has provided for this woman 
 
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also, a beautiful home residence at Sebring, Fla. — 
 ''The Land of Flowers," to bless and crown her last 
 days with goodness. 
 
 Called of Jesus, — a poor wash-woman, to "Follow 
 Me," and given herself to the Masters service both in 
 her native land and Africa, Sister Smith has been 
 honored and sustained, to behold the wonderful good- 
 ness of the Lord in the land of the living." 
 
 II, 6. — Was enabled to walk to St. Georges — the 
 funeral of William L. Gray, 80. Fifty-two years in 
 the gospel ministry. It was a very Solemn memorial 
 service. — Bro. Gray was concise, conscientious, pre- 
 cise ; but some called it sternness. Our Meeting was, 
 certainly, about at its pitch of interest, while he was 
 over it ; and vv^hen no longer able, he laid his mantle, 
 • — in the presence of us all, on Dr. Levy. 
 
 Dr. Wardles winter visits, — his coming among us, 
 praying and speaking so in the Spirit, we thank God 
 and bless him for. He comes from the G. B. 
 Institute — my Alma Abater, Evanston, Ills. 
 
 9, 15, '05. — Dr. Brodheads Lesson today, — Josh i : 
 9, Moses charge to Joshua, in allusion to himself 
 coming to us in the room of Bros. Pepper and 
 Thompson, was both as able and happily applied, 
 as it was timely. 
 
 3, 23, '06. — Our blessed resident Bishop McCabe, 
 filled and thrilled the place and people, in our Meet- 
 ing today. 
 
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II 3, — We this Saturday, as sorrowful yet rejoic- 
 ing, have been called to the funeral services over 
 the mortal remains of our late esteemed and beloved 
 Leader, Edgar M. Levy. — From his 21st, for 63 
 years, a v^orkman in the Lords Vineyard v^ho needed 
 not to be ashamed. 
 
 He entered into the v^ay of Holiness, then our 
 Meeting, and pubHshed his experience in a Tract, 
 'Trom Bondage to Freedom," soon after. 
 
 He was, like Alfred Cookman, one of the most 
 Christlike characters and Ministers, among us ; and 
 we all feel the loss of such a man, and sympathize 
 with the stricken wife, left to await her turn to 
 respond to the Masters call — to meet each other 
 again in Heaven. 
 
 In hope it may meet her eye, I herewith add a 
 verse of one of her departed's closing life-day 
 hymns, — so pathetic : — 
 
 The friends g-one on before me, 
 Are calling from on high;* * * 
 Why wait they say, and wither, 
 Mid scenes of death and sin? 
 O rise to glory hither, 
 And find true life begin. 
 
 12, 19. — Our favorite Bishop McCabe has been taken 
 away from us, to rejoin and reign with his brother 
 Bishops, — who have passed on before. 
 
 Permit me to add, that from our first acquaint- 
 ance, that crisp New Years morning in '71 ; when, 
 
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arm in arm, we walked, (wife with him), to old 
 Trinity Church; where, from Est. 4: 14— Who know- 
 eth but thou art come to the kingdom, etc., he struck 
 fire in our hearts. 
 
 He was as a brother and friend. His heart and 
 purse, open to help everybody. Our last Meeting,— 
 at the Hotel Normandie, I will not forget; I was 
 asked to dine with them, and also, to let him know 
 if ever in want of money. 
 
 5/ 31, '07.— Miss Clara Boyd shone in the Lesson 
 today, on Let this mind be in you. It was one of 
 the most jubilant Meetings in all the 42 years of its 
 life. Bros. Hoople, Bamford, Oakes, Brodhead, 
 present. 
 
 4, 28, '11. — Willie Huff, sent us by Bro. Ridout, 
 so raised the Meeting today on. Let this mind be in 
 you ; — reminding me of Seth Reece, years before, 
 (tho in treatment and effect on us, so different), 
 when we were so broken up and melted down, re- 
 minding one of an army that had been killed and 
 wounded in battle. Don't such preaching suggest 
 how the words of the Son of Man must have moved 
 the listening thousands, in His day? 
 
 2, 24. — Amos Johnson on, Now we see in a glass 
 darkly, was Apostolic. He told us his chief desire 
 
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was to be so pure, that he might see God face to 
 face. 
 
 4, 6. — I said to our Leader, I came here today, 
 feeHng cold in body, but have been warmed up, 
 soul and body. Glory to Jesus for His Pentecostal 
 fire ! — And it is Love that provides its own fuel, 
 kindles its own fire ; and is, like the sun, self 
 feeding. 
 
 3, 9, 12. — Wesley Hall renewed at last, the $900, 
 through the Preachers wives mostly, well applied. — 
 Rich, green carpet, electric lights, O what a bless- 
 ing to the eye and joy to the heart! It makes us 
 feel to stand on higher, holier ground and in a 
 clearer light. We Methodists, ought not to have 
 been below Presbyters and Baptists, in the 
 esthetics, (at least), of our worship. — It would have 
 been joy to Dr. Levy, to have seen this, a long 
 desired wish, gratified. 
 
 I, 10, '13. — Our new resident Bishop, Jos. F. Berry, 
 was greeted with the fullest house and largest rep- 
 resentation from city and country, perhaps, since 
 the days of Cookman and Inskip. 
 
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IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 4, 7, '89.— The death of Mrs. EDITHA LEWIS', 
 Columbus, O., April, this date, and glowing tribute 
 from her Pastor L. D. McCabe, in the Christian 
 Advocate, are deserving of a fuller notice than our 
 space will permit. 
 
 Mrs. Lewis was born 1825, at Annapolis, Md. She 
 was kin to John Randolf of Roanoke. 
 
 From our first acquaintance, and then hearing her 
 in our meeting in '65-6, till she went to Columbus, I 
 was impressed both with the woman and her gifts. 
 Her singing was an inspiration in our Upper Room. 
 She was both majestic and pleasing in person, if 
 not also, a genius. 
 
 At Columbus, she gave her time and talents to 
 Jesus in prison and Mission Work. — She taught that 
 absolute obedience to God and His Word, in every 
 relation in life, is the standard and condition for 
 holy living and service for gospel ministries. Amen. 
 And this, in turn, cost Sister Lewis much sacrifice 
 and suffering. 
 
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Like as Florence Xightingale won the title of The 
 Angel of the Crimea, so this woman, that of The 
 Angel of the Prison, at Columbus. 
 
 She was singularly furnished as a Teacher, sav- 
 ior and helper of others. She read the Bible throtigh 
 nine times on her knees, with pencil and ink 
 beside it. 
 
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GLIMPS'ES WITHIN THE VAIL 
 
 Sept. 6, 1896. — Lords Day — The experience of 
 Thursday morning last, when for two hours I lay 
 as under the premonitory feeling that the mortal 
 conflict of life's warfare, were ending — (I had passed 
 through all the exercises, thoughts and feelings of 
 the dying Christian), suggests the above. 
 
 Heart and eyes since Wednesday, have been break- 
 ing and overflowing with the thoughts and impulses 
 of going home to Heaven. So little, save what per- 
 tains to the Hand-Book and other unfinished inter- 
 ests, to live for, or this world worthy of. 
 
 Meanwhile, interlusively, the day impressed me 
 as an eventful one ; — news of the death of a bro.- 
 in-law, of the funeral, etc., came into my room, — 
 Mrs. A. off for the funeral. I ate a little at 
 12 M., in bed. At 2 P. M., was at Dear Dr. 
 W.'s — It is wonderful how, in sickness even, Fm 
 helped of Jesus to arise and attend to necessary 
 duties. 
 
 I've been on the borders of Heaven, in Beulah 
 land, on the banks of the River. My heart betimes, 
 is unutterably filled ; praying, singing, weeping ; 
 
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while anon, a sense of unspeakable sadness and sor- 
 row, sweeps over m}- soul. I walk on holier ground. 
 Nearer my God to Thee. Every word and act. has 
 a higher, holier meaning. I live for Jesus as never 
 before. 
 
 Alone with God since Friday, how sweet and 
 quiet ! While standing in the back yard, heavenly 
 forms and faces from above, seemed to beckon with 
 outstretched hands, saying : 
 
 John, come home, — John, come home ! 
 
 Thursday, April 12, 1900. — The scenes in the Life 
 of Jesus, From the Annunciation to His Ascension, 
 in our Church this night, have made an impression 
 on my spiritual nature, never to be effaced ; height- 
 ened the more, as exhibited in Passion Week, some 
 parts having happened this very day. My heart and 
 eyes overflowed with wonder, love and praise. — O 
 it was ravishing ! — 
 
 The angel, coming in to Mary, her attitude, and 
 effect upon her mind at Gabriels words ; the holy 
 quiet, beauty, order, love, illustrated in the car- 
 penter shop ; — Joseph at the work bench ; Mary with 
 the child Jesus, coming in ; Joseph turning round, 
 taking up the lad in arms and tenderly kissing him. 
 — O this part affected me, of that for which mans 
 
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nature above all, beside, craves in such a world as 
 this, — Love at home. 
 
 The Temptation, — the devil appearing to the 
 Christ in a bodily shape, laying his hands upon the 
 Son of God, to take and shov^ him the kingdoms 
 of this world ; only in turn to be met face to face, 
 overcome, and then with head fallen, slink away 
 and disappear from view, in the background. 
 
 The "Last Supper," Gethsemane, the arrest, trial, 
 crucifixion, burial, Resurrection, Ascension. — O what 
 glimpse visions of Jehovah, His power, wisdom, love, 
 were unfolded to my Faith this night ! 
 
 Throughout the "Scenes," from first to last, my 
 eye was fixed on Jesus, as in the foreground ; and it 
 was the vision and revelation of Himself, that in- 
 spired the following verses : — 
 
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I HAVE SEEN THE LORD. 
 
 I've seen the L.ord, O wondrous grace! 
 That heavenly form and blessed face; 
 Hew ravished was my soul that night! 
 For days I walked in Heaven's own light. 
 
 Through veils of sense I've seen His face. 
 And Time can ne'er that sight efface ; 
 And since I've seen that form divine, 
 I've longed for Him to brighter shine. 
 
 By Faiths clear eye, to me was given 
 To see the Christ, the Lord from Heaven ; 
 The minds ideal before me stood, 
 The divine Man, — the Son of God. 
 
 A holy hush came down on me. 
 And more like Him. I felt to be : 
 There dawned that night, a brighter day 
 On me : The Life, the Truth, the Way. 
 
 I praised the Lord for such a \'iew. 
 Apocalypse and ^^sion true : 
 With Paul. I now in deed as word 
 Can say, that I have seen the Lord. 
 
 O the peace, the joy, the power. 
 Came to my life that Sacred hour! 
 Jesus can make the joy bells ring. 
 The wilderness to bloom and sing. 
 
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II. 
 
 What strength of Faith and fire of love 
 From God, He brought us from above! 
 We for His sake count all things loss, 
 And joyfully Sustain the Cross. 
 
 Christ is the true Prometheon fire 
 From Heaven^ all mankind to inspire, — 
 Burn every soul with Jesus love, 
 In Earth below and Heaven above. 
 
 I'll follow Jesus where He leads, 
 He will provide for all my needs. 
 He is my Shepherd, Brother, Friend, 
 My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End. 
 
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GOD IN SECOND AS WELL AS' FIRST 
 CAUSES 
 
 8, I, '04— Fkom the pen of H. W. Smith in the 
 February Consecrated Life, comes to me, Hke a new 
 star, if not also a sweet surprise, being a fresh 
 view of the Scripture teaching that God is not only 
 in first, but also second causes, in the Christian 
 life. 
 
 She heard a lady stranger in a Meeting relate 
 a vision she had, which confirmed her Faith in this 
 doctrine, — after perplexing trials through the second 
 causes, (Slie had asked of God to show her on this). 
 Then, after a state of darkness, she saw a body of 
 light approach and envelope her. Then a voice, 
 "This is the Presence of God." Next, she saw the 
 evils and trials of life in perspective, but was made 
 to feel easy on finding that not a Lion could devour, 
 or bullet fly thro the air to hit her, while abiding 
 in this Presence, however thin it might be, unless it 
 parted to let it pass through. 
 
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Then she was shown all the lesser evils and trials, 
 daily annoyances, griefs, etc., that they could have 
 no power to move or hurt, while abiding in this 
 Presence or light of God. 
 
 How this both suggests and impresses our mind 
 with the Immanence of Jehovah ! That God is back 
 of, in and through all, second as well as first causes. 
 
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ON RENEWING A FIRE 
 Even our "daily round," may thus, — with Prayer and 
 thanl^sgiving-, be made a means of grace. — 
 
 Now I'd feel Thy Sacred fire, 
 
 Kindling, flaming, glowing ; 
 Rising higher and still higher. 
 
 All my soul o'erflowing. 
 Life immortal I receive, 
 
 O the wondrous story! 
 I was dead but now I live, 
 
 Glory, glory, glory! 
 
 ON WINDING A CLOCK 
 O Thou great Architect of the Heavens and 
 Earth, Who from the beginning hast ordained the 
 sun, moon and stars, to run on in beauteous order, 
 chiming out through the ages, the seasons and years, 
 — the chronometers of our day and night. 
 
 Even as I wind up this time piece for our guid- 
 ance and help, so O my God, the Holy Ghost, with 
 Thy hand upon me, my soul and bodys powers, in- 
 spire, tone up the mainspring of my will ; my Faith, 
 hope and Love, to run on in harmony with Thy 
 purpose in and through me, even as it is in the 
 sidereal heavens, which declare Thy glory and show- 
 forth Thy handy w^ork. Amen. 
 This Prayer I make in Jesus name. 
 
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CONCLUSION. 
 
 From July 4, 1874, the Christian Standard has 
 been the Organ of the HoHness Movement, and the 
 leading? Evangel of its class, in America. 
 
 The "Plant" was transferred to Gainesville, Fla., 
 about the time Dr. Pepper removed to that place. 
 
 It was in much favor while under the aegis of 
 its joint Editors, Dr. Pepper and John Thompson. 
 
 It now goes under the name of the Christian 
 Standard and Guide to Holiness, with its base at 
 Upland, la., where the Taylor University is, and 
 where it was changed from Gainesville, July 12, 1812. 
 —All hail !— 
 
 And now, along with our thanks to the Standard 
 Company and '*Bro. Will," for serving us weekly 
 with its numbers, under difficulties, and serving their 
 ''List" below cost — ^$1 a year. — The sacrifice from 
 $1.50, to increase its usefulness, — a work of Faith 
 and labor of loz'e. 
 
 It is right and meet for us to join with the 
 Standard Family and lovers of its teaching, in 
 thanksgiving to God, for having opened its way to 
 Upland, — (a debaiichure its Editor, Dear Bro. Dun- 
 ham, had been longing for), to a more central point, 
 for enlarged facilities and usefulness, both in the 
 Church and to the University itself. 
 
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The New Departure has proved to be in Gods 
 order, and prophetic of Heavens approval and bless- 
 ing for its future, — as under the Personnel of its 
 new, consecrated Editors and Manager. 
 
 Voicing the call of our beloved Editors, burdened 
 with responsibilities, it is the duty of every sub- 
 scriber and its friends, to help them keep it a going; 
 lest God should take our blessing from us and give 
 it to others. 
 
 The writer wishes to congratulate, — (sharing in 
 the joy felt over the change), its Editorial S'taff, 
 our Editor in Chief at Delaware, O., with Pro- 
 fessor Wray, and Vayhinger, its Manager, Presi- 
 dent of Taylor University; — (himself looking to be 
 the incarnation of nobility itself), — assuring of our 
 Prayers for them, — all on the Paper, books, and 
 for the Teachers and Students. 
 
 THE END 
 
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