This book explores whether or not there is a principle or nature of sin left in the soul after regeneration.

The stories and sketches composing "Pen Pictures" I have written as I did ''Pastoral Sketches" and "A Journey to Palestine," with a view to interest, while benefiting the head and heart of the reader. In my judgment it is my best literary work. At the same time there is scarcely a chapter but has a moral or religious point, and so presented as to abide in the memory and affect the life. Flashlight revelations of character, the law of con- science, the power of human influence, kindness to animals, consideration for children, pity for the unfortunate, and many other lessons of life are taught...

The types and symbols of the Old Testament evidently contain as deep a spiritual meaning as the parables of the New Testament, and the whole combine in the revelation of the great doctrines of Christianity. The perfect harmony existing between these two books unites them into one Book. The great doctrine of the Book, the doctrine toward which all other doctrines lead, and in which they all center, is the doctrine of holiness. That God wills, provides for, and demands our entire sanctification from all sin, no candid Bible reader will deny. Methodism teaches in her standards of doctrine that...

This book talks about sanctification, the pure and holy living for God.

Die Typen und Symbole im Alten Testament enthalten eine tiefe geistliche Bedeutung, genauso wie die Gleichnisse im Neuen Testament. Gemeinsam lehren sie das zweite Werk der heiligenden Gnade Christi.