Opening of the book
2MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH
3HOLY IN CHRIST:
Thoughts on the Calling of God’s Children to be
Holy as He is Holy.
BY
REV. ANDREW MURRAY,
AUTHOR OF ‘ABIDE IN CHRIST,’ ‘LIKE CHRIST,’ ETC.
‘I am holy:
ye
shall
be
holy.’
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY,
CHICAGO, NEW YORK, TORONTO,
Publishers of Evangelical Literature.
5PREFACE.
Tƒŧǡŧ is not in Scripture a word more distinctly Divine in its origin and meaning than the word holy. There is not a word that leads us higher into the mystery of Deity, nor deeper into the privilege and the blessedness of God’s children. And yet it is a word that many a
Christian has never studied or understood.
There are not a few who can praise God that during the past twenty years the watchword Bŧ HLjƯΏ has been taken up in many a church and Christian circle with greater earnestness than before. In books and magazines, in conventions and conferences, in the testimonies and the lives of believers, we have abundant tokens that what is called the
Holiness-movement is a reality.
And yet how much is still wanting! What multitudes of believing
Christians there are who have none but the very vaguest thoughts of what holiness is! And of those who are seeking after it 6how many who have hardly learnt what it is to come to God’s Word and to God
Himself for the teaching that can alone reveal this part of the mystery of Christ and of God! To many, holiness has simply been a general expression for the Christian life in its more earnest form, without much thought of what the term really means.
In writing this little book, my object has been to discover in what sense God uses the word, that so it may mean to us what it means to
Him. I have sought to trace the word through some of the most important passages of Holy Scripture where it occurs, there to learn what God’s holiness is, what ours is to be, and what the way by which we attain it. I have been specially anxious to point out how many and
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