THE MAN GOD USES BY OSWALD J. SMITH (Pastor of the Toronto Gospel Tabernacle} AUTHOR OF “THE REVIVAL WE NEED,” ‘THE SPIRIT-RILLED LIFE,’’ “t§ THE ANTI-CHRIST AT HAND?'' f CAN ORGANIZED RELIGION SURVIVE?” “(WHEN ANTI-CHRIST REIGNS,” ‘PROPHECIES OF THE END-TIME,’’ ETC,INTRODUCTION R. SMITH writes as he preaches. His book M carries in its rhetoric the rhythm of the rambling brook. It states great, spiritual verities, without “mumifying” them. It is vibrant. It brings into expression, page after page, the pulsing heart throbs of its author. It bears a mes- sage that grips. Contrary to most theological treatises, this book is remarkably readable, There is nothing prosaic about it. The “table of contents’? bespeaks the burnin; issues that the book covers, Nothing is more need in the Church to-day than a clear, concise and Scrip- tural plea for separation, Spirit-filling and service. The Church has swung loose from its mooring at Immanuel’s land, and has drifted far out into the sea of worldliness. The Bible doctrine of Sanctification may have been bandied about by eradicationists, but it, bears a message that saints surely need. Sanctification is the will of God, There is no excuse for the Christian to live in subjection to either the world, the flesh, or the devil. Christ will lead the believing and the yielded soul into “the train of His triumph.” The blessed truths of the Spirit-filled life are open to all the saved. The Holy Spirit came as the promise of the Father in answer to the needs of the Church. The Spirit came to abide for the age. He indwells vINTRODUCTION believer. He is God’s “paraclete,’” sent to at thé side of saints. *The Holy Spirit is the “element” into which the ‘saints at Pentecost were baptized; all the saved since that day have been baptized in that One - Gpirit, into one body. The “filling” of the Spirit is the acme of Christian experience. “Be filled with the Spirit” is God’s command to saints, not to sinners. The key to the Spirit-filled life is yieldedness. We “present,” we yield; the Spirit takes control. He fills. A definite, and conscious filling with the Spirit results in a new and gracious manifestation of the choicest of divine graces in the daily walk. Separation and Scriptural Sanctification ‘both precede and follow the filling of the Spirit. They precede in the sense that the Spirit will All only the life that is, in its purpose and desire, separated from the world, cleansed from conscious sinning and dedicated unto God. They follow the filling of the Spirit in the sense that the attitude of Separation and Scriptural Sanctification is potentially possible only after the Spirit has taken control. Separation is vital to every normal Christian life. Saints were taken “out of the world,” they are “not of the world” and if they live Godly they will be “hated by the world.” The only place for a true disciple to dwell is outside the camp with His des- pised and rejected Lord. The task of the Church—-What is it? According to human speculation it is one thing; according to divine revelation it is quite another. The Church has no. excuse for entering-into schemes-for social and ‘civic betterment. The Church is set for the one by one method of evangelization through the INTRODUCTION vii one and only message of the Evangel—Christ Jesus crucified, risen and coming again. Mr. Smith has done well to lend his heart and _ pen.in presenting these and other acid tests of vitalized Christianity. He does not concede of Christianity as a creed to be memorized and care- fully shelved for Sunday worship. He conceives of Christianity as a Life created by and centred in a person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and put to use for that Person in a world steeped in sin but sought by One mighty to save. We commend the book and its message. It should be read, and afterward translated into Christian life and service. R. E, NEIGHBOUR. Chicago, Ill.