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Holiness: The False and the True by The Author's Personal Experience / An able Exposition of the Scripture Teaching on this Important Subject / FIRST EDITION, NOVEMBER 1912 TWENTY-SIXTH PRINTING, NOVEMBER 1988
FOR over twelve years I have considered the Fadvisability of penning these papers. There seemed some good reasons why it might not be wise; there seem to me now to be more why I should undertake it.
The two chief reasons that have come before me to hinder my writing them heretofore are these: (a) The detailing of a large measure of personal experience is necessarily involved. This is distasteful to many, and to none more than to myself. But I have been much impressed lately with the many instances in which the chief of the apostles uses his own experience as a warning and lesson to others who would put confidence in the flesh. For this cause alone I am at last persuaded to narrate my own endeavors to attain perfection by following the so-called "holiness teaching " There can surely be no charge brought against me of glorying in self in so doing. The record is too humiliating for that. Nor do I desire to take a morbid satisfaction in detailing my failures. But for this recital of my past errors and present blessedness I have not only apostolic example, but the entire book of Ecclesiastes is a similar record; written only that others might be spared the anguish and disappointment of treading the same weary path.
