This book was not written for the critic; nor is there any effort to present an exhaustive treatise of the subject herein set forth. The desire to present in a permanent form the convictions of the writer touching this subject, in the hope that they may help some hungry heart even after the writer has gone to his reward; and the burning desire to help hungry souls into the blessed experience of entire sanctification, is the only, and we trust, sufficient excuse for the publishing of this volume . . . . The book is sent forth with the prayer that hungry hearts, longing for a complete deliverance from sin, may be enabled to obtain and realize the grace of entire sanctification as a second blessing, and so, no only know the doctrine, but the experience itself. --from the Preface