Secretary
Victorious Life Testimony
Foreword by
CHARLES G. TRUMBULL
Editor of The Sunday School Times
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
CHRISTIAN LIFE LITERATURE FUND
Headquarters for Victorious Life Literature
Room 600 Perry Building
16th and Chestnut Streets Philadelphia
The publishers would esteem it a privilege to beinformed of blessing definitely received by any readeras a result of the perusal of this book.
OLIVER RICHARD HEINZE,
Director.
Copyright, 1918, by
Christian Life Literature Fund
Did you ever go with a very dear friend intosome foreign land,—say one of the islandsof the sea, like Madeira; and there you andyour friend vie with each other in making newdiscoveries of things beautiful and fresh to bothof you: new flowers, fruits, birds, vistas in valleysor mountains? If so, you know something of whatit means to explore, with a friend, in the land ofVictory in Christ.
It was the new and undiscovered country of theVictorious Life that brought us together, BobMcQuilkin and me. (New and undiscovered to us,that is, but as old as the Day of Pentecost.) Weshould never have been friends but for Him; weentered, not far apart, the “foreign land” of undreamedriches and delights; and ever since thenwe have been joyously telling each other of ourdiscoveries, comparing notes, sharing our finds,and together thanking Him who alone is the PromisedLand, the Life, and the Victory.
God has greatly blessed me through the discoveriesof my friend, as our common Guide, theHoly Spirit, has led him on and on into always newand clearer visions of what belongs, in Christ, toevery Christian. I am glad that he is now sharinghis findings and his convictions with many,through these studies in the Victorious Life.
As one reads this book, let it be rememberedthat the Victorious Life is not optional for theChristian who wants God’s whole will. It is asimple duty for every Christian to “be filled withthe Spirit” (Eph. 5: 18); and being filled with theSpirit means having Victory and all that goes withthis.
We think of the New Testament, and rightly, asbeing God’s revelation concerning how men maybe saved from the wages of sin. They deserveddeath penalty, or hell. This is true, but have werealized, as a clear-sighted Bible teacher has pointedout, that a much greater part of the NewTestament is devoted to telling Christians how tolive after they are saved than how to be saved?Have we asked ourselves why this is so? Have werealized what a sad commentary on the Gospel isthe man who claims that Christ has saved himcompletely from the penalty of his sins, yet inwhose life is plainly seen, and habitually, the unbrokenpower of sin?
This book tells how to be as free from the powerof sin as from its penalty. It gives God’s ownmessage on present salvation: salvation from sinnow and here.
What the Victorious Life is; how to make itone’s own in practical experience; how it may benot only entered into, but maintained; how itdiffers