Sermons & Devotionals by Daniel Steele
Daniel Steele
An Address to Professors
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. --ST. PAUL. It has been said, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." This maxim may not in form be as old as St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, but it certainly is in substance. For he says, "Stand fast therefore in the ... Read More
Daniel Steele
An Address to the Young Convert -- The Higher Path
My Brother or Sister in Christ Jesus: permit an older soldier to offer a few words of advice to a new recruit in the army of the Lord. An ancient writer has wisely said, that there have been from the beginning two orders of Christians. The one live a harmless life, doing many good works, abstaining ... Read More
Daniel Steele
AN EXPOSITORY SERMON. (1 John 4: 17, 18.)
"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." -- 1 John 4: 17, 18. The foundation of ... Read More
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Apollos -- The Pulpit Taught by the Pew
APOLLOS flashes like a splendid meteor through the Acts of the Apostles, and is gone. So brief is the view that we are liable to be mistaken respecting this character. We believe that the common conception of him is that he knew nothing of the Gospel of Christ, its supernatural origin, the miracles,... Read More
Daniel Steele
Bible Texts for Sin Examined
Much of the controversy about sin results from the want of accuracy in the definition of this term. We do not in this chapter include in sin the involuntary deviations from the law of absolute right, but willful transgressions of the known law of God, written in his word or on the tables of the hear... Read More
Daniel Steele
Christ our Sentinel
"DON'T you know that a hat full of wind would have sent you straight to the bottom?" said the captain of a war-vessel to an old slave, who had ventured from Charleston, in a leaky skiff, risking life for liberty. "De good Lord habn't brought dis chile so far toward freedom to send him to de bottom o... Read More
Daniel Steele
Christian Perfection not Ideal
0UR author is not satisfied with that perfection which consists in "loving God with the whole heart and having every action spring from love, which appears to be the popular modern synonym for Christian perfection, or entire sanctification." He quotes Dr. Borden P. Bowne as sustaining his position: ... Read More
Daniel Steele
Christian Perfection not in the Articles of Religion
IN his chapter on perfection, after quoting several different meanings, mostly of ideal perfection and not of evangelical, he says: "The Articles of Re ligion say nothing about it, although it is declared on all sides to be the chief and most distinctive doctrine of Methodism." This argument from th... Read More
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Cleansing Means Empowering
ANOTHER evil effect of letting the dust gather on his dictionary is found in his invention of an unheard-of definition of the word "cleansing." He says: "We would suggest that 'empowering' is a much better term to use, and one less liable to mislead." He says it translates into modern thought the Je... Read More
Daniel Steele
CONSCRIPT CHRISTIANS
n a recent struggle for a nation's life, when the volunteering spirit flagged, a conscription law was enacted. This law was designed to reinforce the weak patriotism of multitudes who shrank from the hardships and hazards of the camp. The drafted soldiers did good service to their country, and their... Read More
Daniel Steele
Definition Defined
MILL in his logic says the most correct notion of a definition is "either the meaning it bears in common acceptation, or that which the writer, for the particular purposes of his discourse, intends to annex to it." If he invents new meanings of old words, he lifts his whole discourse into the clouds... Read More
Daniel Steele
Definition of Holiness
Definition of Holiness. LET us now read the author's definition of holiness, the fundamental term in this book: Holiness is that condition of human nature wherein the love of God rules. The novelty of this definition is interesting and attractive at first sight. But it will not bear close scrutiny. ... Read More
Daniel Steele
Definition of Sin
0UR author endeavors to reform an acknowledged abuse in the use of the term "sin," which "nearly all writers use in a variety of senses." It is a pretty big job to bring about a reform in all writers in theology, many in ethics, and some, like Browning, in poetry and polite literature. In order to e... Read More
Daniel Steele
Deliverance Deferred
Having shown that Christ proposes to free the believer in this world not only from acts of sin, but from the sinful disposition inherent in fallen humanity, we proceed to enumerate certain ills which are the effects of sin, and wear its appearance, but have not its moral character, and are not in th... Read More
Daniel Steele
Depravity Defined
THE author of Growth in Holiness has great aversion to a phrase in the Articles of Religion of his own Church, "Original sin." Even contempt seems to mingle with his abhorrence. Hear him: In the light of the truths now enunciated, it will, we trust, be fully seen how unphilosophical, inaccurate, and... Read More
Daniel Steele
DID ST. PAUL PROFESS HOLINESS OR SIN?
The importance of a correct answer to this question cannot be overestimated. St. Paul was chosen by our Lord Jesus, the sole author of the New Testament, to unfold in doctrinal form, after the gift of the Paraclete, those seed truths which Christ sowed in person. Those facts in the future work of th... Read More
Daniel Steele
Discrediting the Witnesses
THE author thus kindly apologizes for Wesley's great doctrinal error of Christian perfection in this life as consciously received. He says: "They," that is, Wesley and his colaborers, "were surrounded by a mass of very ignorant followers, whose crude, unreliable, undiscriminating testimonies on the ... Read More
Daniel Steele
ENLARGEMENT OF HEART.
It was the Psalmist who, according to the Septuagint version, testifies (Ps. 119:32), "I ran the way of thy commandments when thou didst enlarge my heart." In his early spiritual life there was in this Old Testament saint the same straitness, slowness and lack of momentum, which characterize young C... Read More
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Entire Sanctification a Limit to Growth
THE conception of entire sanctification as a boundary line beyond which growth in holiness is impossible has been very widely spread, especially in Calvinistic circles. We are sorry that our author, whose education was under Arminianism of the best type, should indorse this view in these words : "Wh... Read More
Daniel Steele
Evidence of Entire Sanctification
0NE of the cardinal truths of Methodism is the absolute freedom of man in all his moral acts. This word "absolute" is used to cut off all causation anterior to volition, which would make it an effect and not a cause. We teach that man is the sole and original cause of his moral actions; that he is a... Read More
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Daniel Steele was the first great Bible scholar and theologian of the Holiness movement. He was professor of theology at Boston University and, later, became the first president of Syracuse University, then Boston University, becoming a colleague of Borden Parker Bowne, and a writer of significant essays on the Wesleyan theology of sanctification.
His writings are well worth reading, in large part because of their emphasis on Biblical interpretation. Steele was an able defender of the teachings of Wesley and Fletcher.