I ignored Mistake. But I gripped my sword, held up the
shield, and made for Discourager, giving him a terrible blow over the
head. He challenged me there, and broke forth at me in awful epithets;
but I let the sword fall as fast as I could wield it. Pretty soon he ran
in a disgraceful riot of retreat and plunged down a dark canyon which
they say is his home. When I looked around, Mistake had shrunk up to
about half his former size.
"'You come with me,' I said to him, 'I can't get along without you; but
you must behave yourself from now on.'
"'I will,' he said. And he always has since."
The story of Faithful makes us feel better, doesn't it?
Sanctification purifies the motives, and makes the spring of impulse and
action pure; but it does not give maturity of judgment nor perfection
of reason. If an ignorant person is sanctified, he will find keenness
of perception as regards right and wrong, but he will still be ignorant.
Sanctification does not imply that a sanctified person shall not need
to study and advance in knowledge (2 Peter 1:5-9). Though sanctified we
are still human beings, and we must utilize the common means to knowledge
just as others do.
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